Twerpy Girl Quotes & Sayings

Dispose thyself to patience rather than to comfort, and to the bearing of the cross rather than to gladness. — Thomas A Kempis

Although a novel takes place in the larger world, there's always some drive in it that is entirely personal - even if you don't know it while you're doing it. — Joan Didion

You don't really understand an antagonist until you understand why he's a protagonist in his own version of the world. — John Rogers

We do not know our own souls, let alone the souls of others. Human beings do not go hand in hand the whole stretch of the way. There is a virgin forest in each; a snowfield where even the print of birds' feet is unknown. Here we go alone, and like it better so. Always to have sympathy, always to be accompanied, always to be understood would be intolerable. — Virginia Woolf

The emergency of women is the emergency of the world. — Sina Queyras

[A]t bottom, and just in the deepest and most important things, we are unutterably alone, and for one person to be able to advise or even help another, a lot must happen, a lot must go well, a whole constellation of things must come right in order once to succeed. — Rainer Maria Rilke

Unlike my esteemed colleague Garry Kasparov, I don't restrict the strength of opposition to Elo <2000, as fly-swatting makes poor spectator sport. (on simultaneous exhibitions) — Nigel Short

Reading had become his insatiable vice. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez