Michelle Leah Olson > Michelle Leah's Quotes

“Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable.”
― Amos Bronson Alcott, Tablets

“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
― Mark Twain

“There is no friend as loyal as a book.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“I’ll never be able to give you a sonnet. I may be a songwriter, but the iambic pentameter thing throws me off. So this is what I got: tattered angel comes to me/beguiles and shelters me/pretty sexy dark love/eternity will set us free.”
“That was perfect.”
“It’s just a start. I’ll write songs for you every day,” he said. “You are my melody, Kambriel. Together we’re the perfect harmony.”
― Michele Hauf, The Dark's Mistress

“A book is a gift you can open again and again.”
― Garrison Keillor

“Only bad books have good endings.
If a book is any good, it's ending is always bad - because you don't want the book to end.”
― Pseudonymous Bosch, The Name of This Book Is Secret

“Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.”
― Bill Keane

“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

“Music is to the soul what words are to the mind.”
― Modest Mouse, Modest Mouse - Good News for People Who Love Bad News

“I want to know--or understand something. I've been sick my whole life. What is the point of being alive if I never get to live?”
― Erin Kellison, Shadow Bound

“True fear has nothing to do with what might happen to you, however painful or vile that might be. True fear is all about what might happen to someone you love.”
― Erin Kellison, Shadow Bound

“There is no reason for beauty. It just is.”
― erin kellison

“There is no exquisite beauty… without some strangeness in the proportion.”
― Francis Bacon

“Everything is possible. The impossible just takes longer.”
― Dan Brown, Digital Fortress

“From even the greatest of horrors irony is seldom absent.”
― H.P. Lovecraft, Tales of H.P. Lovecraft

“Once a year, take her somewhere she’s never been. Once a month, do something new that melts her in the sack. Once a week, stop everything and just listen to her. Once a day, catch her doing one thing you love. Once an hour, kiss her on the mouth. And every minute of every day, be grateful that you got her.”
― Roxanne St. Claire, Barefoot in White

“When you read a book, you hold another's mind in your hands.”
― James Burke