Krista Andersen > Krista's Quotes

“Who can say what heartbreaks are caused in a dog by our discontinuing a romp?”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

“Mothers are all slightly insane.”
― J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”
― George Orwell, Animal Farm

“Everyone must leave something behind when he dies . . . Something your hand touched some way so your soul has somewhere to go when you die . . . It doesn't matter what you do, so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that's like you after you take your hands away.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“You know, one of the tragedies of real life is that there is no background music.”
― Annie Proulx

“Four legs good, two legs bad.”
― George Orwell, Animal Farm

“The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.”
― George Orwell, Animal Farm

“Nature is cruel, but we don't have to be.”
― Temple Grandin

“I am different, not less.”
― Temple Grandin

“Don't let the bastards grind you down.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

“A rat in a maze is free to go anywhere, as long as it stays inside the maze.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale