Dita > Dita's Quotes

“Just try and live. Try and be happy. Or else, what’s the fucking point?”
― Tillie Cole, Sweet Soul

“Even when you have doubts, take that step. Take chances. Mistakes are never a failure—they can be turned into wisdom.”
― Cat Cora

“I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way.”
― Carl Sandburg

“It was war, and in war the truth was almost always the first casualty.”
― Vince Flynn, Executive Power

“I know some who are constantly drunk on books as other men are drunk on whiskey.”
― H.L. Mencken

“If you ask me what I want, I'll tell you. I want everything.”
― Kathy Acker

“There are some works so luminous...so powerful that they give us strength, and force us to new undertakings. A book can play this role.”
― Hervé Le Tellier

“How marvelous books are, crossing worlds and centuries, defeating ignorance and, finally, cruel time itself.”
― Gore Vidal, Julian

“Reading is like thinking, like praying, like talking to a friend, like expressing your ideas, like listening to other people's ideas, like listening to music, like looking at the view, like taking a walk on the beach.”
― Roberto Bolaño, 2666

“Every single pleasure I can imagine or have experienced is more delightful, more of a pleasure, if you take it in small sips, if you take your time. Reading is not an exception.”
― Amos Oz

“Maybe who we are isn't so much about what we do, but rather what we're capable of when we least expect it.”
― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

“We all have a Monster within; the difference is in degree, not in kind.”
― Douglas Preston, The Monster of Florence

“Stories make sense when so much around us is senseless, and perhaps what makes them most comforting is that while life goes on and pain goes on, stories do us the favor of ending.”
― John Hodgman

“Life is rarely about what happened; it's mostly about what we think happened.”
― Chuck Klosterman, Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto

“Of all our games, love's play is the only one which threatens to unsettle the soul...”
― Marguerite Yourcenar, Memoirs of Hadrian

“The commune where I had lived in Puerto Rico”
― Tillie Cole, Deep Redemption

“I see the beauty in her broken soul. I see a fighter who wears her battle scars with pride. I see my soul mate.”
― Autumn Grey, Fall Back Skyward

“You can’t just read these books and think that means you’re living. It’s their story, not yours, and it’s heartbreaking to watch someone so young toss away their chance at writing their own story.”
― Brittainy C. Cherry, The Silent Waters

“Mine, he declared.
Never, she returned.
His mouth moved to her ear and he murmured, “We’ll see.”
― Kristen Ashley, Until the Sun Falls from the Sky

“Don’t try me,” Lucian warned in my head.
“Kiss my concubine ass,” I returned in his.”
― Kristen Ashley, Until the Sun Falls from the Sky

“That you can’t make insane decisions when your head is a mess. That even when you can’t walk in someone else’s shoes, you do have to try them on.”
― Adriana Locke, Written in the Scars

“I think it’s time for the rest of me to come home,” I say, kissing the top of her head. She yawns, her heartbeat evening out. “The rest of you?” “My heart was always here,” I whisper.”
― Adriana Locke, Written in the Scars

“Sometimes family isn’t made by blood, Mrs. Whitt. Sometimes it’s a choice,”
― Adriana Locke, Written in the Scars