Harsh > Harsh's Quotes

“Just because something is traditional is no reason to do it, of course.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Blank Book

“Time is a game played beautifully by children.”
― Heraclitus, Fragments

“I write to find strength.
I write to become the person that hides inside me.
I write to light the way through the darkness for others.
I write to be seen and heard.
I write to be near those I love.
I write by accident, promptings, purposefully and anywhere there is paper.
I write because my heart speaks a different language that someone needs to hear.
I write past the embarrassment of exposure.
I write because hypocrisy doesn’t need answers, rather it needs questions to heal.
I write myself out of nightmares.
I write because I am nostalgic, romantic and demand happy endings.
I write to remember.
I write knowing conversations don’t always take place.
I write because speaking can’t be reread.
I write to sooth a mind that races.
I write because you can play on the page like a child left alone in the sand.
I write because my emotions belong to the moon; high tide, low tide.
I write knowing I will fall on my words, but no one will say it was for very long.
I write because I want to paint the world the way I see love should be.
I write to provide a legacy.
I write to make sense out of senselessness.
I write knowing I will be killed by my own words, stabbed by critics, crucified by both misunderstanding and understanding.
I write for the haters, the lovers, the lonely, the brokenhearted and the dreamers.
I write because one day someone will tell me that my emotions were not a waste of time.
I write because God loves stories.
I write because one day I will be gone, but what I believed and felt will live on.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“Google can bring you back 100,000 answers. A librarian can bring you back the right one.”
― Neil Gaiman

“Distracted from distraction by distraction”
― T.S. Eliot

“All I ever wanted was a world without maps.”
― Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient

“The merit of all things lies in their difficulty.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers

“You must be strong enough to strike and strike and strike again without tiring. The first lesson is to make yourself that strong.”
― Holly Black, The Wicked King

“A boomerang returns back to the person who throws it.

But first, while moving in a circle, it hits its target.

So does gossip.”
― Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

“Leave the world in better conditions in wich you found it.”
― Baden Powell

“Maybe all the strings inside him broke.”
― John Green, Paper Towns

“The paper burns, but the words fly free.”
― Akiba Ben Joseph

“People listening to songs are like people reading novels: for a few minutes, for a few hours, someone else gets to come in and hijack that part of your brain that's always thinking. A good book or song kidnaps your interior voice and does all the driving. With the artist in charge you're free for a little while to leave your body and be someone else.”
― Douglas Coupland, Player One: What Is to Become of Us

“You’re wishin’ too much, baby. You gotta stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone oughtta be.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“I don't understand your book. Isn't every book a book of words?”
― Kristin Cashore, Bitterblue