98 quotes found
“Every book is a world.”
“Why are you crying?""I was reading.”
“The words you can't find, you borrow.”
“It's a tragic fact to die in an accident”
“No one will ever love me that much again.”
“That Woman is in love with her own grief.”
“Someday, well run into each other again, I know it.Maybe Ill be older and smarter and just plain better. If that happens,thats when Ill deserve you. But now, at this moment, you cant hook your boat...”
“You forget all of it anyway. First, you forget everything you learned-the dates of the Hay-Herran Treaty and Pythagorean Theorem. You especially forget everything you didn't really learn, but just ...”
“I wondered if the person who really loves you is the person who knows all your stories, the person who WANTS to know all your stories.”
“There's a pleasure to loving someone even when you know there's no chance in them loving you back. The pain I felt let me know I was still alive.”
“A life isn't measured in hours and minutes. It's the quality, not the length.”
“In the end, the end of a life only matters to friends, family, and other folks you used to know. For everyone else, it's just another end.”
“Love stories are written in millimeters and milliseconds with a fast, dull pencil whose marks you can barely see, they are written in miles and eons with a chisel on the side of a mountiantop”
“Saying you're through with romance is like saying you're done with living, Betty. Life is better with a little romance, you know.”
“Someday, you may think of marrying. Pick someone who thinks you're the only person in the room.”
“But then again, maybe 'I will' is nicer. It has the future in it. 'I do' just has the present.”
“They should tell you when youre born: have a suitcase heart, be ready to travel.”
“His heart is too full, and no words to release it.”
“Death is a state of mind---many people on Earth spend their entire lives dead.”
“All of these teeth had once been in real, live people. They had talked and smiled and eaten and sang and cursed and prayed. They had brushed and flossed and died. In English class, we read poems ab...”
“...an irresistible of why we read and why we love.We are not quite novels.We are not quite short stories.In the end, we are collected works.”
“It was funny how dad was more honest in a book that anyone in the world could pick up and read than he could be talking to me. Or maybe it was sad. One or the other. Sometimes its hard to tell.”
“And then, despite the fact that A. J. does not believe in God, he closes his eyes and thanks whomever, the higher power, with all his porcupine heart.”
“People are capable of great, great change during the span of one lifetime. And women even more than men.”
“All women are many women! I'm afraid you've never known very much about women.”
