B.A. McRae > B.A.'s Quotes

“And I've been waiting for you, Mercy, ever since my Father told me about a love that could slay dragons.”
― Monroe Wildrose, Fate of Ruby and Throne

“Just because you take breaks doesn’t mean you’re broken.”
― Curtis Tyrone Jones

“Every traveler has a home of his own, and he learns to appreciate it the more from his wandering.”
― Charles Dickens

“And for the rest, let life happen to you. Believe me, life is right in every case.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

“Rain tapped and dripped at the skylight, casting watery shadows that streamed down the wall. Too shy to say anything, I waited for him to pick up the thread again- and when he didn't, we sat there peacefully, while I sipped my cooling tea (Lapsang Souchong, smoky and peculiar) and felt the strangeness of my life, and where I was.”
― Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch

“He was a planet without an atmosphere.”
― Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch

“Our entire life is a grand adventure.”
― Monroe Wildrose, Fortune of Emerald and Salt

“And the flavor of Pippa's kiss- bittersweet and strange- stayed with me all the way back uptown, swaying and sleepy as I sailed home on the bus, melting with sorrow and loveliness, a starry ache that lifted me up above the windswept city like a kite: my head in the rainclouds, my heart in the sky.”
― Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch

“She certainly seemed to have a life, not just an existence. She seemed happy. It must be possible, then.”
― Gail Honeyman, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

“The world is much stranger than we know or can say.”
― Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch

“Tormented by what was happening, yet unable to stop it, I hovered around and watched the apartment vanishing piece by piece, like a bee watching its hive being destroyed.”
― Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch

“Peony, Wisteria, Rose, Passion Flower. And who knows- but maybe that's what's waiting for us at the end of the journey, a majesty unimaginable until the very moment we find ourselves walking through the doors of it, what we find ourselves gazing at in astonishment when God finally takes his hands off our eyes and says: Look!”
― Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch

“By contrast Hobie lived and wafted like some great sea mammal in his own mild atmosphere, the dark brown of tea stains and tobacco, where every clock in the house said something different and time didn't actually correspond to the standard measure but instead meandered along at its own sedate tick-tock obeying the pace of his antique-crowded backwater, far from the factory-built, epoxy-glued version of the world.”
― Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch

“Maps were love letters written to times and places their makers had explored. They did not control the territory- they told its stories.”
― Peng Shepherd, The Cartographers

“That laugh paired with the dusky orange water was as close to contentment as I could remember feeling.”
― Monroe Wildrose, Fortune of Emerald and Salt

“We were calm and chaotic.”
― Monroe Wildrose, Fortune of Emerald and Salt

“Now, please kindly get ready as we are about to embark on the adventure of a lifetime." "Sounds Horribly dangerous, what's the plan?”
― Ksenia Anske, Rosehead

“For I have known them all already, known them all—
Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons,
I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.”
― T.S. Eliot, T. S. Eliot Reading: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock and Others

“As long as there was coffee in the world, how bad could things be?”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Ashes

“Bands don't last. We'd have been a meteor shower. Over before we started. "Meteor showers are fucking beautiful.”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

“The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely.”
― Louisa May Alcott

“Well, that's not poetry, that's propaganda, and not even good propaganda at that.”
― Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

“Debbie had to get up and slice me a thick piece of cake before she could answer. And I do mean thick. Harry Potter volume seven thick. I could have knocked out a burglar with this piece of cake. Once I tasted it, though, it seemed just the right size.”
― Maureen Johnson, Let It Snow

“Fall in love with some activity, and do it! Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn't matter. Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough. Work as hard and as much as you want to on the things you like to do the best. Don't think about what you want to be, but what you want to do. Keep up some kind of a minimum with other things so that society doesn't stop you from doing anything at all.”
― Richard P. Feynman

“I've come to believe that each of us has a personal calling that's as unique as a fingerprint - and that the best way to succeed is to discover what you love and then find a way to offer it to others in the form of service, working hard, and also allowing the energy of the universe to lead you. ”
― Oprah Winfrey

“What'd she want?" Her tone chipper as usual.
I couldn't hear any suspicion in it. "She wanted to know where I was."
"Why didn't you tell her?"
"Because she burned down my house." I said, and then added, "And because I don't know where we are.”
― Brock Clarke, Who Are You, Calvin Bledsoe?

“Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee?”
― Albert Camus

“I’ve slowly become more aware that when you’re in the presence of your person, time is warped in wicked ways.”
― B.A. McRae, The World Ends Christmas Day

“It's a song from Cats," Jack said. "I want to scream.”
― Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney, The Nest

“Light climbed and burst through the wild desert clouds- never-ending sky, acid blue, like a computer game or a test pilot's hallucination.”
― Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch