Ariel Marie > Ariel's Quotes

“There is no place like home.”
― L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

“Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.”
― Alexander Pope

“We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.”
― Anais Nin

“A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.”
― Thomas Mann, Essays of Three Decades

“History does not always repeat itself. Sometimes it just yells, 'Can't you remember anything I told you?' and lets fly with a club.”
― John W. Campbell Jr.

“All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.”
― Charles M. Schulz

“Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson

“It is 'where we are' that should make all the difference, whether we believe we belong there or not.”
― Chang-rae Lee, On Such a Full Sea

“Much of what was said did not matter, and that much of what mattered could not be said.”
― Katherine Boo, Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity

“Maybe some people just aren't meant to be in our lives forever. Maybe some people are just passing through. It's like some people just come through our lives to bring us something: a gift, a blessing, a lesson we need to learn. And that's why they're here. You'll have that gift forever.”
― Danielle Steel, The Gift

“The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves.”
― V. S. Naipaul, In a Free State

“Some things in life are out of your control. You can make it a party or a tragedy.”
― Nora Roberts, Vision in White

“Time goes, you say? Ah, no! Alas, Time stays, we go.”
― Henry Austin Dobson

“True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked.”
― Erich Segal

“This I want to believe implicitly: Man was born for love and revolution.”
― Osamu Dazai, The Setting Sun

“I don't hate you.. I just don't like that you exist”
― Gena Showalter, Seduce the Darkness