Amanda > Amanda's Quotes

“You don’t have a soul, Doctor. You are a soul. You have a body, temporarily.”
― Walter M. Miller Jr., A Canticle for Leibowitz

“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“Talk is only silence that ain't workin' well.”
― Gary D. Schmidt, First Boy

“When gods die, they die hard. It's not like they fade away, or grow old, or fall asleep. They die in fire and pain, and when they come out of you, they leave your guts burned. It hurts more than anything you can talk about. And maybe worst of all is, you're not sure if there will ever be another god to fill their place. Or if you'd ever want another god to fill their place. You don't want the fire to go out inside you twice.”
― Gary Schmidt, The Wednesday Wars

“The world turns and the world spins, the tide runs in and the tide runs out, and there is nothing in the world more beautiful and more wonderful in all its evolved forms than two souls who look at each other straight on. And there is nothing more woeful and soul-saddening than when they are parted...everything in the world rejoices in the touch, and everything in the world laments in the losing.”
― Gary D. Schmidt, Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy

“A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it.”
― D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover

“Love isn't a state of perfect caring. It is an active noun like struggle. To love someone is to strive to accept that person exactly the way he or she is, right here and now.”
― Fred Rogers, The World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember

“They really liked each other, too. Not like boyfriend and girlfriend, I don't mean. But they both had naturally curly hair, and they both thought professional wrestling was real--which are two pretty strong bonds, when you think about it.”
― Barbara Park, Mick Harte Was Here

“All of us can think of a book... that we hope none of our children or any other children have taken off the shelf. But if I have the right to remove that book from the shelf - that work I abhor - then you also have exactly the same right and so does everyone else. And then we have no books left on the shelf for any of us.”
― Katherine Paterson

“You gotta know someone cares about you, or you just give up.”
― Katherine Paterson, The Same Stuff as Stars

“To fear is one thing. To let fear grab you by the tail and swing you around is another.”
― Katherine Paterson, Jacob Have I Loved

“Anyone who does anything to help a child in his life is a hero to me.”
― Fred Rogers

“The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
― Mark Twain

“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

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

“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
― C.S. Lewis

“There is no friend as loyal as a book.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.”
― Mahatma Gandhi, All Men Are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections

“Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Garden of Eden

“There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”
― Joseph Brodsky

“It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.”
― Frederick Douglass

“Books can ignite fires in your mind, because they carry ideas for kindling, and art for matches.”
― Gary D. Schmidt, Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy

“Whatever it means to be a friend, taking a black eye for someone has to be in it.”
― Gary D. Schmidt, The Wednesday Wars

“It means, Doug Swieteck, that in this class, you are not your brother.”
― Gary D. Schmidt, Okay for Now

“Learn everything you can - everything. And then use all that you have learned to grow up too be a wise and good man.”
― Gary D. Schmidt

“I'm not lying.”
― Gary D. Schmidt, Okay for Now

“You know how that feels?”
― Gary D. Schmidt, Okay for Now

“It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.”
― Oscar Wilde

“The price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less.”
― Eldridge Cleaver