Overshelf Quotes & Sayings

Curiosity, irreverence, imagination, sense of humor, a free and open mind, an acceptance of the relativity of values and of the uncertainty of life, all inevitably fuse into the kind of person whose greatest joy is creation. — Saul D. Alinsky

When I read a book, I want you to be reading it at the same time. I want to know what would Amelia think of it. I want you to be mine. I can promise you books and conversation and all my heart, Amy. — Gabrielle Zevin

America ships tons of sugar cookies to Denmark and Denmark ships tons of sugar cookies to America. Wouldn't it be more efficient just to swap recipes? — Michael Pollan

This story is about love, which means that it is also about hate. — Philip Jose Farmer

I let go of all that does not serve me with gentleness and ease. — Amy Leigh Mercree

I had learned how it felt to want more than the sweet touch of hand to cheek or lips to palm, more than a kiss, more than an embrace. I was starting to discover that it is not only the mind that understands love, but also the body. — Juliet Marillier

Watching the two of you is almost enough to make me believe Henri's crap about Loric only falling in love once."

-Six.

^This is asdfghjkl. Honestly, Four and Six is my OTP. But oh well, hurrah for love. — Pittacus Lore

Nothing could keep me from you. Nothing in life or Death... — Jonathan Stroud

In a revealed religion, silence with God has a value in itself and for its own sake, just because God is God. Failure to recognize the value of mere being with God, as the beloved, without doing anything, is to gouge the heart out of Christianity."10 Silent solitude makes true speech possible — Brennan Manning

The same wolfish greed beats in your heart: to have what you will, and kill for it. — Rosamund Hodge

He shrugged. Whatever does it mean? We write poems about it all day and sing songs about it all night but if there is such a thing in real life I'm damned if I know. — Philippa Gregory

Preserve your energy - do not waste it on mediocre activity. — Stuart Wilde

I work my hardest and she still kicks the crap out of me. — Pittacus Lore

God Almighty never created a man half as wise as he looks. — Thomas Carlyle