Erin > Erin's Quotes

“Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.”
― Henry Adams

“Compassion is the basis of morality.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer

“These woods are lovely, dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.”
― Robert Frost, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

“When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.”
― Mark Twain

“Ty frowned. “I don’t hate all other animals.” “Horses. Dogs. Chipmunks.” “They’re twitchy, Zane. And chipmunks have shifty eyes.” “Moths?” “They have erratic flight patterns!” Zane doubled over, laughing so hard he couldn’t catch his breath. Ty glared at him. “I’m glad my phobias amuse you.”
― Abigail Roux, Stars & Stripes

“I don't think a tough question is disrespectful.”
― Helen Thomas

“Like all magnificent things, it's very simple.”
― Natalie Babbitt, Tuck Everlasting

“Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.”
― Emma Lazarus

“Little kids I don't mind. Every kid wants a pony. It's grown-ups that get my robe in a knot. Stop with the begging, okay? Adore me for a change. Or give thanks. I like gratitude. Or ask for guidance. But oh, no. It's always the pony.”
― Ron Koertge, Coaltown Jesus

“I feel free and strong. If I were not a reader of books I could not feel this way.”
― Walter Tevis

“May the odds be ever in your favor!”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

“There is nothing more luxurious than eating while you read—unless it be reading while you eat. Amabel did both: they are not the same thing, as you will see if you think the matter over.”
― E. Nesbit, The Magic World

“I am different, not less.”
― Temple Grandin

“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

“He stole credit for my research. And he was after the code I’m working on now."
Cade went still, fury spiking through him. "Holly, I’m going to give you his throat for this."
"Aw, you say the sweetest things, demon." She stood on tiptoe and pressed a gentle kiss to his lips.
Deciding he’d kill Tim for her anyway, he relaxed and said, "I know how to play those heartstrings, yeah?"
She unbuckled Cade’s belt. "I called him a fuckwit tosser."
"That’s my girl." He stripped off her top, then his shirt. "Are you coming on to me to get back at him?"
"Probably." Down went his zipper.
"I’m okay with that.”
― Kresley Cole, Dark Desires After Dusk

“There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.”
― Ray Bradbury

“ogni promesso e un debito" ("Every Promise is a debt")”
― Italian proverb

“Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.”
― Frederick Douglass

“So please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookshelf on the wall.”
― Roald Dahl

“If we had no faults we should not take so much pleasure in noting those of others.”
― François de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims

“Wounds turn into scars and scars make you tough.”
― Aisha Tyler

“The road to hell is paved with adverbs.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“Each of us is born with a box of matches inside us but we can't strike them all by ourselves”
― Laura Esquivel, Like Water for Chocolate

“The truth is, honey, I've enjoyed my life. I've had a hell of a good time.”
― Ava Gardner

“That was one of the virtues of being a pessimist: nothing was ever as bad as you thought it would be.”
― James Jones, From Here to Eternity

“I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“Good for you, Big Brother! Nothing says Merry Christmas like "Hi, Dad! I'm gay!”
― J.M. Colail, Wes and Toren

“Though [Abraham Lincoln] never would travel to Europe, he went with Shakespeare’s kings to Merry England; he went with Lord Byron poetry to Spain and Portugal. Literature allowed him to transcend his surroundings.”
― Doris Kearns Goodwin

“There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that receives it.”
― Edith Wharton

“What I am
is tired of jam.”
― Russell Hoban