Julia Elkins > Julia's Quotes

“I live my faith, not by fear,” he replied stoically. “What value does life hold unless you’re helping others and willing to risk your life for a friend.”
― C. R. Stewart, Britfield & the Eastern Empire

“Use order to await chaos”
― Sun Tzu, Art of War

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

“I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.”
― Booker T. Washington, Up from Slavery: An Autobiography

“The first step in overcoming any serious problem is acknowledging that there is a problem.”
― Chuck Black, Light of the Last

“A loving heart hesitates to acknowledge the cloud that might shadow its joy. While that hesitation cannot banish the cloud, neither does it create the shadow”
― Alicia Petersen, A Sparrow Alone

“Then go out and seek some adventures," said the newt. "I don't know how," Avon said. "Remember, lad," said the newt, "if it's going to be tomorrow, it might as well be today. And if it's today, it could have been yesterday. If it were yesterday, then you're over and done with it, and can write your own book. Think about that.”
― Avi, The End of the Beginning: Being the Adventures of a Small Snail

“What an inspiring song," said Avon. "One of the better things about it," Edward pointed out, "is the fact that it can be sung from either end. I sing it from the beginning, and my father sings it from the end." "Can it be sung from the middle?" "Absolutely," said Edward. "That's how my mother always does it. As you can see, we are a family of individuals." "Ah, but at least you're all singing the same song," said Avon.”
― Avi, The End of the Beginning: Being the Adventures of a Small Snail

“The end of the branch," said Avon, mostly to himself. "The beginning of the sky," said Edward, mostly to himself. "Which is it?" asked Avon. "The beginning or the end?" "I should think," said Edward, "it depends on what there's more of, the tree or the sky...”
― Avi, The End of the Beginning: Being the Adventures of a Small Snail and an Even Smaller Ant

“Good night, good night! parting is such sweet sorrow,
That I shall say good night till it be morrow.”
― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

“My only love sprung from my only hate!
Too early seen unknown, and known too late!
Prodigious birth of love it is to me,
That I must love a loathed enemy.”
― William Shakespeare

“I read in a book once that a rose by any other name would smell as sweet, but I've never been able to believe it. I don't believe a rose WOULD be as nice if it was called a thistle or a skunk cabbage.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

“He jests at scars that never felt a wound.
But soft! What light through yonder window breaks?
It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.
Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon,
Who is already sick and pale with grief,
That thou, her maid, art far more fair than she.
Be not her maid since she is envious.
Her vestal livery is but sick and green,
And none but fools do wear it. Cast it off!
It is my lady. Oh, it is my love.
Oh, that she knew she were!
She speaks, yet she says nothing. What of that?
Her eye discourses. I will answer it.—
I am too bold. 'Tis not to me she speaks.
Two of the fairest stars in all the heaven,
Having some business, do entreat her eyes
To twinkle in their spheres till they return.
What if her eyes were there, they in her head?
The brightness of her cheek would shame those stars
As daylight doth a lamp. Her eye in heaven
Would through the airy region stream so bright
That birds would sing and think it were not night.
See how she leans her cheek upon her hand.
Oh, that I were a glove upon that hand
That I might touch that cheek!”
― William Shakespeare

“Better a witty fool, than a foolish wit.”
― William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night

“There's such a lot of different Annes in me. I sometimes think that is why I'm such a troublesome person. If I was just the one Anne it would be ever so much more comfortable, but then it wouldn't be half so interesting.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

“Because when you are imagining, you might as well imagine something worth while.”
― Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

“Isn't it splendid to think of all the things there are to find out about? It just makes me feel glad to be alive--it's such an interesting world. It wouldn't be half so interesting if we know all about everything, would it? There'd be no scope for imagination then, would there?But am I talking too much? People are always telling me I do. Would you rather I didn't talk? If you say so I'll stop. I can STOP when I make up my mind to it, although it's difficult.”
― Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

“I'd like to add some beauty to life," said Anne dreamily. "I don't exactly want to make people KNOW more... though I know that IS the noblest ambition... but I'd love to make them have a pleasanter time because of me... to have some little joy or happy thought that would never have existed if I hadn't been born.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne's House of Dreams

“The world calls them its singers and poets and artists and storytellers; but they are just people who have never forgotten the way to fairyland.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

“I do know my own mind,' protested Anne. 'The trouble is, my mind changes and then I have to get acquainted with it all over again.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of the Island

“Some people go through life trying to find out what the world holds for them only to find out too late that it's what they bring to the world that really counts.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

“Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them.”
― William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night

“O time, thou must untangle this, not I.
It is too hard a knot for me t'untie.”
― William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night

“Foolery, sir, does walk about the orb like the sun; it shines everywhere.”
― William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Her own thoughts and reflections were habitually her best companions.”
― Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

“Of course I love her, but there are as many forms of love as there are moments in time.”
― Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

“What's in a name? that which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet.”
― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

“We don't know where we're going, but isn't is fun to go?”
― L.M. Montgomery, The Blue Castle

“The trouble with you people is that you don't laugh enough.”
― L.M. Montgomery, The Blue Castle