Emily > Emily's Quotes

“I can’t write without a reader. It’s precisely like a kiss—you can’t do it alone.”
― John Cheever

“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.”
― Marie Curie

“Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.”
― Jane Smiley, Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel

“Threats are the last resort of a man with no vocabulary.”
― Tamora Pierce, Lady Knight

“I read a book one day and my whole life was changed.”
― Orhan Pamuk, The New Life

“Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul.”
― Joyce Carol Oates

“Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”
― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

“...it's in the nature of this judicial system that one is condemned not only in innocence but also in ignorance.”
― Franz Kafka, The Trial

“Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones

“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”
― Lao Tzu