Literature Quotes

How you spend your time when you are not working or studying says everything about who you are and what is motivating your life.

I never want a girl to lose all hope that her life can’t completely turn around, even if she feels that she is at the edge, standing on one foot, and ready to say goodbye.

She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.

Writers are engineers of human souls.

Truth that is naked is the most beautiful.

. . . you don’t need a happy ending to move onto a happy beginning.

Say No! Accept the burdens of revenge.

She is free in her wildness, she is a wanderess, a drop of free water. She knows nothing of borders and cares nothing for rules or customs. 'Time' for her isn’t something to fight against. Her life flows clean, with passion, like fresh water.

You must give everything to make your life as beautiful as the dreams that dance in your imagination.

Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.

Puns are the highest form of literature.

Write what you know. That should leave you with a lot of free time.

Life is not a PG feel-good movie. Real life often ends badly. Literature tries to document this reality, while showing us it is still possible for us to endure nobly.

I was an adventurer, but she was not an adventuress. She was a 'wanderess.' Thus, she didn’t care about money, only experiences - whether they came from wealth or from poverty, it was all the same to her.

When she was a child, my love carried a road-map in her hand the way other girls carried handkerchiefs. She always knew the way. Her feet were little wings. And her beautiful head was a compass.

To risk life to save a smile on a face of a woman or a child is the secret of chivalry.

Nature is an outcry, unpolished truth; the art - a euphemism - tamed wilderness.

It is rare for people to be asked the question which puts them squarely in front of themselves

I tell the story to you now, but in each telling the story itself changes a little, changes direction, and that in turn changes you and me. So be very careful not only in how you repeat it but in how you remember it, goslings. More often than you realize it, the world is shaped by two things - stories told and the memories they leave behind.

You never know who you're inspiring or uninspiring. People notice more than you think.