Adeline > Adeline's Quotes

“Lie until even you believe it - that's the real secret of lying”
― Holly Black, White Cat

“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
― Toni Morrison

“Memory is slippery. It bends to our understanding of the world, twists to accommodate our prejudices. It is unreliable. Witnesses seldom remember the same things. They identify the wrong people. They give us the details of events that never happened. Memory is slippery, but my memories suddenly feel slipperier.”
― Holly Black, White Cat

“Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.”
― Lloyd Alexander

“Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best-seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.”
― Flannery O'Connor

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

“We are, largely, who we remember ourselves to be. That's why habits are so hard to break. If we know ourselves to be liars, we expect not to tell the truth. If we think of ourselves as honest, we try harder.”
― Holly Black, White Cat

“Yeah, Quirrell was a great teacher. There was just that minor drawback of him having Lord Voldemort sticking out of the back of his head!”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

“Because you can't argue with all the fools in the world. It's easier to let them have their way, then trick them when they're not paying attention.”
― Christopher Paolini

“The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“You don't remember what happened. What you remember becomes what happened.”
― John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

“It is one of life's bitterest truths that bedtime so often arrives just when things are really getting interesting.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Grim Grotto

“Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.”
― Anton Chekhov

“There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating: people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Writing is like sex. First you do it for love, then you do it for your friends, and then you do it for money.”
― Virginia Woolf

“I write to give myself strength. I write to be the characters that I am not. I write to explore all the things I'm afraid of. ”
― Joss Whedon

“I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“You know, it's hard work to write a book. I can't tell you how many times I really get going on an idea, then my quill breaks. Or I spill ink all over my writing tunic.”
― Ellen DeGeneres, The Funny Thing Is...

“Don't pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches.”
― Andy Warhol

“You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.”
― Benjamin Franklin

“I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.”
― Mark Twain

“Marks forget that whenever something's too good to be true, that's because it's a con.”
― Holly Black, White Cat

“You better get over here with my car,” Grandad says. “Before I call the cops and tell them you stole it.”
“Sorry,” I say contritely. Then the rest of what he said sinks in and I laugh.
“Wait, did you just threaten me with calling the police? Because that I’d like to
see.”
― Holly Black, White Cat

“A bore is someone who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Youth is wasted on the young.”
― George Bernard Shaw

“There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.”
― Oscar Wilde

“The nicest feeling in the world is to do a good deed anonymously-and have somebody find out.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Misfortunes one can endure--they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults--ah!--there is the sting of life.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

“The easiest lies to tell are the ones you want to be true.”
― Holly Black, White Cat