Michelle > Michelle's Quotes

“A friend said to me, “Hey you need to grow a pair. Grow a pair, Bro.” It’s when someone calls you weak, but they associate it with a lack of testicles. Which is weird, because testicles are the most sensitive things in the world. If you suddenly just grew a pair, you’d be a lot more vulnerable. If you want to be tough, you should lose a pair. If you want to be real tough, you should grow a vagina. Those things can take a pounding.”
― Sheng Wang

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant.”
― Maximilien Robespierre

“Books are the mirrors of the soul.”
― Virginia Woolf, Between the Acts

“There is no friend as loyal as a book.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Reader's Bill of Rights

1. The right to not read

2. The right to skip pages

3. The right to not finish

4. The right to reread

5. The right to read anything

6. The right to escapism

7. The right to read anywhere

8. The right to browse

9. The right to read out loud

10. The right to not defend your tastes”
― Daniel Pennac

“This object that we hold in our hands, a book…that tactile pleasure, it's just not going to go away.”
― Maggie Stiefvater

“I felt a warm hand on the skin of my lower back.”
I twisted my neck, looked up and there he was.
I held my breath and he asked, “You comin’ or what?”
That was it. That was his pickup line. “You comin’ or what?”
I went.”
― Kristen Ashley, Mystery Man

“You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”
― Ray Bradbury

“Whoever invented AXE body spray wasn’t doing any favors for anyone.”
― Yumoyori Wilson, Reflections of You

“Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.”
― Sir Francis Bacon

“Wonder is the seed of knowledge”
― Francis Bacon

“Time is the longest distance between two places.”
― Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie

“I cannot live without my life! I cannot live without my soul!”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

“I have warned you. If something happens to you, I will personally raze the entire Order. That isn't a threat. That is a promise. Consider your survival as much a necessity to the survival of the Resistance as Potter's. If you die, I will kill every last one of them.”
― SenLinYu, Manacled

“In Solaria blue means royal. And to me, blue means you.”
― Caroline Peckham, The Reckoning

“I watch him take the black one and write down one word that makes no sense. Mine.”
― Leigh Rivers, Little Stranger

“Please choose me. Nobody ever chooses me.”
― Leigh Rivers, Little Stranger