Letande D'Argon > Letande's Quotes

“All he knew was that you couldn't hope to try for the big stuff, like world peace and happiness, but you might just about be able to achieve some tiny deed that'd make the world, in a small way, a better place. Like shooting someone.”
― Terry Pratchett, The Fifth Elephant

“I don’t really think our greatest memories are always great while they’re happening.”
― Carol Plum-Ucci, What Happened to Lani Garver

“You're supposed to be kind to everyone, because you never know when you're meeting an angel.”
― Carol Plum-Ucci, What Happened to Lani Garver

“Of all those books you've read? There's got to be something, somewhere in them, to help us laugh at a situation like this.”
― Carol Plum-Ucci, What Happened to Lani Garver

“I'm not young enough to know everything.”
― J.M. Barrie, The Admirable Crichton

“Problem with the big philosophers is they cared about ideas more than people. Hegel would probably have stepped over a guy trying to slit his wrists outside a bar — to get to all the people he could sit and bullshit with inside. Did you know half of philosophy was first put into words by people shot in the ass?”
― Carol Plum-Ucci, What Happened to Lani Garver

“The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.”
― Terry Pratchett, Diggers

“In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods; they have not forgotten this.”
― Terry Pratchett

“Sometimes it has to feel worse before it feels better.”
― Carol Plum-Ucci, What Happened to Lani Garver

“We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works.”
― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time

“If a life goes down the toilet, it comes out in a river and meets the sea.”
― Carol Plum-Ucci, What Happened to Lani Garver

“Don't tell people you care about them when all you really care about is getting your own way.”
― Carol Plum-Ucci, What Happened to Lani Garver

“I have never listened to anyone who criticized my taste in space travel, sideshows or gorillas. When this occurs, I pack up my dinosaurs and leave the room.”
― Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You

“«People used to say I was weird,» he said. «I used to care. But I don't anymore. People shouldn't care, people shouldn't use words like weird once you hit junior year. Everyone's weird. That's the way I look at it.»”
― Carol Plum-Ucci, The Body of Christopher Creed

“When you go into a room, you knock first. If you start asking people questions and they start tilting back in their chairs, it means they don't want to talk about it. It means if you look at something on their computer screens, they're likely to knock your brains out with a baseball bat.”
― Carol Plum-Ucci, The Body of Christopher Creed

“I only wish to be gone. Therefore, I AM.”
― Carol Plum-Ucci, The Body of Christopher Creed

“You're in my personal space, so get out of it.”
― Carol Plum-Ucci, The Body of Christopher Creed

“You can't find your life, or your peace, in the middle of a bezillion eyes staring at you.”
― Carol Plum-Ucci, The Body of Christopher Creed

“People can love their lies, tell their lies, believe their own lies until hell pays a visit.”
― Carol Plum-Ucci, The Body of Christopher Creed

“Things don't have to be sane when they're normal.”
― Carol Plum-Ucci, The Body of Christopher Creed

“No friend of my parents is a pervert. It's physiologically impossible.”
― Carol Plum-Ucci, The Body of Christopher Creed

“Nobody stopped believing that other people were more guilty than they were. Why do people have so much trouble seeing their own faults but such an easy time seeing everyone else's?”
― Carol Plum-Ucci, The Body of Christopher Creed

“People will do and think whatever it is they have to in order to survive.”
― Carol Plum-Ucci, The Body of Christopher Creed

“There is justice in an insanely cruel world.”
― Carol Plum-Ucci, The Body of Christopher Creed

“Life is a journey, and I may not have always lived up to my ability, but I have always lived purposefully, and I guess readers get caught up with me, raising the questions, looking for the answers, looking to be a little more understanding, a little less judgmental, a little more merciful. I hope so.”
― Carol Plum-Ucci, The Body of Christopher Creed

“Life is excellent or life blows, depending on how you look at it.”
― Carol Plum-Ucci, Following Christopher Creed

“My belief in ghosts swings with the wind. But my belief that the cemetery felt happy and not sad—I've never changed my mind about that.”
― Carol Plum-Ucci, Following Christopher Creed

“There you go: Someone who puts «positive thinking» and «shit» in the same concept can inspire some serious eye-rolling if you're the type who works at keeping your thought-life healthy.”
― Carol Plum-Ucci, Following Christopher Creed

“There is something very cool about writing your worst memories through someone else's eyes. You start to see what happened to you... almost as if it happened to somebody else. Especially if that made-up person is nice, it's a great exercise because there are many mean people in this world.”
― Carol Plum-Ucci, Following Christopher Creed

“It's fine to be insane as long as you keep it to yourself.”
― Carol Plum-Ucci, Following Christopher Creed