Jenea > Jenea's Quotes

“Love, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage.”
― Ambrose Bierce, The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

“A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends desert us; when trouble thickens around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts.”
― Washington Irving

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“I read like a wolf eats.
I read myself to sleep every night.”
― Gary Paulsen

“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”
― George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman

“We read to know we're not alone.”
― William Nicholson, Shadowlands: A Play

“Never give up... No one knows what's going to happen next.”
― L. Frank Baum