Maggie > Maggie's Quotes

“I'll be inside the one who holds you. And then I won't be. ”
― Francesca Lia Block, Wasteland

“The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

“I write only because
There is a voice within me
That will not be still”
― Sylvia Plath, Letters Home

“...choose to believe in your own myth
your own glamour
your own spell
a young woman who does this
(even if she is just pretending)
has everything....”
― Francesca Lia Block, How to (Un)cage a Girl

“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
― George Eliot

“You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.”
― Madeleine L'Engle

“Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.”
― Roald Dahl

“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“Don't be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is without value.”
― Arthur Miller

“Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

“The world was hers for the reading.”
― Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

“Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?”
― Henry Ward Beecherr

“Let me tell you, you either have chemistry or you don't, and you better have it, or it's like kissing some relative. But chemistry, listen to me, you got to be careful. Chemistry is like those perfume ads, the ones that look so interesting and mysterious but you dont even know at first what they're even selling. Or those menues without the prices. Mystery and intrigue are gonna cost you. Great looking might mean something ve-ry expensive, and I don't mean money. What I'm saying is, chemistry is a place to start, not an end point.”
― Deb Caletti, The Secret Life of Prince Charming

“Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.”
― Edgar Degas

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

“Don't loaf and invite inspiration; light out after it with a club.”
― Jack London

“I believe that everyone else my age is an adult whereas I am merely in disguise.”
― Margaret Atwood

“Two is company, four is a party, three is a crowd. One is a wanderer.”
― James Thurber

“I like good strong words that mean something…”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

“Never dismiss the value of entertainment, Ceony. Good-quality entertainment is never free, and it’s something everyone wants.”
― Charlie N. Holmberg, The Paper Magician

“Love is so short, forgetting is so long.”
― Pablo Neruda, Love: Ten Poems

“It is good to be a cynic — it is better to be a contented cat — and it is best not to exist at all.”
― H.P. Lovecraft, Collected Essays 5: Philosophy, Autobiography and Miscellany