Megan Penner > Megan's Quotes

“Don't pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches.”
― Andy Warhol

“The very least you can do in your life is figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams

“In order to rise
From its own ashes
A phoenix
First
Must
Burn.”
― Octavia Butler, Parable of the Talents

“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.”
― James Baldwin

“Everybody is identical in their secret unspoken belief that way deep down they are different from everyone else.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

“There's things that happen in a person's life that are so scorched in the memory and burned into the heart that there's no forgetting them.”
― John Boyne

“Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

“The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.”
― Lorraine Hansberry

“A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.”
― Phyllis Diller

“The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.”
― Katherine Mansfield

“If your feet are firmly planted on the ground you'll never be able to dance.”
― Iris Johansen, Countdown

“Travel changes you. As you move through this life and this world you change things slightly, you leave marks behind, however small. And in return, life—and travel—leaves marks on you.”
― Anthony Bourdain