302 quotes found
“Breathe in the small things”
“Life is too short to cower.”
“I always try to travel light.”
“Never judge a book by its price.”
“Do not judge a book by its price!”
“Every guy seems nice until hes not.”
“Every soul innately yearns for stillness, for a space, a garden where we can till, sow, reap, and rest, and by doing so come to a deeper sense of self and our place in the universe. Silence is not ...”
“The secret to happiness is the journey, not the destination.”
“Happiness is a strange thing. It is something I tend to recognize only after it has passed, when I realize I miss it.”
“Foreword of my book: The PawnIt is being said that time and space could be tied to their creators stance of what they are to him or her. It can possibly be perceived by those who become the receive...”
“[W]hile our souls are meager, nature has surplus. Yet something of the mechanism's subject was indeed dissolved in that silver chloride, flattened then minted as those promiscuous postcards we saw ...”
“But it's hard to leave a place when you're tied to it by fear, when it's broken you with fear, when it's all you've ever known.”
“The pendulum wall clock ticked and the ancient refrigerator clicked on. From outside came the low mooing of a cow. Such peace, thought Emily.”
“I carefully lifted out of the pose and spoke up: "Uh, Fran? When I'm doing the pose (camel), I have this feeling in my chest, kind of a scary, tight feeling."Fran was adjusting someone across the r...”
“We all die. We don't have to live our lives fearing it.”
“If I am a puzzle, this is the moment in which I find the first corner piece. There is still a lot of work to do; I still have a thousand pieces of myself to fit into place. But everyone knows you'r...”
“You know nothing about my grief", said Anastasia. " So speak nothing of it.”
“Why doesn't anyone tell you we all wind up married to Henry the VIII?......My dear Anne Boleyn,...the only way a woman can avoid waking up next to Henry is to model herself after his daughter Eliza...”
“A thing is only as great as the amount a person is willing to risk for it. If you are not willing to risk anything, then the thing mustn't be so great at all.”
“It was so stupid, and random, but at that second, with the morning sun hitting her auburn hair, and her huge brown eyes fixed on him, the lock flew off the do-not-allow-yourself-to-even-think-about...”
“Words are made by history, we build them and they change meaning through time, but the music they play...”
“Emma hung up and hugged her pillow tight to her chest. He shouldn't be making her feel this special and desired. He was just a friend. Right, just a friend. She wasn't even fooling herself anymore.”
“You say 'love' too easily, Kepler.""No, not rally - please don't call me that. The idea that love has to be a blazing romantic thing of monogamous stability is innately ludicrous. You loved your pa...”
“My heart feels not so much in my chest as in my hands. I am carrying it along swiftly, as though I have become the messenger for what is going on inside me.”
“Forgive me," I wrote at the bottom. "I did not think I would break.”
“It was the seventh of November, 1918. The war was finally over. Maybe it would be declared a holiday and named War's End Day or something equally hopeful and wrong. Wars would break out again. Viol...”