Emma > Emma's Quotes

“Love is a rebellious bird,
that nobody can tame,
and you call him quite in vain,
if it suits him not to come.”
― Ludovic Halévy

“My grandfather always said that living is like licking honey off a thorn.”
― Louis Adamic

“Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.”
― Francesco Petrarca

“Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.”
― Benjamin Franklin

“Nothing stands still, except in our memory.”
― Philippa Pearce, Tom's Midnight Garden

“The world is a story we tell ourselves about the world.”
― Vikram Chandra

“A sociopath is one who sees others as impersonal objects to be manipulated to fulfill their own narcissistic needs without any regard for the hurtful consequences of their selfish actions.”
― R. Alan Woods, The Journey Is the Destination: A Book of Quotes With Commentaries

“what matters most is how well you walk through the fire”
― Charles Bukowski

“Everything means something.”
― Philip Pullman, Lyra's Oxford