Tamara > Tamara's Quotes

“...be careful when choosing what you're proud of--because the world has every intention of using it against you.”
― Amor Towles, Rules of Civility

“Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Airman's Odyssey

“I want to know everything about you, so I tell you everything about myself.”
― Amy Hempel

“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.”
― Oscar Wilde

“[HAMILTON]
I imagine death so much it feels more like a memory”
― Lin-Manuel Miranda

“If you don't know history, then you don't know anything. You are a leaf that doesn't know it is part of a tree. ”
― Michael Crichton

“Make me immortal with a kiss.”
― Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus and Other Plays

“People say children from broken homes have it hard, but the children of charmed marriages have their own particular challenges.”
― Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

“Where words leave off, music begins.”
― Heinrich Heine

“How on Earth did you do that with the same 24 hours a day that everyone else gets?”
― Lin-Manuel Miranda, Hamilton: The Revolution

“Sit by my side, and let the world slip: we shall ne'er be younger.”
― William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew

“Thank you for the dear past.”
― Christopher Warwick, The Life and Death of Ella Grand Duchess of Russia: A Romanov Tragedy

“Anti-intellectual resentment is common in all of American life and it has many diverse expressions,”
― Michael Lewis, Moneyball

“Money never gave me more than my heart would let it.”
― Louise Beech, I Am Dust

“Question yourself, yes, but don’t doubt yourself. There’s a difference.”
― Charmaine Wilkerson, Black Cake

“I would happily spend every minute of my future hearing about every minute of his past.”
― Timothy Schaffert, The Titanic Survivors Book Club

“Mrs. Cheever's kitchen was calm and cool. Mr. Payton, in a chair by the window, was reading a very old newspaper. "Old news is more soothing to read about," he said. "You know that you have lived through it alright.”
― Elizabeth Enright, Gone-Away Lake

“The price of being misunderstood, he thought. They call you devil or they call you god.”
― Richard Bach, Jonathan Livingston Seagull: The Complete Edition

“Life is short. Eat dessert first. ”
― Jacques Torres

“If you ever fall in love, you’ll be a person who was in love for the rest of your life.”
― Kaliane Bradley, The Ministry of Time

“But I have knowledge. To the extent happiness is possible for a creature like me, it lies in knowledge.”
― Shelby Van Pelt, Remarkably Bright Creatures

“I feel loss and lost, a hole in the place of what I believed, what I should believe.”
― Sulari Gentill, The Woman in the Library

“Would you deny an exile the final delicacies of its homeland as it is dying?”
― Umberto Eco, Baudolino