Amanda Fiorani > Amanda's Quotes

“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind. Nor hath love's mind of any judgment taste; Wings and no eyes figure unheedy haste: And therefore is love said to be a child, Because in choice he is so oft beguil'd.”
― William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

“Push your boundaries, that's what they're there for.”
― Colleen Hoover, Slammed

“The points are not the point; the point is poetry.”
― Allan Wolf

“I said I was impressed, Martha. I'm beside myself with jealousy. What do you want me to do, throw up?”
― Edward Albee, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

“Martha: Truth or illusion, George; you don't know the difference.
George: No, but we must carry on as though we did.
Martha: Amen.”
― Edward Albee, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

“I am not interested in living in a city where there isn't a production by Samuel Beckett running.”
― Edward Albee

“George, who is out somewhere there in the dark, who is good to me - whom I revile, who can keep learning the games we play as quickly as I can change them. Who can make me happy and I do not wish to be happy. And yes, I do wish to be happy. George and Martha: Sad, sad, sad. Whom I will not forgive for having come to rest; for having seen me and having said: “Yes, this will do”. Who has made the hideous, the hurting, the insulting mistake of loving… me, and must be punished for it. George and Martha… Sad, sad, sad.”
― Edward Albee, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

“The world is a zoo”
― Edward Albee, The Zoo Story and Other Plays

“There will be no mass-based feminist movement as long as feminist ideas are understood only by a well-educated few.”
― bell hooks, Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center

“Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral. ”
― Paulo Freire

“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“We tell people to follow their dreams, but you can only dream of what you can imagine, and, depending on where you come from, your imagination can be quite limited.”
― Trevor Noah, Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood

“Language, even more than color, defines who you are to people.”
― Trevor Noah, Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood

“Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
― George Bernard Shaw

“He’s not perfect. You aren’t either, and the two of you will never be perfect. But if he can make you laugh at least once, causes you to think twice, and if he admits to being human and making mistakes, hold onto him and give him the most you can. He isn’t going to quote poetry, he’s not thinking about you every moment, but he will give you a part of him that he knows you could break. Don’t hurt him, don’t change him, and don’t expect for more than he can give. Don’t analyze. Smile when he makes you happy, yell when he makes you mad, and miss him when he’s not there. Love hard when there is love to be had. Because perfect guys don’t exist, but there’s always one guy that is perfect for you.”
― Bob Marley

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

“Sorrows are the rags of old clothes and jackets that serve to cover, then are taken off. That undressing, and the naked body underneath, is the sweetness that comes after grief.”
― Rumi, Rumi: The Big Red Book: The Great Masterpiece Celebrating Mystical Love and Friendship

“The soul is a stranger trying to find a home, somewhere that is not a where.”
― Rumi, Rumi: The Big Red Book: The Great Masterpiece Celebrating Mystical Love and Friendship

“You are granite. I am an empty wine glass. You know what happens when we touch.”
― Rumi, Rumi: The Big Red Book: The Great Masterpiece Celebrating Mystical Love and Friendship

“You made your choices in life, and you had to deal with them. There weren’t take backs. You could never and should never expect a second chance.”
― Mariana Zapata, The Best Thing

“the fact that we aren’t here forever is exactly what we need to make the most out of life.”
― L.J. Shen, Broken Knight

“Every true love and friendship is a story of unexpected transformation. If we are the same person before and after we loved, that means we haven't loved enough.”
― Elif Shafak, The Forty Rules of Love

“Books change us. Books save us. I know this because it happened to me.”
― Elif Shafak

“Time’s a trap, I’m caught in it.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale

“Live in the present, make the most of it, it’s all you’ve got.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale

“How easy it is to invent a humanity, for anyone at all. What an available temptation.”
― Margaret Atwood

“I used to collect snow globes when I was younger. They lined a shelf in my bedroom, and sometimes I would shake them up, one after the other, then sit on my bed and watch as the flurries and the glitter swirled around inside the glass. Eventually, the contents inside the globe would begin to settle. All would grow still, and then the globes on my shelf would return to their quiet, peaceful states. I liked them because they reminded me of life. How sometimes, it feels like someone is shaking the world around you, and things are flying at you from every direction, but if you wait long enough, everything will start to calm. I liked that feeling of knowing that the storm inside always eventually settles.”
― Colleen Hoover, Regretting You

“I'm happy. Which often looks like crazy.”
― David Henry Hwang, M. Butterfly

“Sometimes I hate you, sometimes I hate myself, but always I miss you”
― David Henry Hwang, M. Butterfly

“Tonight, I've finally learned to tell fantasy from reality. And, knowing the difference, I choose fantasy.”
― David Henry Hwang, M. Butterfly