Annie Cosby > Annie's Quotes

“Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
― Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx

“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
― C.S. Lewis

“It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.”
― Lewis Carroll

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

“When I fall in love, it will be forever.”
― Jane Austen , Sense and Sensibility: The Screenplay

“Because failure isn't an option if success is just a matter of more effort.”
― W. Bruce Cameron, A Dog's Purpose

“Fill your house with stacks of books, in all the crannies and all the nooks.”
― Dr. Seuss

“You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not.”
― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

“The real lover is the man who can thrill you by kissing your forehead or smiling into your eyes or just staring into space.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever.”
― Alfred Tennyson

“For the two of us, home isn't a place. It is a person. And we are finally home.”
― Stephanie Perkins, Anna and the French Kiss

“For a minute there, I thought I stood a chance. But I guess in the end, Mitchell will still be the lucky one.”
― Piper Shelly, Play With Me

“Lies are like a treadmill with no off switch. You have to keep walking or you'll fall off.”
― Iris St. Clair, Louder Than Words

“Time has a way of binding us. Months turn into years against our will.”
― Annie Cosby, All the Tales We Tell

“Come sit, dear," the old woman said. "We were just discussing kelpies and changelings."

I turned a delightfully amused face at Ronan, hoping to see him embarrassed to be caught in a world of fantasy, but his face was impassive, completely unperturbed. Those were the hardest boys to ignore: the ones that weren't concerned with your opinion of them, not afraid to be caught listening to fairytales.”
― Annie Cosby, All the Tales We Tell

“Time travels at different speeds for different people. I can tell you who time strolls for, who it trots for, who it gallops for, and who it stops cold for.”
― William Shakespeare, As You Like It

“Let the music speak to us of tonight, in a happier language than our own.”
― Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White

“Let us never underestimate the power of a well-written letter.”
― Jane Austen, Persuasion

“Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.”
― Frederick Douglass

“Oh! Do not excite yourself. Shall I say that he interested me because he was trying to grow a mustache and as yet the result is poor." Poirot stroked his own magnificent mustache tenderly. "It is an art," he murmured, "the growing of the mustache! I have sympathy for all who attempt it.”
― Agatha Christie, Surprise! Surprise!