Laurie > Laurie's Quotes

“Basically what we have here is a dreamer. Somebody out of touch with reality. When she jumped, she probably thought she'd fly”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides

“Can you see me? All of me? Probably not. No one ever really has.”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex

“There are some books that reached through the noise of life to grab you by the collar and speak only of the truest things.”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, The Marriage Plot

“Happiness quite unshared can scarcely be called happiness; it has no taste.”
― Charlotte Bronte

“I read like a wolf eats.
I read myself to sleep every night.”
― Gary Paulsen

“My yesterdays walk with me. They keep step, they are gray faces that peer over my shoulder.”
― William Golding

“For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“You become what you think about all day long.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“There is creative reading as well as creative writing.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“What I need is someone who will make me do what I can.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Scatter joy!”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“A man is known by the books he reads.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Money often costs too much”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I had already found that it was not good to be alone, and so made companionship with what there was around me, sometimes with the universe and sometimes with my own insignificant self; but my books were always my friends, let fail all else.”
― Joshua Slocum, Sailing Alone around the World

“But history does matter. There are lines connecting the Armenians and the Jews and the Cambodians and the Serbs and the Rwandans. They are obviously morbid. Really, how much genocide can one sentence handle? You get the point. Besides, my grandparents’ story deserves to be told, regardless of their nationalities.”
― Chris Bohjalian, The Sandcastle Girls

“But history does matter. There is a line connecting the Armenians and the Jews and the Cambodians and the Bosnians and the Rwandans. There are obviously more, but, really, how much genocide can one sentence handle?”
― Chris Bohjalian, The Sandcastle Girls

“We may talk a good game and write even better ones, but we never outgrow those small wounded things we were when we were five and six and seven.”
― Chris Bohjalian, Secrets of Eden

“People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand my complaint about them not understanding me.”
― Søren Kierkegaard, The Journals of Kierkegaard

“The clocks were striking midnight and the rooms were very still as a figure glided quietly from bed to bed, smoothing a coverlid here, settling a pillow there, and pausing to look long and tenderly at each unconscious face, to kiss each with lips that mutely blessed, and to pray the fervent prayers which only mothers utter.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women