Aric Cushing > Aric's Quotes

“The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.”
― W.B. Yeats

“Say what you will, ’tis better to be left than never to have been loved.”
― William Congreve

“Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.”
― Stephen King

“I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul.”
― Joyce Carol Oates

“There were no ghosts. Only memory.”
― Stephen King, Lisey's Story

“Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“Get busy living or get busy dying.”
― Stephen King, Different Seasons

“I went to collect the few personal belongings which...I held to be invaluable: my cat, my resolve to travel, and my solitude.”
― Colette

“Don't worry about losing. If it is right, it happens - The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away.”
― John Steinbeck

“Accept who you are. Unless you're a serial killer.”
― Ellen DeGeneres, Seriously... I'm Kidding

“There is no exquisite beauty… without some strangeness in the proportion.”
― Francis Bacon

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

“Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
Walk beside me… just be my friend”
― Albert Camus

“Open your mind before your mouth”
― Aristophanes

“She had the best kind of courage, or maybe the worst kind, the kind that gets you into trouble.”
― Alistair MacLean, Fear is the Key

“The voice of the sea speaks to the soul.”
― Kate Chopin, The Awakening

“We'd get sick on too many cookies, but ever so much sicker on no cookies at all.”
― Sinclair Lewis

“Ideally, what should be said to every child, repeatedly, throughout his or her school life is something like this: 'You are in the process of being indoctrinated. We have not yet evolved a system of education that is not a system of indoctrination. We are sorry, but it is the best we can do. What you are being taught here is an amalgam of current prejudice and the choices of this particular culture. The slightest look at history will show how impermanent these must be. You are being taught by people who have been able to accommodate themselves to a regime of thought laid down by their predecessors. It is a self-perpetuating system. Those of you who are more robust and individual than others will be encouraged to leave and find ways of educating yourself — educating your own judgements. Those that stay must remember, always, and all the time, that they are being moulded and patterned to fit into the narrow and particular needs of this particular society.”
― Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook

“Nothing makes a man so adventurous as an empty pocket.”
― Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre Dame

“Do any of us, except in our dreams, truly expect to be reunited with our hearts' deepest loves, even when they leave us only for minutes, and on the most mundane of errands? No, not at all. Each time they go from our sight we in our secret hearts count them as dead.”
― Stephen King, The Dark Tower

“And will I tell you that these three lived happily ever after? I will not, for no one ever does. But there was happiness. And they did live.”
― Stephen King , The Dark Tower

“No one should brave the underworld alone.”
― Poe

“Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

“Oh well... I'd just been thinking, if you had died, you'd have been welcome to share my toilet.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

“This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.”
― Sid Ziff

“No one likes to see a government folder with his name on it.”
― Stephen King, Firestarter

“Everything is false, everything is possible, everything is doubtful.”
― Guy de Maupassant, Complete Works

“See, the night doth enfold us! See, all the world lies sleeping!”
― Giacomo Puccini

“The knives of jealousy are honed on details.”
― Ruth Rendell