Jem > Jem's Quotes

“We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.”
― William Faulkner, Essays, Speeches & Public Letters

“Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul
And sings the tune without the words
And never stops at all.”
― Emily Dickinson

“A girl expecting rescue never learns to save herself. Even with the means, she will find her courage wanting.”
― Kate Morton , The Forgotten Garden

“Life itself, she thought, as she went upstairs to dress for dinner, was stranger than dreams and far, far more disordered.”
― Nancy Mitford, Christmas Pudding

“To fall in love you have to be in the state of mind for it to take, like a disease.”
― Nancy Mitford

“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
― George Eliot

“She hadn't wanted to be loved carefully, only well.”
― Kate Morton, The Distant Hours

“You can be the dead fish. I'll be the old stick”
― Robin Hobb, Fool's Errand

“The bravest people are the ones who don’t mind looking like cowards.”
― T.H. White, The Once and Future King

“When you cut pieces out of the truth to avoid looking like a fool you end up looking like a moron instead.”
― Robin Hobb, Assassin's Apprentice

“It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.”
― Herman Melville