Tracey Marsh > Tracey's Quotes

“As novelist Harry Crews once wrote, I’m the kind of person who—if he can’t have too much of something—doesn’t want any of it. In”
― Mary Karr, Lit

“Some souls just understand each other upon meeting.”
― N.R. Hart, Poetry and Pearls

“Still I would die tomorrow knowing I spend a handful of breathless moments with you than live a lifetime of ordinary breathing.”
― N.R. Hart

“Her love is safe inside his heart for he is her armor.”
― N.R.Hart

“This heart; a stubborn one always feeling everything; all at once.”
― N.R.Hart

“Not all those who wander are lost.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“Fonny had found something that he could do, that he wanted to do, and this saved him from the death that was waiting to overtake the children of our age. Though the death took many forms, though people died early in many different ways, the death itself was very simple and the cause was simple, too: as simple as a plague: the kids had been told that they weren't worth shit and everything they saw around them proved it. They struggled, they struggled, but they fell, like flies, and they congregated on the garbage heaps of their lives, like flies. And perhaps I clung to Fonny, perhaps Fonny saved me because he was just about the only boy I knew who wasn't fooling around with the needles or drinking cheap wine or mugging people or holding up stores - and he never got his hair conked: it just stayed nappy. He started working as a short-order cook in a barbecue joint, so he could eat, and he found a basement where he could work on his wood and he was at our house more often than he was at his own house.”
― James Baldwin, If Beale Street Could Talk

“Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.”
― Frederick Douglass

“I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.”
― Frederick Douglass

“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
― Mark Twain

“The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
― Mark Twain

“′Classic′ - a book which people praise and don't read.”
― Mark Twain

“Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.”
― Mark Twain

“Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.”
― Mark Twain, Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World

“Loyalty to country ALWAYS. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.”
― Mark Twain

“Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.”
― Mark Twain

“Every night the owl with his wild monkey-face calls through the black branches, and the mice freeze and the rabbits shiver in the snowy fields— and then there is the long, deep trough of silence when he stops singing, and steps into the air.”
― Mary Oliver, New and Selected Poems, Volume One

“Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.”
― E.B. White