Lily the Library Chick > Lily's Quotes

“Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments in life are not the advertised ones, not the birthdays, the graduations, the weddings, not the great goals achieved. The real milestones are less prepossessing. They come to the door of memory unannounced, stray dogs that amble in, sniff around a bit and simply never leave. Our lives are measured by these.”
― Susan B. Anthony

“Let me tell you what I think of bicycling. I think it has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world. It gives women a feeling of freedom and self-reliance. I stand and rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a wheel…the picture of free, untrammeled womanhood.”
― Susan B. Anthony

“I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.”
― Susan B. Anthony

“Forget conventionalisms; forget what the world thinks of you stepping out of your place; think your best thoughts, speak your best words, work your best works, looking to your own conscience for approval.”
― Susan B. Anthony

“Failure is Impossible”
― Susan B. Anthony

“I, myself, am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions.”
― Augusten Burroughs

“I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow; but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.”
― Agatha Christie

“Decent people become properly angry when presented with miserable injustice, but pleasant-mannered people never do.”
― Olivia Atwater, Half a Soul

“I cannot help but feel that if we had fewer pleasant-mannered people, then perhaps there would also be fewer of these hideous wars.”
― Olivia Atwater

“But whatever instinct had prompted her to ask was like a lily pad floating on the water without any sort of root. It existed, but it had no discernible cause.”
― Olivia Atwater, Half a Soul

“She did not want to admit that she had accidentally plucked the words from that pile of misery at the bottom of her mind.”
― Olivia Atwater, Half a Soul

“but it is quite normal to feel many contradictory things at once. Emotions need not make sense, Albert. They are there so that we might make sense of them. It is your job to choose the shame that you prefer, though the ghost of the other one might remain.”
― Olivia Atwater, Half a Soul

“You know what you are, Effie? You’re chronically helpful. It’s a disease.”
― Olivia Atwater, Ten Thousand Stitches