Elena Tinga > Elena's Quotes

“My library is an archive of longings.”
― Susan Sontag, As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980

“Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

“When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.”
― John Muir

“The bravest people are the ones who don’t mind looking like cowards.”
― T.H. White, The Once and Future King

“I am not interested in money, I just want to be wonderful.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“Love the world and yourself in it, move through it as though it offers no resistance, as though the world is your natural element.”
― Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife

“Somewhere beyond the sink-hole, past the magnolia, under the live oaks, a boy and a yearling ran side by side, and were gone forever.”
― Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

“My wound is geography. It is also my anchorage, my port of call.”
― Pat Conroy, The Prince of Tides

“No matter what he does, every person on earth plays a central role in the history of the world. And normally he doesn't know it.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

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

“None of us really changes over time. We only become more fully what we are.”
― Anne Rice, The Vampire Lestat

“Charm is the ability to make someone else think that both of you are pretty wonderful.”
― Kathleen Winsor

“I read so I can live more than one life in more than one place.”
― Anne Tyler

“Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.”
― Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign

“I believe in the power of the imagination to remake the world, to release the truth within us, to hold back the night, to transcend death, to charm motorways, to ingratiate ourselves with birds, to enlist the confidences of madmen.”
― J.G. Ballard

“I was a late bloomer. But anyone who blooms at all, ever, is very lucky.”
― Sharon Olds

“Some nights the sky wept stars that quickly floated and disappeared into the darkness before our wishes could meet them. ”
― Ishmael Beah, A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier

“Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.”
― C.S. Lewis

“A word after a word after a word is power.”
― Margaret Atwood

“Anyone can be a barbarian; it requires a terrible effort to remain a civilized man.”
― Leonard Woolf

“Tyger! Tyger! burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?”
― William Blake

“Nothing on earth can make up for the loss of one who has loved you.”
― Selma Lagerlöf

“What I've come to learn is that the world is never saved in grand messianic gestures, but in the simple accumulation of gentle, soft, almost invisible acts of compassion.”
― Chris Abani

“I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes...you're Doing Something.”
― Neil Gaiman

“It is better to arm and strengthen your hero, than to disarm and enfeeble your foe.”
― Anne Brontë

“I went to collect the few personal belongings which...I held to be invaluable: my cat, my resolve to travel, and my solitude.”
― Colette

“It's amazing how a little tomorrow can make up for a whole lot of yesterday.”
― John Guare, Landscape of the Body

“They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.”
― Tom Bodett

“I suspect the truth is that we are waiting, all of us, against insurmountable odds, for something extraordinary to happen to us.”
― Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed

“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
― George Orwell, 1984