Jayne Castel > Jayne's Quotes

“Do your thing and don't care if they like it.”
― Tina Fey, Bossypants

“The young people think the old people are fools -- but the old people know the young people are fools.”
― Agatha Christie, Murder at the Vicarage

“A book is really like a lover. It arranges itself in your life in a way that is beautiful.”
― Maurice Sendak

“The day I understood everything, was the day I stopped trying to figure everything out. The day I knew peace was the day I let everything go.”
― C. JoyBell C.

“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

“I suspect the truth is that we are waiting, all of us, against insurmountable odds, for something extraordinary to happen to us.”
― Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed

“Sometimes what we want to do and what we must do are not the same. Pasquo, the smaller the space between your desire and what is right, the happier you will be.”
― Jess Walter, Beautiful Ruins

“This is what happens when you live in dreams, he thought: you dream this and you dream that and you sleep right through your life.”
― Jess Walter, Beautiful Ruins

“But I think some people wait forever, and only at the end of their lives do they realize that their life has happened while they were waiting for it to start.”
― Jess Walter, Beautiful Ruins

“Open your heart. Someone will come. Someone will come for you. But first you must open your heart.”
― Kate DiCamillo, The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane

“It does not matter how much we distance ourselves, how far we run - the past always shadows us.”
― Jayne Castel, Night Shadows

“If only women were not so fickle and men were not so cruel.”
― Jayne Castel, Nightfall till Daybreak

“He shed a lake of blood and murdered a king for a cold, lonely throne.”
― Jayne Castel, Nightfall till Daybreak

“That's how life is; we grow, we learn, and sometimes we change. And in every man, there is hope.”
― Kathryn Le Veque

“Ours is a world controlled by the warrior and the sword.”
― Jayne Castel, Dark Under the Cover of Night

“The wind drops us where it will and there we have the choice to either fight our fate or grow roots and bloom.”
― Jayne Castel, Dark Under the Cover of Night

“It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

“In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.”
― Jane Austen, Pride And Prejudice

“There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book.
Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“The Owl and the Pussy-cat went to sea
In a beautiful pea green boat...”
― Edward Lear

“Words have weight, something once said cannot be unsaid. Meaning is like a stone dropped into a pool; the ripples will spread and you cannot know what back they wash against.”
― Philippa Gregory, The Constant Princess

“There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls. ”
― George Carlin

“And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“Show me a man or a woman alone and I'll show you a saint. Give me two and they'll fall in love. Give me three and they'll invent the charming thing we call 'society'. Give me four and they'll build a pyramid. Give me five and they'll make one an outcast. Give me six and they'll reinvent prejudice. Give me seven and in seven years they'll reinvent warfare. Man may have been made in the image of God, but human society was made in the image of His opposite number, and is always trying to get back home.”
― Stephen King , The Stand

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
― Oscar Wilde

“We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Wild Years

“A prude is a person who thinks that his own rules of propriety are natural laws.”
― Robert A. Heinlein

“Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Song of Ice and Fire, 5-Book Boxed Set: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, A Dance with Dragons

“Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don't be sorry.”
― Jack Kerouac

“In the summer
I stretch out on the shore
And think of you. Had I told the sea
What I felt for you,
It would have left its shores,
Its shells,
Its fish,
And followed me.”
― Nizar Qabbani