Quotes - Habon (London, The United Kingdom) Showing 1-30 of 52

#1

“There is freedom waiting for you,
On the breezes of the sky,
And you ask "What if I fall?"
Oh but my darling,
What if you fly?”
― Erin Hanson

tags: freedom, inspiration, poetry

2422 likes

#2

“That's the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet.”
― Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake

6460 likes

#3

“Still, there are times I am bewildered by each mile I have traveled, each meal I have eaten, each person I have known, each room in which I have slept. As ordinary as it all appears, there are times when it is beyond my imagination.”
― Jhumpa Lahiri, Interpreter of Maladies

tags: achievements

687 likes

#4

“You are still young, free.. Do yourself a favor. Before it's too late, without thinking too much about it first, pack a pillow and a blanket and see as much of the world as you can. You will not regret it. One day it will be too late.”
― Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake

tags: traveling

424 likes

#5

“He learned not to mind the silences.”
― Jhumpa Lahiri, Interpreter of Maladies

15 likes

#6

“You got cats at home?"
"No cats. Only a husband.”
― Jhumpa Lahiri, Interpreter of Maladies

tags: cats, humor, marriage-life

8 likes

#7

“It's never the changes we want that change everything.”
― Junot Diaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

tags: changes

670 likes

#8

“In order to write the book you want to write, in the end you have to become the person you need to become to write that book.”
― Junot Diaz

tags: inspirational, writers, writers-on-writing, writing

257 likes

#9

“You see, in my view a writer is a writer not because she writes well and easily, because she has amazing talent, because everything she does is golden. In my view a writer is a writer because even when there is no hope, even when nothing you do shows any sign of promise, you keep writing anyway."

[Becoming a Writer/ The List, O Magazine, November 2009]”
― Junot Diaz

tags: creative-process, urge, writers, writing

210 likes

#10

“What we [writers] do might be done in solitude and with great desperation, but it tends to produce exactly the opposite. It tends to produce community and in many people hope and joy.”
― Junot Diaz

tags: inspirational, writers, writings

67 likes

#11

“The road to recovery is not linear. It’s not straight. It’s a bumpy path, with lots of twists and turns. But you’re on the right track.”
― Candice Carty-Williams, Queenie

65 likes

#12

“I wished that well-meaning white liberals would think before they said things that they thought were perfectly innocent.”
― Candice Carty-Williams, Queenie

tags: liberal, racism, think-before-you-speak

35 likes

#13

“Being brave isn't the same as being okay," my mum said quietly.”
― Candice Carty-Williams, Queenie

31 likes

#14

“The past is always tense, the future perfect.”
― Zadie Smith

tags: future, grammar, language, past

2865 likes

#15

“Every moment happens twice: inside and outside, and they are two different histories.”
― Zadie Smith, White Teeth

tags: history

1895 likes

#16

“You are never stronger...than when you land on the other side of despair.”
― Zadie Smith, White Teeth

1814 likes

#17

“The very reason I write is so that I might not sleepwalk through my entire life.”
― Zadie Smith

261 likes

#18

“Sometimes you get a flash of what you look like to other people.”
― Zadie Smith, On Beauty

165 likes

#19

“I think that a childhood can sometimes last a lifetime.”
― Michael Rosen, Fantastic Mr. Dahl

tags: childhood, life, memories

2 likes

#20

“My alone feels so good, I'll only have you if you're sweeter than my solitude.”
― Warsan Shire

2961 likes

#21

“It's not my responsibility to be beautiful. I'm not alive for that purpose. My existence is not about how desirable you find me.”
― Warsan Shire

tags: beautiful, existence, feminism, self-esteem

2336 likes

#22

“You want me to be a tragic backdrop so that you can appear to be illuminated, so that people can say ‘Wow, isn’t he so terribly brave to love a girl who is so obviously sad?’ You think I’ll be the dark sky so you can be the star? I’ll swallow you whole.”
― Warsan Shire

1741 likes

#23

“You are terrifying and strange and beautiful, someone not everyone knows how to love.”
― Warsan Shire

1504 likes

#24

“two people who were once very close can
without blame
or grand betrayal
become strangers.
perhaps this is the saddest thing in the world.”
― Warsan Shire

1506 likes

#25

“later that night
i held an atlas in my lap
ran my fingers across the whole world
and whispered
where does it hurt?

it answered
everywhere
everywhere
everywhere.”
― Warsan Shire

tags: atlas, hurt, painful

1558 likes

#26