Lisa Walker > Lisa's Quotes

“Nearly every night before I go to bed I ask myself, "Have I vibrated in tune with the Infinite today, or have I failed?”
― Don Marquis, Hermione and Her Little Group of Serious Thinkers

“Great is the power of steady misrepresentation”
― Charles Darwin

“The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof. What I want is so simple I almost can’t say it: elementary kindness. Enough to eat, enough to go around. The possibility that kids might one day grow up to be neither the destroyers nor the destroyed. That’s about it. Right now I'm living in that hope, running down its hallway and touching the walls on both sides.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams

“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

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

“Why do people have to be this lonely? What's the point of it all? Millions of people in this world, all of them yearning, looking to others to satisfy them, yet isolating themselves. Why? Was the earth put here just to nourish human loneliness?”
― Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart

“Tess realized one of the great modern dating sadnesses: everyone is so used to the comforting glow of the computer screen that no one can go so far as to say "good morning" in public without being liquored up.”
― Amelia Gray, AM/PM

“Do act mysterious. It always keeps them coming back for more.”
― Carolyn Keene, Nancy's Mysterious Letter

“Not many girls would have used their wits the way you did," the officer observed.”
― Carolyn Keene, The Secret of the Old Clock

“Chuckling to herself, Nancy said aloud, "Romance and detective work won't mix tonight!”
― Carolyn Keene, The Bungalow Mystery

“Nancy, an attractive titian blond, grinned up at her friend.”
― Carolyn Keene, The Mystery at Lilac Inn