Cool Quotes :) by Hope Samoa
"Don't try to figure out what people want to hear from you, figure out what you have to say." -Barbara Kingsolver
"Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen." -Willa Cather
"If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it." -Toni Morrison
"The best revenge is to write about it." -Meg Cabot
"Dwell in possibility" -Emily Dickinson
"It's true that writing is a solitary occupation, but you'd be surprised at how much companionship a group of imaginary characters can offer once you get to know them."- Anne Tyler
"The biggest challenge in life is to be yourself in a world that is trying to make you like everyone else." -Anonymous
"A person that truly loves you will never let you go, no matter how
hard the situation is." -Anonymous
"Anything you truly want must be worth fighting for."- Anonymous
"I've learned that my best friend and I can do anything or nothing and still have the best time."- Anonymous
"People change. Memories don't." -Anonymous
"She decided to free herself, dance into the wind, create a new language. And birds fluttered around her, writing 'yes' into the sky."-Unknown
"Be strong now, because things will get better. It might be stormy now, but can't rain forever." -Unknown
"Everything is okay in the end. If it's not okay, then it's not the end." Unknown
"I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see."
John Burroughs
"Be careful of reading health books, you might die of a misprint."
Mark Twain
"No two persons ever read the same book."
Edmund Wilson
"Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the sense shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourse of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness."
Helen Keller
"From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it."
Groucho Marx
"A good book has no ending."
R D Cumming (This was apparently before The Mark of Athena)
"Never read a book that is not a year old."
Ralph Waldo Emerson (The Mark of Athena was before his time too)
"Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read."
Groucho Marx
"Learn as much by writing as by reading."
Lord Acton
"I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book."
Groucho Marx
"People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading."
Logan Pearsall Smith
"The Road goes ever on and on
Down from the door where it began.
Now far ahead the Road has gone,
And I must follow, if I can,
Pursuing it with eager feet,
Until it joins some larger way
Where many paths and errands meet.
And whither then? I cannot say." The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien
"There are people who, the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves." Emma by Jane Austen
"We tell ourselves stories in order to live." The White Album by Joan Didion
"Life changes fast. Life changes in the instant. You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends." The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
"What I need is the dandelion in the spring. The bright yellow that means rebirth instead of destruction. The promise that life can go on, no matter how bad our losses. That it can be good again." Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins
"I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will." Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
"Tibby’s wish would be to hold on to the idea of love even in the face of darkest doubt. Because that was the way in which she failed. Not once, but again and again." Forever in Blue: The Fourth Summer of the Sisterhood by Ann Brashares
"Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn’t it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up." The Kindly Ones by Neil Gaiman
"When you’re scared but you still do it anyway, that’s brave." Coraline by Neil Gaiman
"One time, when I was very little, I climbed a tree and ate these green, sour apples. My stomach swelled and became hard like a drum, it hurt a lot. Mother said that if I’d just waited for the apples to ripen, I wouldn’t have become sick. So now, whenever I really want something, I try to remember what she said about the apples." The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
"You should know,” said Estella. “I am what you have made me. Take all the praise, take all the blame; take all the success, take all the failure; in short, take me." Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
"Don’t ever let them tell you that you’re too stupid to do something. I’m not saying it’s going to be easy for you. Maybe you’re going to have to work for it a little harder than other people, which I know isn’t fair. But that doesn’t mean you should just give up." Abandon by Meg Cabot
"How much good inside a day?
Depends how good you live ‘em.
How much love inside a friend?
Depends how much you give ‘em." A Light In The Attic by Shel Silverstein
"Sometimes, I look outside, and I think that a lot of other people have seen this snow before. Just like I think that a lot of other people have read those books before. And listened to those songs. I wonder how they feel tonight." The Perks Of Being A Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
"A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely." The Twits by Roald Dahl
"Why did you do all this for me?” he asked. “I don’t deserve it. I’ve never done anything for you.”
“You have been my friend,” replied Charlotte. “That in itself is a tremendous thing." Charlotte’s Web by E. B. White
"Harry — you’re a great wizard, you know.”
“I’m not as good as you,” said Harry, very embarrassed.
“Me!” said Hermione. “Books! And cleverness! There are more important things — friendship and bravery..." Harry Potter And The Sorcerer’s Stone by J. K. Rowling
"Most children in Matilda’s lace would have burst into floods of tears. She didn’t do this. She sat there very still and white and thoughtful. She seemed to know that neither crying nor sulking ever got anyone anywhere." Matilda by Roald Dahl
"Even strength has to bow to wisdom sometimes." The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan
"Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself." Harry Potter And The Sorcerer’s Stone by J. K. Rowling
"No one is ever who you want them to be." Dash & Lily’s Book Of Dares by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan
"We are not always what we seem, and hardly ever what we dream." The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle
"There are all kinds of courage. It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends." Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J. K. Rowling
"It is very difficult to make one’s way in the world without being wicked at one time or another, when the world’s way is so wicked to begin with." Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can’t Avoid by Lemony Snicket
"We’re all human, aren’t we? Every human life is worth the same, and worth saving." Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows by J. K. Rowling
"Humans do have a knack of choosing precisely those things that are worst for them." Harry Potter And The Sorcerer’s Stone by J. K. Rowling
"To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure." Harry Potter And The Sorcerer’s Stone by J. K. Rowling
"You know. Life’s short. If you don’t try new things, you’ll never know what you’re best at. And you can only make time for new things by quitting the things you know don’t work for you." Teen Idol by Meg Cabot
"It is difficult, when faced with a situation you cannot control, to admit that you can do nothing." Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can’t Avoid by Lemony Snicket
"A little extra wisdom never goes amiss." Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows by J. K. Rowling
"Unless you have been very, very lucky, you have undoubtedly experienced events in your life that have made you cry. So unless you have been very, very lucky, you know that a good, long session of weeping can often make you feel better, even if your circumstances have not changed one bit." Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can’t Avoid by Lemony Snicket
"All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us." The Fellowship Of The Ring by J. R. R. Tolkien
"It is useless for me to describe to you how terrible Violet, Klaus, and even Sunny felt in the time that followed. If you have ever lost someone very important to you, then you already know how it feels, and if you haven’t, you cannot possibly imagine it." The Bad Beginning by Lemony Snicket
"A library is like an island in the middle of a vast sea of ignorance, particularly if the library is very tall and the surrounding area has been flooded." Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can’t Avoid by Lemony Snicket
"A good library will never be too neat, or too dusty, because somebody will always be in it, taking books off the shelves and staying up late reading them." Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can’t Avoid by Lemony Snicket
"Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen." -Willa Cather
"If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it." -Toni Morrison
"The best revenge is to write about it." -Meg Cabot
"Dwell in possibility" -Emily Dickinson
"It's true that writing is a solitary occupation, but you'd be surprised at how much companionship a group of imaginary characters can offer once you get to know them."- Anne Tyler
"The biggest challenge in life is to be yourself in a world that is trying to make you like everyone else." -Anonymous
"A person that truly loves you will never let you go, no matter how
hard the situation is." -Anonymous
"Anything you truly want must be worth fighting for."- Anonymous
"I've learned that my best friend and I can do anything or nothing and still have the best time."- Anonymous
"People change. Memories don't." -Anonymous
"She decided to free herself, dance into the wind, create a new language. And birds fluttered around her, writing 'yes' into the sky."-Unknown
"Be strong now, because things will get better. It might be stormy now, but can't rain forever." -Unknown
"Everything is okay in the end. If it's not okay, then it's not the end." Unknown
"I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see."
John Burroughs
"Be careful of reading health books, you might die of a misprint."
Mark Twain
"No two persons ever read the same book."
Edmund Wilson
"Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the sense shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourse of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness."
Helen Keller
"From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it."
Groucho Marx
"A good book has no ending."
R D Cumming (This was apparently before The Mark of Athena)
"Never read a book that is not a year old."
Ralph Waldo Emerson (The Mark of Athena was before his time too)
"Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read."
Groucho Marx
"Learn as much by writing as by reading."
Lord Acton
"I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book."
Groucho Marx
"People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading."
Logan Pearsall Smith
"The Road goes ever on and on
Down from the door where it began.
Now far ahead the Road has gone,
And I must follow, if I can,
Pursuing it with eager feet,
Until it joins some larger way
Where many paths and errands meet.
And whither then? I cannot say." The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien
"There are people who, the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves." Emma by Jane Austen
"We tell ourselves stories in order to live." The White Album by Joan Didion
"Life changes fast. Life changes in the instant. You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends." The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
"What I need is the dandelion in the spring. The bright yellow that means rebirth instead of destruction. The promise that life can go on, no matter how bad our losses. That it can be good again." Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins
"I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will." Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
"Tibby’s wish would be to hold on to the idea of love even in the face of darkest doubt. Because that was the way in which she failed. Not once, but again and again." Forever in Blue: The Fourth Summer of the Sisterhood by Ann Brashares
"Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn’t it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up." The Kindly Ones by Neil Gaiman
"When you’re scared but you still do it anyway, that’s brave." Coraline by Neil Gaiman
"One time, when I was very little, I climbed a tree and ate these green, sour apples. My stomach swelled and became hard like a drum, it hurt a lot. Mother said that if I’d just waited for the apples to ripen, I wouldn’t have become sick. So now, whenever I really want something, I try to remember what she said about the apples." The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
"You should know,” said Estella. “I am what you have made me. Take all the praise, take all the blame; take all the success, take all the failure; in short, take me." Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
"Don’t ever let them tell you that you’re too stupid to do something. I’m not saying it’s going to be easy for you. Maybe you’re going to have to work for it a little harder than other people, which I know isn’t fair. But that doesn’t mean you should just give up." Abandon by Meg Cabot
"How much good inside a day?
Depends how good you live ‘em.
How much love inside a friend?
Depends how much you give ‘em." A Light In The Attic by Shel Silverstein
"Sometimes, I look outside, and I think that a lot of other people have seen this snow before. Just like I think that a lot of other people have read those books before. And listened to those songs. I wonder how they feel tonight." The Perks Of Being A Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
"A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely." The Twits by Roald Dahl
"Why did you do all this for me?” he asked. “I don’t deserve it. I’ve never done anything for you.”
“You have been my friend,” replied Charlotte. “That in itself is a tremendous thing." Charlotte’s Web by E. B. White
"Harry — you’re a great wizard, you know.”
“I’m not as good as you,” said Harry, very embarrassed.
“Me!” said Hermione. “Books! And cleverness! There are more important things — friendship and bravery..." Harry Potter And The Sorcerer’s Stone by J. K. Rowling
"Most children in Matilda’s lace would have burst into floods of tears. She didn’t do this. She sat there very still and white and thoughtful. She seemed to know that neither crying nor sulking ever got anyone anywhere." Matilda by Roald Dahl
"Even strength has to bow to wisdom sometimes." The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan
"Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself." Harry Potter And The Sorcerer’s Stone by J. K. Rowling
"No one is ever who you want them to be." Dash & Lily’s Book Of Dares by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan
"We are not always what we seem, and hardly ever what we dream." The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle
"There are all kinds of courage. It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends." Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J. K. Rowling
"It is very difficult to make one’s way in the world without being wicked at one time or another, when the world’s way is so wicked to begin with." Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can’t Avoid by Lemony Snicket
"We’re all human, aren’t we? Every human life is worth the same, and worth saving." Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows by J. K. Rowling
"Humans do have a knack of choosing precisely those things that are worst for them." Harry Potter And The Sorcerer’s Stone by J. K. Rowling
"To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure." Harry Potter And The Sorcerer’s Stone by J. K. Rowling
"You know. Life’s short. If you don’t try new things, you’ll never know what you’re best at. And you can only make time for new things by quitting the things you know don’t work for you." Teen Idol by Meg Cabot
"It is difficult, when faced with a situation you cannot control, to admit that you can do nothing." Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can’t Avoid by Lemony Snicket
"A little extra wisdom never goes amiss." Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows by J. K. Rowling
"Unless you have been very, very lucky, you have undoubtedly experienced events in your life that have made you cry. So unless you have been very, very lucky, you know that a good, long session of weeping can often make you feel better, even if your circumstances have not changed one bit." Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can’t Avoid by Lemony Snicket
"All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us." The Fellowship Of The Ring by J. R. R. Tolkien
"It is useless for me to describe to you how terrible Violet, Klaus, and even Sunny felt in the time that followed. If you have ever lost someone very important to you, then you already know how it feels, and if you haven’t, you cannot possibly imagine it." The Bad Beginning by Lemony Snicket
"A library is like an island in the middle of a vast sea of ignorance, particularly if the library is very tall and the surrounding area has been flooded." Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can’t Avoid by Lemony Snicket
"A good library will never be too neat, or too dusty, because somebody will always be in it, taking books off the shelves and staying up late reading them." Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can’t Avoid by Lemony Snicket