Nessie McInness > Nessie's Quotes

“Not everything happens for a reason. Sometimes life just sucks.”
― Alexa Chung

“The eyes are the window to where the soul is supposed to be.”
― Tina Fey

“Spend your money on the things money can buy. Spend your time on the things money can’t buy.”
― Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

“I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

“I am a cage, in search of a bird.”
― Franz Kafka

“...e estava livre como um passarinho. Não daqueles que estão em gaiolas. Os outros.”
― Rui Zink, Um romance

“But to love something despite. To know the flaws and love them too. This is rare and pure and perfect.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear

“My shrug was so nonchalant it would make a cat jealous”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear

“- ... It causeth unease.
- Oh it doth, doth it?”
― L. Neil Smith, Lando Calrissian and the Mindharp of Sharu

“Face it, you hate every single boy on the face of the Earth!" "That's not TRUE, I just hate all these obnoxious, extroverted, pseudo-bohemian art-school losers”
― Daniel Clowes, Ghost World

“Can you believe the weather?'...'Actually, I CAN believe the weather. What I can't believe is that I'm actually having a conversation about the weather.”
― Maria Semple, Where'd You Go, Bernadette

“...I thought you had to go to Iraq to get post traumatic stress disorder. And you do. But you can also just come on over to my house!”
― Carrie Fisher, Wishful Drinking

“Carved above the lintel were the words SCIENTIA POTESTAS EST. Science points east, I wondered? Science is portentous, yes? Science protests too much. Scientific potatoes rule. Had I stumbled on the lair of dangerous plant geneticists?”
― Ben Aaronovitch, Midnight Riot

“We’re all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness—and call it love—true love.”
― Robert Fulghum, True Love

“It's not even that I bump into things. It's more that things leap out of nowhere and bump into me”
― Kate DiCamillo, Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures

“You are the ever-expanding universe to me”
― Kate DiCamillo, Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures

“I didn't tell him that the diagnosis came three months after I got my first period. Like: Congratulations! You're a woman. Now die.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them. ”
― Agatha Christie, Agatha Christie: An Autobiography

“i'm crying so much I have mascara running down my face. I'm not even wearing mascara.”
― A. G. Howard

“We're all puppets, Laurie. I'm just a puppet who can see the strings.”
― Alan Moore, Watchmen

“Enjoy the face you have today. It's the one you'll wish you have ten years from now.”
― Caroline De Maigret, How to Be Parisian Wherever You Are: Love, Style, and Bad Habits

“Watching great people do what you love is a good way to start learning how to do it yourselft”
― Amy Poehler

“I mean, if my phone is trying to kill me then that crazy X-ray machine at airport security is a straight-up assassin.”
― Amy Poehler

“Treat your career like a bad boyfriend. Here's the thing. Your career won't take care of you. It won't call you back or introduce you to its parents.Your career will openly flirt with other people while you are around. It will forget you birthday and wreck your car. Your career will blow you off if you call it too much. It's never going to leave its wife.Your career is fucking other people and everyone knows but you. Your career will never marry you. (...) If your career is a bad boyfriend, it is healthy to remember you can always leave and go sleep with somebody else”
― Amy Poehler, Yes Please

“No woman can call herself free who does not own and control her body. No woman can call herself free until she can choose consciously whether she will or will not be a mother.”
― Margaret Sanger

“Could time be measured in the books you have read and the books you haven't read?”
― Antonia Honeywell, The Ship

“Have you ever noticed that when you're right on track everything else starts to go right, too? It's like the universe is saying "Good job! Have a sandwich!”
― Jeff Lindsay, Dexter

“Doctors invade the body in every way imaginable. They see people at their most vulnerable, their most scared, their most private. They escort them into the world, and then back out.”
― Paul Kalanithi

“Family has a way of bringing out the worst in people. Every people.”
― Sylvain Neuvel, Sleeping Giants

“_ You hate the ocean?
_ I don't hate it. I Respect it. Respect. It's Mother Nature at her finest - awesome, beautiful, impersonal, murderous.”
― Nicola Yoon, Everything, Everything