A > A's Quotes

“Read, read, read. That's all I can say.”
― Carolyn Keene, The Secret of the Old Clock

“An adult life...is a slowly emerging design, with shifting components, occasional dramatic disruptions, and fresh creative arrangements.”
― Jill Ker Conway

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

“I have no place left to live but in my own heart.”
― Anne Enright, The Gathering

“For whatever we lose (like a you or a me),
It's always our self we find in the sea.”
― e.e. cummings, 100 Selected Poems

“Surprising what you can dig out of books if you read long enough, isn't it?”
― Robert Jordan

“Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.”
― Deepak Chopra

“Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there's no room for the present at all.”
― Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited

“I have been given a third chance at life, even if the circumstances are somewhat disconcerting. You are mine, and we both know it.”
― Chloe Neill, Drink Deep

“And that’s why we’re sending Boobs McGee.”
I slowly swiveled my head to glare at Catcher. “Seriously. You’re, what, twelve now?”
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“Then I guess that settles that,” I agreed. “My boobs and I will go.”
― Chloe Neill, Drink Deep

“The world has a lot to offer. There’s a lot to explore. I like to take advantage of that.”
― Chloe Neill, Drink Deep

“Screw them,” Ethan finally said. After a moment of utter shock, I enjoyed my second biggest smile all night. Malik’s wasn’t much smaller. “I’m sorry,” I said, “did you just say ‘screw them’?”
― Chloe Neill, Drink Deep

“I was not yet in love, yet I loved to love...I sought what I might love, in love with loving.”
― Augustine of Hippo

“Nu e armă mai puternică decât inima curată.”
― Ioan Slavici

“There is greatness in doing something you hate for the sake of someone you love.”
― Shmuley Boteach

“Imperfections define perfection”
― Colleen Hoover, Slammed

“I'm a candle flame that sways in currents of air you can't see. You need to be the one who steadies me to burn.”
― Nadine Gordimer, The House Gun

“If you aren't on Goodreads, you should be. I've said it before, it's like Facebook for readers on crack.”
― Colleen Hoover

“Stop looking at the world through guarded glasses for just one minute, baby. Listen to your instincts. Don’t think, Ally. Feel.”
― Suzanne Wright, Spiral of Need

“Love is giving someone the power to completely destroy you, and hoping that they won’t”
― Suzanne Wright, Feral Sins

“Just give me a second. Attempting to give a fuck...Attempting harder to give a fuck...Sorry, there was an error; fuck not given.”
― Suzanne Wright, Feral Sins

“Here’s to books, the cheapest vacation you can buy.”
― Charlaine Harris

“It doesn't matter. I have books, new books, and I can bear anything as long as there are books.”
― Jo Walton, Among Others

“Very few of us are what we seem.”
― Agatha Christie, The Man in the Mist

“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

“Shut your eyes and see.”
― James Joyce

“The heart of another is a dark forest, always, no matter how close it has been to one’s own.”
― Willa Cather

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

“Forever is composed of nows.”
― Emily Dickinson

“Don't take life too seriously. Punch it in the face when it needs a good hit. Laugh at it.”
― Colleen Hoover, Slammed