Stephanie > Stephanie's Quotes

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

“The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.”
― Jean de La Fontaine

“If you ask me what I want, I'll tell you. I want everything.”
― Kathy Acker

“Wouldn't we all look guilty, if someone searched hard enough?”
― Abigail Haas, Dangerous Girls

“Our lives are made up of choices. Big ones, small ones, strung together by the thin air of good intentions; a line of dominoes, ready to fall. Which shirt to wear on a cold winter's morning, what crappy junk food to eat for lunch. It starts out so innocently, you don't even notice: go to this party or that movie, listen to this song, or read that book, and then, somehow, you've chosen your college and career; your boyfriend or wife.”
― Abigail Haas, Dangerous Boys

“... a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”
― C.S. Lewis

“There's something dangerous about the boredom of teenage girls.”
― Megan Abbott, Dare Me

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
― Oscar Wilde

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

“Everybody is a book of blood; wherever we're opened, we're red.”
― Clive Barker, Books of Blood: Volumes One to Three

“I am a writer. Therefore, I am not sane.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

“Dead kids are put on pedestals, but mentally ill kids get hidden under the rug.”
― Neal Shusterman, Challenger Deep