Rebekah > Rebekah's Quotes

“Weeds are flowers, too, once you get to know them.”
― A.A. Milne

“Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.”
― Walter Cronkite

“Whenever you think or you believe or you know, you're a lot of other people: but the moment you feel, you're nobody-but-yourself.”
― e.e. cummings

“Whoever authorized the evolution of the spiders of Australia should be summarily dragged out into the street and shot.”
― Mira Grant, How Green This Land, How Blue This Sea

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

“All I could think of when I got a look at the place from the outside was what fun it would be to stand out there and watch it burn down.”
― Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House

“Once you have perceived that life is very cruel, the only response is to live with as much humanity, humour and freedom as you can.”
― Sarah Kane

“The optimist sees the future as a rabbit sees the oncoming truck - getting bigger, not closer.”
― Steve Aylett

“When you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.”
― William Saroyan

“Humanity lives in its fiction.”
― Blaise Cendrars

“...This particular blunder is known as deus ex machina, which is French for "Are you fucking kidding me?”
― Howard Mittelmark, How Not to Write a Novel: 200 Classic Mistakes and How to Avoid Them—A Misstep-by-Misstep Guide

“Happiness is holding someone in your arms and knowing you hold the whole world.”
― Orhan Pamuk, Snow

“And underneath it all, there remained an ever present anger and hurt, the feeling of belonging nowhere that comes to people who belong everywhere.”
― Zadie Smith

“listen: there’s a hell
of a good universe next door; let’s go”
― E.E. Cummings

“I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“Write the book you want to read, the one you cannot find.”
― Carol Shields