Carol > Carol's Quotes

“Listen to them, the children of the night. What music they make!”
― Bram Stoker

“The world changes, we do not, therein lies the irony that kills us.”
― Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire

“To write something you have to risk making a fool of yourself.”
― Anne Rice

“Keep your secrets
Keep your silence
It is a better gift than truth”
― Anne Rice, The Queen of the Damned

“The problem with most genre fantasy is that it's not nearly fantastic enough. It's escapist, but it can't escape.”
― China Mieville

“Do one thing every day that scares you.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

“I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

“Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze. ”
― Elinor Glyn

“Your life is an occasion. Rise to it.”
― Suzanne Weyn, Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium

“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
― Mark Twain

“Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

“I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.”
― Helen Keller

“A desk is a dangerous place from which to watch the world.”
― John le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy