Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
In order to have a conversation with someone you must reveal yourself.
If I am not what you say I am, then you are not who you think you are.
Be careful what you set your heart upon - for it will surely be yours.
Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
To be happy is not the purpose for which you are placed in this world.
Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
My words in her mind: cold polished stones sinking through a quagmire.
One forgives the critic - perhaps - but never the good-natured friend.
Happiness is often at its most intense when it is based on inequality.
One should not believe too strongly in a life which can easily vanish.
Grant us peace, Almighty Father, so to pray as to deserve to be heard.
Where the waters do agree, it is quite wonderful the relief they give.
And what am I to do on the occasion? -- It seems an hopeless business.
A lucky guess is never merely luck. There is always some talent in it.
Men of sense, whatever you may choose to say, do not want silly wives.
Eleanor went to her room "where she was free to think and be wretched.
Do you not want to know who has taken it?" cried his wife impatiently.
Goodness is equally hateful to the wicked, as vice is to the virtuous.
Your sons weren't made to like you. That's what grandchildren are for.
The futility of action does not absolve one from the failure to act. -
It's the hour when night breaks away from the day, my dove, let me go.
Something came out from my heart into my throat and then into my eyes.
It's turning out to be a bad day, a day when the sun feels like teeth.
I want to say that, in general, when it works, open adoption is great.
Life is made up of a series of moments, each one a journey to the end.
Like a tree losing its leaves. I forget even the thing I was thinking.
Confidence definitely did not get me here! More of, like, desperation.
...in seduction, as in all forms of marketing, form superseds content.
The white May blossom swooned slowly into the open mouth of the grave.
Don't make it worse by thinking it's more painful than it actually is.
Children's authors don't talk down or patronise their younger readers.
I've always thought you should concentrate on paddling your own canoe.
There are two types of people ... the scrutinizers and the scrutinized
You do nonfiction, you get to meet people you would not normally meet.
but good friends are nothing to each other if they are not supportive.
I want to write books that unlock the traffic jam in everybody's head.
In all the green world nothing feels as good as a woman's good nature.
Adversity in immunological doses has its uses; more than that crushes.
For some of us, books are intrinsic to our sense of personal identity.
Only you, Will Traynor, could tell a woman how to wear a bloody dress.
But as far as being popular, yeah, I think Dave Barry is really funny.
the rich are different only because people treat them as if they were.
The chance which now seems lost may present itself at the last moment.
I would have bartered a diamond mine for a glass of pure spring water!
Be it understood you are never rich when you get no advantage from it.
Virginia Woolf was wrong. You do not need a room of your own to write.
The intricacy of plotting a thriller is akin to writing formal poetry.
Genres are just bottles for the various boats. The boats matter to me.
Literature is ... a game, but it's a game one can put one's life into.