Elena B. > Elena's Quotes

“If it would destroy [a 12-year-old boy] to be called a girl, what are we then teaching him about girls?”
― Tony Porter

“Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.”
― Terry Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky

“Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.”
― Maya Angelou

“We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty!”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

“The argument goes something like this: ‘I refuse to prove that I exist,’ says God, ‘for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing.’ “ ‘But,’ says Man, ‘the Babel fish is a dead giveaway, isn’t it? It could not have evolved by chance. It proves you exist, and so therefore, by your own arguments, you don’t. QED.’ “ ‘Oh dear,’ says God, ‘I hadn’t thought of that,’ and promptly vanishes in a puff of logic. “ ‘Oh, that was easy,’ says Man, and for an encore goes on to prove that black is white and gets himself killed on the next zebra crossing.”
― Douglas Adams, The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“You only have to forgive once. To resent, you have to do it all day, every day. You have to keep remembering all the bad things.”
― M. L. Stedman, The Light Between Oceans

“Baby Girl,” I say. “I need you to remember everything I told you. Do you remember what I told you?”
She still crying steady, but the hiccups is gone. “To wipe my bottom good when I’m done?”
“No, baby, the other. About what you are.”
I look deep into her rich brown eyes and she look into mine. Law, she got old-soul eyes, like she done lived a thousand years. And I swear I see, down inside, the woman she gone grow up to be. A flash from the future. She is tall and straight. She is proud. She got a better haircut. And she is remembering the words I put in her head. Remembering as a full grown woman.
And then she say it, just like I need her to. “You is kind,” she say, “you is smart. You is important.”
― Kathryn Stockett, The Help

“He needs "space" and "time," as if this were physics and not a human relationship.”
― Kathryn Stockett, The Help

“No human on God's earth is a nobody.”
― Sophie Kinsella, Twenties Girl

“No one ever has or ever will travel quite the same path on earth...”
― M.L. Stedman, The Light Between Oceans

“You have to be the bravest person in the world to go out every day, being yourself when no one likes who you are.”
― Matthew Dicks, Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend

“Monsters are bad things, but monsters that do not walk and talk like monsters are the worst.”
― Matthew Dicks, Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend

“I was right. Mrs. Patterson is neat and organized. She cannot be trusted.”
― Matthew Dicks, Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend

“Max lives on the inside and the other kids live onthe outside. That's what makes him so different. Max doesn't have an outside. Max is all inside”
― Matthew Dicks, Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend

“Notre grande erreur est d'essayer d'obtenir de chacun en particulier les vertus qu'il n'a pas, et de négliger de cultiver celles qu'il possède.”
― Marguerite Yourcenar, Memoirs of Hadrian

“la possibilité de jeter le masque en toutes choses est l'un des rares avantages que je trouve à vieillir”
― Marguerite Yourcenar, Memoirs of Hadrian

“Ce matin, l'idée m'est venue pour la première fois que mon corps, ce fidèle compagnon, cet ami plus sûr, mieux connu de moi que mon âme, n'est qu'un monstre sournois qui finira par dévorer son maître.”
― Marguerite Yourcenar, Memoirs of Hadrian

“... dans tout combat entre le fanatisme et le sens commun, ce dernier a rarement le dessus.”
― Marguerite Yourcenar, Memoirs of Hadrian

“Comme tout le monde, je n'ai à mon service que trois moyens d'évaluer l'existence humaine: l'étude de soi, la plus difficile et la plus dangereuse, mais aussi la plus féconde des méthodes; l'observation des hommes, qui s'arrangent le plus souvent pour nous cacher leurs secrets ou pour nous faire croire qu'ils en ont; les livres, avec les erreurs particulières de perspective qui naissent entre leurs lignes.”
― Marguerite Yourcenar, Memoirs of Hadrian

“Hold my hand because I might disappear.”
― Melina Marchetta, On the Jellicoe Road

“It is never too late or too soon. It is when it is supposed to be.”
― Mitch Albom, The Time Keeper

“When we are most alone is when we embrace another's loneliness.”
― Mitch Albom, The Time Keeper

“Knowing something and understanding it were not the same thing.”
― Mitch Albom, The Time Keeper

“Man alone measures time. Man alone chimes the hour. And, because of this, man alone suffers a paralyzing fear that no other creature endures. A fear of time running out.”
― Mitch Albom, The Time Keeper

“We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

“C'est drôlement dangereux de s'attacher à quelqu'un. C'est incroyable ce que ça peut faire mal. Rien que la peur de perdre l'autre est douloureuse.”
― Marc Levy, Le Voleur d'ombres

“A l'adolescence, on rêve du jour où l'on quittera ses parents, un autre jour ce sont vos parents qui vous quittent. Alors, on ne rêve plus qu'à pouvoir redevenir, ne serait-ce qu'un instant, l'enfant qui vivait sous leur toit, les prendre dans vos bras, leur dire sans pudeur qu'on les aime, se serrer contre eux pour qu'ils vous rassurent encore une fois.”
― Marc Levy, Le Voleur d'ombres

“Mon père disait qu'il ne faut jamais comparer les gens, chaque personne est différente, l'important est de trouver la différence qui vous convient le mieux.
Cléa était ma différence.”
― Marc Levy, Le Voleur d'ombres

“A piece of me is gone," she told me once while we were bra shopping. "I think we're made up of all these different pieces and every time someone goes, you're left with less of yourself.”
― Melina Marchetta, Saving Francesca

“Just ask how I'm feeling, I want to say. Just ask and I may tell you.

But no one does.”
― Melina Marchetta, Saving Francesca