Ang > Ang's Quotes

“Goodnight stars, goodnight air, goodnight noises everywhere.”
― Margaret Wise Brown, Goodnight Moon

“Stay gold, Ponyboy. Stay gold . . .” The pillow seemed to sink a little, and Johnny died.”
― S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders

“You know, one of the tragedies of real life is that there is no background music.”
― Annie Proulx

“There is no past or future. Using tenses to divide time is like making chalk marks on water.”
― Janet Frame

“Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.”
― John Locke

“I read so I can live more than one life in more than one place.”
― Anne Tyler

“Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.”
― Dale Carnegie

“Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.”
― Will Rogers

“I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes...you're Doing Something.”
― Neil Gaiman

“Reading was my escape and my comfort, my consolation, my stimulant of choice: reading for the pure pleasure of it, for the beautiful stillness that surrounds you when you hear an author's words reverberating in your head.”
― Paul Auster, The Brooklyn Follies

“There are too many books I haven’t read, too many places I haven’t seen, too many memories I haven’t kept long enough.”
― Irwin Shaw

“Words are not the only way we communicate, you and I. They never were.”
― Meredith Duran, The Duke of Shadows

“Yours if you want it."

- Julian to Emma.”
― Meredith Duran, The Duke of Shadows

“When he entered after her, she saw that he meant to come straight to her, and she raised a hand. "No," she said. "Wait."

His footsteps halted. He had always listened to her, hadn't he? Had always heard her."

-Emma and Julian”
― Meredith Duran, The Duke of Shadows

“She did not feel anything so boring as beautiful. She felt fierce.”
― Meredith Duran, The Duke of Shadows

“Some people were like that; they could not escape criticism, because they never quite managed to convince themselves of the role everyone believed they should fill.”
― Meredith Duran, The Duke of Shadows

“It is thanks to my evening reading alone that I am still more or less sane.”
― W.G. Sebald, Vertigo

“Let the wild rumpus start!”
― Maurice Sendak, Where the Wild Things Are

“It is true that those we meet can change us, sometimes so profoundly that we are not the same afterwards, even unto our names.”
― Yann Martel, Life of Pi

“You know, Hobbes, some days even my lucky rocket ship underpants don't help.”
― Bill Watterson

“The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.”
― Anna Quindlen

“That's the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet.”
― Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake

“I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot. ”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all the power we need inside ourselves already.”
― J.K. Rowling

“Not all those who wander are lost.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“Make your mistakes, take your chances, look silly, but keep on going. Don’t freeze up.”
― Thomas Wolfe, You Can't Go Home Again

“Surely this marked a new level of achievement in his amatory career. Never before had he charmed the frock off a woman with talk of mathematics. Never before would he have thought to try.”
― Tessa Dare, A Week to be Wicked

“Love me. Don’t ever stop. You hear me? It won’t be this good with anyone else. Only me, Min. Only me.”
― Tessa Dare, A Week to be Wicked

“I have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid.”
― Nadine Gordimer

“That luminous part of you that exists beyond personality–your soul, if you will–is as bright and shining as any that has ever been....Clear away everything that keeps you separate from this secret luminous place. Believe it exists, come to know it better, nurture it, share its fruits tirelessly.”
― George Saunders