Amy Granger > Amy's Quotes

“Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

“There will be time, there will be time
To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet.”
― T.S. Eliot.

“Just when the caterpillar thought the world was over, she became a butterfly.”
― Barbara Haines Howett, Ladies of the Borobudur

“I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“I am a part of all that I have met.”
― Alfred Tennyson, The Complete Poetical Works of Tennyson

“I will drink life to the lees.”
― Alfred Tennyson

“Once in a golden hour
I cast to earth a seed.
Up there came a flower,
The people said, a weed.”
― Alfred Lord Tennyson, The Complete Works of Alfred Tennyson

“Sometimes the heart sees what's invisible to the eye.”
― Tennyson

“The words 'far, far away' had always a strange charm.”
― Alfred, Lord Tennyson

“Come friends, it's not too late to seek a newer world.”
― Alfred Lord Tennyson

“To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.”
― Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Idylls of the King and a Selection of Poems

“I remain
Mistress of mine own self
and mine own soul”
― Tennyson

“The red rose cries, "She is near, she is near;"
And the white rose weeps, "She is late;"
The larkspur listens, "I hear, I hear;"
And the lily whispers, "I wait.”
― Alfred, Lord Tennyson

“My purpose holds to sail beyond the sunset and the baths of all the Western stars until I die.”
― Alfred Lord Tennyson

“For I dipped into the future, far as human eye could see,
Saw the Vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be.”
― Alfred Lord Tennyson, The Complete Works of Alfred Tennyson

“if you don't concentrate on what you are doing then the thing that you are doing is not what you are thinking.”
― Alfred Lord Tennyson

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“The best way to treat obstacles is to use them as stepping-stones. Laugh at them, tread on them, and let them lead you to something better.”
― Enid Blyton, Mr Galliano's Circus

“I don't believe in things like that - fairies or brownies or magic or anything. It's old-fashioned.'
'Well, we must be jolly old-fashioned then,' said Bessie. 'Because we not only believe in the Faraway Tree and love our funny friends there, but we go to see them too - and we visit the lands at the top of the Tree as well!”
― Enid Blyton, The Folk of the Faraway Tree

“I think people make their own faces, as they grow.”
― Enid Blyton, The Naughtiest Girl Again

“You're trying to escape from your difficulties, and there never is any escape from difficulties, never. They have to be faced and fought.”
― Enid Blyton, Six Cousins At Mistletoe Farm

“Soon they were all sitting on the rocky ledge, which was still warm, watching the sun go down into the lake. It was the most beautiful evening, with the lake as blue as a cornflower and the sky flecked with rosy clouds. They held their hard-boiled eggs in one hand and a piece of bread and butter in the other, munching happily. There was a dish of salt for everyone to dip their eggs into.

‘I don’t know why, but the meals we have on picnics always taste so much nicer than the ones we have indoors,’ said George.”
― Enid Blyton, Five Go Off in a Caravan

“I solemnly swear that I am up to no good.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

“You haven't got a letter on yours," George observed. "I suppose she thinks you don't forget your name. But we're not stupid-we know we're called Gred and Forge.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

“How do you feel, Georgie?" whispered Mrs. Weasley.
George's fingers groped for the side of his head.
"Saintlike," he murmured.
"What's wrong with him?" croaked Fred, looking terrified. "Is his mind affected?"
"Saintlike," repeated George, opening his eyes and looking up at his brother. "You see...I'm HOLEY, Fred, geddit?”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

“Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.”
― Marcel Proust, Swann’s Way