Michelle > Michelle's Quotes

“The line between normal and crazy seemed impossibly thin. A person would have to be an expert tightrope walker in order not to fall.”
― Augusten Burroughs, Running with Scissors

“But put two librarians' heads together, and mountains move.”
― Richard Peck, Here Lies the Librarian

“We none of us find as much kindness in this world as we should.”
― Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha

“For a flicker of a moment I imagined a world completely different from the one I'd always known, a world in which I was treated with fairness, even kindness-- a world in which fathers didn't sell their daughters. ”
― Arthur Golden

“They're talking about Kobe and how great it is that he's playing with the team. Well, isn't that what you're supposed to do? Now he's the savior because he's playing that way? He's no god. He does what he's supposed to be doing, which is what we learned in kindergarten. Share the ball and play. And that's what we do better than they do”
― Jack McCallum, Seven Seconds or Less: My Season on the Bench with the Runnin' and Gunnin' Phoenix Suns

“Often I'd take out my magnifying glass and stare into the chaos that was her face.”
― David Sedaris

“Its funny how certain objects convey a message -- my washer and dryer, for example. They can't speak, of course, but whenever I pass them they remind me that I'm doing fairly well. "No more laundromat for you," they hum. My stove, a downer, tells me every day that I can't cook, and before I can defend myself my scale jumps in, shouting from the bathroom, "Well, he must be doing something. My numbers are off the charts." The skeleton has a much more limited vocabulary and says only one thing: "You are going to die.”
― David Sedaris

“I hated leaving a hole in the smoking world, and so I recruited someone to take my place. People have given me a lot of grief, but I'm pretty sure that after high school, this girl would have started anyway, especially if she chose the army over community college.”
― David Sedaris

“When I tell people I went to library school, the most common reaction is either “You’re joking, right?” or “They have schools for librarians? Do they teach you how to properly sssh people?”
― Scott Douglas

“It was true; always had been. Friendships were like marriages in that way. Routines and patterns were poured early and hardened like cement.”
― Kristin Hannah, Firefly Lane

“If you have experienced an evening more exciting than any in your life, you're sad to see it end; and yet you still feel grateful that it happened.”
― Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha

“I still believe that everyone is beautiful in some way and by seeing the beauty in others we make ourselves more beautiful.”
― Carole King, A Natural Woman: A Memoir

“Cleaning requires an attention to detail and a concern for the superficial that women are both pressured to internalize and then despised for possessing.”
― Jessica Shines

“Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“I came to the conclusion that people were just peculiar, I withdrew from them, and never thought about them until I was forced to.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“Because I'm the kind of girl who fantasizes about being trapped in a library overnight.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl

“Basketball rule #3
Never let anyone
lower your goals.
Others’ expectations
of you are determined
by their limitations
of life.
The sky is your limit, sons.
Always shoot
for the sun
and you will shine.”
― Kwame Alexander, The Crossover

“When you dig just the tiniest bit beneath the surface, everyone's love life is original and interesting and nuanced and defies any easy definition.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“Most people underestimate eyes. They're infinite. You look someone straight in the eye and your whole soul can be sucked out in a nanosecond. Other people's eyes are limitless and that's what scares me.”
― Sophie Kinsella, Finding Audrey

“In principle and reality, libraries are life-enhancing palaces of wonder.”
― Gail Honeyman, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine