Literature Quotes - Page 17

Heavenly bodies are nests of invisible birds.

To come to nothing through something is the way to outside from both sides.

Everything that looks too perfect is too perfect to be perfect.

He knows he will be born again,
And start fresh anew.

Color is the overpowering of black; white – the final victory over black.

The night is still waiting.

Dream by making and make by dreaming.

Children’s and YA books are about being brave and kind, about learning wisdom and love, about that journey into and through maturity that we all keep starting, and starting again, no matter how old we get. I think that’s why so many adults read YA: we’re never done coming of age.

We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.

To sense the peace of extinguished passion
Happiness in not knowing the ultimate knowledge

But I hate to hear you talking so like a fine gentleman, and as if women were all fine ladies, instead of rational creatures. We none of us expect to be in smooth water all our days.

Romantic literature is in effect imaginative lying.

For thy sweet love remembr'd such wealth brings
That then, I scorn to change my state with kings.

If you can change the way you think in time you will notice a change in your heart and also a change in your life and the way you see things.

If you can't focus then how do you expect to make your dreams come true?

Prayer is an insurance policy that you can never lapse on.

What on earth did you say to Isola? She stopped in on her way to pick up Pride and Prejudice and to berate me for never telling her about Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy. Why hadn't she known there were better love stories around? Stories not riddled with ill-adjusted men, anguish, death and graveyards!

About here, she thought, dabbling her fingers in the water, a ship had sunk, and she muttered, dreamily half asleep, how we perished, each alone.

Kill me, or you are a murderer.

I'm not ashamed of heroic ambitions. If man and woman can only dance upon this earth for a few countable turns of the sun... let each of us be an Artemis, Odysseus, or Zeus... Aphrodite to the extent of the will of each one.