Deborah > Deborah's Quotes

“Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?”
― Henry Ward Beecherr

“Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.”
― Sir Francis Bacon

“March is such a fickle month. It is the seam between winter and spring—though seam suggests an even hem, and March is more like a rough line of stitches sewn by an unsteady hand, swinging wildly between January gusts and June greens. You don’t know what you’ll find, until you step outside.”
― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

“And yet, once we went inside, we had to carry on with the typical everyday stuff that seemed too insignificant to continue—think about dinner, drink water, use the bathroom, take out contact lenses. That’s the thing about biology; it doesn’t give a shit about outside emergencies.”
― Angie Kim, Happiness Falls

“We could listen to podcasts until the hour of our death and not make a dent in the stories that are available to us.”
― Ann Patchett, Tom Lake

“Nobody picks their life. I sure didn’t.” Gertie laughs, a scrape. “Here’s what happens: you make choices, and then they make choices. Your choices make choices.”
― Chloe Benjamin, The Immortalists