Carmen Marin > Carmen's Quotes

“Maybe it needed to be broken. Sometimes things have to break before you can fix them.”
― Kami Garcia, Beautiful Chaos

“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
― Maya Angelou

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“Here's all you have to know about men and women: women are crazy, men are stupid. And the main reason women are crazy is that men are stupid.”
― George Carlin, When Will Jesus Bring The Pork Chops?

“Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I've tasted of desire,
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.”
― Robert Frost

“Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.”
― Mark Twain

“Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires.”
― William Shakespeare, Macbeth

“In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.

And that makes me happy. For it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there’s something stronger – something better, pushing right back.”
― Albert Camus

“Thank You. Life is short and TBR lists are long. I know time is precious and I thank you for spending yours with this book.”
― Katja Millay

“Oh, Sweetie. No one ever gets through their TBR list. For every book you finish, you'll add five more. That's just the way it works.”
― Leisa Rayven, Wicked Heart

“The most beautiful novel is the one that starts with a sentence wholly unexpected by the reader who has lived through our storms and norms, and who might once have been the cause of our changing moods.”
― Ahlam Mosteghanemi

“Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.”
― Norman Vincent Peale

“...it doesn’t mean the world will change. There will still be those who will continue to be beaten in silence, and those who will continue to die in silence.
But maybe there will also be those who will survive. And I want to be able to have as little shame as possible when I stand before those who do.”
― Bora Chung, Your Utopia

“The sun doesn't rise because you people gave it a permit. The rain doesn't fall because you people gave it a permit, either. Long, long before you created your corporations and became obsessed with profit, nature existed. We are simply living by it.”
― Bora Chung, Your Utopia

“Still, if I mourn and mourn with my body and soul, if I go out into the streets and act and try with what strength I have to make a difference for the sake of my survival and the survival of others, that can’t be taken away. I will not be ashamed before the victims and their families, and we will be progressing slowly, very slowly but surely, toward a better world for both you and me—as we survive, and remember, and mourn.”
― Bora Chung, Your Utopia