Emily Hewat > Emily 's Quotes

“I haven't discovered anything. I've only found out what I know. I've understood the power which not only gave me life in the past but is giving me life now”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“But my life now, my whole life, regardless of all that may happen to me, every minute of it, is not only meaningless as it was before but has the unquestionable meaning of the good which it is in my power to put into it”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“Can’t repeat the past?…Why of course you can!”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“So, this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“We accept the love we think we deserve.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“And in that moment, I swear we were infinite.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“there is this one photograph... that is just beautiful. it would be impossible to describe how beautiful it is, but i’ll try. if you listen to the song “asleep,” and you think about those pretty weather days that make you remember things, and you think about the prettiest eyes you’ve known, and you cry and the person holds you back, then i think you will see the photograph. ”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“Courage meant overcoming fear and doing one’s duty in the presence of danger, not being unafraid.”
― Eugene B. Sledge, With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa

“We were unable to understand their attitudes until we ourselves returned home and tried to comprehend people who griped because America wasn't perfect or their coffee wasn't hot enough or they had to stand in line and wait for a train or bus.”
― Eugene B. Sledge