Carol Chiovatto > Carol's Quotes

“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
― Bernard M. Baruch

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
― Mae West

“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
― Oscar Wilde

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

“That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.”
― Madeleine L'Engle

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

“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.”
― Mark Twain, Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World

“A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading.”
― William Styron, Conversations with William Styron

“Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“Books may well be the only true magic.”
― Alice Hoffman

“Imagine a man who stands before a mirror; a stone strikes it, and it falls to ruin all in an instant. And the man learns that he is himself, and not the mirrored man he had believed himself to be.”
― Gene Wolfe, The Urth of the New Sun

“But the camera sees what he does not say. A camera is a thing easily broken or purloined; its fragility makes it fastidious. A camera requires law, order, the thin blue line. Seeking to preserve itself, it remains behind the shielding wall, observing the shadow-lands from afar, and of course from above: that is, it chooses sides.”
― Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses

“Você é tipo a minha menstruação: desagradável quando vem e enquanto permanece, preocupante quando atrasa.”
― Carol Chiovatto, Porém Bruxa

“Se uma pessoa decide dizer o que vem à mente, tem de se preparar pra ouvir uma resposta indigesta.”
― Carol Chiovatto, Porém Bruxa

“— Nossa, você tava com dois homens, é? — Ela torceu o nariz. — Isso aqui é um prédio de família.
— Jura? Nunca vi a sua.”
― Carol Chiovatto, Porém Bruxa