What's your favorite quote or quotes? (citations required)

[Artizi]

“We can experience nothing but the present moment, live in no other second of time, and to understand this is as close as we can get to eternal life.”

The Children Of Men
Author: P.D. James

[Artizi]

"No one forgets the truth; they just get better at lying."

Revolutionary Road
Author: Richard Yates

[Artizi]

"She had waited all her life for something, and it had killed her when it found her."

Their Eyes Were Watching God
Author: Zora Neale Hurston

[Artizi]

“We need never be ashamed of our tears.”

Great Expectations
Author: Charles Dickens

[Artizi]

"It doesn't matter who you are or what you look like, so long as somebody loves you."

The Witches
Author: Roald Dahl

[Artizi]

“Perhaps it was freedom itself that choked her.”

The Price Of Salt
Author: Patricia Highsmith

[Artizi]

“We mortals, men and women, devour many a disappointment between breakfast and dinner-time; keep back the tears and look a little pale about the lips, and in answer to inquiries say, “Oh, nothing!” Pride helps; and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our hurts— not to hurt others.”

Middlemarch
Author: George Eliot

[Artizi]

"She wasn't doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together."

—J. D. Salinger, "A Girl I Knew"

[Artizi]

"Sometimes I can feel my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living."

—Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

[Artizi]

"The curves of your lips rewrite history."

—Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

[Artizi]

"A dream, all a dream, that ends in nothing, and leaves the sleeper where he lay down, but I wish you to know that you inspired it."

—Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

[ferry flawless]

"Happiness can be found even in the darkest of time only if one remembers to turn on the lights"
By: J.K.Rowling.
From the movie and book; Harry Potter and the Prisoner Of Azkaban (spoken by Albus Dumbledore)

[yasminehaddi]

“I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.”
― Virginia Woolf

[cbwritingsolutions19]

If you write one story, it may be bad; if you write a hundred, you have the odds in your favor.

-Edgar Rice Burroughs during a lecture



I ran across this quote several years ago and it has stuck with me. This is now more or less my daily mantra to just keep writing, no matter what.

[jlrinc]

From the rocking of the cradle to the rolling of the hearse, the going up was worth the coming down.
Kris Kristofferson