Darcy Archer > Darcy's Quotes

“The merit of all things lies in their difficulty.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers

“Read, read, read. That's all I can say.”
― Carolyn Keene, The Secret of the Old Clock

“A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.”
― Italo Calvino, The Uses of Literature

“Let everything happen to you
Beauty and terror
Just keep going
No feeling is final”
― Rainer Maria Rilke

“If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin.”
― Ivan Turgenev

“Would you kiss me?"

"...yeah”
― Alice Oseman, Heartstopper: Volume One

“When you're curious, you find lots of interesting things to do.”
― Walt Disney

“Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect.”
― Margaret Mitchell

“He who chases the eagle takes no heed of the sparrow.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers

“If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”
― Oscar Wilde

“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“My soul, be satisfied with flowers,
With fruit, with weeds even; but gather them
In the one garden you may call your own.”
― Edmond Rostand, Cyrano de Bergerac

“Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.”
― Desmond Tutu

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

“Take it, and turn to facts my fantasies.”
― Edmond Rostand, Cyrano de Bergerac

“To be nobody but
yourself in a world
which is doing its best day and night to make you like
everybody else means to fight the hardest battle
which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.”
― E.E. Cummings

“The past is always tense, the future perfect.”
― Zadie Smith

“The mouth should have three gatekeepers. Is it true? Is it kind? And is it necessary?”
― Arab proverb

“Before there were books, we read each other.”
― Lisa Cron, Wired for Story: The Writer's Guide to Using Brain Science to Hook Readers from the Very First Sentence

“I was wondering aimlessly; too many road were open...too many resolves, too complex, allowed of being taken. I took...by far the simplest of them all.”
― Edmond Rostand, Cyrano de Bergerac

“Never fear quarrels, but seek hazardous adventures.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers

“Everything was believed except the truth.”
― Alexandre Dumas fils, La Dame aux Camélias

“People, in general," he said, "only ask advice not to follow it; or if they do follow it, it is for the sake of having someone to blame for having given it.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers

“One has always had a childhood, whatever one becomes.”
― Alexandre Dumas-fils, La dame aux camélias

“To sing, to laugh, to dream, to walk in my own way and be alone, free, with an eye to see things as they are, a voice that means manhood—to cock my hat where I choose—

At a word, a Yes, a No, to fight—or write. To travel any road under the sun, under the stars, nor doubt if fame or fortune lie beyond the bourne—

Never to make a line I have not heard in my own heart; yet, with all modesty to say: "My soul, be satisfied with flowers, with fruit, with weeds even; but gather them in the one garden you may call your own.”
― Edmond Rostand, Cyrano de Bergerac

“If men knew what they can have for a tear, they would be better loved and we should be less ruinous to them.”
― Alexandre Dumas fils, La dame aux camélias

“The trick to saying the word cock, is to do it like you have one in your mouth.”
― Geoffrey Knight

“Cyrano: Very well, then I exaggerate!
Le Bret: Oh, you do!
Cyrano: Yes; on principle. There are things in this world a man does well to carry to extremes.”
― Edmond Rostand, Cyrano de Bergerac

“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves