Amy Drost > Amy's Quotes

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
― Mae West

“Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
Walk beside me… just be my friend”
― Albert Camus

“A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”
― Elbert Hubbard

“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories

“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

“We accept the love we think we deserve.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.”
― Steve Jobs

“I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
― H. Jackson Brown Jr., P.S. I Love You

“But when the heart grows too full, it overflows. And mine, inevitably, overflows on to a page.”
― Samantha Shannon, The Priory of the Orange Tree

“Just because something has always been done does not mean that it ought to be done.”
― Samantha Shannon, The Priory of the Orange Tree

“Do you not see that this is a divine mission?

No, I do not, you witless cabbage.”
― Samantha Shannon, The Priory of the Orange Tree

“Arteloth, we are courtiers. We have no useful instincts.”
― Samantha Shannon, The Priory of the Orange Tree

“All stories grow from a seed of truth,’ Truyde said. ‘They are knowledge after figuration.”
― Samantha Shannon, The Priory of the Orange Tree

“When history fails to shed light on the truth, myth creates its own.”
― Samantha Shannon, The Priory of the Orange Tree

“Be silent and learn something.”
― Samantha Shannon, The Priory of the Orange Tree

“Sea sisters, Susa had called them once. Two pearls formed in the same oyster.”
― Samantha Shannon, The Priory of the Orange Tree

“By no means. There is great power in stories.”
― Samantha Shannon, The Priory of the Orange Tree

“Telling someone who procrastinates to buy a weekly planner is like telling someone with chronic depression to just cheer up.”
― Joseph R. Ferrari