Jacqueline (Fall In Love With The Sound of Words) > Jacqueline (Fall In Love With The Sound of Words)'s Quotes

“It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

“Humanity lives in its fiction.”
― Blaise Cendrars

“I was just telling Claire about a guy I met in bread class. I hate him, but he could be my soul mate.”
― Sarah Addison Allen, First Frost

“The important thing in writing is the capacity to astonish. Not shock—shock is a worn-out word—but astonish.”
― Terry Southern

“No woman gets an orgasm from shining the kitchen floor. ”
― Betty Friedan

“Our ability to reach unity in diversity will be the beauty and the test of our civilisation.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“I am simply a 'book drunkard.' Books have the same irresistible temptation for me that liquor has for its devotee. I cannot withstand them.”
― L.M. Montgomery

“I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes.

Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You're doing things you've never done before, and more importantly, you're Doing Something.

So that's my wish for you, and all of us, and my wish for myself. Make New Mistakes. Make glorious, amazing mistakes. Make mistakes nobody's ever made before. Don't freeze, don't stop, don't worry that it isn't good enough, or it isn't perfect, whatever it is: art, or love, or work or family or life.

Whatever it is you're scared of doing, Do it.

Make your mistakes, next year and forever.”
― Neil Gaiman

“Speak quickly. My patience wanes.”
― Rose Reid, Crown of Crimson

“Eat clean to stay fit, have a burger to stay sane.”
― Gigi Hadid

“What is grander than a country and more valuable than gold? Strength of heart.”
― Cornelius Elmore Addison, Tom Thorneval: Dream Merchant Extraordinaire

“Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion.”
― Edward Abbey

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“My name is Herondale," the boy said cheerfully. "William Herondale, but everyone calls me Will. Is this really your room? Not very nice, is it?" He wandered toward the window, pausing to examine the stacks of books on her bedside table, and then the bed itself. He waved a hand at the ropes. "Do you often sleep tied to the bed?”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

“I know all those words, but that sentence makes no sense to me.”
― Matt Groening

“He had noticed that events were cowards: they didn't occur singly, but instead they would run in packs and leap out at him all at once.”
― Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere

“You've a good heart. Sometimes that's enough to see you safe wherever you go. But mostly, it's not.”
― Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere

“Can this be in human nature! — Can such horrible perversion of right be permitted! Can man, who calls himself endowed with reason, and immeasurably superior to every other created being, argue himself into the commission of such horrible folly, such inveterate cruelty, as exceeds all the acts of the most irrational and ferocious brute. Brutes do not deliberately slaughter their species; it remains for man only, man, proud of his prerogative of reason, and boasting of his sense of justice, to unite the most terrible extremes of folly and wickedness!”
― Ann Radcliffe, The Italian

“Don't write what you know. Write who you are. Write your heart and soul. Write what you dream of when you look to the stars.”
― Luke Taylor

“Many boys will bring you flowers. But someday you'll meet a boy who will learn your favorite flower, your favorite song, your favorite sweet. And even if he is too poor to give you any of them, it won't matter because he will have taken the time to know you as no one else does. Only that boy earns your heart.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

“Never underestimate the power of the page.”
― Shannon Messenger, Neverseen

“And if you can’t see anything beautiful about yourself, get a better mirror. Look a little closer. Stare a little longer. Because there’s something inside you that made you keep trying despite everyone who told you to quit.”
― Shane Koyczan, To This Day: For the Bullied and Beautiful

“It's odd, I think, how the thing you love most in a person can also be the thing you sometimes wish you could change”
― Julie Eshbaugh, Ivory and Bone

“Your face says much, thief. Trust me, I'm the one who's looking at it.”
― Luke Taylor, Vault of Dreams

“What was there in a man's life, but what he saw and what he could not?”
― Luke Taylor, Vault of Dreams

“You stole my heart before I could give it to you.”
― Luke Taylor, Vault of Dreams

“It was about time their nose for trouble had a woman's touch.”
― Luke Taylor, Vault of Dreams

“I've seen a lot in my years, Aerlyn. And when I look at you, I see a rose, not a thistle."
Her heart caught in her throat and she nearly snorted.
"You see what you want to see."
Quill chuckled to himself. At the thorns in her voice.
"As do you, Thistle. Can you tell me what I can see any more than I can tell you want you see?"
"No."
"Then let me see what I want to see." He said, turning to face her, and she jabbed her midnight gaze at him before twisting her head to see the many sorrows sleeping beneath his own lake blue eyes. "Because I see what no one else sees.”
― Luke Taylor, Vault of Dreams

“Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

“Me: “This is obviously a clog. How about I take it apart and check the internal tubing?” NASA: (after five hours of deliberation) “No. You’ll fuck it up and die.” So I took it apart.”
― Andy Weir, The Martian