Kristen N. > Kristen's Quotes

“I've decided that there isn't much difference in the way we treat our siblings and the way we treat our special someones. But at the end of it all we know our siblings have to forgive us...or they'll never be able to borrow our car.”
― Emma Daley

“But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.”
― Khaled Hosseini

“But a mermaid has no tears, and therefore she suffers so much more.”
― Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid

“Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.”
― Zelda Fitzgerald

“Our mothers always remain the strangest, craziest people we've ever met.”
― Marguerite Duras

“If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week.”
― Charles Darwin, The Autobiography of Charles Darwin, 1809–82

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

“Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining.”
― Anne Lamott

“And thus the heart will break, yet brokenly live on.”
― George Gordon Byron

“All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

“The minute you become conscious that you are doing good, that's the minute you have to stop because from then on it's wrong.”
― Paula Fox

“There's things that happen in a person's life that are so scorched in the memory and burned into the heart that there's no forgetting them.”
― John Boyne

“Sitting around miserable all day won't make you any happier.”
― John Boyne, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

“Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

“There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep and still be counted as warriors.”
― Adrienne Rich

“The farther you go...the harder it is to return. The world has many edges and it's easy to fall off.”
― Anderson Cooper, Dispatches from the Edge: A Memoir of War, Disasters, and Survival

“With enough courage, you can do without a reputation.”
― Margaret Mitchell

“I think I’m greedy, but I’m not greedy for money - I think that can be a burden - I’m greedy for an exciting life.”
― David Hockney

“In this world, there is a kind of painful progress. Longing for what we've left behind, and dreaming ahead.”
― Tony Kushner, Perestroika

“Love is a circular emotion that surrounds you, like a hug. Or a noose.”
― Jarod Kintz, Love quotes for the ages. And the ageless sages.

“It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

“It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.”
― Herman Melville

“In the world I am
Always a stranger
I do not understand its language
It does not understand my silence”
― Bei Dao

“There's something ugly about the flawless.”
― Dennis Lehane, Sacred

“The world is like that -- incomprehensible and full of surprises .”
― Jorge Amado, Gabriela, clavo y canela

“He made me think of all the books I hadn't read, and all the ones I'd read but hadn't fully understood.”
― Tom Perrotta, Joe College

“The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.”
― Nadine Gordimer

“Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.”
― C.S. Lewis

“Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don't.”
― Bill Nye

“I get a warm feeling among my books.”
― Anthony Powell