Lori Anketell > Lori's Quotes

“You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
Love like you'll never be hurt,
Sing like there's nobody listening,
And live like it's heaven on earth.”
― William W. Purkey

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“Books have a unique way of stopping time in a particular moment and saying: Let’s not forget this.”
― Dave Eggers

“You're entirely bonkers. But I'll tell you a secret: All the best people are.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

“You can have anything,” she said, “once you admit you deserve it.”
― Meredith Russo, If I Was Your Girl

“Stories are important, the monster said. They can be more important than anything. If they carry the truth.”
― Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls

“Stories don't always have happy endings."

This stopped him. Because they didn't, did they? That's one thing the monster had definitely taught him. Stories were wild, wild animals and went off in directions you couldn't expect.”
― Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls

“There was once an invisible man who had grown tired of being unseen. It was not that he was actually invisible. It was that people had become used to not seeing him.

And if no one sees you, are you really there at all?"”
― Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls

“You do not write your life with words...You write it with actions. What you think is not important. It is only important what you do.”
― Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls

“I did not come to heal her, the monster said. I came to heal you.”
― Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls

“There is not always a good guy. Nor is there always a bad one. Most people are somewhere in between.”
― Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls

“You ever feel like you're sending out a light but no one sees it?”
― Matthew Quick, Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock

“How do you measure suffering? I mean, the fact that I live in a democratic country doesn’t guarantee my life will be problem-free. Far from it. I understand that I am relatively privileged from a socioeconomical viewpoint, but so was Hamlet—so are a lot of miserable people. I bet there are people in Iran who are happier than I am—who wish to keep living there regardless of who is in charge politically, while I’m miserable here in this supposedly free country and just want out of this life at any cost.”
― Matthew Quick, Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock

“what i've found does the most good is just to get into a taxi and go to Tiffany's. it calms me down right away, the quietness and the proud look of it; nothing very bad could happen to you there, not with those kind men in their nice suits, and that lovely smell of silver and alligator wallets. if I could find a real-life place that made me feel like Tiffany's...”
― Truman Capote

“She was nothing more than a mere good-tempered, civil and obliging Young Woman; as such we could scarcely dislike her -- she was only an Object of Contempt”
― Jane Austen, Love and Friendship and Other Early Works

“Susie: Maybe we're all making everything up as we go.”
― Martine Leavitt, Calvin

“Doesn't it make you feel kind of awesome that the world is beautiful for no other apparent reason that that it is? Like beauty has its own secret reason. It doesn't need human eyes to notice. It just wants to be glorious and unbelievable.”
― Martine Leavitt, Calvin

“Don't ever underestimate the people who love you.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, The Inexplicable Logic of My Life

“The thing about tears is that they can be as quiet as a cloud floating across the desert sky.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, The Inexplicable Logic of My Life

“When is the right time for anything? Who knows? Living is an art, not a science.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, The Inexplicable Logic of My Life

“I want to live in the calmness of the morning light.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, The Inexplicable Logic of My Life

“I told you that there were only two things you needed to learn in life. You needed to learn how to forgive. And you needed to learn how to be happy.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, The Inexplicable Logic of My Life

“The world did have too many words. The sound of the rain was all we needed.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, The Inexplicable Logic of My Life

“I think there are a lot of things that find a hiding place in our bodies.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, The Inexplicable Logic of My Life

“Grief was a terrible and beautiful thing.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, The Inexplicable Logic of My Life

“We'd been so sure of ourselves, but now we were lost.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, The Inexplicable Logic of My Life

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost

“I draw a girl without a face, drawing somebody else’s face onto her own reflection.”
― Akemi Dawn Bowman, Starfish

“I’m not surprised he decided he wants to take pictures for a living. When we were kids, Jamie was always playing with his dad’s camera. I think one of the reasons we always got along so well was because we both saw the world as a series of moments that needed to be captured—we just captured them in different ways.”
― Akemi Dawn Bowman, Starfish

“Sometimes people are beautiful.
Not in looks.
Not in what they say.
Just in what they are.”
― Markus Zusak, I Am the Messenger