Betty > Betty's Quotes

“I woke up thinking a very pleasant thought. There is lots left in the world to read.”
― Nicholson Baker, The Anthologist

“Sorrow is better than fear. Fear is a journey, a terrible journey. But, sorrow is at least an arriving. ”
― Alan Paton

“Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.”
― Susan Sontag

“Hold fast to dreams,
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird,
That cannot fly.”
― Langston Hughes

“Books may well be the only true magic.”
― Alice Hoffman

“A little Madness in the Spring Is wholesome even for the King.”
― Emily Dickinson

“Reading was my escape and my comfort, my consolation, my stimulant of choice: reading for the pure pleasure of it, for the beautiful stillness that surrounds you when you hear an author's words reverberating in your head.”
― Paul Auster, The Brooklyn Follies

“Finally, especially in the case of medical-response canines and those that serve handlers with invisible disabilities, it's not merely the necessity of the dog that's questioned but also the existance of the disability itself. And for these partnerships, some of the greatest problems arise.”
― Susannah Charleson, The Possibility Dogs: What a Handful of "Unadoptables" Taught Me About Service, Hope, and Healing

“Sometimes thou seem'st not as thyself alone, But as the meaning of all things that are.”
― Dante Gabriel Rossetti

“Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough of is love.”
― Henry Miller

“That was how dishonesty and betrayal started, not in big lies but in small secrets.”
― Amy Tan, The Bonesetter's Daughter

“After all, Bao Bomu says, what is the past but what we choose to remember?”
― Amy Tan, The Bonesetter's Daughter

“Dementia was like a truth serum.”
― Amy Tan, The Bonesetter's Daughter

“You should think about your character. Know where you are changing, how you will be changed, what cannot be changed back again.”
― Amy Tan, The Bonesetter's Daughter

“He asked if he could recite a poem he had written that morning: 'You speak,' he said, 'the language of shooting stars, more surprising than sunrise, more brilliant than the sun, as brief as sunset. I want to follow its trail to eternity.”
― Amy Tan, The Bonesetter's Daughter

“So much of history is mystery. We don't know what is lost forever, what will surface again. All objects exist in a moment of time. And that fragment of time is preserved or lost or found in mysterious ways. Mystery is a wonderful part of life.”
― Amy Tan, The Bonesetter's Daughter

“You never realize how much of your background is sewn into the lining of your clothes.”
― Tom Wolfe

“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”
― Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

“Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart bigger.”
― Ben Okri

“Everyone has talent. What's rare is the courage to follow it to the dark places where it leads.”
― Erica Jong

“The first duty of wine is to be red. Don't talk to me of your white wines.”
― Henry Murger

“You're my breath, my light, the one my heart flies towards.”
― Jessica Brockmole, Letters from Skye

“A book is like a garden carried in the pocket.”
― Jessica Brockmole, Letters from Skye

“As tired as I am, Sue, my dreams are always of you.”
― Jessica Brockmole, Letters from Skye

“You glided over to me and, as I was struggling to think of something intelligent to say, you said "There you are". I often think of that, Sue. Here I am. No matter where I am in the world, "Here I am".”
― Jessica Brockmole, Letters from Skye

“... that a letter isn't always just a letter. Words on page can drench the soul.”
― Jessica Brockmole, Letters from Skye

“The very sound of our voices was so odd. So banal. I confess I couldn't wait to get back to my notepaper and pen to tell you how I felt.”
― Jessica Brockmole, Letters from Skye

“I think all of the experience in the world couldn't prepare someone for the very first time they are with a person they love.”
― Jessica Brockmole, Letters from Skye

“Me - the poet - lost for words.”
― Jessica Brockmole, Letters from Skye