Helen > Helen's Quotes

“nothing furnishes a room like books”
― Terry Fallis, The Best Laid Plans

“one of the most famous split infinitives ... To boldly go”
― Terry Fallis, The Best Laid Plans

“History is hereditary only in this way: we, all of us, inherit everything, and then we choose what to cherish, what to disavow, and what do do next, which is why it's worth trying to know where things come from.”
― Jill Lepore

“The Constitution is ink on parchment. It is forty-four hundred words. And it is, too, the accreted set of meanings that have been made of those words, the amendments, the failed amendments, the struggles, the debates—the course of events—over more than two centuries. It is not easy, but it is everyone’s.”
― Jill Lepore

“If there's a single lesson that life teaches us, it's that wishing doesn't make it so.”
― Lev Grossman, The Magicians

“I got my heart's desire, and there my troubles began.”
― Lev Grossman, The Magicians

“Magic: it was what happened when the mind met the world, and the mind won for a change.”
― Lev Grossman, The Magician King

“Nothing”
― Christina Skye, The Accidental Bride