Author Quotes

I'm sorry I cannot say I love you when you say you love me. The words, like moist fingers, appear before me full of promise but then run away to a narrow black room that is always dark, where they are silent, elegant, like antique gold, devouring the thing I feel.

Are you determined to leave me in this world to live without my heart?

Kristin Cashore

If you want to learn a culture, you have to learn how to like what it likes, rather than go looking for something that you like.

Everything wrong I've ever done has always seemed like the right thing to do at the time.

Judith McNaught

Sometimes people don't answer because they didn't hear you, Other times it's because they don't want to hear you!

As Auntie Mame:

Life is a banquet, and some poor suckers are starving to death.

Like an ox-cart driver in monsoon season or the skipper of a grounded ship, one must sometimes go forward by going back.

Life is nothing without a little chaos to make it interesting.

Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

A man without wine
Would be dull as a fly
And shortly would die

Pierre Beaumarchais

Sex without love is like a goddamn business transaction. And sometimes both parties feel as if they got a good deal, but that doesn't make it any less so.

If a poet has any obligation toward society, it is to write well. Being in the minority, he has no other choice. Failing this duty, he sinks into oblivion. Society, on the other hand, has no obligation toward the poet.

I speak to you in one tongue/ but every moment that ever mattered to me/ occurred in another language.

As is the case with so many things, deep appreciation and a sense of loss have arrived simultaneously.

The answer to this riddle has a hole in the middle, And some have been known to fall in it. In tennis it's nothing, but it can be received, And sometimes a person may win it. Though not seen or heard it may be perceived, Like princes or bees it's in clover. The answer to this riddle has a hole in the middle, And without it one cannot start over.

Trenton Lee Stewart

Without risk, we are automatons going through our days with no purpose or meaning. We are safer, perhaps, but we are also, ironically, closer to death.

Sarah Strohmeyer

I came to Jesus as I was, weary and worn and sad; I found in Him a resting place, and he has made me glad.

What a strange power the perception of beauty is! It seems to ebb and flow like some secret tide, independent alike of health and disease, of joy or sorrow. There are times in our lives when we seem to go singing on our way, and when the beauty of the world sets itself like a quiet harmony to the song we uplift.

That he loved her was his life's greatest grace—that she loved him was a burden and mystery beyond compare.

Curious wits, not be a slave of one science, or dwell altogether in one subject as most do, but [should] rove abroad, to have an oar in every mans boat, to taste of every dish, and sip of every cup,

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Charles Bernstein

Like a mirror, God appears to be more and more a reflection of whoever it is that happens to be talking about God at the moment.

The best-concerted schemes men lay for fame, Die fast away: only themselves die faster. The far-fam'd sculptor, and the laurell'd bard, Those bold insurancers of deathless fame, Supply their little feeble aids in vain.

Death's power is limited — It cannot eradicate memories Or slay love It cannot destroy even a threadbare faith Or permanently hobble the smallest hope in God It cannot permeate the soul And it cannot cripple the spirit It merely separates us for a while That is the only power death can claim —No more

Glorious is the Voice of Man, and sweet is the music of the harp.

Richard Llewellyn

Ay, this is the famed rock, which Hercules
And Goth and Moor bequeathed us. At this door
England stands sentry.

Wilfrid Scawen Blunt