Amy > Amy's Quotes

“A heated imagination, strong feelings, a world of argument, and a flow of words are really useless. The practical thing is to act in a spirit of detachment, doing what we can by God’s light, and being content with such success as he gives.”
― François Fénelon, The Complete Fenelon

“I wonder, Are fictions safe places? And then I ask myself, Should they be safe places?”
― Neil Gaiman, Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances

“Still, I see much current fantasy and science fiction in full retreat from real human needs. Where a Tolkien prophetically faced the central fact of our time, our capacity to destroy ourselves, the present spate of so-called heroic fantasy, in which Good defeats Evil by killing it with a sword or staff or something phallic, seems to have nothing in mind beyond instant gratification, the avoidance of discomfort, in a fake-medieval past where technology is replaced by magic and wishful thinking works.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places

“Forgiveness doesn't sit there like a pretty boy in a bar. Forgiveness is the old fat guy you have to haul up a hill.”
― Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar

“it’s perhaps more laudable simply to keep heading out into the world than always tilting to leave one’s mark on it.”
― Chang-rae Lee, On Such a Full Sea

“We had a happy marriage because we were together all the time. We were friends as well as husband and wife. We just had a good time.”
― Julia Child

“Not just survival but a good life, full of learning, full of love, Emilio thought, and took a step closer to the death he felt inside himself. He”
― Mary Doria Russell, The Sparrow

“You’ve seen what," Emilio conceded, "but not why! That’s where God is, Anne. In the why of it—in the meaning.”
― Mary Doria Russell, The Sparrow

“His childhood, and the people he’d encountered there—the ones who’d changed his life, or who’d been witnesses to what had happened to him at that crucial time—were what Juan Diego had instead of religion.”
― John Irving, Avenue of Mysteries

“Her mind moved unpredictably; she saw as the mice saw, as the cat saw, as my mother saw, all at once. Her world was unfathomably complex. She did not defend her opinions, because she held conflicting opinions on almost everything. And yet she was immovable.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, Gifts

“The children of the revolution are always ungrateful, and the revolution must be grateful that it is so.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places