Beatriz > Beatriz's Quotes

“There are many Beths in the world, shy and quiet, sitting in corners till needed, and living for others so cheerfully that no one sees the sacrifices till the little cricket on the hearth stops chirping, and the sweet, sunshiny presence vanishes, leaving silence and shadow behind.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

“Some people seemed to get all sunshine, and some all shadow…”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

“I want to do something splendid...something heroic or wonderful that won't be forgotten after I'm dead. I don't know what, but I'm on the watch for it and mean to astonish you all someday.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

“Be worthy love, and love will come.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

“You can't break something and mend it a moment later with pretty words. Broken things stay broken. Wounds heal into scars, not skin.”
― Christopher Paolini, The Fork, the Witch, and the Worm: Eragon

“Elva just stared, a wise conversational technique that I recommend in a great many situations.”
― Christopher Paolini, The Fork, the Witch, and the Worm

“- I have questions, he said.
- Then you have more wisdom than most.”
― Christopher Paolini, The Fork, the Witch, and the Worm: Eragon

“Sometimes you have to stand and fight. Sometimes running away isn't an option.”
― Christopher Paolini , The Fork, the Witch, and the Worm: Eragon

“I wish I were a girl again, half-savage and hardy, and free.”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

“I have to remind myself to breathe -- almost to remind my heart to beat!”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

“She burned too bright for this world.”
― Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights

“Terror made me cruel . . .”
― Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights

“Flowers are made to bloom in the sun and not to be shut up in an apron.”
― Johanna Spyri, Heidi

“Let's enjoy the beautiful things we can see, my dear, and not think about those we cannot.”
― Johanna Spyri, Heidi

“The happiest of all things is when an old friend comes and greets us as in former times; the heart is comforted with the assurance that some day everything that we have loved will be given back”
― Johanna Spyri, Heidi

“When you will not fly into a passion people know you are stronger than they are, because you are strong enough to hold in your rage, and they are not, and they say stupid things they wish they hadn't said afterward. There's nothing so strong as rage, except what makes you hold it in--that's stronger. It's a good thing not to answer your enemies.”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, A Little Princess

“Everything's a story - You are a story -I am a story.”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, A Little Princess

“Never did she find anything so difficult as to keep herself from losing her temper when she was suddenly disturbed while absorbed in a book. People who are fond of books know the feeling of irritation which sweeps over them at such a moment. The temptation to be unreasonable and snappish is one not easy to manage.

"It makes me feel as if something had hit me," Sara had told Ermengarde once in confidence. "And as if I want to hit back. I have to remember things quickly to keep from saying something ill-tempered.”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, A Little Princess

“Perhaps to be able to learn things quickly isn't everything. To be kind is worth a great deal to other people...Lots of clever people have done harm and have been wicked.”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, A Little Princess

“Perhaps there is a language which is not made of words and everything in the world understands it.”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, A Little Princess

“It's been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will.”
― Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

“Life is worth living as long as there's a laugh in it.”
― Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

“I don't know why it's so hard for people to admit that sometimes they're just assholes who screw up because they don't expect to get caught.”
― Karen M. McManus, One of Us Is Lying

“Unless one of us is lying. Which is always a possibility.”
― Karen M. McManus, One of Us Is Lying

“Some people are too toxic to live. They just are.”
― Karen M. McManus, One of Us Is Lying

“If I'm not thinking about one shit storm, I have to think about another.”
― Karen M. McManus, One of Us Is Lying

“Nolite te bastardes carborundorum. Don't let the bastards grind you down.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

“But who can remember pain, once it’s over? All that remains of it is a shadow, not in the mind even, in the flesh. Pain marks you, but too deep to see. Out of sight, out of mind.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

“Better never means better for everyone... It always means worse, for some.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

“We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white spaces at the edges of print. It gave us more freedom.
We lived in the gaps between the stories.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale