Christine Nolfi > Christine's Quotes

“Writers fish for the right words like fishermen fish for, um, whatever those aquatic creatures with fins and gills are called. 
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― Jarod Kintz, This is the best book I've ever written, and it still sucks

“Three things in human life are important: the first is to be kind; the second is to be kind; and the third is to be kind.”
― Henry James

“Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.”
― John Locke

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

“My dear, I don't give a damn.”
― Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind

“To die will be an awfully big adventure.”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

“And the Grinch, with his Grinch-feet ice cold in the snow,
stood puzzling and puzzling, how could it be so? It came without ribbons. It came without tags. It came without packages, boxes or bags. And he puzzled and puzzled 'till his puzzler was sore. Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn't before. What if Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store. What if Christmas, perhaps, means a little bit more.”
― Dr. Seuss, How the Grinch Stole Christmas!

“I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.”
― Charles Dickens

“She wanted something to happen - something, anything: she did not know what.”
― Kate Chopin

“my dreams won’t matter if I don’t persevere to give them substance.”
― Christine Nolfi, Treasure Me

“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
― Leo Tolstoy , Anna Karenina

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

“Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.”
― Dalai Lama XIV

“We are each many people in a lifetime. We slip through versions of ourselves, no more staying in place than a fast-moving river.”
― Christine Nolfi, The Passing Storm

“Guilt seared Rae. A child does not come naturally to deception. The art is learned through example.”
― Christine Nolfi, The Passing Storm

“Qui n’avance pas, recule.” A French proverb, one of Connor’s favorites. Who does not move forward, recedes. The proverb meant that life offers us the choice to evolve and accept the changes that inevitably come. Resist those changes, and we devolve into something less—a mere shadow of our true potential.”
― Christine Nolfi, The Passing Storm