Mo > Mo's Quotes

“Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

“How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.”
― Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Selected Poems

“Being a geek is all about being honest about what you enjoy and not being afraid to demonstrate that affection. It means never having to play it cool about how much you like something. It’s basically a license to proudly emote on a somewhat childish level rather than behave like a supposed adult. Being a geek is extremely liberating.”
― Simon Pegg

“The conversation of kisses. Subtle, engrossing, fearless, transforming.”
― Alice Munro, Runaway: Stories

“I am large, I contain multitudes”
― Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

“Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.”
― Herman Hesse

“may you kiss
the wind then turn from it
certain that it will
love your back”
― Lucille Clifton

“I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn.”
― Anne Frank

“You will hear thunder and remember me,
and think: she wanted storms...”
― Anna Akhmatova

“Everything is possible. The impossible just takes longer.”
― Dan Brown, Digital Fortress

“There's something ugly about the flawless.”
― Dennis Lehane, Sacred

“The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.”
― Carl Gustav Jung

“I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.”
― Jack London

“The world is a story we tell ourselves about the world.”
― Vikram Chandra

“This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

“Maybe we are all cabinets of wonders.”
― Brian Selznick, The Invention of Hugo Cabret

“Nobody gets everything in this life. You decide your priorities and you make your choices. I'd decided long ago that any cake I had would be eaten.”
― Donald E. Westlake, Two Much

“Dare to be strong and courageous. That is the road. Venture anything.”
― Sherwood Anderson

“She had always wanted words, she loved them; grew up on them. Words gave her clarity, brought reason, shape.”
― Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient

“She sat still, trying to hush her secret heart.”
― Margaret Landon

“Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.”
― John Locke

“As human beings, we have a natural compulsion to fill empty spaces.”
― Will Shortz

“He made me think of all the books I hadn't read, and all the ones I'd read but hadn't fully understood.”
― Tom Perrotta, Joe College

“I'm happy. Which often looks like crazy.”
― David Henry Hwang, M. Butterfly

“The world is like that -- incomprehensible and full of surprises .”
― Jorge Amado, Gabriela, clavo y canela

“The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.”
― Lorraine Hansberry

“If books could have more, give more, be more, show more, they would still need readers who bring to them sound and smell and light and all the rest that can’t be in books.
The book needs you.”
― Gary Paulsen, The Winter Room

“There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep and still be counted as warriors.”
― Adrienne Rich

“Laugh all you want and cry all you want and whistle at pretty men in the street and to hell with anybody who thinks you're a damned fool!”
― Armistead Maupin, More Tales of the City

“Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn't matter. Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough.”
― Richard P. Feynman