Cheryl Hobensack > Cheryl's Quotes

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“The pearls weren't really white, they were a warm oyster beige, with little knots in between so if they broke, you only lost one. I wished my life could be like that, knotted up so that even if something broke, the whole thing wouldn't come apart.”
― Janet Fitch, White Oleander

“It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes... we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions - especially selfish ones.”
― Alexander Solzhenitsyn

“dear god, whose name i do not know. thank you for my life. i forgot... how BIG... thank you. thank you for my life.”
― John Patrick Shanley, Moonstruck, Joe Versus the Volcano, and Five Corners

“Isn't it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?”
― L.M. Montgomery

“Miss Barry was a kindred spirit after all," Anne confided to Marilla, "You wouldn't think so to look at her, but she is. . . Kindred spirits are not so scarce as I used to think. It's splendid to find out there are so many of them in the world.”
― Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

“No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.”
― Charles Dickens

“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“You're entirely bonkers. But I'll tell you a secret. All the best people are.”
― Tim Burton, Alice in Wonderland: Based on the Motion Picture Directed by Tim Burton

“I am a warrior, so that my son may be a merchant, so that his son may be a poet.”
― John Quincy Adams

“But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.”
― Khaled Hosseini

“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
― Toni Morrison

“The belly is an ungrateful wretch, it never remembers past favors, it always wants more tomorrow.”
― Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

“If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?”
― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956

“You only have power over people as long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he's no longer in your power—he's free again.”
― Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Двести лет вместе

“And that's the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded; not with the fanfare of epiphany, but with pain gathering its things, packing up, and slipping away unannounced in the middle of the night.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“Anni, amori e bicchieri di vino, nun se contano mai.”’ ‘“Years, lovers and glasses of wine; these things must not be counted.”
― Anthony Capella, The Food of Love

“Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.”
― Roald Dahl

“It was all unknown to me then, as I sat on that white bench on the day I finished my hike. Everything except the fact that I didn't have to know. That is was enough to trust that what I'd done was true. To understand its meaning without yet being able to say precisely what it was, like all those lines from The Dream of a Common Language that had run through my nights and days. To believe that I didn't need to reach with my bare hands anymore. To know that seeing the fish beneath the surface of the water was enough. That it was everything. It was my life - like all lives, mysterious and irrevocable and sacred. So very close, so very present, so very belonging to me.
How wild it was, to let it be.”
― Cheryl Strayed, Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

“No book can be appreciated until it has been slept with and dreamed over.”
― Eugene Field

“They did this to me. They did that to me. A woman who thinks that way will never overcome her anger. You are not being punished for your anger. You’re being punished by your anger.”
― Lisa See, The Island of Sea Women

“Her house is the nest where she hides the joy, laughter, sorrows, and regrets of her life.”
― Lisa See, The Island of Sea Women

“I’ve had to think about the dark shadow side of friendship. This is the person who knows and loves you best, which means she knows all the ways to hurt and betray you.”
― Lisa See, The Island of Sea Women

“Minny: "Eat my shit."
Hilly: "Excuse me?"
Minny: "I said eat...my...shit."
Hilly: "Have you lost your mind?"
Minny: "No ma'am, but you about to, cause you just did."
*Minny eyes the pie*
Hilly: "Did...What?"
*Minny eyes pie again, Missus Walters gasping and laughing, Hilly eyes pie then gags and runs off*
Missus Walters: "And you didn't just eat one, you ate TWO slices!"
*Minny runs off*
Missus Walters: "RUN, MINNY, RUUN!!"
*She says this while laughing*”
― Kathryn Stockett, The Help

“The world was hers for the reading.”
― Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

“When I have a little money, I buy books; and if I have any left, I buy food and clothes.”
― Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus

“The desire to write grows with writing.”
― Erasmus

“He who allows oppression shares the crime.”
― Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus

“Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.”
― Desiderius Erasmus