Debi > Debi's Quotes

“Weeping is terrible for the complexion" said Leonie, holding Shayndel close, "but it is very good for the soul.”
― Anita Diamant, Day After Night

“You have reminded me of how alien I found the concept of acquaintances splitting the bill when I first arrived in your country. I had been raised to favour mutual generosity over mathematical precision in such matters; given time both work equally well to even a score.”
― Mohsin Hamid, The Reluctant Fundamentalist

“Most of those who died did not die of hunger but of hatred. Feeling hatred diminishes you. It eats at your from within and attacks the immune system. When you have hatred inside you, it always crushes you in the end.”
― Tahar Ben Jelloun, This Blinding Absence of Light

“Hope is a horrible thing, you know. I don't know who decided to package hope as a virtue because it's not. It's a plague. Hope is like walking around with a fishhook in your mouth and somebody just keeps pulling it and pulling it.”
― Ann Patchett, State of Wonder

“That's what I love about reading: one tiny thing will interest you in a book, and that tiny thing will lead you to another book, and another bit there will lead you onto a third book. It's geometrically progressive - all with no end in sight, and for no other reason than sheer enjoyment.”
― Mary Ann Shaffer, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

“Perhaps there is some secret sort of homing instinct in books that brings them to their perfect readers. How delightful if that were true.”
― Mary Ann Shaffer, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

“God willing. How strangely that strikes me now.”
― Sue Monk Kidd, The Invention of Wings

“Was it ever right to sacrifice one's truth for expedience?”
― Sue Monk Kidd, The Invention of Wings

“Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones

“Those of us who frequent the band room have long suspected that Becca maintains her lovely figure by eating nothing but the souls of kittens and the dreams of impoverished children.”
― John Green, Paper Towns

“Even if times are tough and you're enduring a terrible heartache, it's important to focus your anger on a vibrator, not another person.”
― Chelsea Handler, My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands

“Five exclamation marks, the sure sign of an insane mind.”
― Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man

“There's a lot of talk these days about giving children self-esteem. It's not something you can give; it's something they have to build. Coach Graham worked in a no-coddling zone. Self-esteem? He knew there was really only one way to teach kids how to develop it: You give them something they can't do, they work hard until they find they can do it, and you just keep repeating the process.”
― Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture

“Liquor is the kiss of the angels as well as the curse of the devil. It can conceal but also can reveal”
― Thrity Umrigar, The Space Between Us

“The hand is a symbol of humanity, part of what makes us human - the hand that carved the Parthenon, painted the hands of God and Adam on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, and wrote King Lear was the only hand that had known smallpox. That same hand had now given the disease to a monkey.”
― Richard Preston, The Demon in the Freezer

“In a population of hundreds of millions, such a small number of people is a mere drop in the bucket... but enough drops can make any bucket overflow”
― Neal Shusterman, UnDivided

“I read so I can live more than one life in more than one place.”
― Anne Tyler

“I tell you, there are times when words are so glad to be set free they laugh out loud and prance across their tablets and inside their scrolls.”
― Sue Monk Kidd, The Book of Longings

“Modifying an alien life-form. What could possibly go wrong?”
― Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary

“As children, we were taught to be afraid of tigers and lions. Nobody taught us what I know today - the most dangerous animal in this world is a man with wounded pride.”
― Thrity Umrigar, Honor