Emy M. > Emy's Quotes

“You know what they say: ‘Men have throats and daggers have sharp edges'.”
― Raymond E. Feist, Mistress of the Empire

“He likes to humble our foes by making them seem ridiculous. As he said to me the other day, ‘Kill a man, and you cede him honor in the eyes of the gods. Laugh at him and you shame him'.”
― Raymond E. Feist, Mistress of the Empire

“We can destroy what we have written, but we cannot unwrite it.”
― Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange

“I see what is right and approve, but I do what is wrong.”
― Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange

“It is as inhuman to be totally good as it is to be totally evil.”
― Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange

“All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or touched, they are felt with the heart.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“It is such a mysterious place, the land of tears.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

“Because,' she said, 'when you're scared but you still do it anyway, that's brave.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

“Mirrors,' she said, 'are never to be trusted.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

“That’s what parenthood was about, wasn’t it? Slowly understanding your child less and less until she wasn’t yours anymore but herself.”
― Megan Abbott, You Will Know Me

“Each person who ever was or is or will be has a song. It isn't a song that anybody else wrote. It has its own melody, it has its own words. Very few people get to sing their song. Most of us fear that we cannot do it justice with our voices, or that our words are too foolish or too honest, or too odd. So people live their song instead.”
― Neil Gaiman, Anansi Boys

“Beautiful things don't ask for attention.”
― James Thurber, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

“Live life by the abc's...adventure, bravery and creativity.”
― James Thurber, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

“I don’t understand,” said the scientist, “why you lemmings all rush down to the sea and drown yourselves.” “How curious,” said the lemming. “The one thing I don’t understand is why you human beings don’t.”
― James Thurber, Writings and Drawings

“What I say is, a town isn’t a town without a bookstore. It may call itself a town, but unless it’s got a bookstore, it knows it’s not foolin’ a soul.”
― Neil Gaiman, American Gods

“All your questions can be answered, if that is what you want. But once you learn your answers, you can never unlearn them.”
― Neil Gaiman, American Gods

“Every hour wounds. The last one kills.”
― Neil Gaiman, American Gods

“Even nothing cannot last forever.”
― Neil Gaiman, American Gods

“There's none so blind as those who will not listen.”
― Neil Gaiman, American Gods

“I believe that life is a game, that life is a cruel joke, and that life is what happens when you're alive and that you might as well lie back and enjoy it.”
― Neil Gaiman, American Gods

“Too much talking these days. Talk talk talk. This country would get along much better if people learned how to suffer in silence.”
― Neil Gaiman, American Gods

“Liberty," boomed Wednesday, as they walked to the car, "is a bitch who must be bedded on a mattress of corpses.”
― Neil Gaiman, American Gods

“You get what anybody gets - you get a lifetime.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 1: Preludes & Nocturnes

“She's realized the real problem with stories -- if you keep them going long enough, they always end in death.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 1: Preludes & Nocturnes

“You can’t have an objective view of the larger picture and go insane - that’s what I’ll believe. The two are mutually exclusive.”
― Matt Dymerski, The Asylum

“Get busy living or get busy dying.”
― Stephen King, Different Seasons

“Fear can hold you prisoner. Hope can set you free.”
― Stephen King, Different Seasons

“Beauty is a whore, I like money better.”
― Michael Cunningham, The Hours