Taylor Beadell > Taylor's Quotes

“If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself.”
― Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief

“Hercules,huh? Percy frowned. "That guy was like the Starbucks of Ancient Greece. Everywhere you turn--there he is.”
― Rick Riordan, The Mark of Athena

“It's just that I don't want to be somebody's crush. If somebody likes me, I want them to like the real me, not what they think I am. And I don't want them to carry it around inside. I want them to show me, so I can feel it too.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“Lights on buildings and everything that makes you wonder.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost

“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”
― Andre Gide, Autumn Leaves

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.”
― Dr. Seuss

“I'm not afraid of death; I just don't want to be there when it happens.”
― Woody Allen

“Everything you can imagine is real.”
― Pablo Picasso

“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.”
― Albert Einstein

“Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
― George Bernard Shaw

“Death ends a life, not a relationship.”
― Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson

“I don't know the question, but sex is definitely the answer.”
― Woody Allen

“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”
― Søren Kierkegaard

“All the world is made of faith, and trust, and pixie dust.”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

“You cannot change what you are, only what you do.”
― Philip Pullman, The Golden Compass

“When a monster stopped behaving like a monster, did it stop being a monster? Did it become something else?”
― Kristin Cashore, Graceling

“Live in the present, remember the past, and fear not the future, for it doesn't exist and never shall. There is only now.”
― Christopher Paolini, Eldest

“The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“But please, please - won't you - can't you give me something that will cure Mother?'

Up till then he had been looking at the Lion's great feet and the huge claws on them; now, in his despair, he looked up at its face. What he saw surprised him as much as anything in his whole life. For the tawny face was bent down near his own and (wonder of wonders) great shining tears stood in the Lion's eyes. They were such big, bright tears compared with Digory's own that for a moment he felt as if the Lion must really be sorrier about his Mother than he was himself.

'My son, my son,' said Aslan. 'I know. Grief is great.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Magician’s Nephew

“When things go wrong, you'll find they usually go on getting worse for some time; but when things once start going right they often go on getting better and better.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Horse and His Boy

“Look for the valleys, the green places, and fly through them. There will always be a way through.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Magician’s Nephew

“Hope. Nothing is more intoxicating.”
― Cornelia Funke, Inkdeath

“Because you don't notice the light without a bit of shadow. Everything has both dark and light. You have to play with it till you get it exactly right.”
― Libba Bray, A Great and Terrible Beauty

“How I'd love to get away from here and be someone else for a while in a place where no one knows or expects certain things from me.”
― Libba Bray, A Great and Terrible Beauty

“Tell the sun and stars hello for me.”
― Rick Riordan, The House of Hades

“The monsters of the mind are far worse than those that actually exist.”
― Christopher Paolini, Brisingr

“You cannot miss what you have never had.”
― christopher paolini, Eldest

“The songs of the dead are the lamentations of the living.”
― Christopher Paolini, Eldest