Caitlin > Caitlin's Quotes

“It isn't a matter of how long, or even how much you know. It's a way of looking at things, how much you see and how you think. I suppose it's, well, perspective. . . When you start seein' five sides to a four-sided object, that's when you get the gray robe.”
― Hilari Bell, The Wizard Test

“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

“I don't want to be married just to be married. I can't think of anything lonelier than spending the rest of my life with someone I can't talk to, or worse, someone I can't be silent with.”
― Mary Ann Shaffer, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

“You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people, some of the time, but you can fool yourself anytime you need to badly enough.”
― Hilari Bell, Navohar

“Coordinating the retreat was important too, so important that Jiaan had assigned Aram as Fasal's assistant, to be sure he didn't overlook anything important. Like the fact that they were supposed to retreat.”
― Hilari Bell, Forging the Sword

“He was between Edoran and the Falcon now, and Arisa pushed past the prince to stand with him. Weasel on the right and Arisa on the left. The image of the cards Arisa has laid out floated through his mind: the fool, with the storm protecting him and the hanged man guiding him true. No matter how powerful the sword and shield were supposed to be, Weasel and Arisa mattered more..."I do give them to you," he announced. "Of my free will. Because this is my sword." He laid a hand on Arisa's shoulder. "And Weasel is my shield. What you hold are only pieces of iron.”
― Hilari Bell, Crown of Earth

“Stay gold, Ponyboy. Stay gold . . .” The pillow seemed to sink a little, and Johnny died.”
― S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders

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

“Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, but only saps today of its strength.”
― A.J. Cronin

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

“Never fear quarrels, but seek hazardous adventures.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers

“I do not cling to life sufficiently to fear death.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers

“The merit of all things lies in their difficulty.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers

“Everyone knows that drunkards and lovers have a protecting diety.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers

“It is only the dead who do not return.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers

“We must never expect discretion in first love: it is accompanied by such excessive joy that unless the joy is allowed to overflow, it will choke you.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers

“Kitty: I thought your ladyship was ill. I wanted to help you.
Lady deWinter: I ill? Do you take me for a weak woman? When I am insulted I do not feel ill - I avenge myself. Do you hear?”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers

“Hard decisions, sacrifices doesn’t keep you warm at night, life’s too damn short, too damn long to continue without someone at your side”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers

“What fragile and unknown threads the destinies of nations and the lives of men are suspended.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers

“Adventure is worthwhile in itself.”
― Amelia Earhart

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

“...you can hate a place with all your heart and soul and still be homesick for it.”
― Joseph Mitchell

“Gossip is never fatal until it is denied.”
― Booth Tarkington

“It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

“It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.”
― Herman Melville

“In the world I am
Always a stranger
I do not understand its language
It does not understand my silence”
― Bei Dao

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

“Progress is man's ability to complicate simplicity.”
― Thor Heyerdahl

“Words dazzle and deceive because they are mimed by the face. But black words on a white page are the soul laid bare.”
― Guy de Maupassant

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