Suzanne Daniel > Suzanne's Quotes

“Come grow old with me. The best is yet to be.”
― Wordsworth

“What though the radiance which was once so bright
Be now for ever taken from my sight,
Though nothing can bring back the hour
Of splendor in the grass, of glory in the flower;
We will grieve not, rather find
Strength in what remains behind.”
― William Wordsworth, Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood

“First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Between memory and reality there are awkward discrepancies...”
― Eileen Chang

“I opened a book and in I strode.
Now nobody can find me.
I've left my chair, my house, my road,
My town and my world behind me.
I'm wearing the cloak, I've slipped on the ring,
I've swallowed the magic potion.
I've fought with a dragon, dined with a king
And dived in a bottomless ocean.
I opened a book and made some friends.
I shared their tears and laughter
And followed their road with its bumps and bends
To the happily ever after.
I finished my book and out I came.
The cloak can no longer hide me.
My chair and my house are just the same,
But I have a book inside me.”
― Julia Donaldson

“A story untold could be the one that kills you.”
― Pat Conroy

“We are all broken—that’s how the light gets in.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“The role of a writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say.”
― Anais Nin

“If you go home with somebody, and they don't have books, don't fuck 'em!”
― John Waters

“We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorns have roses.”
― Alphonse Karr, A Tour Round My Garden

“They say nothing lasts forever but they're just scared it will last longer than they can love it.”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

“Men should think twice before making widowhood women's only path to power.”
― Gloria Steinem

“Lust is easy, Love is hard, Like is the most important.”
― Carl Reiner

“No woman has to be respectable to be valuable.”
― Mikki Kendall, Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot

“Women shouldn't judge each others lives, if we haven't been through one another's fires.”
― Lisa Taddeo, Three Women

“Some people turn sad awfully young. No special reason, it seems, but they seem almost to be born that way. They bruise easier, tire faster, cry quicker, remember longer and, as I say, get sadder younger than anyone else in the world. I know, for I'm one of them.”
― Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine

“I hadn't realized how much I'd been needing to meet someone I might be able to say everything to.”
― Elizabeth Berg, Talk Before Sleep

“Marianne had the sense that her real life was happening somewhere very far away, happening without her, and she didn't know if she would ever find out where it was or become part of it.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

“Life changes fast. Life changes in the instant. You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends.”
― Joan Didion

“I have already lost touch with a couple of people I used to be...”
― Joan Didion

“I’m here to remember – all that I have been and all that I will never be again.”
― Anne Griffin, When All Is Said

“There's something ugly about the flawless.”
― Dennis Lehane, Sacred

“Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.”
― Mark Twain

“Whenever I am calling god, her line is busy.”
― Megha Majumdar, A Burning

“I’m fine,” I said quickly, because we are taught as children that automatic response: I’m fine, when we are not. I’m fine, when we are anything but. I’m fine, when we can’t stop thinking about death, about dying, about ceasing to be.”
― Katrina Leno, Everything All at Once

“I learned (what I suppose I really knew already) that one can never go back, that one should not ever try to go back—that the essence of life is going forward. Life is really a One Way Street, isn’t it?”
― Agatha Christie, At Bertram's Hotel

“Never ruin an apology with an excuse.”
― Benjamin Franklin

“Some things are too terrible to grasp at once. Other things - naked, sputtering, indelible in their horror - are too terrible to really grasp ever at all. It is only later, in solitude, in memory that the realization dawns: when the ashes are cold; when the mourners have departed; when one looks around and finds oneself - quite to one's surprise - in an entirely different world.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“We're all in the end-of-your-life book-club, whether we acknowledge it or not; each book we read may well be the last, each conversation the final one.”
― Will Schwalbe, The End of Your Life Book Club

“If you love something, know that it will leave on a day you are far from ready.”
― Kathleen Rooney, Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk