Alyce Buris > Alyce's Quotes

“See, the things we do, everything—the universe is watching. Good and bad. And that motherfucker is making a list like a goddammed accountant. And, in the end, all the accounts have to balance.”
― J.K. Franko, Tooth for Tooth

“The greatest pain is the love you leave behind.”
― Jason Latshaw, The Threat Below

“Y si nos mordemos el dolor es dulce, y si nos ahogamos en un breve y terrible absorber simultáneo de aliento, esa instantánea muerte es bella. Y hay una sola saliva y un solo sabor a fruta madura, y yo te siento temblar como una luna en el agua.”
― Julio Cortázar

“to travel light, to be at liberty, to look straight, to talk loud and fearlessly,…
to never to write a line that does not ring with the truth, which has its wellspring in the heart."Cyrano to le Bret
-“ to be content to say “my garden is small my fruits and flowers are few but they are mine.”
― Rostand Edmond 1868-1918, Cyrano de Bergerac: Comédie héroïque en cinq actes en vers

“We stop looking for monsters under our beds when we realize they are inside us.”
― Charles Darwin

“Jo began to dance a jig,...Amy nearly fell out of the window in her surprise, and Meg exclaimed, with uplifted hands, 'Well I do believe the world is coming to an end!”
― Lousia May Alcott, Little Women

“I wasn’t scared, but I had started making sure the gate was locked at night and asking God what happens when you die.”
― Malala Yousafzai, I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban

“the simple fact of bearing a responsibility can be something that gives meaning to life.”
― John Ajvide Lindqvist, Little Star

“A real friend isn't capable of feeling sorry for you.”
― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

“When he asked my grandmother if she would mind being poor, she said she would be happy just to have her daughter and himself: 'If you have love, even plain water is sweet.”
― Jung Chang, Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China

“A shaft of moonlight illuminated a row of sentinel silver birch in a phosphorescent glow, appearing almost ethereal in the relative surrounding gloom. Boris had stopped again, his silhouette a stark black juxtaposition against the background of illuminated branches.”
― R.D. Ronald, The Elephant Tree

“If you listen to the wind very carefully, you'll be able to hear me whisper my love for you.”
― Andrew Davidson, The Gargoyle

“the butterflies that had just hatched hurried into the light to find love as”
― Henri Charrière, Papillon

“His voice was quite flat, dull, almost. 'You were prepared to take chances - once.'
'Myself, yes. But this was Philippe. I had no right to take a chance on Philippe. I didn't dare. He was my charge - my duty.' The miserable words sounded priggish and unutterably absurd. 'I - I was all he had. Besides that, it couldn't be allowed to matter.'
'What couldn't.'
'That you were all I had.”
― Mary Stewart, Nine Coaches Waiting

“Was that the definition
of the future? Not even striving to know
itself like the present might”
― Mark Z. Danielewski, There's A Place For You

“any for some time until they finally went into an area of the Maze where they had never been before: Cheese Station N. They squealed with delight. They found what they had been looking for:”
― Spencer Johnson, Who Moved My Cheese?: An A-Mazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life

“Even in Africa, the Congo has few rivals for corruption.”
― Tim Butcher, Blood River: A Journey to Africa's Broken Heart

“Only the phoenix rises and does not descend. And everything changes. And nothing is truly lost.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 10: The Wake

“We give all we have, lives, property, safety, skill...we fight, we die, for a simple thing. Only that a man can stand up.”
― Esther Forbes, Johnny Tremain

“I'd never chosen to be alone, but that was the way things had turned out, and I'd grown used to it.”
― Sebastian Faulks, Engleby

“He wept for truth which was dead, for heaven which was void. Beyond the marble walls and gleaming jewelled altars, the huge plaster Christ had no longer a single drop of blood in its veins.”
― Émile Zola, Pot Luck

“Because of the people in history, Trudi felt a far stronger link than ever before to the people in her town, and from all this grew new stories, which she told to Eva and her father, and to Frau Abramowitz who listened to every word and sighed, “Trudi, you and your splendid imagination.”
― Ursula Hegi, Stones from the River

“Where there is ruin, there is hope for a treasure.”
― Rumi

“Fate smiled and destiny laughed as she came to my cradle … —Natalie Merchant,”
― R.J. Palacio, Wonder

“We need to get inside. I think my hair gel’s frozen.”
― Richelle Mead, The Indigo Spell

“A cat can make you feel well rested when you're tired or turn a rage into a calm just by sitting on your lap. His very nearness is a healing song.”
― Shannon Hale, Book of a Thousand Days

“Fairy tales only happen in movies."
-George Melies

from The Invention of Hugo Cabret”
― Brian Selznick, The Invention of Hugo Cabret

“We may be undermined by our survival instincts, honed over eons to help us deny, defy, or ignore catastrophic portents lest they paralyze us with fright.”
― Alan Weisman, The World Without Us

“It was always the view of my parents...that hot weather encouraged loose morals among young people.”
― Ian McEwan

“Ignorance is bliss. Knowledge is often a responsibility nobody wants.”
― Cecelia Ahern, Flawed