Carla > Carla's Quotes

“I want to go about like the light-footed goats.”
― Johanna Spyri, Heidi

“You see things; you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?”
― George Bernard Shaw, Back to Methuselah

“Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.”
― Herman Hesse

“When I was about eight, I decided that the most wonderful thing, next to a human being, was a book.”
― Margaret Walker

“The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough of is love.”
― Henry Miller

“I've been homesick for countries I've never been, and longed to be where I couldn't be.”
― John Cheever

“When we are young, the words are scattered all around us. As they are assembled by experience, so also are we, sentence by sentence, until the story takes shape.”
― Louise Erdrich, The Plague of Doves

“And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.”
― Frederick Douglass

“Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Song of Ice and Fire, 5-Book Boxed Set: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, A Dance with Dragons

“I'm not anti-social. I'm just not social.”
― Woody Allen