Madison Warner Fairbanks > Madison's Quotes

“She said her mother has a strap-on named Event Horizon.”
― Darynda Jones, Seventh Grave and No Body

“Do what makes you happy. It sounds so simple and yet it's so hard, because few of us do. We live out of fear. We live for others, their hopes and expectations. We do what makes everyone else happy.”
― Viola Shipman, The Charm Bracelet

“There are too many books I haven’t read, too many places I haven’t seen, too many memories I haven’t kept long enough.”
― Irwin Shaw

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Drake chimed in, “No, Mortimer or Horatio—something long suffering and filled with angst.”
“Mortimer? Horatio? What the hell is angst? What kind of word is that? Dude, have you been reading a thesaurus again? What did I tell you about using words you can’t understand?”
― Kris Michaels, Adam

“The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.”
― Katherine Mansfield

“Always remember the acronym for "FEAR" can mean one of two things: Fuck Everything And Run or Face Everything And Recover.”
― Cupcake Brown, A Piece of Cake

“If you don't know history, then you don't know anything. You are a leaf that doesn't know it is part of a tree. ”
― Michael Crichton

“A woman with a book never goes to bed alone.”
― Willow Winters, Bad Girl

“We teach girls to shrink themselves, to make themselves smaller. We say to girls, you can have ambition, but not too much. You should aim to be successful, but not too successful. Otherwise, you would threaten the man. Because I am female, I am expected to aspire to marriage. I am expected to make my life choices always keeping in mind that marriage is the most important. Now marriage can be a source of joy and love and mutual support but why do we teach girls to aspire to marriage and we don’t teach boys the same? We raise girls to see each other as competitors not for jobs or accomplishments, which I think can be a good thing, but for the attention of men. We teach girls that they cannot be sexual beings in the way that boys are.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, We Should All Be Feminists

“Someone gave me a copy of The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho, a fable about a shepherd boy who travels to the Pyramids in search of treasure when all the time it's at home. I loved that book and read it over and over again. 'When you want something all the universe conspires in helping you achieve it,' it says. I don't think that Paulo Coelho had come across the Taliban or our useless politicians.”
― Malala Yousafzai, I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban

“Take and remember the best part of a book like the best part of life!”
― Gabrielle Dubois

“Love cannot be stolen. It can only be given. And it always takes two to make it happen. -- Mama Bear”
― Aja James, Dark Longing

“Faith can move mountains. So why are you stumbling on a little rock?”
― Jonathan Nettles

“Never. Never ask for what ought to be offered.”
― Daniel Woodrell, Winter's Bone

“We're all human, aren't we? Every human life is worth the same, and worth saving.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

“It is only a novel... or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour, are conveyed to the world in the best-chosen language”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

“Change Your Thoughts - Change Your Life: If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.”
― Wayne Dwyer, Applying the Wisdom of the Ages: Eternal Truths to Transform Your Life

“I am injustice,” said tyranny.
“I am lawlessness,” said corruption.
“I am inequality,” said bigotry.
“I am intolerance,” said racism.
“I am destruction,” said immorality.

“I am independence,” said freedom.
“I am fairness,” said justice.
“I am humanity,” said compassion.
“I am tolerance,” said understanding.
“I am restoration,” said goodness.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“if your dreams don’t scare you, they are too small.”
― Tyler Wagner, The Better Business Book: 100 People, 100 Stories, 100 Business Lessons To Live By

“It's the climbing that makes the man. Getting to the top is an extra reward. ”
― Robert Lipsyte, The Contender

“A man on a thousand mile walk has to forget his goal and say to himself every morning, 'Today I'm going to cover twenty-five miles and then rest up and sleep.”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

“A book twin is a joy, and I highly recommend finding one, if you can.”
― Anne Bogel, I'd Rather Be Reading: The Delights and Dilemmas of the Reading Life

“Should is a dangerous word, a warning sign that we’re crossing an important boundary and veering into book bossiness. Should is tangled up with guilt, frustration, and regret; we use it all the time, many of us to speak of the ways we wish we could be more, do more, or just be different. Or that we wish our friends could be different, and they would if they knew what was good for them.

Should is bossy.”
― Anne Bogel, I'd Rather Be Reading: The Delights and Dilemmas of the Reading Life

“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

“The 7 Secrets of Happiness

1. Think positively.
2. Do work you love.
3. Avoid anger.
4. Give generously.
5. Be grateful.
6. Overcome negativity.
7. Develop thick skin.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“It is better to have a world united than a world divided; but it is also better to have a world divided than a world destroyed.”
― James C. Humes, The Wit & Wisdom of Winston Churchill

“Here’s to books, the cheapest vacation you can buy.”
― Charlaine Harris

“Never give up on your friends. Never give up your faith in them. It's when everything is worse than you could ever imagine it could be, that you'll need your friends the most.”
― Graeme Rodaughan, The Dragon's Den

“There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight”
― Ezra Pound