Aadya Dubey > Aadya's Quotes

“441. While she was no radical, no natural breaker of rules, no seeker of the bold statement, she was in her own serene way uncaring of convention and others' opinions.”
― Tarun J. Tejpal, The Alchemy of Desire

“The best revenge, like the best sex, is performed slowly, and with the eyes open.”
― Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram

“My candle burns at both ends;
It will not last the night;
But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends—
It gives a lovely light!”
― Edna St. Vincent Millay, A Few Figs from Thistles

“It's only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose.”
― Joseph Conrad, An Outcast of the Islands

“These are the times that try men's souls.”
― Thomas Paine, The American Crisis

“Yeah, a memory's never finished, if you really think about it.”
― Richard Linklater, Before Sunrise & Before Sunset: Two Screenplays

“You are imperfect, permanently and inevitably flawed. And you are beautiful.”
― Amy Bloom

“God save us from people who mean well.”
― Vikram Seth, A Suitable Boy

“The world spins. We stumble on. It is enough.”
― Colum McCann, Let the Great World Spin

“Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.”
― James Baldwin

“Like all magnificent things, it's very simple.”
― Natalie Babbitt, Tuck Everlasting

“Solitude is fine but you need someone to tell that solitude is fine.”
― Honoré de Balzac

“I’ve stopped being sorry for all my soft. I won’t apologise because I miss you, or because I said it, or because I text you first, or again. I think everyone spends too much time trying to close themselves off. I don’t want to be cool or indifferent, I want to be honest. If I love you at 5AM, I’d damn well rather that you know I felt it. If I love you two hours later, I’ll tell you then too. Listen, I won’t wait double the time it takes for you to text me back because I don’t want to. I don’t care enough to be patient with you. I’m happy, you made me feel that way, don’t you want to know? So that’s how it’s going to be. I’m going to leave myself as open as a church door. And I’m going to wake you up before the crack of dawn to tell you that I’m fucking joyful, no pretending, not from me, not ever. Would you like some coffee, would you please kiss me? Here, these are my hands, this is my mouth, it is all yours.”
― Azra T.

“Love is not something you protect. It’s something you risk.”
― Gayle Forman, Just One Year

“Dumbledore watched her fly away, and as her silvery glow faded he turned back to Snape, and his eyes were full of tears.
"After all this time?"
"Always," said Snape.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

“There are many things I don’t know, but quite a few I do. I know you can’t be lost if you know where you are. I know that life is full of precious and fragile things, and not all of them are pretty. I know that the sun follows the moon and makes days, one after another. Time passes. The world turns, and we turn with it, and though we can never go back to the beginning, sometimes, we can start again.”
― Megan Hart

“A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.”
― Italo Calvino, The Uses of Literature

“Why is love intensified by absence?”
― Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife

“Who can ever hold the essence of fire?
Who can ever know the alchemy of desire?”
― Tarun J. Tejpal, The Alchemy of Desire

“The world is like a Mask dancing. If you want to see it well, you do not stand in one place.”
― Chinua Achebe

“There is something in me maybe someday
to be written; now it is folded, and folded,
and folded, like a note in school.”
― Sharon Olds

“They spoke very little of their mutual feeling; pretty phrases and warm expressions being probably unnecessary between such tried friends.”
― Thomas Hardy, Far From the Madding Crowd

“There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.”
― Mark Twain

“I want to be magic. I want to touch the heart of the world and make it smile. I want to be a friend of elves and live in a tree. Or under a hill. I want to marry a moonbeam and hear the stars sing. I don't want to pretend at magic anymore. I want to be magic.”
― Charles de Lint

“Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“Sometimes the sins you haven't committed are all you have left to hold onto.”
― David Sedaris, When You Are Engulfed in Flames

“People who are strangers to liquor are incapable of talking about literature.”
― Mo Yan

“Dance first. Think later. It's the natural order.”
― Samuel Beckett

“She kept swimming out into life because she hadn't yet found a rock to stand on.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams

“The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places.”
― Ernest Hemingway