L > L's Quotes

“...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

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

“what matters most is how well you walk through the fire”
― Charles Bukowski

“You know, one of the tragedies of real life is that there is no background music.”
― Annie Proulx

“To this generation I would say:
Memorize some bit of verse of truth or beauty.”
― Edgar Lee Masters, Spoon River Anthology

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

“I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn't of much value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them. ”
― Boris Pasternak

“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
― Leo Tolstoy , Anna Karenina

“Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life

“Face front, true believers!”
― Stan Lee

“Love is unexplainable”
― An Na

“I love you. Remember. They cannot take it”
― Lauren Oliver, Delirium

“You can't be happy unless you're unhappy sometimes".”
― Lauren Oliver, Delirium

“My books promised me that life wasn’t just made up of workday tasks and prosaic things. The world is bigger and more colorful and more important than that.”
― Laura Amy Schlitz