Elle > Elle's Quotes

“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“A womanly occupation means, practically, an occupation that a man disdains.”
― George Gissing, The Odd Women

“Whatever comes," she said, "cannot alter one thing. If I am a princess in rags and tatters, I can be a princess inside. It would be easy to be a princess if I were dressed in cloth of gold, but it is a great deal more of a triumph to be one all the time when no one knows it.”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, A Little Princess

“Katniss, the girl who was on fire!”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

“And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“I'm still here, bitches. And I know everything." -A”
― Sara Shepard, Pretty Little Liars

“You know what they say about hope. It breeds eternal misery!”
― Sara Shepard, Pretty Little Liars

“If nature has made you for a giver, your hands are born open, and so is your heart; and though there may be times when your hands are empty, your heart is always full, and you can give things out of that—warm things, kind things, sweet things—help and comfort and laughter—and sometimes gay, kind laughter is the best help of all.”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, A Little Princess

“When you will not fly into a passion people know you are stronger than they are, because you are strong enough to hold in your rage, and they are not, and they say stupid things they wish they hadn't said afterward. There's nothing so strong as rage, except what makes you hold it in--that's stronger. It's a good thing not to answer your enemies.”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, A Little Princess

“Perhaps to be able to learn things quickly isn't everything. To be kind is worth a great deal to other people...Lots of clever people have done harm and have been wicked.”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, A Little Princess

“Never did she find anything so difficult as to keep herself from losing her temper when she was suddenly disturbed while absorbed in a book. People who are fond of books know the feeling of irritation which sweeps over them at such a moment. The temptation to be unreasonable and snappish is one not easy to manage.

"It makes me feel as if something had hit me," Sara had told Ermengarde once in confidence. "And as if I want to hit back. I have to remember things quickly to keep from saying something ill-tempered.”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, A Little Princess

“I wish, as well as everybody else, to be perfectly happy; but, like everybody else, it must be in my own way.”
― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

“Words were different when they lived inside of you.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

“It was culture as class performance, literature fetishised for its ability to take educated people on false emotional journeys, so that they might afterwards feel superior to the uneducated people whose emotional journeys they liked to read about.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

“It's been many years since I had such an exemplary vegetable.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“Our secrets aren't really so secret, if you know where to look.”
― Lauren James, An Unauthorized Fan Treatise

“(through tears) have you ever seen anything so BEAUTIFUL? I don’t even care if this is made up, gottie is spinning us the best yarn since Ebony Dark’ness Dementia Raven Way made her FanFiction dot Net debut”
― Lauren James, An Unauthorized Fan Treatise

“Case 2:13-cv-45524-PAD Document 4 Filed 16/01/20 Page 152 of 285

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT – EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

Annotation for Exhibit D: Please note the date of this chapter. By this time the death of the victim had already taken place.”
― Lauren James, An Unauthorized Fan Treatise

“THIS IS CERTIFIED OFFICIAL UNRELIABLE NARRATION AND I’M HERE FOR IT. WHAT’S REAL? WHO ARE WE? IS ROB EVEN A PERSON? WHO KNOWS ANYMORE.”
― Lauren James, An Unauthorized Fan Treatise

“anyone else absolutely BUCKWILD for gottie’s sense of drama? Her panache? Her completely tomfoolery? Exquisite.”
― Lauren James, An Unauthorized Fan Treatise

“There’s something I never told you about the night I was hiding in Rob’s office on 23rd September. I wasn't going to say anything, but I don't think I have a choice anymore.”
― Lauren James, An Unauthorized Fan Treatise

“This domain name has been seized as a part of a law enforcement operation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Defence Criminal Investigative Service, Cyber Field Office and European law enforcement agencies acting throughout Europe, Serbia, Australia, and Canada, in cooperation with Europol.”
― Lauren James, An Unauthorized Fan Treatise

“I am utterly convinced of the truth of my argument, beyond a shadow of a doubt. But I'm not trying to persuade you. I have no vested interest in influencing your opinion either way. Only you can decide, based on the evidence I'm presenting, what you believe in your heart to be true.”
― Lauren James, An Unauthorized Fan Treatise

“Late last night, the internet exploded. If you frequent certain types of conspiracy theory communities on sites like Reddit and Tumblr, you are probably aware of the name ‘gottiewrites’.
She’s infamous, already on her way to becoming an urban legend at the age of seventeen. If you live outside of the internet, you will never have heard of her.
Yet her actions have real-world implications that have rippled far beyond a sub-reddit.”
― Lauren James, An Unauthorized Fan Treatise

“If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.”
― Jane Austen, Emma

“I always deserve the best treatment because I never put up with any other.”
― Jane Austen, Emma

“Mr. Knightley, if I have not spoken, it is because I am afraid I will awaken myself from this dream.”
― Jane Austen, Emma

“The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives. She went on olden-day sailing ships with Joseph Conrad. She went to Africa with Ernest Hemingway and to India with Rudyard Kipling. She travelled all over the world while sitting in her little room in an English village.”
― Roald Dahl, Matilda