Christine > Christine's Quotes

“I found myself both touched and irritated by the discovery that she was vulnerable.”
― Francoise Sagan, Bonjour Tristesse

“I hope your bacon burns.”
― Diana Wynne Jones , Howl’s Moving Castle

“I assure you, my friends, I am cone sold stober.”
― Diana Wynne Jones, Howl’s Moving Castle

“A fickle heart is the only constant in this world”
― Diana Wynne Jones, Howl’s Moving Castle

“Howl said to Sophie, "I've been wondering all along if you would turn out to be that lovely girl I met on May Day. Why were you scared then?”
― Diana Wynne Jones, Howl’s Moving Castle

“A heart's a heavy burden.”
― Diana Wynne Jones, Howl’s Moving Castle

“I wish friends held hands more often, like the children I see on the streets sometimes. I'm not sure why we have to grow up and get embarrassed about it.”
― Stephanie Perkins, Anna and the French Kiss

“I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.”
― Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets

“Will you please tell me you love me? I’m dying here.”
― Stephanie Perkins, Anna and the French Kiss

“I wish for the thing that is best for me.”
― Stephanie Perkins, Anna and the French Kiss

“I moan with pleasure.
"Did you just have a foodgasm?" he asks, wiping ricotta from his lips.
"Where have you been all my life?" I ask the beautiful panini.”
― Stephanie Perkins, Anna and the French Kiss

“Procrastination is the thief of time, collar him.”
― Charles Dickens, David Copperfield

“What my parents never considered is that I just wanted a choice.”
― Stephanie Perkins, Anna and the French Kiss

“Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen and six , result happiness.
Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery”
― Charles Dickens, David Copperfield

“I never could have done what I have done, without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one object at a time.”
― Charles Dickens, David Copperfield

“We must meet reverses boldly, and not suffer them to frighten us, my dear. We must learn to act the play out. We must live misfortune down, Trot!”
― Charles Dickens, David Copperfield

“I must be a masochist to keep putting myself in these situations. I need help. I
need to see a shrink or be locked in a padded cell or straitjacketed or something.”
― Stephanie Perkins, Anna and the French Kiss

“Listlessness to everything, but brooding sorrow, was the night that fell on my undisciplined heart. Let me look up from it - as at last I did, thank Heaven! - and from its long, sad, wretched dream, to dawn.”
― Charles Dickens, David Copperfield

“Least said, soonest mended”
― Charles Dickens, David Copperfield

“Are tears the dewdrops of the heart?”
― Charles Dickens, David Copperfield

“I have often remarked- I suppose everybody has- that one's going away from a familiar place, would seem to be the signal for a change in it.”
― Charles Dickens, David Copperfield

“I should feel the air move against me, and feel the things I touched, instead of having only to look at them. I'm sure life is all wrong because it has become much too visual - we can neither hear nor feel nor understand, we can only see. I'm sure that is entirely wrong.”
― D.H. Lawrence, Women in Love

“But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.”
― D.H. Lawrence, Women in Love

“Don't you find it a beautiful clean thought, a world empty of people, just uninterrupted grass, and a hare sitting up?”
― D.H. Lawrence, Women in Love

“Oh! I am delighted with the book! I should like to spend my whole life in reading it.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

“Now I must give one smirk and then we may be rational again”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

“A young woman in love always looks like Patience on a monument Smiling at Grief.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

“Words have weight, something once said cannot be unsaid. Meaning is like a stone dropped into a pool; the ripples will spread and you cannot know what back they wash against.”
― Philippa Gregory, The Constant Princess

“You have to have faith that you are doing God's will. Sometimes you will not understand. Sometimes you will doubt. But if you are doing God's will, you can't be wrong, you can't go wrong.”
― Philippa Gregory, The Constant Princess

“When I am king they shall not have bread and shelter only, but also teachings out of books, for a full belly is little worth where the mind is starved.”
― Mark Twain, The Prince and the Pauper