Lou > Lou's Quotes

“If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.”
― Jane Austen, Emma

“Rule of life. If you bother to ask someone’s advice, then bother to listen to it.”
― Sophie Kinsella, Confessions of a Shopaholic

“What a thing it must be to be indifferent to indifference.”
― Coco Mellors, Cleopatra and Frankenstein

“Let yourself go. Pull out from the depths those thoughts that you do not understand, and spread them out in the sunlight and know the meaning of them.”
― E.M. Forster, A Room with a View

“Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice.”
― E.M. Forster, A Room With A View

“At times our need for a sympathetic gesture is so great that we care not what exactly it signifies or how much we may have to pay for it afterwards.”
― E.M. Forster, A Room with a View

“I suppose I shall have to live now”
― E.M. Forster, A Room with a View

“When did I lose that? The delight of success? When did winning become something I needed in order to survive? Something I did not enjoy having, so much as panic without?”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Carrie Soto Is Back

“I suspected the problem was that I was always the winner. But I could not for the life of me understand why that made people want to play with me less instead of more.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Carrie Soto Is Back

“Good is the enemy of great,”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Carrie Soto Is Back

“For decades, my talent and drive were utterly devastating to those who stood in my wake. If each person is blessed with an induvial gift, determination is mine.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Carrie Soto Is Back

“If I say your hair is purple, does that mean it’s purple?” he asked. “No, it’s brown.”
“Does it mean you have to prove to me it’s brown?” I shook my head.
“No, you can see it is.”
“You are going to be one of the greatest tennis players in the world someday, cariño. That is as true as your brown hair. You don’t need to show them. You just need to be.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Carrie Soto Is Back

“Every match you play, you are one match closer to becoming the greatest tennis player the world has ever seen. You were not born that person. You were born to become that person.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Carrie Soto Is Back

“You are completely insufferable, and I can't stop thinking about you.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Carrie Soto Is Back

“Great men are not born great, they grow great . . .”
― Mario Puzo, The Godfather

“Never hate your enemies. It affects your judgment.”
― Mario Puzo, The Godfather

“A friend should always underestimate your virtues and an enemy overestimate your faults”
― Mario Puzo, The Godfather

“A man who doesn't spend time with his family can never be a real man.”
― Mario Puzo, The Godfather

“What a fool I was, not to tear my heart out on the day when I resolved to avenge myself!”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

“The face you give the world tells the world how to treat you.”
― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects

“A child weaned on poison considers harm a comfort.”
― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects

“Sometimes if you let people do things to you, you're really doing it to them.”
― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects

“It's impossible to compete with the dead. I wished I could stop trying.”
― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects

“See, there I am. I told you I lived. I told you I was.”
― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects

“Sometimes if you let people do things to you, you’re really doing it to them,” Amma said, pulling another Blow Pop from her pocket. Cherry. “Know what I mean? If someone wants to do fucked-up things to you, and you let them, you’re making them more fucked up. Then you have the control. As long as you don’t go crazy.”
― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects

“How confusing to live in the shadow of a shadow.”
― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects

“When a child knows that young that her mother doesn't care for her, bad things happen.”
― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects

“For someone who loved words as much as I did, it was amazing how often they failed me.”
― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains

“You can justify anything if you do it poetically enough.”
― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains

“How tremendous the agony of unmade decisions.”
― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains