Annette Taylor > Annette's Quotes

“The library is inhabited by spirits that come out of the pages at night.”
― Isabel Allende

“So many things are possible just as long as you don't know they're impossible.”
― Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth

“The most enjoyable book in the world is the phone book, because think of all the sex that went into creating the content.”
― Jarod Kintz, 99 Cents For Some Nonsense

“Nature is cruel, but we don't have to be.”
― Temple Grandin

“Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby. Those who do it must do it.”
― Jeanette Winterson

“Ignorance killed the cat; curiosity was framed!”
― C. J. Cherryh

“Read, read, read. That's all I can say.”
― Carolyn Keene, The Secret of the Old Clock

“Either you deal with what is the reality, or you can be sure that the reality is going to deal with you.”
― Alex Haley

“We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.”
― Ray Bradbury

“Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere.”
― Elie Wiesel, Night

“We are who we are, be­cause of those we choose to love and be­cause of those who love us.”
― Kate Mosse, The Winter Ghosts

“Life is a mirror: if you frown at it, it frowns back; if you smile, it returns the greeting.”
― William Makepeace Thackeray

“With my last breath, I’ll exhale my love for you. I hope it’s a cold day, so you can see what you meant to me.
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― Jarod Kintz, This is the best book I've ever written, and it still sucks

“Life is very hard. The only people who really live are those who are harder than life itself.”
― Nawal El Saadawi, Woman at Point Zero

“There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it”
― Gustave Flaubert

“Every now and then I like to do as I'm told, just to confuse people.”
― Tamora Pierce, Melting Stones

“Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.”
― Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign

“Forever is composed of nows.”
― Emily Dickinson

“There are shortcuts to happiness and dancing is one of them!”
― Vicki Baum, Ballerina

“Surprising what you can dig out of books if you read long enough, isn't it?”
― Robert Jordan

“Where there is a woman there is magic.”
― Ntozake Shange

“I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“The tears of those who cry for others shine more than the diamonds.”
― Rangeya Raghav

“A childhood without books – that would be no childhood. That would be like being shut out from the enchanted place where you can go and find the rarest kind of joy.”
― Astrid Lindgren

“There's nothing like deep breaths after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore stomach for the right reasons.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“You're something between a dream and a miracle.”
― Elizabeth Barrett Browning

“We never know the quality of someone else's life, though we seldom resist the temptation to assume and pass judgement.”
― Tami Hoag, Dark Horse

“When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.”
― Mark Twain

“I haven't been everywhere, but it's on my list.”
― Susan Sontag

“What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable?”
― John Green, An Abundance of Katherines