Barbara > Barbara's Quotes

“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.”
― Jane Goodall

“I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end.”
― Gilda Radner

“We are crayons and lunchboxes and swinging so high our sneakers punch holes in the clouds.”
― Laurie Halse Anderson, Wintergirls

“The Wild still lingered in him and the wolf in him merely slept.”
― Jack London, White Fang

“Besides, life’s not perfect, and neither are we, so why bother pretending we’re something we’re not?”
― K.M. Morgan, Daisy McDare and the Deadly Legal Affair

“I’m starting to see that,” Josh said.
“Not that it’s accidental, of course,” Avery continued conversationally. “An ignorant and illiterate population is a malleable one, after all. Yes, the people who placed us here like to keep us tractable.”
― Elle Hill, The Tithe

“Quentin was floating in space. Stars were everywhere, all around him, above and below. The stars appeared to be passing by in the vast distance, as if he were moving at unimaginable speed. A cold loneliness washed over him, a sensation that he’d been alone for a long, long time. Quentin noticed one particular star growing larger as it approached. It continued to grow, until he had to look away from its blinding light.”
― Stan C. Smith, Diffusion

“If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man. —Mark Twain”
― Dean Koontz, Devoted