Michelle Kellar > Michelle's Quotes

“Love can make even nice people do awful things.”
― Jude Deveraux

“If you would tell me the heart of a man, tell me not what he reads, but what he rereads.”
― Francois Mauriac

“Moments of quiet friendship are what make life-everyone's life-grand”
― Luis Carlos Montalván, Until Tuesday: A Wounded Warrior and the Golden Retriever Who Saved Him

“This is who I am. I am loving but wounded, and I need someone to take me as I am.”
― Luis Carlos Montalván, Until Tuesday: A Wounded Warrior and the Golden Retriever Who Saved Him

“My little old dog
a heart-beat
at my feet”
― Edith Wharton

“Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.”
― Soren Kierkegaard

“Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.”
― Will Rogers

“Kindred spirits are not so scarce as I used to think. It's splendid to find out there are so many of them in the world.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

“The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back.”
― Abigail Van Buren

“A bit of trash now and then is good for the severest reader. It provides the necessary roughage in the literary diet.”
― Phyllis McGinley

“A friend said to me, “Hey you need to grow a pair. Grow a pair, Bro.” It’s when someone calls you weak, but they associate it with a lack of testicles. Which is weird, because testicles are the most sensitive things in the world. If you suddenly just grew a pair, you’d be a lot more vulnerable. If you want to be tough, you should lose a pair. If you want to be real tough, you should grow a vagina. Those things can take a pounding.”
― Sheng Wang

“I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
― Mark Twain

“The reason I talk to myself is because I’m the only one whose answers I accept.”
― George Carlin

“HENRY JOPLIN'S PRECEPT
Don't be friends with jerks.”
― R.J. Palacio, Wonder

“A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.”
― Gloria Steinem

“Men should think twice before making widowhood women's only path to power.”
― Gloria Steinem

“Once we give up searching for approval we often find it easier to earn respect.”
― Gloria Steinem

“we are the women our parents warned us against, and we are proud”
― Gloria Steinem

“You should write about take no-shit women like me. Girls need to know they can break the rules" p.79”
― Gloria Steinem, My Life on the Road

“He soothed the places I hadn't known needed soothing, seemed perfectly willing to embrace the parts of me that were wanton, unsettled, unfinished, and contradictory. Together we had engaged life as two forks eating off one plate. Ready to listen, to love, to look into the darkness and see a thin filament of the moon.”
― Tembi Locke, From Scratch: A Memoir of Love, Sicily, and Finding Home

“Deja, I don't want October to be over. Because October means you.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Pumpkinheads

“Children aren’t supposed to like dark chocolate. It’s one of those bitter things that you are meant to acquire a taste for later in life, like olives and self-pity.”
― Emma Jane Unsworth, Hungry the Stars and Everything

“Inside me, a chorus line of devils in tutus did a fast little cancan.”
― Emma Jane Unsworth, Animals

“When you grow up, son, never ever go to bed at night knowing that there was something you could have done during the day to strike a blow against injustice and you didn’t do it.”
― Harry Belafonte, My Song: A Memoir

“You can cage the singer but not the song.”
― Harry Belafonte

“You can cage the singer but not the song”
― Harry Belafonte

“But who can remember pain, once it’s over? All that remains of it is a shadow, not in the mind even, in the flesh. Pain marks you, but too deep to see. Out of sight, out of mind.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

“You can only be jealous of someone who has something you think you ought to have yourself.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

“Love is so unpredictable. That's what makes it so great.”
― Sarah Dessen, This Lullaby