David > David's Quotes

“What do we call visible light? We call it color. But the electromagnetic spectrum runs to zero in one direction and infinity in the other, so really, children, mathematically, all of light is invisible.”
― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See

“A line comes back to Marie-Laure from Jules Verne: Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.”
― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See

“Think before you speak. Read before you think.”
― Fran Lebowitz, The Fran Lebowitz Reader

“There is not always a good guy. Nor is there always a bad one. Most people are somewhere in between.”
― Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls

“Written words can also sing.”
― Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, Dreams in a Time of War

“It all comes down to who is by your side and who is willing to stand up for love even when it seems impossible.”
― Nicholas Sparks, A Walk to Remember

“Your love is like the wind...you cant see it, but you can feel it...”
― Nicholas Sparks, A Walk to Remember

“There are lots of ways of being miserable, but there’s only one way of being comfortable, and that is to stop running round after happiness. If you make up your mind not to be happy there’s no reason why you shouldn’t have a fairly good time.”
― Edith Wharton, Ethan Frome and Other Short Fiction

“But I don't believe that life is supposed to make you feel good, or to make you feel miserable either. Life is just supposed to make you feel.”
― Gloria Naylor

“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
― Toni Morrison

“There are too many books I haven’t read, too many places I haven’t seen, too many memories I haven’t kept long enough.”
― Irwin Shaw

“Everybody talks about wanting to change things and help and fix, but ultimately all you can do is fix yourself. And that's a lot. Because if you can fix yourself, it has a ripple effect.”
― Rob Reiner

“It is thanks to my evening reading alone that I am still more or less sane.”
― W.G. Sebald, Vertigo

“Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.”
― Margaret Fuller

“If you have two friends in your lifetime, you're lucky. If you have one good friend, you're more than lucky.”
― S.E. Hinton

“Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

“There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never quite know where they'll take you.”
― Beatrix Potter

“Life is like a prism. What you see depends on how you turn the glass.”
― Jonathan Kellerman

“Maybe that's what we look for in the people we love, the spark of unhappiness we think we know how to extinguish.”
― Tom Perrotta, Election

“The time is always right to do the right thing.”
― Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr

“And on the subject of burning books: I want to congratulate librarians, not famous for their physical strength or their powerful political connections or their great wealth, who, all over this country, have staunchly resisted anti-democratic bullies who have tried to remove certain books from their shelves, and have refused to reveal to thought police the names of persons who have checked out those titles.

So the America I loved still exists, if not in the White House or the Supreme Court or the Senate or the House of Representatives or the media. The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country

“Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.”
― Kurt Vonnegut

“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
― George Eliot