Marianne Mason Sievers > Marianne's Quotes

“She's not crazy; she's just educated... Sometimes it's hard to tell the difference.”
― Katherine Mosby, Private Altars

“Google can bring you back 100,000 answers. A librarian can bring you back the right one.”
― Neil Gaiman

“Common sense is not so common.”
― Voltaire, A Pocket Philosophical Dictionary

“Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.”
― Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Literary Remains

“A tiger doesn't proclaim his tigritude, he pounces”
― Wole Soyinka

“She wasn't a person to whom things happen. She did all the happenings.”
― Muriel Spark, Aiding and Abetting

“Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion.”
― Edward Abbey

“Buy an atlas and keep it by the bed—remember you can go anywhere.”
― Joanna Lumley

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

“And how shall I think of you?' He considered a moment and then laughed. 'Think of me with my nose in a book!”
― Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

“She thought of the library, so shining white and new; the rows and rows of unread books; the bliss of unhurried sojourns there and of going out to a restaurant, alone, to eat.”
― Maud Hart Lovelace, Betsy and Tacy Go Downtown

“It's like learning to ride a unicorn. You never forget.”
― Eoin Colfer, Artemis Fowl

“A sad tale's best for winter: I have one of sprites and goblins.”
― William Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale

“Wasn’t the whole world a magic picture which added to itself? For the world changed all the time. It was never completely finished.”
― Jostein Gaarder, The Christmas Mystery: A Novel