Elisabeth > Elisabeth's Quotes

“Mostly I was just plain freaked. Not mentally tottering, I think a human mind that's moderately well-adjusted can absorb a lot of strangeness before it actually totters, but freaked, yes.”
― Stephen King, 11/22/63

“When all else fails, give up and go to the library.”
― Stephen King, 11/22/63

“...stupidity is one of the two things we see most clearly in retrospect. The other is missed chances.”
― Stephen King, 11/22/63

“We never know which lives we influence, or when, or why.”
― Stephen King, 11/22/63

“Sarcastic people tend to be marshmallows underneath the armor”
― Stephen King, 11/22/63

“The past is obdurate.”
― Stephen King, 11/22/63

“Sometimes a cigar is just a smoke and a story's just a story”
― Stephen King, 11/22/63

“A person who doesn't learn from the past is an idiot, in my estimation.”
― Stephen King, 11/22/63

“Even people capable of living in the past don't really know what the future holds.”
― Stephen King, 11/22/63

“Women are better at keeping secrets, but men are more comfortable with them”
― Stephen King, 11/22/63

“This child could not command a pet dove."

Harsh but true, lol!”
― Philippa Gregory, The Boleyn Inheritance

“Fat green frogs, the eternally grinning type destined to be shellacked into bizarre poses while wearing mariachi hats and holding toy trumpets and guitars and then sold in tourist traps all over Mexico, jostled lazily in the dappled shadows.”
― Luis Alberto Urrea, Into the Beautiful North

“The moment you make someone promise anything is the same moment you ask them to lie to you.”
― Molly Ringwald, When It Happens to You

“For Peter, being with Greta was like being wrapped in a warm towel after emerging cold and shivering from the ocean.”
― Molly Ringwald, When It Happens to You

“I'm not the color of my skin. I'm a story. One with a past and a future unwritten.”
― Heidi W. Durrow, The Girl Who Fell from the Sky

“You know, one of the tragedies of real life is that there is no background music.”
― Annie Proulx

“The year had a logic of its own as does every school year, every class of children.”
― Herbert R. Kohl, 36 Children

“Once teachers can forget how a class should be they can discover each year what it must be like with that specific class at that particular moment in their lives.”
― Herbert R. Kohl, 36 Children

“I think Heaven will be like a first kiss.”
― Sarah Addison Allen, The Sugar Queen

“I'm homesick all the time," she said, still not looking at him "I just don't know where home is. There's this promise of happiness out there. I know it. I even feel it sometimes. But it's like chasing the moon - just when I think I have it, it disappears into the horizon. I grieve and try to move on, but then the damn thing comes back the next night, giving me hope of catching it all over again.”
― Sarah Addison Allen, The Girl Who Chased the Moon

“It was the best first kiss in the history of first kisses. It was as sweet as sugar. And it was warm, as warm as pie. The whole world opened up and I fell inside. I don't know where I was, but I didn't care. I didn't care because the only person who mattered was there with me.”
― Sarah Addison Allen, The Sugar Queen

“When you're happy for yourself, it fills you. When you're happy for someone else, it pours over.”
― Sarah Addison Allen, Garden Spells

“Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones

“Sometimes life is a series of obstacles, a matter of putting one foot in front of the other. Sometimes, she realizes suddenly, it is simply a matter of blind faith.”
― Jojo Moyes, The Girl You Left Behind

“All that counts is the truth. Without it you're basically just juggling people's daft ideas.”
― Jojo Moyes, The Girl You Left Behind

“Sit here long enough you get to know everything. You listen, see ?"
She taps the side of her head.
"Nobody listens any more. Everyone knows what they want to hear, but nobody actually listens.”
― Jojo Moyes, The Girl You Left Behind

“the ability to earn a living by doing the thing one loves must be one of life’s greatest gifts.”
― Jojo Moyes, The Girl You Left Behind

“Nobody fights you like your own sister; nobody else knows the most vulnerable parts of you and will aim for them without mercy.”
― Jojo Moyes, The Girl You Left Behind

“It was only when I got home that I reached into my pocket. I found a piece of paper he must have slipped in there while he held me: a little caricature of the two of us, him a huge bear in his uniform, grinning, his arm around me, petite and narrow-waisted, my face straight and solemn, my hair pulled neatly behind my head. Underneath it he had written, in his looping,‘I never knew real happiness until you.”
― Jojo Moyes, The Girl You Left Behind

“Do you know how it feels to resign yourself to your fate? It is almost welcome. There was to be no more pain, no more fear, no more longing. It is the death of hope that comes as the greatest relief.”
― Jojo Moyes, The Girl You Left Behind