Ginny > Ginny's Quotes

“Damn fool," Mother whispered, and covered her face with her hands. "It's not enough that he spells out Leon on the roof every year in Christmas lights. Now this!"
My father was dyslexic but would not admit it.”
― Amanda Kyle Williams, The Stranger You Seek

“You've got no sense of humor."

"I'm going to laugh really hard after I kick your ass.”
― J.D. Robb, Imitation in Death

“People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.”
― Saul Bellow

“Send lawyers, guns and money; the shit has hit the fan.”
― Warren Zevon

“Being male is a matter of birth. Being a man is a matter of age. But being a gentleman is a matter of choice.”
― Vin Diesel

“God never sends suffering. Never. It is never "God's will" that we should suffer. God would like us not to suffer. But since the world brings suffering, and since God refuses to use His almighty power and treat us as foolish children, He aligns Himself with us, goes into Auschwitz with us, is devastated by 9/11 with us, and draws us with Him through it all into fulfillment. This is a high price to pay for our human freedom, but it is worth it. To be mere automatons for whom God arranges the world to cause us no suffering would mean we never have a self. We could not make choices.”
― Wendy Beckett

“We were created to be fully human - a lifetime effort - and using our minds intelligently and reverently is essential to full humanhood. But Rushdie talks throughout of making something sacred, whereas there is another kind of sacrality that exists of its own right.”
― Wendy Beckett

“A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.”
― C.S. Lewis

“Reader's Bill of Rights

1. The right to not read

2. The right to skip pages

3. The right to not finish

4. The right to reread

5. The right to read anything

6. The right to escapism

7. The right to read anywhere

8. The right to browse

9. The right to read out loud

10. The right to not defend your tastes”
― Daniel Pennac

“All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.”
― Charles M. Schulz

“He never called me to work for Him or to act like Him; He called me to simply say “yes” to Him so that He could freely live His life through me.”
― Don Nori Sr., Romancing the Divine: A Story about True Love

“I love the way that each book—any book—is its own journey. You open it, and off you go….”
― Sharon Creech

“Having fun isn't hard when you've got a library card.”
― Marc Brown

“If you're feeling bad for any reason, going to the mall always makes you feel worse. It's so glarey and noisy. The stores are full of things you think you might like until you get close and see how stupid they are.”
― betty miles

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero