Lara Samulenok > Lara's Quotes

“I think that if I ever have kids, and they are upset, I won't tell them that people are starving in China or anything like that because it wouldn't change the fact that they were upset. And even if somebody else has it much worse, that doesn't really change the fact that you have what you have.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“Old pictures look very rugged and young, and the people in the photographs always seem a lot happier than you are... I just hope I remember to tell my kids that they are as happy as I look in my old photographs. And I hope that they believe me.”
― Stephen Chbosky

“Sam and Patrick looked at me. And I looked at them. And I think they knew. Not anything specific really. They just knew. And I think that's all you can ever ask from a friend.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even if we don't have the power to choose where we come from, we can still choose where we go from there. We can still do things. And we can try to feel okay about them.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“That was the amazing part. Things just keep going. We didn’t talk about anything heavy or light. We were just there together. And that was enough.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“Words do not express thoughts very well. they always become a little different immediately they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish. And yet it also pleases me and seems right that what is of value and wisdom to one man seems nonsense to another.”
― Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha

“Govinda said: "But what you call thing, is it something real, something intrinsic? Is it not only the illusion of Maya, only image and appearance? Your stone, your tree, are they real?"
"This also does not trouble me much," said Siddhartha. "If they are illusion, then I also am illusion, and so they are always of the same nature as myself. It is that which makes them so lovable and venerable. That is why I can Love them. And here is a doctrine at which you will laugh. It seems to me, Govinda, that love is the most imortant thing in the world. It may be important tp great thinkers to examine the world, to explain an despise it. But I think it is only important to love the world, not to despise it, not for uus to hate each other, but to be able to regard the world and ourselves and all beings with love, admiration and respect.”
― Herman Hesse

“Patrick made jokes to keep everyone honest.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower: A Screenplay

“May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you're wonderful, and don't forget to make some art -- write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself.”
― Neil Gaiman

“I think shame is the most profound of all emotions; I think the world is ruled by shame.”
― J.R. Salamanca, Lilith

“Other people are sort of smoothed-down looking, you know; they get worn away by life until they fit. But really adventurous people never do - they're full of points and angles that stick out everywhere. They have that crooked look. That...terrible uniqueness.”
― J.R. Salamanca, Lilith

“I am Joe's smirking revenge.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

“As a child, my idea of the West was that it was a miasma of poverty and misery, like that of the homeless 'Little Match Girl'in the Hans Christian Andersen story. When I was in the boarding nursery and did not want to finish my food, the teacher would say:'Think of all the starving children in the capitalist world!”
― Jung Chang, Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China

“Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there's no room for the present at all.”
― Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited

“The only advice I can give you is what you're telling yourself. Only, maybe you're too scared to listen.”
― Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere

“Memory plays tricks. Memory is another word for story, and nothing is more unreliable.”
― Ann-Marie MacDonald, Fall On Your Knees

“One day, I'll sit down with all my books around me, and just start reading.”
― Ann-Marie MacDonald, Fall on Your Knees

“Adelaide believes that all children should have enough grown-ups around who love them so that one can tell them to fight, one can tell them not to, and one can tell them not to worry so much.”
― Ann-Marie MacDonald, Fall on Your Knees

“As for sin. I honestly can't believe God is so bored or so lecherous as to care how close my body and its various parts get to someone else's various parts.”
― Ann-Marie MacDonald, Fall on Your Knees

“Frances is a diamond, passed from filthy paw to paw but never diminished. The men who handle her can leave no mark because her worth is far above them. (page 361)”
― Ann-Marie MacDonald, Fall on Your Knees

“It’s a sin for Lily to let Mercedes think it was Daddy who beat up Frances. But he has done it in the past. Surely truth can be borrowed across time without perishing. Shelf life, so to speak.”
― Ann-Marie MacDonald, Fall on Your Knees

“Then she kissed me in that way that makes me hate time.”
― Ann-Marie MacDonald, Fall on Your Knees

“It's because a real and beautiful voice delicately rends the chest, discovered the heart, and holds it beating against a stainless edge until you long to be pierced utterly. For the voice is everything you do not remember. Everything you should not be able to live without and yet, tragically, do.”
― Ann-Marie MacDonald, Fall on Your Knees

“It's a self-portrait and the artist is in love.”
― Ann-Marie MacDonald, Fall on Your Knees

“July I The British plan is this: a million shells to cut the Boche wire. Shoulder your seventy-pound pack as usual. Go over the top. Walk towards the German lines, they'll all be dead by now. Keep walking til you hit Berlin.

In four and a half hours, fifty thousand Britons and Canadians are shot. That afternoon, the British plan is revised: do everything as before. But this time, run.

Abe is killed walking. Rudy is killed running.”
― Ann-Marie MacDonald, Fall on Your Knees

“[Mercedes] learns a valuable lesson: if you think you are good, just try doing good. You'll soon find out how inadequate your little drop of goodness is.”
― Ann-Marie MacDonald, Fall on Your Knees

“Somewhere inside his head he's still all there, but moved into a cramped rear apartment overlooking the old brain.”
― Ann-Marie MacDonald, Fall on Your Knees

“One heck of a middle C today. Felt like I was gorging on a chocolate eclair. Kaiser none too pleased - after all, I'm a soprano. Sopranos don't sing in chocolate.”
― Ann-Marie MacDonald, Fall on Your Knees

“Tues. April 16 - Coney Island! Ate only pink things. Threw up. It was worth it.”
― Ann-Marie MacDonald, Fall on Your Knees

“Sat - sex is good for the voice. Why don't they teach you that in school?”
― Ann-Marie MacDonald, Fall on Your Knees