L.L. > L.L.'s Quotes

“I am very interested and fascinated how everyone loves each other, but no one really likes each other.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“And in that moment, I swear we were infinite.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“We didn't talk about anything heavy or light. We were just there together. And that was enough”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“We need to forgive ourselves and everyone else for NOT being perfect.”
― Linda Masemore Pirrung, Explosion in Paris

“We are all searching for the fairy tale. When it doesn't come, we try to create it.”
― Linda Masemore Pirrung, Explosion in Paris

“He's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

“There is no exquisite beauty… without some strangeness in the proportion.”
― Francis Bacon

“New Rule: You're never going to pick up women at a coffee shop pretending to be working on your laptop. You don't look like you're sensitive, you look like you're homeless.The last guy to pick up a chick with an Apple was Adam. And when you sit across from another dateless loser with a laptop, it still doesn't look like you're working--it looks like you're playing Battleship.”
― Bill Maher, The New New Rules: A Funny Look At How Everybody But Me Has Their Head Up Their Ass

“Be a rainbow in somebody else's cloud.”
― Maya Angelou

“Never tire yourself more than necessary, even if you have to found a culture on the fatigue of your bones.”
― Antonin Artaud

“All the world is made of faith, and trust, and pixie dust.”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

“Some people you will always have about you whom you can trust, and no man these days can boast of more than that. Remember them; forget the others.”
― Hugh Lofting

“Without movement there is no Life...We should use our energy to the fullest.”
― Ai Qing

“The important thing in writing is the capacity to astonish. Not shock—shock is a worn-out word—but astonish.”
― Terry Southern

“I'm coming for you and death will not hide you." Jorg Ancrath”
― Mark Lawrence, Sleeping Beauty

“The tears of those who cry for others shine more than the diamonds.”
― Rangeya Raghav

“When I have a little money, I buy books; and if I have any left, I buy food and clothes.”
― Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus

“Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.”
― Marthe Troly-Curtin, Phrynette Married

“Well-read people are less likely to be evil.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Slippery Slope

“Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”
― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

“Do you hate people?”

“I don't hate them...I just feel better when they're not around.”
― Charles Bukowski, Barfly

“Fear doesn't shut you down; it wakes you up”
― Veronica Roth, Divergent

“Our imagination flies -- we are its shadow on the earth.”
― Vladimir Nabokov

“Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.”
― Jane Austen, Emma

“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
― Mark Twain

“The reason I talk to myself is because I’m the only one whose answers I accept.”
― George Carlin

“The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
― William Shakespeare, As You Like It

“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
― Oscar Wilde

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
― Mae West