Suzanne > Suzanne's Quotes

“The person who deserves most pity is a lonesome one on a rainy day who doesn't know how to read.”
― Benjamin Franklin

“Reading one book is like eating one potato chip.”
― Diane Duane, So You Want to Be a Wizard

“Don't be afraid to make corrections! Whether the voice came from her memory or was a last whisper from the blinding new star far above, Nita never knew. But she knew what to do. While Kit was still on the first part of the name she pulled out her pen, her best pen that Fred had saved and changed. She clicked it open. The metal still tingled against her skin, the ink at the point still glittered oddly- the same glitter as the ink with which the bright Book was written. Nita bent quickly over the Book and with the pen, in lines of light, drew from the final circle an arrow pointing up-ward, the way out, the symbol that said change could happen- if, only if-”
― Diane Duane, So You Want to Be a Wizard

“She tried to walk softly and wished the trees wouldn't stare at her so.”
― Diane Duane, So You Want to Be a Wizard

“I" before "E" except after "C" and when sounding like "A" as in neighbor and weigh, and on weekends and holidays and all throughout May, and YOU'LL ALWAYS BE WRONG NO MATTER WHAT YOU SAY!!!!”
― Brian Regan

“No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.”
― Gary A. Braunbeck, In Silent Graves: The Cedar Hills Series

“At times I've felt less like a punctuation theorist than like a punctuation therapist”
― Cecelia Watson, Semicolon: The Past, Present, and Future of a Misunderstood Mark

“To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.”
― Theodore Roosevelt