Bosko James > Bosko's Quotes

“Don’t try to make life a mathematics problem with yourself in the center and everything coming out equal. When you’re good, bad things can still happen. And if you’re bad, you can still be lucky.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible

“But there were worse things than disappointment, and I'd lived through several of them already.”
― R.J. Anderson, Ultraviolet

“Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.”
― Benjamin Franklin

“There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson

“The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.”
― Nadine Gordimer

“When writing a novel, that's pretty much entirely what life turns into: 'House burned down. Car stolen. Cat exploded. Did 1500 easy words, so all in all it was a pretty good day.”
― Neil Gaiman

“I woke up thinking a very pleasant thought. There is lots left in the world to read.”
― Nicholson Baker, The Anthologist

“Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.”
― Rudyard Kipling

“If ever there is tomorrow when we're not together... there is something you must always remember. You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. But the most important thing is, even if we're apart... I'll always be with you.”
― Carter Crocker

“We live as we dream--alone....”
― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

“Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend.”
― Sarah Dessen, Someone Like You