Lauren > Lauren's Quotes

“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

“Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”
― haruki murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

“Don't feel sorry for yourself. Only assholes do that.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time

“The past is always tense, the future perfect.”
― Zadie Smith

“Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on.”
― Louis L'Amour

“My alone feels so good, I'll only have you if you're sweeter than my solitude.”
― Warsan Shire

“At the end of the day, it isn’t where I came from. Maybe home is somewhere I’m going and never have been before.”
― Warsan Shire

“you can't make homes out of human beings
someone should have already told you that”
― warsan shire

“To my daughter I will say, when the men come, set yourself on fire.”
― Warsan Shire, Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth

“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“Every now and then I like to do as I'm told, just to confuse people.”
― Tamora Pierce, Melting Stones

“Threats are the last resort of a man with no vocabulary.”
― Tamora Pierce, Lady Knight

“When in doubt, shoot the wizard.”
― Tamora Pierce

“Men don't think and differently from women - they just make more noise about being able to.”
― Tamora Pierce, The Woman Who Rides Like a Man

“Why are women... so much more interesting to men than men are to women?”
― Virginia Woolf

“I wasted time, and now doth time waste me;
For now hath time made me his numbering clock:
My thoughts are minutes; and with sighs they jar
Their watches on unto mine eyes, the outward watch,
Whereto my finger, like a dial's point,
Is pointing still, in cleansing them from tears.
Now sir, the sound that tells what hour it is
Are clamorous groans, which strike upon my heart,
Which is the bell: so sighs and tears and groans
Show minutes, times, and hours.”
― William Shakespeare, Richard II

“It's easy to forget things you don't need anymore.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore