Miranda > Miranda's Quotes

“Cure for an obsession: get another one.”
― Mason Cooley

“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“Outside books, we avoid colorful characters.”
― Mason Cooley

“I am a collection of oddities, a circus of neurons and electrons: my heart is the ringmaster, my soul is the trapeze artist, and the world is my audience. It sounds strange because it is, and it is, because I am strange.”
― David Arnold, Mosquitoland

“When you were born, you cried while the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries while you rejoice.”
― David Arnold, Mosquitoland

“I thought: I cannot bear this world a moment longer. Then, child, make another.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“Humbling women seems to me a chief pastime of poets. As if there can be no story unless we crawl and weep.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“You are wise,” he said.

“If it is so,” I said, “it is only because I have been fool enough for a hundred lifetimes.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“Witches are not so delicate.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“Maybe some people are just meant to be in the same story.”
― Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun

“I gave up practically the whole world for you,” I tell him, walking through the front door of my own love story. “The sun, stars, ocean, trees, everything, I gave it all up for you.”
― Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun

“When people fall in love, they burst into flames.”
― Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun

“I love you,” I say to him, only it comes out, “Hey.”
“So damn much,” he says back, only it comes out, “Dude.”
He still won’t meet my eyes.”
― Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun

“What you do in this world is a matter of no consequence. The question is what can you make people believe you have done.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet

“To a great mind, nothing is little,' remarked Holmes, sententiously.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet

“It's quite exciting," said Sherlock Holmes, with a yawn.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet, A Study in Scarlet

“Where there is no imagination, there is no horror.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet

“His soul might be a sun. I’ve never met anyone who had the sun for a soul.”
― Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun

“Sleep is a shallow death we practice every night.”
― Lydia Netzer, How to Tell Toledo from the Night Sky

“We accept the love we think we deserve.”
― 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

“I would die for you. But I won't live for you.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are.”
― Mason Cooley

“Regret for wasted time is more wasted time ”
― Mason Cooley

“Every book teaches a lesson, even if the lesson is only that one has chosen the wrong book. ”
― Mason Cooley

“Flattery and insults raise the same question: what do you want?”
― Mason Cooley

“Children pay little attention to their parents' teachings, but reproduce their characters faithfully”
― Mason Cooley

“silence is the most intolerable of answers.”
― mason cooley

“Why not - is a slogan for an interesting life.”
― Mason Cooley

“Truth can remain silent. Lies must be spoken.”
― Mason Cooley