"He was going to live forever, or die in the attempt."
-Joseph Heller
"Ghosts don’t haunt us. That’s not how it works. They’re present among us because we won’t let go of them."
-Sue Grafton
"Nobody
ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn’t matter. Explore
the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it
deeply enough."
-Richard P. Feynman
"The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators."
-Edward Gibbon
"If you obey all the rules, you miss all of the fun."
-Katharine Hepburn
"There’s
things that happen in a person’s life that are so scorched in the memory
and burned into the heart that there’s no forgetting them."
-John Boyne
"You know
how sometimes you lie in bed at night and think, “What if the law of
gravity just wears out and lets go and I drift into space?” Does that
ever make you anxious?"
-Elaine May
"There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep and still be counted as warriors."
-Adrienne Rich
"It is never too late to be wise."
-Daniel Defore
"If books
could have more, give more, be more, show more, they would still need
readers who bring to them sound and smell and light and all the rest
that can’t be in books. The book needs you."
-Gary Paulsen
"We are
each the authors of our own lives, Emma. We live in what we have
created. There is no way to shift the blame and no one else to accept
the accolades."
-Barbara Taylor Bradford
No comments:
Post a Comment