Keri > Keri's Quotes

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

“It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.”
― Maurice Switzer, Mrs. Goose, Her Book

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost

“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
― Oscar Wilde

“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
― Maya Angelou

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

“Perhaps it is better to wake up after all, even to suffer, rather than to remain a dupe to illusions all one's life.”
― Kate Chopin, The Awakening, and Selected Stories

“We accept the love we think we deserve.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“The mistake of every young person is to think they're the only ones who see darkness and hardship in the world."
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"The mistake of every adult, though, is to think darkness and hardship aren't important to young people because we'll grow out of it. Who cares if we will? Life is happening to us now, just like it's happening to you.”
― Patrick Ness, The Rest of Us Just Live Here

“Do you not think that there are things which you cannot understand, and yet which are; that some people see things that others cannot? But there are things old and new which must not be contemplate by men´s eyes, because they know -or think they know- some things which other men have told them. Ah, it is the fault of our science that it wants to explain all; and if it explain not, then it says there is nothing to explain.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula

“There's things that happen in a person's life that are so scorched in the memory and burned into the heart that there's no forgetting them.”
― John Boyne

“Maybe one day I’ll easily acknowledge the frank truth … that I have no other choice but to breathe and move forward.”
― Jenny Lawson, Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things

“Don’t sabotage yourself. There are plenty of other people willing to do that for free.”
― Jenny Lawson, Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things

“Wolves know when they’re being raised by bears.”
― Tarryn Fisher, The Wrong Family

“No person ever died that had a family.”
― Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine

“Bees do have a smell, you know, and if they don't they should, for their feet are dusted with spices from a million flowers.”
― Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine

“..the best is only bought at the cost of great pain...or so says the legend”
― Colleen McCullough, The Thorn Birds

“We shouldn’t take our life for granted, and we should do whatever we can to make ourselves happy.”
― Hazel Gaynor, The Girl Who Came Home

“Life was a sucking cornucopia of loss, everyone teetering on its edge all the time, all the precious things at risk every moment.”
― Liese O'Halloran Schwarz, What Could Be Saved

“But I do know that living in fear of what might happen prevents us from enjoying what we have today.”
― Ruby Dixon, Barbarian Lover

“Are you finished vomiting excuses at me?”
― Ruby Dixon, Barbarian Lover

“Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil. —Aristotle”
― Wendy Webb, The End of Temperance Dare

“No one is all bad. No one is all good. We live as equals in the murky gray between.”
― Danya Kukafka, Notes on an Execution

“You don't need to have it all. You only need to figure out how much is enough.”
― Danya Kukafka, Notes on an Execution

“Pity is destruction wearing a mask of sympathy.”
― Danya Kukafka, Notes on an Execution

“The reason why a person lies is almost always more interesting than the lie itself”
― Alice Feeney, Rock Paper Scissors

“That doesn't offend me. 'Witch' is the label society slaps on women it can't understand or control.”
― Kirsten Miller, The Change