Lilly > Lilly's Quotes

“Never tire yourself more than necessary, even if you have to found a culture on the fatigue of your bones.”
― Antonin Artaud

“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

“love is nothing but an overrated emotion that brings nothing but pain to those unfortunate enough to suffer from it.”
― Carole Mortimer, Uncertain Destiny

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

“Sweet words are like honey, a little may refresh, but too much gluts the stomach.”
― Anne Bradstreet

“Remember if people talk behind your back, it only means you are two steps ahead.”
― Fannie Flagg, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe

“Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.”
― Euripides, The Bacchae

“The proof of the pudding is the eating.”
― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

“Poetry is a way of looking at the world for the first time.”
― W.S. Merwin

“None of us really changes over time. We only become more fully what we are.”
― Anne Rice, The Vampire Lestat

“A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any other way.”
― Caroline Gordon

“It's actually very difficult to make something both simple and good.”
― Paul Simon

“Boys are unpredictable. This maybe not be news, but I'm starting to think it's one of the best things about them.”
― Kate Brian, Megan Meade's Guide to the McGowan Boys

“Boys do tell you how they really feel. I think you just have to be in the right place at the right time or maybe be the right person”
― Kate Brian, Megan Meade's Guide to the McGowan Boys

“So are you comin' back with me or what?"

Megan lifted her head and sighed. "I have a few conditions."

"Shoulda known," Doug said, rolling his eyes.

"First of all, I did not sign up for a truck stop bathroom," Megan said. "You guys need to start cleaning up after yourselves in there. No more blood, no more hair, no more stains that I don't even want to identify."

"All right, all right," Doug said. "That it?"

"Hardly," Megan said. "I want a hands-off rule on all my stuff. Including my bike."

"Okay..."

"And I want everyone to stop calling me Megan C Cups behind my back."

Doug's jaw went slack as he flushed. "How did you know about that?"

Megan raised her eyebrows.

"All right, fine.”
― Kate Brian, Megan Meade's Guide to the McGowan Boys

“Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven

“By the pricking of my thumbs,
Something wicked this way comes.”
― William Shakespeare, Macbeth

“Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long.”
― Walker Evans

“Darkness is drawn to light, but light does not know it; light must absorb the darkness and therefore meet its own extinguishment.”
― Edna O'Brien, In the Forest

“One can acquire everything in solitude except character.”
― Stendhal, Five Short Novels of Stendhal

“The music in his laughter had a way of rounding off the missing notes in her soul.”
― Gloria Naylor, Linden Hills

“It was not the feeling of completeness I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything is Illuminated

“I believe when life gives you lemons, you should make lemonade...and try to find someone whose life has given them vodka, and have a party.”
― Ron White

“When life gives you lemons, do NOT make lemonade. Lemonade is for losers. Make orange juice instead.”
― Neshialy S.

“There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls. ”
― George Carlin

“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

“He called me a pie!” she announced, defensively. There was a pause. “Wait. That’s not right.”
“A tart?”
“Yes! That’s it!”
― Sarah MacLean, Eleven Scandals to Start to Win a Duke's Heart

“Juliana?” the words were low and far—too calm for her husband, who had found that he rather enjoyed the full spectrum of emotion now that he had experienced it.
“Yes?”
“What are you doing twenty feet in the air?”
“Looking for a book.”
“Would you mind very much returning to the earth?”
“What are you thinking, climbing to the rafters in your condition?”
“I am not an invalid, Simon, I still have use of all my extremes.”
“You do indeed—particularly your extreme ability to try my patience—I believe, however, that you mean extremities.”
― Sarah MacLean, Eleven Scandals to Start to Win a Duke's Heart

“You are beautiful and brilliant and bold and so very passionate about life and love and those things that you believe in. And you taught me that everything I believed, everything I thought I wanted, everything I had spent my life espousing--all of it...it is wrong. I want your version of life...vivid and emotional and messy and wonderful and filled with happiness. But I cannot have it without you.”
― Sarah MacLean, Eleven Scandals to Start to Win a Duke's Heart