Donna > Donna's Quotes

“I have a history of making decisions very quickly about men. I have always fallen in love fast and without measuring risks. I have a tendency not only to see the best in everyone, but to assume that everyone is emotionally capable of reaching his highest potential. I have fallen in love more times than I care to count with the highest potential of a man, rather than with the man himself, and I have hung on to the relationship for a long time (sometimes far too long) waiting for the man to ascend to his own greatness. Many times in romance I have been a victim of my own optimism.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

“One of the advantages of being disorganized is that one is always having surprising discoveries.”
― A.A. Milne

“You live and learn. At any rate, you live.”
― Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless

“Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“Life is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal.”
― Neil Gaiman

“If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself.”
― Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief

“Threats are the last resort of a man with no vocabulary.”
― Tamora Pierce, Lady Knight

“There's always going to be bad stuff out there. But here's the amazing thing -- light trumps darkness, every time. You stick a candle into the dark, but you can't stick the dark into the light.”
― Jodi Picoult, Change of Heart

“Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Airman's Odyssey

“You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not.”
― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

“Books are like mirrors: if a fool looks in, you cannot expect a genius to look out.”
― J.K. Rowling

“Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

“What a waste my life would be without all the beautiful mistakes I've made.”
― Alice Bag, Violence Girl: East L.A. Rage to Hollywood Stage, a Chicana Punk Story

“There are no good girls gone wrong - just bad girls found out.”
― Mae West

“Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

“Here’s to books, the cheapest vacation you can buy.”
― Charlaine Harris

“Go to heaven for the climate and hell for the company.”
― Benjamin Franklin Wade

“Here's all you have to know about men and women: women are crazy, men are stupid. And the main reason women are crazy is that men are stupid.”
― George Carlin, When Will Jesus Bring The Pork Chops?

“Love is friendship. Just with less clothes, which makes it far more brilliant.”
― Elizabeth Hunter, A Hidden Fire

“All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.”
― Charles M. Schulz

“For future reference: do not underestimate the seductive power of math.”
― Rachel Hartman, Seraphina

“I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

“You can never be overdressed or overeducated.”
― Oscar Wilde

“There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”
― Joseph Brodsky

“You know, one of the tragedies of real life is that there is no background music.”
― Annie Proulx

“I can't imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.”
― C.S. Lewis

“In order to rise
From its own ashes
A phoenix
First
Must
Burn.”
― Octavia Butler, Parable of the Talents

“Beware the man of a single book.”
― St. Thomas Aquinas

“Most maidens are perfectly capable of rescuing themselves in my experience, at least the ones worth something, in any case.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

“Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle.”
― Lewis Carroll , Alice in Wonderland