Winnie > Winnie's Quotes

“I've never wanted a quiet life.”
― Lydia Cacho

“I don’t pretend to know much about love, but that’s how great love comes to an end, not in the flames of passion, but in the silence of regret.”
― Joanne Harris, The Gospel of Loki

“All words have power, of course, but names are the most potent of all, which is why the gods had so many.”
― Joanne M. Harris, The Gospel of Loki

“Change isn't always comfortable, but it is a fact of life.”
― Joanne Harris, The Gospel of Loki

“Well, that's history for you, folks. Unfair, untrue and for the most part written by folk who weren't even there.”
― Joanne Harris, The Gospel of Loki

“Work. Like pain, I sensed that this was an experience I would want to avoid as often as possible.”
― Joanne Harris, The Gospel of Loki

“They tell you revenge isn't worth it. I say there's nothing finer.”
― Joanne Harris, The Gospel of Loki

“Most problems can be solved through cake.”
― Joanne Harris, The Gospel of Loki

“The world doesn't hate you as much as you think it does.”
― Koji Suzuki, Birthday

“The past was always there, lived inside of you, and it helped to make you who you were. But it had to be placed in perspective. The past could not dominate the future.”
― Barbara Taylor Bradford, Unexpected Blessings

“No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.”
― Mary Wortley Montagu

“Trivia is mainstream. 'Nerd' is the new 'cool.”
― Ken Jennings

“My library was -- all libraries are -- a place of ultimate refuge, a wild and sacred space where meanings are manageable precisely because they aren't binding; and where illusion is comfortingly real.”
― André Brink

“Anyone can live in a house, but homes are created with patience, time and love.”
― Jane Green, The Beach House

“Write the book you want to read, the one you cannot find.”
― Carol Shields

“Genius is neither learned nor acquired. It is knowing without experience. It is risking without fear of failure…”
― Patricia Polacco