Thisherelight Quotes & Sayings

Better know what you want, because you'll probably get it. — Dan Greenburg

Libraries are sanctuaries from the world and command centers onto it: here in the quiet rooms are the lives of Crazy Horse and Aung San Suu Kyi, the Hundred Years' War and the Opium Wars and the Dirty War, the ideas of Simone Weil and Lao-Tzu, information on building your sailboat or dissolving your marriage, fictional worlds and books to equip the reader to reenter the real world. They are, ideally, places where nothing happens and where everything that has happened is stored up to be remembered and relived, the place where the world is folded up into boxes of paper. Every book is a door that opens onto another world, which might be the magic that all those children's books were alluding to, and a library is a Milky Way of worlds. — Rebecca Solnit

Two voices struggled inside me. One that wanted to be good and brave, and one that told the good one to keep her mouth shut. — Stephenie Meyer

on his lips. He's in jeans and loafers, a Red Sox windbreaker — Patricia Cornwell

I was wrong. My enemy is not a beguiler, but a revealer. She brings out of us all the awful feelings that we have hidden away. And makes them manifest. So I know now that this is who I am. Might. Shame. Rage. And now they know, too. — Ta-Nehisi Coates

The scope of America's global hegemony is admittedly great, but its depth is shallow, limited by both domestic and external restraints. — Zbigniew Brzezinski

Craft is a trick you make up to let you write the poem. — Anne Sexton

Sophie: "Right. So no plans at all, then?"
Jenna: "Other than rocking in the fetal position for a while? — Rachel Hawkins

You view love and especially women ... as something hostile, something against which you defend yourself, although in vain, something whose power over you, however, you feel as a sweet torment, a prickling cruelty: this is truly a modern attitude. — Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch

Money has never made man happy,nor will it,there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants. — Benjamin Franklin

Life in LA is not lying in the sun for months. It is having a 4pm meeting and leaving at noon to sit in traffic for four hours. It's not glam. — Billy Boyd

Singapore could only be taken after a siege by an army of at least 50,000 men. It is not considered possible that the Japanese would embark on such a mad enterprise. — Winston Churchill