Crystal > Crystal's Quotes

“Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.”
― Joseph Addison

“Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.”
― Francis Bacon

“Reading allows me to recharge my batteries.”
― Rahul Dravid

“Be careful about reading health books. Some fine day you'll die of a misprint.”
― Markus Herz

“Stop looking to the sky for answers. The light isn't above you. It's within you.”
― Elysia Lumen Strife, Shadows of the Son

“I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

“If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love. Don't be surly at home, then go out in the street and start grinning 'Good morning' at total strangers.”
― Maya Angelou

“You may be a bit presumptuous, Miss Woodhart, and may lack certain habits of good etiquette. But in dancing, you exceed many—and in loveliness, I have known no equal.”
― Hannah Linder, Beneath His Silence

“Perhaps tomorrow had never been meant for them at all. Perhaps tomorrow belonged to God.”
― Hannah Linder, When Tomorrow Came

“In her experience, it was those first sixty seconds, from the moment she flashed her P.I. license to the end of her pitch, that she was most likely to earn someone's cooperation. Older people were the easiest, if only because they were so often bored out of their minds that they welcomed any distraction. Men were curt, but they usually found the time, as long as she did the little-me, big-eye, big-chest thing. Women were more skeptical, because women spent their lives listening to bullshit.”
― Laura Lippman, The Sugar House

“And beyond the timeless meadows and emerald pastures, the rabbit holes and moss-covered oak and rowan trees and the "slippy sloppy" houses of frogs, the woodland-scented wind rushed between the leaves and blew around the gray veil that dipped below the fells, swirling up in a mist, blurring the edges of the distant forest.

(View from Windermere in the Lake District)”
― Susan Branch, A Fine Romance: Falling in Love with the English Countryside