Neda Congrove > Neda's Quotes

“It does little good to regret a choice. So often people say, “If only I had known,” implying they would’ve acted differently in a given situation. It is true that desires of the moment can blind one’s sight of the future. Revenge is not as sweet as the adage claims. Yet who could pass a chance to taste it? And if the chance were allowed to slip by, would the fool regret his lack of action? ”
― K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master

“You shall address me as ‘My Dearest’,’ he repeated in a mocking voice, trying to copy her tone. ‘You will forget all about this conversation when you leave this room.’ It was interesting that tone; it had a sort of hypnotising ring to it.”
― Max Nowaz, The Three Witches and the Master

“I am madness maddened! That wild madness that's only calm to comprehend itself”
― Herman Melville

“Middle Ages”
― Mary Norton, Bed-Knob and Broomstick

“Use the word 'ya'll' and before you knew it, you'd find yourself in a haystack french-kissing an underage goat”
― David Sedaris, Me Talk Pretty One Day

“These thieves and lovers and wandering poets—what big lives they had! I began watching everyone I met for secret greatness.”
― Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse

“That you are a worldly adult,’ she said. ‘You have spent your whole life letting go of the innocent dreams that made your childhood so warm and hopeful and full of certainty. Dream by dream you let them go. We all do it, to shield ourselves from disappointment. It’s easy to shed them. Not so easy to get them back.”
― John Berendt, An Innocent Abroad: Life-changing Trips from 35 Great Writers

“At times, he even admitted that he'd been more an observer of the world than a participant in it...”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Last Song