Tricia Shiu > Tricia's Quotes

“I think that every reader on earth has a list of cherished books as unique as their fingerprints....I think that, as you age, you tend to gravitate towards the classics, but those aren't the books that give you the same sort of hope for the world that a cherished book does.”
― Douglas Coupland

“Destiny is what we work toward. The future doesn't exist yet. Fate is for losers!”
― Douglas Coupland, Girlfriend in a Coma

“Eroticize intelligence.”
― Douglas Coupland, Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture

“there are three things we cry for in life: things that are lost, things that are found, and things that are magnificent.”
― Douglas Coupland, Girlfriend in a Coma

“There is no shame in impulse.”
― Douglas Coupland, Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture

“A career is wonderful, but you can't curl up with it on a cold night”
― Marilyn Monroe

“Sometimes people put up walls, not to keep others out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.”
― Banana Yoshimoto

“People aren't overcome by situations or outside forces. Defeat comes from within.”
― Banana Yoshimoto, Kitchen

“Writers fish for the right words like fishermen fish for, um, whatever those aquatic creatures with fins and gills are called. 
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― Jarod Kintz, This is the best book I've ever written, and it still sucks

“You must make a decision that you are going to move on. It wont happen automatically. You will have to rise up and say, ‘I don’t care how hard this is, I don’t care how disappointed I am, I’m not going to let this get the best of me. I’m moving on with my life.”
― Joel Osteen, Your Best Life Now: 7 Steps to Living at Your Full Potential