Nancy > Nancy's Quotes

“People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.”
― Logan Pearsall Smith

“I opened a book and in I strode.
Now nobody can find me.
I've left my chair, my house, my road,
My town and my world behind me.
I'm wearing the cloak, I've slipped on the ring,
I've swallowed the magic potion.
I've fought with a dragon, dined with a king
And dived in a bottomless ocean.
I opened a book and made some friends.
I shared their tears and laughter
And followed their road with its bumps and bends
To the happily ever after.
I finished my book and out I came.
The cloak can no longer hide me.
My chair and my house are just the same,
But I have a book inside me.”
― Julia Donaldson

“opened cage
if only you'd obey the words of spring
go in please”
― Elancharan Gunasekaran

“question asked
the rain
your answer”
― Elancharan Gunasekaran

“Three things in human life are important: the first is to be kind; the second is to be kind; and the third is to be kind.”
― Henry James

“For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror
which we are barely able to endure, and it amazes us so,
because it serenely disdains to destroy us.
Every angel is terrible.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Duino Elegies

“There had never been anyone at all to whom she came first.”
― Elizabeth Savage, The Last Night at the Ritz

“The faculty member is the student’s natural enemy and if he lets down his guard he is sorry for it later, has a conscience crisis, and feels he has to turn you in. Unless he has prejudiced his own case so badly that he doesn’t wish to call administrative attention to what now appears to be a mutual folly; in this case sullen silence ensues. You may have been teacher’s pet before the weekend, but try to get an A in the course after Monday. Just try it. This is known as academic integrity.”
― Elizabeth Savage, The Last Night at the Ritz

“But you can’t very well lug an encyclopedia around hotels. Fortunately, I did have my flask.”
― Elizabeth Savage, The Last Night at the Ritz

“Now that we can buy anything we want we seem to read detective stories.”
― Elizabeth Savage, The Last Night at the Ritz

“I've asked around and haven't found a B.A. yet who doesn't still have nightmares (and I don't speak figuratively) about not being able to find the room where the exam is to be given or about realizing at the last moment that he has not once attended the course.”
― Elizabeth Savage, The Last Night at the Ritz