Elisa H > Elisa's Quotes

“We are crayons and lunchboxes and swinging so high our sneakers punch holes in the clouds.”
― Laurie Halse Anderson, Wintergirls

“If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin.”
― Ivan Turgenev

“I think the writing of literature should give pleasure. What else should it be about? It is not nuclear physics. It actually has to give pleasure or it is worth nothing.”
― Stephen Greenblatt

“Love is a capricious creature which desires everything and can be contented with almost nothing.”
― Madeleine de Scudéry

“Suppose time is a circle, bending back on itself. The world repeats itself, precisely, endlessly.”
― Alan Lightman, Einstein’s Dreams

“I like good strong words that mean something…”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

“I have spread my dreams under your feet.
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.”
― W.B. Yeats

“Let our scars fall in love.”
― Galway Kinnell

“We are not trapped or locked up in these bones. No, no. We are free to change. And love changes us. And if we can love one another, we can break open the sky.”
― Walter Mosley, Blue Light

“The winds were warm about us, the whole earth seemed the wealthier for our love.”
― Harriet Prescott Spofford, The Amber Gods and Other Stories

“Love is to beer as I am to drunk. And you say I’m not romantic. Shoot, I’m so romantic I could just puke.”
― Jarod Kintz, This Book is Not for Sale

“The medicine is in the eye of the beholder and right now you be-holding a big ass glass of it. So, shut up and drink your whiskey.”
― Joe Buckler, xxx

“If we wait until we're ready, we'll be waiting for the rest of our lives.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Ersatz Elevator

“She refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn't boring.”
― Zelda Fitzgerald, The Collected Writings