Marianne > Marianne's Quotes

“The helpful thought for which you look
Is written somewhere in a book.”
― Edward Gorey

“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories

“Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.”
― T.S. Eliot

“You know everything you need to know about a person from the answer to the question, What is your favorite book?”
― Gabrielle Zevin, The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

“I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.”
― Sarah Williams

“Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

“The bravest people are the ones who don’t mind looking like cowards.”
― T.H. White, The Once and Future King

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

“Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.”
― Jane Smiley, Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel

“A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition.”
― Henry Miller, The Books in My Life

“Books may well be the only true magic.”
― Alice Hoffman

“I read a book one day and my whole life was changed.”
― Orhan Pamuk, The New Life

“I read so I can live more than one life in more than one place.”
― Anne Tyler

“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
― C.S. Lewis

“I feel free and strong. If I were not a reader of books I could not feel this way.”
― Walter Tevis

“Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it's a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up, and it's a way of making contact with someone else's imagination after a day that's all too real.”
― Nora Ephron

“Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.”
― Alexander Pope

“Honestly, if you were any slower, you’d be going backward.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
― Mark Twain

“Writing what you wished was the most dangerous form of wishful thinking.”
― Amy Tan, The Bonesetter's Daughter

“The world was hers for the reading.”
― Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

“Much of what was said did not matter, and that much of what mattered could not be said.”
― Katherine Boo, Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity

“Reading is a bit like hallucinating.”
― Nathan Filer, The Shock of the Fall

“The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves.”
― V. S. Naipaul, In a Free State

“A library is infinity under a roof.”
― Gail Carson Levine

“For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

“I cannot go to school today"
Said little Peggy Ann McKay.
"I have the measles and the mumps,
A gash, a rash and purple bumps.

My mouth is wet, my throat is dry.
I'm going blind in my right eye.
My tonsils are as big as rocks,
I've counted sixteen chicken pox.

And there's one more - that's seventeen,
And don't you think my face looks green?
My leg is cut, my eyes are blue,
It might be the instamatic flu.

I cough and sneeze and gasp and choke,
I'm sure that my left leg is broke.
My hip hurts when I move my chin,
My belly button's caving in.

My back is wrenched, my ankle's sprained,
My 'pendix pains each time it rains.
My toes are cold, my toes are numb,

I have a sliver in my thumb.

My neck is stiff, my voice is weak,
I hardly whisper when I speak.
My tongue is filling up my mouth,

I think my hair is falling out.

My elbow's bent, my spine ain't straight,
My temperature is one-o-eight.
My brain is shrunk, I cannot hear,

There's a hole inside my ear.

I have a hangnail, and my heart is ...
What? What's that? What's that you say?
You say today is .............. Saturday?

G'bye, I'm going out to play!”
― Shel Silverstein

“I live in my own little world. But its ok, they know me here.”
― Lauren Myracle

“Scared is what you're feeling. Brave is what you're doing.”
― Emma Donoghue, Room

“The heart of another is a dark forest, always, no matter how close it has been to one’s own.”
― Willa Cather