Amber > Amber's Quotes

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

“My imagination functions much better when I don't have to speak to people.”
― Patricia Highsmith

“She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Work: A Story of Experience

“We need, in love, to practice only this: letting each other go. For holding on comes easily; we do not need to learn it.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Translations from the Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke

“Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.”
― Rudyard Kipling

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

“Love is like a tree: it grows by itself, roots itself deeply in our being and continues to flourish over a heart in ruin. The inexplicable fact is that the blinder it is, the more tenacious it is. It is never stronger than when it is completely unreasonable.”
― Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

“Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion.”
― Edward Abbey

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“We accept the love we think we deserve.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey