Katherine > Katherine's Quotes

“She kissed his faceplate then looked away, embarrassed. "That was stupid. Don't tell anyone I did that."

"Don't tell anyone I liked it." Beck smiled.”
― Andy Weir, The Martian

“I write to discover what I know.”
― Flannery O'Connor

“My life amounts to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean. Yet what is any ocean, but a multitude of drops?”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

“You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.”
― Madeleine L'Engle

“Borders may divide us, but, paradoxically, they're also the places where we're nearest to one another.”
― Ken Jennings, Maphead: Charting the Wide, Weird World of Geography Wonks

“The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves.”
― V. S. Naipaul, In a Free State

“The beginning of the end can feel a lot like the middle when you are living in it.”
― Karen Russell, Swamplandia!

“Food, particularly chocolate, at a time of grief or crisis is never a mistake.”
― Lucinda Fleeson, Waking Up in Eden: In Pursuit of an Impassioned Life on an Imperiled Island

“The problem with doing nothing is not knowing when you are finished.”
― Nelson De Mille

“People who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons. From within.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader and the Imagination

“No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality.”
― Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House

“It was her religion to make the best of everything.”
― Lyndall Gordon, Vindication: A Life of Mary Wollstonecraft

“A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe.”
― Madeleine L'Engle

“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

“There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight”
― Ezra Pound

“You know, I don’t think it’s worth it to deny yourself happiness just so you can stay faithful to the person you think you’ve become.”
― Hannah Johnson, Know Not Why

“I haven't been everywhere, but it's on my list.”
― Susan Sontag

“Time goes, you say? Ah, no! Alas, Time stays, we go.”
― Henry Austin Dobson

“You are always someones favorite unfolding story”
― Ann Patchett

“Writing is a job, a talent, but it's also the place to go in your head. It is the imaginary friend you drink your tea with in the afternoon.”
― Ann Patchett, Truth & Beauty

“The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.”
― Ben Okri

“What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.”
― Jane Goodall

“The willingness to show up changes us, It makes us a little braver each time.”
― Brené Brown, Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead

“When you have a memorable story about who you are and what your mission is, your success no longer depends on how experienced you are or how many degrees you have or who you know. A good story transcends boundaries, breaks barriers, and opens doors. It is a key not only to starting a business but also to clarifying your own personal identity and choices.”
― Blake Mycoskie, Start Something That Matters

“While some of us might be sitting around thinking “Nobody cares about me!”, our heart is currently working its seventeen-thousandth twenty-four-hour shift—and would have every right to feel a little forgotten when its owner thinks such thoughts.”
― Giulia Enders, Gut: The Inside Story of Our Body’s Most Underrated Organ

“Looking closer at human beings, it becomes clear that each of us is a world of our own. Our forehead is a breezy meadow, our elbows are arid wastelands, our eyes are salty lakes, and our gut is the most amazing giant forest ever, populated by the weirdest of creatures.”
― Giulia Enders, Gut: The Inside Story of Our Body’s Most Underrated Organ

“After all, the best part of a holiday is perhaps not so much to be resting yourself, as to see all the other fellows busy working.”
― Kenneth Grahame (Wind in the Willows), The Wind in the Willows

“Home! That was what they meant, those caressing appeals, Those soft touches wafted through the air, those invisible little hands pulling and tugging, all one way.”
― Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows

“...Absorbed in the new scents, the sounds, and the sunlight...”
― Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows

“You can measure your worth by your dedication to your path, not by your successes or failures.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear