Bethany > Bethany's Quotes

“I said to the sun, ‘Tell me about the big bang.’ The sun said, ‘it hurts to become.”
― Andrea Gibson

“You need to believe in things that aren't true. How else can they become?”
― Terry Pratchett, Hogfather

“I am haunted by humans.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

“We lose ourselves in books. We find ourselves there too.”
― Anonymous

“Wherever you go, you take yourself with you.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book

“Nature's first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf's a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.”
― Robert Frost

“I can't fix my mouth to say how I feel.”
― Alice Walker, The Color Purple

“I write emotional algebra.”
― Anais Nin

“Writers remember everything...especially the hurts. Strip a writer to the buff, point to the scars, and he'll tell you the story of each small one. From the big ones you get novels. A little talent is a nice thing to have if you want to be a writer, but the only real requirement is the ability to remember the story of every scar.
Art consists of the persistence of memory.”
― Stephen King, Misery

“Leave the roses
that wilt with time -
Give me words that live forever”
― M.K Standby