Gurre Quotes & Sayings

I read books, but I do it because I want to - because it's like an escape in my head, like being with you. — Sarah Rees Brennan

I knew then and there only that pretty young little things are like monsoon lilies; transient trams. Catch them if you can, but if you miss them, do not wail, a next one would be whistling round the corner, about to enter the La Gurre of your heart — Aporva Kala

Clare's been called a lot of things- smart and funny, driven and talented- but memorable certainly isn't one of them. The most important things about her- the ones she's most proud of- are apparent only once you get to know her. — Jennifer E. Smith

I will prove that a great conducting career is expecting me. — Placido Domingo

Cease partiicipation, if only for one day this year
if only to make sure that we don't lose forever the rare and vanishing human talent of appreciating ease. — Elizabeth Gilbert

Nelly as a handful of hell-on-earth — Jennifer Bernard

Oh what do you know about love ? You've never cheated to have it. — Tarryn Fisher

- Amy said that would be an imprudent expense; but as soon as he had got a good price for a book. Will not the publishers be kind? If they knew what happiness lurked in embryo within their foolish cheque-books! — George Gissing

True as this is, it is also true that for one who won through there were many who gained nothing, and it was, and is, the sheer weight of numbers of those who failed of this that has made their influence on the modern life as pervasive and controlling as it is. — Ralph Adams Cram

As white women ignore their built-in privilege of whiteness and define woman in terms of their own experience alone, then women of Color become "other," the outsider whose experience and tradition is too "alien" to comprehend. — Audre Lorde