Rachelle Cobb > Rachelle's Quotes

“Every man's life is a fairy tale, written by God's fingers.”
― Hans Christian Andersen

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

“There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“Ah! There is nothing like staying at home, for real comfort.”
― Jane Austen

“but for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short.”
― Jane Austen

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

“What strange creatures brothers are!”
― Jane Austen

“There's only so much a woman can endure in a single day without a bracing bout of giggles.”
― Kelly Eileen Hake, Rugged and Relentless

“the moment you don't feel like praying, get on your knees. And the moment you don't feel like reading your bible, you'd better get that Book open.”
― Lori Wick, Where the Wild Rose Blooms

“Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn't carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life.”
― Stephen King

“A woman's heart should be so hidden in God that a man has to seek Him just to find her.”
― Maya Angelou

“Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.”
― E.L. Doctorow

“Mr. Bradford," she said. "I'm not going to propose to you."

The twinkle in Mr. Bradford's eyes faded. So did his smile. He managed to keep it on his face. It looked painful.

"Oh," he said.

"Mr. Bradford?"

"Yes?"

"Would you mind it so very much if...you know...you proposed to me?"

The light in Mr. Bradford's eyes jumped to life. He beamed so largely it almost wasn't crooked.

"If you want.”
― Heather Dixon, Entwined

“If journeys came with rulebooks, he'd probably just disobeyed every word.”
― Heather Burch, Halflings

“Solitude sometimes is best society.”
― John Milton, Paradise Lost

“Ah, how good it is to be among people who are reading.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge

“Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry. When we consider a book, we mustn't ask ourselves what it says but what it means...”
― Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose

“I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.”
― C.S. Lewis

“I feel like someone breathed new air into my lungs. I am not Abnegation. I am not Dauntless.
I am Divergent.”
― Veronica Roth, Divergent

“All serious daring starts from within.”
― Eudora Welty, On Writing

“I went to college, but I learned to write by reading and writing.”
― Daniel Pinkwater

“Each person has a literature inside them.”
― Anna Deavere Smith

“I think literature is best when it's voicing what we would prefer not to talk about.”
― Rick Moody

“Be steady and well-ordered in your life so that you can be fierce and original in your work.”
― Gustave Flaubert

“I lost so many blessings while confined in the prison of my fear.”
― Sarah E. Ladd, The Heiress of Winterwood

“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep your eyes close.”
― Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets

“Be courageous and try to write in a way that scares you a little.”
― Holley Gerth

“The homemaker has the ultimate career. All other careers exist for one purpose only - and that is to support the ultimate career. ”
― C.S. Lewis