Quotes - ❤Marie Gentilcore (rachelx) (Citrus Heights, CA) Showing 1-30 of 85

#1

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
― Oscar Wilde

#2

“I think you can tell when you meet someone whether they read novels. There's some hollowness if they don't.”
― Philip Hensher

tags: quotes-to-live-by

28 likes

#3

“If the real world were a book, it would never find a publisher. Overlong, detailed to the point of distraction-and ultimately, without a major resolution.”
― Jasper Fforde, Something Rotten

tags: life, world

2694 likes

#4

“The time will come
when, with elation,
you will greet yourself arriving
at your own door, in your own mirror,
and each will smile at the other’s welcome.”
― Derek Walcott, Sea Grapes

1382 likes

#5

“You don't have anything
if you don't have the stories.”
― Leslie Marmon Silko, Ceremony

1578 likes

#6

“Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.”
― Rudyard Kipling

tags: words

5544 likes

#7

“What a blessing it is to love books.”
― Elizabeth von Arnim, The Solitary Summer

tags: book-lovers, reading

211 likes

#8

“Our mothers always remain the strangest, craziest people we've ever met.”
― Marguerite Duras

tags: mothers

3184 likes

#9

“Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.”
― Sir Francis Bacon

tags: books, reading

8660 likes

#10

“Laugh all you want and cry all you want and whistle at pretty men in the street and to hell with anybody who thinks you're a damned fool!”
― Armistead Maupin, More Tales of the City

2044 likes

#11

“Good things make choosing difficult.Bad things leave no choice”
― Michelle Cohen Corasanti, The Almond Tree

tags: inspirational-living

50 likes

#12

“A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.”
― Phyllis Diller

2810 likes

#13

“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

1226 likes

#14

“Reading - the best state yet to keep absolute loneliness at bay.”
― William Styron

21 likes

#15

“Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.”
― Walter Cronkite

tags: education, ignorance, intelligence, libraries

3988 likes

#16

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul

135574 likes

#17

“You probably wouldn’t worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they do.”
― Olin Miller

tags: confidence, misattributed-eleanor-roosevelt, others, think, worry

5455 likes

#18

“The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.”
― Katherine Mansfield

3088 likes

#19

“Dear child, there are few problems in life which kindness and common sense cannot make simple and manageable.”
― Mary Burchell, To Journey Together / I And My Heart / Windy Night, Rainy Morrow

tags: common-sense

19 likes

#20

“The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back.”
― Abigail Van Buren

tags: character, life, wisdom

7579 likes

#21

“Laughter is just like champagne -- only without the headache afterwards.”
― Elizabeth Jane Howard, Mr. Wrong

tags: champagne, laughter

8 likes

#22

“He is beauty, inside and out.
He is the silver lining in a world of darkness.
He is my light.”
― Marie Lu, Prodigy

tags: day, june, love

1589 likes

#23

“You can't oversleep if you don't make plans to wake up early.”
― Elizabeth Jane Howard, Mr. Wrong

tags: humorous-quotes, sleeping-in

8 likes

#24

“We accept the love we think we deserve.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

tags: inspirational, love

76573 likes

#25

“A bit of trash now and then is good for the severest reader. It provides the necessary roughage in the literary diet.”
― Phyllis McGinley

2677 likes

#26

“Let's be reasonable and add an eighth day to the week that is devoted exclusively to reading.”
― Lena Dunham

tags: humor, reading

465 likes

#27

“In a story, you can turn to the front and begin again and everyone lives once more. That doesn't work in real life.”
― Ally Condie, Reached

168 likes

#28

“And it strikes me that this is how writing anything is, really. A collaboration between you who give the words and they who take them and find meaning in them, or put music behind them, or turn them aside because they were not what was needed.”
― Ally Condie, Reached

101 likes

#29

“If only there could be an invention that bottled up a memory, like scent. And it never faded, and it never got stale. And then, when one wanted it, the bottle could be uncorked, and it would be like living the moment all over again.”
― Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca

tags: books, fiction

2196 likes

#30

“You are imperfect, permanently and inevitably flawed. And you are beautiful.”
― Amy Bloom

tags: beauty, body-image, imperfections, self-acceptance

4448 likes

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