Psalm > Psalm's Quotes

“If you're too open-minded; your brains will fall out.”
― Lawrence Ferlinghetti

“I was wise enough never to grow up, while fooling people into believing I had.”
― Margaret Mead

“My love for those I love -- not many -- not very many, but don't I love them so?”
― Emily Dickinson

“I was raised among books, making invisible friends in pages that seemed cast from dust and whose smell I carry on my hands to this day.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

“But luxury has never appealed to me, I like simple things, books, being alone, or with somebody who understands.”
― Daphne du Maurier

“Weeds are flowers, too, once you get to know them.”
― A.A. Milne

“Omit needless words.”
― William Strunk Jr., The Elements of Style; How to Speak and Write Correctly

“She sounds like someone who spends a lot of time in libraries, which are the best sorts of people.”
― Catherynne M. Valente, The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making

“Underneath my outside face
There's a face that none can see.
A little less smiley,
A little less sure,
But a whole lot more like me.”
― Shel Silverstein, Every Thing on It

“He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.”
― W. Somerset Maugham, Books and You

“When someone shows you who they are believe them the first time.”
― Maya Angelou

“Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.”
― Albert Camus

“It ain't what they call you, it's what you answer to.”
― W.C. Fields

“Sometimes I’m terrified of my heart; of its constant hunger for whatever it is it wants. The way it stops and starts.”
― Poe

“I haven't been everywhere, but it's on my list.”
― Susan Sontag

“Yr crown has been bought and paid for. All you have to do is put it on yr head”
― James Baldwin

“A bit of trash now and then is good for the severest reader. It provides the necessary roughage in the literary diet.”
― Phyllis McGinley

“I’m not sad, but the boys who are looking for sad girls always find me. I’m not a girl anymore and I’m not sad anymore. You want me to be a tragic backdrop so that you can appear to be illuminated, so that people can say ‘Wow, isn't he so terribly brave to love a girl who is so obviously sad?’ You think I’ll be the dark sky so you can be the star? I’ll swallow you whole.”
― Warsan Shire

“Nor did I make any distinctions between great literature and any other kind. I just liked reading.”
― Margaret Atwood

“Don't buy books for your shelf, buy them for yourself.”
― Saji Ijiyemi, Don't Die Sitting

“I was made for the library, not the classroom. The classroom was a jail of other people’s interests. The library was open, unending, free.”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me

“You can take the girl out of the 80s, but you can't take the 80s out of the girl.”
― Louise Bagshawe