Quotes - Dot Showing 1-26 of 26

#1

“A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe.”
― Madeleine L'Engle

tags: books, fire, star, universe

4490 likes

#2

“A self is not something static, tied up in a pretty parcel and handed to the child, finished and complete. A self is always becoming.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, A Circle of Quiet

tags: self

2001 likes

#3

“The constant happiness is curiosity.”
― Alice Munro

1639 likes

#4

“The conversation of kisses. Subtle, engrossing, fearless, transforming.”
― Alice Munro, Runaway: Stories

1206 likes

#5

“Love removes the world for you, and just as surely when it's going well as when it's going badly.”
― Alice Munro, The Beggar Maid: Stories of Flo and Rose

84 likes

#6

“Life would be grand if it weren't for the people.”
― Alice Munro

tags: life

76 likes

#7

“People’s lives, in Jubilee as elsewhere, were dull, simple, amazing, and unfathomable – deep caves paved with kitchen linoleum.”
― Alice Munro, Lives of Girls and Women

88 likes

#8

“I read so I can live more than one life in more than one place.”
― Anne Tyler

5605 likes

#9

“It is very difficult to live among people you love and hold back from offering them advice.”
― Anne Tyler

tags: advice, love

279 likes

#10

“I'm beginning to think that maybe it's not just how much you love someone. Maybe what matters is who you are when you're with them.”
― Anne Tyler, The Accidental Tourist

tags: inspirational, love

344 likes

#11

“I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden: Or, Life in the Woods

8360 likes

#12

“Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods

tags: truth, values

5352 likes

#13

“Cats are connoisseurs of comfort.”
― James Herriot, James Herriot's Cat Stories

1853 likes

#14

“A farmer once told me one of the greatest luxuries of his life was to wake up early only to go back to sleep again.”
― James Herriot

183 likes

#15

“If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans.”
― James Herriot , All Creatures Great and Small

tags: animals, gratitude, love, loyalty, soul

803 likes

#16

“I was tired of seeing the Graces always depicted as beautiful young things. I think wisdom comes with age and life and pain. And knowing what matters.”
― Louise Penny, A Fatal Grace

tags: age, three-graces, wisdom

189 likes

#17

“Only the forgotten are truly dead.”
― Tess Gerritsen, The Sinner

tags: dead, forgotten, tess-gerritsen, the-sinner

250 likes

#18

“I know there’s evil in the world, and there always has been. But you don’t need to believe in Satan or demons to explain it. Human beings are perfectly capable of evil all by themselves.”
― Tess Gerritsen, The Mephisto Club

tags: evil, humanity

314 likes

#19

“I do wish you wouldn't argue with me when I'm knitting.”
― Gerald Durrell, My Family and Other Animals

122 likes

#20

“My childhood in Corfu shaped my life. If I had the craft of Merlin, I would give every child the gift of my childhood.”
― Gerald Durrell, My Family and Other Animals

tags: childhood, corfu, magic, merlin

75 likes

#21

“I said I *liked* being half-educated; you were so much more *surprised* at everything when you were ignorant.”
― Gerald Durrell, My Family and Other Animals

tags: discovery, learning, surprise, wonder

113 likes

#22

“I always think boredom is to some extent the fault of the bored.”
― Kate Ross, Cut to the Quick

tags: bored, boredom

43 likes

#23

“You're much better than fireworks. They're all over in a moment, and you're going to stay for a fortnight. Besides, fireworks are noisy, and they make too much smoke.”
― Kate Ross, Cut to the Quick

tags: fireworks

14 likes

#24

“He was not going to be dragged into other people's business. He was going to plunge in headfirst.”
― Kate Ross, Cut to the Quick

tags: interfering

10 likes

#25

“Most people follow the path wherever it leads them. Others hack their own way through the brush and always seem to end up on higher ground.”
― P.B. Ryan, Still Life With Murder

5 likes

#26

“complicated, Nell. People are complicated. If that weren’t so, life would get pretty damned boring.”
― P.B. Ryan, A Bucket of Ashes

2 likes

Dot > Dot's Quotes

Tags From Dot’s Quotes