Lalin Lee > Lalin 's Quotes

“It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.”
― Thomas Hardy, Far From the Madding Crowd

“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.”
― Lewis Carroll

“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

“Tonight I can write the saddest lines
I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.”
― Pablo Neruda, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

“But he who dares not grasp the thorn
Should never crave the rose.”
― Anne Bronte

“I am not eccentric. It's just that I am more alive than most people. I am an unpopular electric eel set in a pond of catfish.”
― Edith Sitwell

“Only someone who is well prepared has the opportunity to improvise.”
― Ingmar Bergman

“This is where it all begins. Everything starts here, today.”
― David Nicholls, One Day

“For sometimes you can't help but crave some ruin in what you love.”
― Chang-rae Lee, On Such a Full Sea

“I believe death is only a door. One closes, and another opens. If I were to imagine heaven, I would imagine a door opening. And he would be waiting for me there.”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

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

“I cannot love a man who cannot protect me.”
― Anne Brontë

“He was brother to a liar and brother to an angel, son of a dream and son of a dreamer.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Dream Thieves

“Calla readjusted, wrapping the silk around her other thigh instead. "Which one's he again? The pretty one?"
Blue and Gansey exchanged a look. Blue's look said, I'm so, so sorry. Gansey's said, Am I the pretty one?”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Dream Thieves

“We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all the power we need inside ourselves already.”
― J.K. Rowling

“Learn the rules, break the rules, make up new rules, break the new rules.”
― Marvin Bell

“The world spins. We stumble on. It is enough.”
― Colum McCann, Let the Great World Spin

“La belleza y la fealdad son un espejismo, porque los demás terminan viendo nuestro interior.”
― Frida Kahlo

“I always knew this story would break my heart”
― Theo Lawrence, Mystic City

“Our lives are not our own. We are bound to others, past and present, and by each crime and every kindness, we birth our future.”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

“You seem to think you’re insignificant, but the truth is you’re so intelligent, beautiful, kind and decent, adorable. I can’t be the first person to have fallen in love with you, and I won’t be the last. But I do believe I will love you the most.”
― Ai Mi, Under the Hawthorn Tree

“I feel free and strong. If I were not a reader of books I could not feel this way.”
― Walter Tevis

“What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable?”
― John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

“Mi querida señorita Prim, si se fija usted un poco se dará cuenta de que solo se puede admirar aquello que no se posee. No se admira en otro una cualidad que uno mismo tiene, se admira lo que uno no tiene y ve brillar en el otro en todo su esplendor. ¿Me sigue?”
― Natalia Sanmartin Fenollera, El despertar de la señorita Prim

“Day followed day, each one a little different from the one before...but the little house stayed just the same.”
― Virginia Lee Burton, The Little House

“I have to tell you that equality has nothing to do with marriage. The basis of a good marriage, a reasonably happy marriage-don't delude yourself, there is no such thing as an entirely happy marriage-is, precisely, inequality. It's essential if two people are to feel mutual admiration. ................................
if you reflected a little more deeply you'd realize that you can only admire that which you do not possess. You do not admire in another a quality you have yourself, you admire what you don't have and which you see shining in another in all its splendor.”
― Natalia Sanmartin Fenollera, The Awakening of Miss Prim

“-Al amor, me refiero al amor. Ya existe, no lo dude usted. Solo debe descubrir dónde está, seguir el rastro, investigar. Exactamente como hace un detective.”
― Natalia Sanmartin Fenollera, El despertar de la señorita Prim

“Él dice que así se aprende a amar los libros, que tiene mucho que ver con la memoria. Dice que cuando los hombres se enamoran de las mujeres, aprenden de memoria su cara para poder recordarla después.”
― Natalia Sanmartin Fenollera, El despertar de la señorita Prim

“Do you think I am an automaton? — a machine without feelings? and can bear to have my morsel of bread snatched from my lips, and my drop of living water dashed from my cup? Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong! — I have as much soul as you — and full as much heart! And if God had gifted me with some beauty and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you. I am not talking to you now through the medium of custom, conventionalities, nor even of mortal flesh: it is my spirit that addresses your spirit; just as if both had passed through the grave, and we stood at God's feet, equal — as we are!”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre