dani > dani's Quotes

“He that loves reading has everything within his reach.”
― William Godwin

“How mutable are our feelings, and how strange is that clinging love we have of life even in the excess of misery!”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

“Oh, I am fortune's fool!”
― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

“I could hear my heart beating. I could hear everyone's heart. I could hear the human noise we sat there making, not one of us moving, not even when the room went dark.”
― Raymond Carver

“I am made of memories.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

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

“I am out with lanterns, looking for myself.”
― Emily Dickinson

“Stop looking for the next secret door that is going to lead you to your real life. Stop waiting. This is it: there's nothing else.”
― Lev Grossman, The Magicians

“But that is the mark of a good source myth; it is water so wide it can reach across centuries.
I hope you enjoyed the swim.”
― Madeline Miller, Galatea

“We never really talked much or even looked at each other, but it didn't matter because we were looking at the same sky together, which is maybe even more intimate than eye contact anyway. I mean, anybody can look at you. It's quite rare to find someone who sees the same world you see.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

“Probably falling in love is always a little like that: You discover that one other person who understands what no one else seems to, which is that the world is broken and can never, ever be fixed. You can stop pretending, at least for a little while. You can both admit it, if only to each other.”
― Lev Grossman, Summer Days and Summer Nights: Twelve Love Stories

“I got my heart's desire, and there my troubles began.”
― Lev Grossman, The Magicians

“Estragon: We always find something, eh Didi, to give us the impression we exist?

Vladimir: Yes, yes, we're magicians.”
― Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot

“She only wanted to be a girl who was deserving of the world.”
― Chloe Gong, Foul Lady Fortune

“That's all we have, finally, the words, and they had better be the right ones.”
― Raymond Carver

“I would make a strong case for the argument that every adult on this earth is sitting on a bench waiting for their parents to pick them up, whether they know it or not. I think we wait until the day we die.”
― Dolly Alderton, Ghosts

“Everything is more beautiful because we are doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again.”
― Homer, The Iliad

“To define is to limit.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“And always, there was the magic of learning things.”
― Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

“The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves.”
― William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

“I am sure there is Magic in everything, only we have not sense enough to get hold of it and make it do things for us”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett , The Secret Garden

“She hoped to be wise and reasonable in time; but alas! Alas! She must confess to herself that she was not wise yet.”
― Jane Austen, Persuasion

“Conscience doth make cowards of us all.”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

“Are you learning me by heart, little Sara?" he said, stroking her hair.
"No," she answered. "I know you by heart. You are inside my heart.”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, A Little Princess

“Under love’s heavy burden do I sink.
And, to sink in it, should you burden love;
Too great oppression for a tender thing.
Is love a tender thing? it is too rough,
Too rude, too boisterous, and it pricks like thorn.
If love be rough with you, be rough
with love;
Prick love for pricking, and you beat love down.”
― William Shakespeare, Romeo & Juliet

“That is the Magic. Being alive is the Magic—being strong is the Magic. The Magic is in me—the Magic is in me.”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden

“If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.”
― Jane Austen, Emma

“I am half agony, half hope.”
― Jane Austen, Persuasion

“Out of the forest I come with my flowers, singing, all alone.”
― Carol Ann Duffy, The World's Wife

“Perhaps all humans are lonely. At least potentially.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Klara and the Sun