Candace Dempsey > Candace's Quotes

“We like companionship, see, but we can't stand to be around people for very long. So we go get ourselves lost, come back for a while, then get the hell out again.”
― Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild

“I have a good mind not to take Aloysius to Venice. I don't want him to meet a lot of horrid Italian bears and pick up bad habits.”
― Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited

“Instructions for living a life.
Pay attention.
Be astonished.
Tell about it.”
― Mary Oliver

“She would be a new person, she vowed. They said no matter how far a mule travels it can never come back a horse, but she would show them all.”
― Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

“It is very dangerous to get caught without something to read.”
― Elizabeth Savage, Last Night at the Ritz

“But you can’t very well lug an encyclopedia around hotels. Fortunately, I did have my flask.”
― Elizabeth Savage, The Last Night at the Ritz

“There had never been anyone at all to whom she came first.”
― Elizabeth Savage, The Last Night at the Ritz

“The faculty member is the student’s natural enemy and if he lets down his guard he is sorry for it later, has a conscience crisis, and feels he has to turn you in. Unless he has prejudiced his own case so badly that he doesn’t wish to call administrative attention to what now appears to be a mutual folly; in this case sullen silence ensues. You may have been teacher’s pet before the weekend, but try to get an A in the course after Monday. Just try it. This is known as academic integrity.”
― Elizabeth Savage, The Last Night at the Ritz

“There is no knowledge like the bitter knowledge of old loves.”
― Elizabeth Savage