Nicole > Nicole's Quotes

“My part is not a heroic one, but I shall play my part.”
― Jean Anouilh, Antigone

“It's strange because sometimes, I read a book, and I think I am the people in the book.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“What is this obsession people have with books? They put them in their houses like they're trophies. What do you need it for after you read it?”
― Jerry Seinfeld

“Remember this also: it’s always easy to look back and see what we were, yesterday, ten years ago. It is hard to see what we are. If you can master that trick, you’ll get along.”
― Harper Lee, Go Set a Watchman

“That's the trouble with science. It has to explain beauty. It can't just let it be.”
― Stuart Hill, The Cry of the Icemark

“I like to imagine that the world is one big machine. You know, machines never have any extra parts. They have the exact number and type of parts they need. So I figure if the entire world is a big machine, I have to be here for some reason. And that means you have to be here for some reason, too.”
― Brian Selznick, The Invention of Hugo Cabret

“Never hate your enemies. It affects your judgment.”
― Mario Puzo, The Godfather

“Things are rough all over.”
― S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders

“My castle is very different from what I planned, but I would not alter it...”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

“A glory that costs everything and means nothing.”
― Steve Erickson

“I don't want to fight for anything. I want to just be and do, with no one saying they're letting me.”
― Pearl Abraham, The Romance Reader

“I do not look on self-indulgent, sensual people as worthy of my hatred; I simply look upon them with contempt for their poorness of character.”
― Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South

“What do you know of my heart? What do you know of anything but your own suffering. For weeks, Marianne, I've had this pressing on me without being at liberty to speak of it to a single creature. It was forced on me by the very person whose prior claims ruined all my hope. I have endured her exultations again and again whilst knowing myself to be divided from Edward forever. Believe me, Marianne, had I not been bound to silence I could have provided proof enough of a broken heart, even for you.”
― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

“Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.”
― Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

“There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.”
― Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady

“They had an ordinary life, full of ordinary things—if love can ever be called that.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Ruin and Rising

“It's a hard life for a minor fan-fiction author.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

“Some men get the world, some men get ex-hookers and a trip to Arizona.”
― James Ellroy, L.A. Confidential

“I didn't think stories were made to comfort. I believed what my father told me. Stories do more than comfort. They take you away and bring you back better made.”
― Tommy Orange, Wandering Stars

“He finds he likes to be thought of as intelligent, if only because it makes his interactions with other people more legible. He likes when someone is struggling to remember the name of a book or an author, and he can provide it for them readily, not showing off, just remembering it.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

“Nobody doing anything remotely useful. Just an ordinary day in the office.”
― Mick Herron, London Rules

“She took pride in her newfound calluses. They seemed to say that she was capable, that she could take control of her own destiny. She saw strength in her hands, strength she had not known she possessed.”
― Julia Quinn, The Girl with the Make-Believe Husband

“It isn't where you're born in this world, it's what you do.”
― Winston Graham, Jeremy Poldark

“[His] mother had told him years ago that everything bad in life was eventually a blessing. We just didn't understand God's plan.”
― Taffy Brodesser-Akner, Fleishman Is in Trouble

“It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.”
― Lewis Carroll