Marnie Stone > Marnie's Quotes

“Stay afraid, but do it anyway. What’s important is the action. You don’t have to wait to be confident. Just do it and eventually the confidence will follow.”
― Carrie Fisher

“Be strong, saith my heart; I am a soldier;
I have seen worse sights than this.”
― Homer, The Odyssey

“Each man delights in the work that suits him best.”
― Homer, The Odyssey

“Fléctere si néqueo súperos Acheronta movebo - If I cannot move heaven, I will raise hell.”
― Virgil, The Aeneid

“They can because they think they can.”
― Virgil

“The gates of Hell are open night and day; smooth the descent and easy is the way.”
― Publius Vergilius Maro, The Aeneid

“How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.”
― Evans G. Valens, The Other Side of the Mountain: The Story of Jill Kinmont

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

“Girls like her were born in a storm. They have lightning in their souls. Thunder in their hearts. And chaos in their bones.”
― Nikita Gill

“Damaged people are dangerous. They know they can survive.”
― Josephine Hart, Damage

“O, when she's angry, she is keen and shrewd! She was a vixen when she went to school; And though she be but little, she is fierce.”
― William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

“Some women fear the fire. Some women simply become it ...”
― R.H. Sin

“For a star to be born, there is one thing that must happen: a gaseous nebula must collapse.

So collapse.
Crumble.
This is not your destruction.

This is your birth.”
― Zoe Skylar

“Love is a sacrament that should be taken kneeling, and Domine non sum dignus should be on the lips and in the hearts of those who receive it.”
― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

“I’m not interested in competing with anyone. I hope we all make it.”
― Erica Cook

“The descent into Hell is easy”
― Virgil, The Aeneid

“There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep.”
― Homer, The Odyssey

“Children were vehicles for passing things along. These things could be kingdoms, rich wedding gifts, stories, grudges, blood feuds. Through children, alliances were forged; through children, wrongs were avenged. To have a child was to set loose a force in the world.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Penelopiad

“Do not fear for me. Make straight your own path to destiny.”
― Sophocles, Antigone

“Grief teaches the steadiest minds to waver.”
― Sophocles, Antigone

“Have you ever seen a little girl run so fast she falls down? There's an instant, a fraction of a second before the world catches hold of her again... A moment when she's outrun every doubt and fear she's ever had about herself and she flies. In that one moment, every little girl flies. I need to find that again. Like taking a car out into the desert to see how fast it can go, I need to find the edge of me... And maybe, if I fly far enough, I'll be able to turn around and look at the world... And see where I belong.”
― Kelly Sue DeConnick

“I am the sea and nobody owns me”
― Pippi Longstocking

“Sweet mother, I cannot weave –
slender Aphrodite has overcome me
with longing for a girl.”
― Sappho, Sappho: A New Translation of the Complete Works

“I write for those women who do not speak, for those who do not have a voice because they were so terrified, because we are taught to respect fear more than ourselves. We've been taught that silence would save us, but it won't.”
― Audre Lorde

“If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive.”
― Audre Lorde

“Revolution is not a one time event.”
― Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

“Water does not resist. Water flows. When you plunge your hand into it, all you feel is a caress. Water is not a solid wall, it will not stop you. But water always goes where it wants to go, and nothing in the end can stand against it. Water is patient. Dripping water wears away a stone. Remember that, my child. Remember you are half water. If you can't go through an obstacle, go around it. Water does.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Penelopiad

“Hate is a bottomless cup; I will pour and pour”
― Euripides, Medea

“I will storm the gods, and shake the universe.”
― Seneca, Medea

“Your silence will not protect you.”
― Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches