Clary > Clary's Quotes

“That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.”
― Terry Pratchett

“There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.”
― P.G. Wodehouse

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

“Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

“She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.”
― Annie Dillard, The Living

“A good book is an event in my life.”
― Stendhal, The Red and the Black

“Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.”
― Charles Dickens

“Jane, be still; don't struggle so like a wild, frantic bird, that is rending its own plumage in its desperation."
"I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being, with an independent will; which I now exert to leave you.”
― Charlotte Brontë , Jane Eyre

“Literature is a textually transmitted disease, normally contracted in childhood.”
― Jane Yolen, Touch Magic: Fantasy, Faerie & Folklore in the Literature of Childhood