Christina Broome > Christina's Quotes

“Too many of us are hung up on what we don't have, can't have, or won't ever have. We spend too much energy being down, when we could use that same energy – if not less of it – doing, or at least trying to do, some of the things we really want to do.”
― Terry McMillan , Disappearing Acts

“The road goes ever on and on”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again

“Monsters cannot be announced. One cannot say: 'Here are our monsters,' without immediately turning the monsters into pets.”
― Jacques Derrida

“The traditional statement about language is that it is in itself living, and that writing is the dead part of language.”
― Jacques Derrida

“As long as you have any floor space at all, you have room for books! Just make two stacks of books the same height, place them three or four feet apart, lay a board across them, and repeat. Voila! Bookshelves!”
― Jan Karon

“To encourage literature and the arts is a duty which every good citizen owes to his country.”
― George Washington