Moira > Moira's Quotes

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“There must be something in books, something we can’t imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there. You don’t stay for nothing.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.”
― Lloyd Alexander

“Good books don't give up all their secrets at once.”
― Stephen King

“Kdo jsi bez miny, hoď kamenem.”
― Jiří Kulhánek, Temný prorok

“Everything has a price.”
― Anne Bishop

“Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.”
― Stephen King

“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
― Mark Twain

“If it's in the bin, it's public property.”
― Sophie Kinsella, I've Got Your Number

“And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

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

“Sometimes you read a book so special that you want to carry it around with you for months after you've finished just to stay near it.”
― Markus Zusak

“The sadness will last forever. And I think he was right, but I also think he was very, very wrong. It doesn’t last forever. Because we don’t last forever.”
― Sara Wolf, Savage Delight

“Not that I want to be a god or a hero. Just to change into a tree, grow for ages, not hurt anyone.”
― Czeslaw Milosz

“Here, Kitty, Kitty, Kitty...”
― Ilona Andrews, Magic Bites

“I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.”
― Robert Fulghum, All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten: Uncommon Thoughts On Common Things

“A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.”
― Thomas Mann, Essays of Three Decades

“Why should you believe your eyes? You were given eyes to see with, not to believe with. Your eyes can see the mirage, the hallucination as easily as the actual scenery.”
― Ward Moore, Bring the Jubilee

“Accept who you are. Unless you're a serial killer.”
― Ellen DeGeneres, Seriously... I'm Kidding

“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

“Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.”
― Francis Bacon

“It is the very mark of the spirit of rebellion to crave for happiness in this life”
― Henrik Ibsen, Ghosts

“Will you draw me a sheep?”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.”
― Charles M. Schulz

“She had always thought that exquisitely happy time at the beginning of her relationship with Nick was the ultimate, the feeling they'd always be trying to replicate, to get back, but now she realized that was wrong. That was like comparing sparkling mineral water to French champagne. Early love is exciting and exhilarating. It's light and bubbly. Anyone can love like that. But love after three children, after a separation and a near-divorce, after you've hurt each other and forgiven each other, bored each other and surprised each other, after you've seen the worst and the best--well, that sort of a love is ineffable. It deserves its own word.”
― Liane Moriarty, What Alice Forgot

“It is likely I will die next to a pile of things I was meaning to read.”
― Lemony Snicket

“The breath hitched in his throat. His hand caught hers, but he did not untangle her fingers. "Why are you here?" she asked him. For a moment she thought he would not answer, then he said, as though reluctant, "I heard you cry.”
― Katherine Arden, The Girl in the Tower

“Think of me sometimes," he returned. "When the snowdrops have bloomed and the snow has melted.”
― Katherine Arden, The Girl in the Tower

“Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit, but the highest form of intelligence.”
― Oscar Wilde

“The seas did not forgive, and they did not welcome their wayward children home.”
― Mira Grant, Into the Drowning Deep