Julie > Julie's Quotes

“Laughter is sunshine, it chases winter from the human face.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

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

“Reading begets reading.”
― Nick Hornby

“You're like a tornado of bullshit right now. We'll talk again when your bullshit dies out over someone else's house.”
― Justin Halpern, Sh*t My Dad Says

“Accentuaute the positives - medicate the negatives.”
― Amy Sedaris, I Like You: Hospitality Under the Influence

“She refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn't boring.”
― Zelda Fitzgerald, The Collected Writings

“One of the advantages of being disorganized is that one is always having surprising discoveries.”
― A.A. Milne

“Come back in five years, in ten, in a hundred, and tell me what you’ve accomplished. In the meantime, I will take what I need.”

“You will take what you want.”

“You act like there’s a man anywhere on earth who can tell the difference.”
― Kevin Powers, A Shout in the Ruins

“For thirty years, she has answered all of my distressed or deeply annoyed phone calls by saying, “Hello, Dearest. I’m so glad it’s you!” I’ve come to believe that this is how God feels when I pray, even at my least attractive.”
― Anne Lamott, Almost Everything: Notes on Hope

“But you cannot control everything...All you can do is face the world with quiet grace and hope you make a sliver of difference...You must trust that you being the best possible you matters somehow...That being an attentive and generous friend and citizen will prevent a thread or two of the social fabric from unraveling.”
― Brian Doyle, One Long River of Song: Notes on Wonder