Eliza Rapsodia > Eliza's Quotes

“Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.”
― Charles Bukowski

“All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“Siempre imaginé que el Paraíso sería algún tipo de biblioteca.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“You’re in a car with a beautiful boy, and he won’t tell you that he loves you, but he loves you. And you feel like you’ve done something terrible, like robbed a liquor store, or swallowed pills, or shoveled yourself a grave in the dirt, and you’re tired. You’re in a car with a beautiful boy, and you’re trying not to tell him that you love him, and you’re trying to choke down the feeling, and you’re trembling, but he reaches over and he touches you, like a prayer for which no words exist, and you feel your heart taking root in your body, like you’ve discovered something you didn’t even have a name for.”
― richard siken

“Dark wings, dark words.”
― George R.R. Martin

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

“All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

“A fondness for reading, properly directed, must be an education in itself.”
― Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

“I am not young enough to know everything.”
― Oscar Wilde

“I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.”
― C.S. Lewis

“Los libros van siendo el único lugar de la casa donde todavía se puede estar tranquilo.”
― Julio Cortázar

“Not that smart. Not that hot. Not that nice. Not that funny. That's me: I'm not that.”
― John Green

“Like most misery, it started with apparent happiness.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

“The Lord of Winterfell would always be a Stark”
― George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings

“Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

“... a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

“Los libros están para recordarnos lo tontos y estúpidos que fuimos.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.”
― Winston Churchill

“It means 'Shadowhunters: Looking Better in Black Than the Widows of our Enemies Since 1234'.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Bones

“Get busy living or get busy dying.”
― Stephen King, Different Seasons

“Pleasure to me is wonder—the unexplored, the unexpected, the thing that is hidden and the changeless thing that lurks behind superficial mutability.”
― H.P. Lovecraft

“His hands were weak and shaking from carrying far too many books from the bookshop. It was the best feeling.”
― Joseph Gordon-Levitt, The Tiny Book of Tiny Stories, Vol. 1

“Where's the glory in repeating what others have done?”
― Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief

“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
― Oscar Wilde

“I don't want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
― Oscar Wilde

“If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”
― Oscar Wilde