April > April's Quotes

“The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.”
― Alice Walker

“I know I'm an acquired taste - I'm anchovies. And not everybody wants those hairy little things.”
― Tori Amos

“Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.”
― Charles Bukowski

“War is what happens when language fails.”
― Margaret Atwood

“Don't let the bastards grind you down.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

“I read for pleasure and that is the moment I learn the most.”
― Margaret Atwood

“Vanity is becoming a nuisance, I can see why women give it up, eventually. But I'm not ready for that yet.”
― Margaret Atwood, Cat’s Eye

“Accept what people offer. Drink their milkshakes. Take their love.”
― Wally Lamb, She’s Come Undone

“Religion's just a well-oiled profit-driven denial of the randomness of it all.”
― Wally Lamb

“So it's not gonna be easy. It's going to be really hard; we're gonna have to work at this everyday, but I want to do that because I want you. I want all of you, forever, everyday. You and me... everyday.”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook

“We fell in love, despite our differences, and once we did, something rare and beautiful was created. For me, love like that has only happened once, and that's why every minute we spent together has been seared in my memory. I'll never forget a single moment of it.”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook

“You can't live your life for other people. You've got to do what's right for you, even if it hurts some people you love.”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook

“It's not the cheating. It's the hunger for an alternative. The refusal to accept unhappiness.”
― Tom Perrotta, Little Children

“My bounty is as boundless as the sea,
My love as deep; the more I give to thee,
The more I have, for both are infinite.”
― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

“Do you hate people?”

“I don't hate them...I just feel better when they're not around.”
― Charles Bukowski, Barfly

“An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.”
― Charles Bukowski

“there are worse things
than being alone
but it often takes
decades to realize this
and most often when you do
it's too late
and there's nothing worse
than too late”
― Charles Bukowski

“Girls you've gotta know when it's time to turn the page.”
― Tori Amos, Tori Amos: From the Choirgirl Hotel

“I don't see myself as weird, I just see myself as honest.”
― Tori Amos

“Sometimes I breathe you in and I know you know.”
― Tori Amos

“So then I though I'd make some plans, but Fire thought she'd really rather be Water instead...”
― Tori Amos

“No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.”
― Alice Walker

“Activism is my rent for living on the planet.”
― Alice Walker

“Be nobody's darling;
Be an outcast.
Take the contradictions
Of your life
And wrap around
You like a shawl,
To parry stones
To keep you warm. ”
― Alice Walker

“Expect nothing. Live frugally
On surprise.
become a stranger
To need of pity
Or, if compassion be freely
Given out
Take only enough
Stop short of urge to plead
Then purge away the need.

Wish for nothing larger
Than your own small heart
Or greater than a star;
Tame wild disappointment
With caress unmoved and cold
Make of it a parka
For your soul.

Discover the reason why
So tiny human midget
Exists at all
So scared unwise
But expect nothing. Live frugally
On surprise.”
― alice walker

“Men make war to get attention. All killing is an expression of self-hate.”
― Alice Walker

“Beware of the man who denounces woman writers; his penis is tiny and he cannot spell.”
― Erica Jong

“The truth is simple, you do not die from love. You only wish you did.”
― Erica Jong

“You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.”
― Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein