Nicola > Nicola's Quotes

“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
― Mark Twain

“The quieter you become, the more you can hear.”
― Ram Dass

“Do you think I am an automaton? — a machine without feelings? and can bear to have my morsel of bread snatched from my lips, and my drop of living water dashed from my cup? Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong! — I have as much soul as you — and full as much heart! And if God had gifted me with some beauty and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you. I am not talking to you now through the medium of custom, conventionalities, nor even of mortal flesh: it is my spirit that addresses your spirit; just as if both had passed through the grave, and we stood at God's feet, equal — as we are!”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“I got you to look after me, and you got me to look after you, and that's
why.”
― John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men

“There is no new beginning. No second chance.
You turned to me and I wasn't there.
You are dead. If I had taken your call, you would be alive.
It's as blunt as that.
I'm sorry.”
― Rosamund Lupton, Sister

“You told me once that the last of the senses to go is hearing. But you're wrong. The last of the senses to go is love.”
― Rosamund Lupton, Afterwards

“When I was a little kid I thought like a little kid, but now I'm five I know everything”
― Emma Donoghue, Room

“Reading is my favourite occupation, when I have leisure for it and books to read.”
― Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey

“When things are simple, fewer mistakes are made. The most expensive part of a building is the mistakes.”
― Ken Follett, The Pillars of the Earth

“... for home is a magnet that lures back even its most abstracted children.”
― Kate Morton, The House at Riverton