Quotes about the trip
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“Important lessons: look carefully; record what you see. Find a way to make beauty necessary; find a way to make necessity beautiful.”

Anne Michaels (1958) Poet and novelist

Beauty

“The only way was forward, whatever lay at the end.”

Robert Jordan The Wheel of Time

Source: New Spring

“Sing in me, Muse, and through me tell the story
of that man skilled in all ways of contending,
the wanderer, harried for years on end”

Homér The Odyssey (Cowper)

Source: The Odyssey

Singing

“There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized. Or even cured.”

Robert A. Heinlein book The Cat Who Walks Through Walls

Source: The Cat Who Walks Through Walls

“that books were mirrors, reflective in sometimes unpredictable ways.”

Wally Lamb book I Know This Much Is True

Source: I Know This Much Is True

Books

“The only way someone can leave you is if you let them.”

Jodi Picoult (1966) Author

Source: Vanishing Acts

“Every man with a little leisure and enough money for railway tickets, every man, indeed, who knows how to read, has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting.”

Aldous Huxley (1894–1963) English writer

Source: Jesting Pilate

Life, Money, Reading

“Don’t believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding. Find out what you already know and you will see the way to fly.”

Richard Bach book Jonathan Livingston Seagull

Source: Jonathan Livingston Seagull

Understanding, Flying

“I saw my whole life flash before my eyes, boss. It was horrific. I haven’t done anything to regret yet and it’s been way too brief. I at least want a license before I check out, you know?”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Inferno

Life

“I'll be needing a bridesmaid', she said.'A tall one. That way, I'll look more petite and feminine.”

John Flanagan (1873–1938) Irish-American hammer thrower

Source: The Emperor of Nihon-Ja

“Secrets have a way of making themselves felt, even before you know there's a secret.”

Jean Ferris (1939–2015) American children's writer

Source: Once Upon a Marigold

Secret

“My wife is my closest friend. Sure, I'm attracted to her in every way possible, but that's not the answer. Because I've been attracted to other people, and I couldn't stand 'em after a while.”

Clint Eastwood (1930) actor and director from the United States

People

“It was a way of recognizing places of enchantment: people falling asleep like this.”

Jonathan Franzen book The Corrections

Source: The Corrections

People

“I spend the rest of the afternoon trying to explain to Zoe one of the very saddest notions in love and life: sometimes the timing is wrong--and sometimes you realize the heart of the matter way to late in the game.”

Emily Giffin (1972) American writer

Source: Baby Proof

Love, Life, Game, Time

“the area dividing the brain and the soul
is affected in many ways by
experience –
some lose all mind and become soul:
insane.
some lose all soul and become mind:
intellectual.
some lose both and become:
accepted.”

Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer

Variant: The area dividing the brain and the soul
Is affected in many ways by experience --
Some lose all mind and become soul:
insane.
Some lose all soul and become mind:
intellectual.
Some lose both and become:
accepted.
Source: You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense

Soul

“I just think it's bad when a boy looks at a girl and thinks that the way he sees the girl is better than the girl actually is.”

Stephen Chbosky book The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Girl, Boy, Thinking

“He doesn't know what to make of me," Mat said softly.
"How very uncommon. I can't think of anyone else who has reacted that way to you, Mat.”

Robert Jordan The Wheel of Time

Source: A Memory of Light

Thinking

“Those who think they know it all have no way of finding out they don't..”

Leo Buscaglia (1924–1998) Motivational speaker, writer

Thinking

“That was the moment he got the idea he possessed me in a certain way, and that was the moment I grew tired of him.”

Jamaica Kincaid Lucy

Source: Lucy

Idea

“Oh. "So the best way to fight you is to strip naked and attack?"
His eyes flashed with a wicked light. "Yes. You should try it and see what happens.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Burn for Me

Light, Fight

“The quickest way to double your money is to fold it in half and put it in your back pocket.”

Will Rogers (1879–1935) American humorist and entertainer

Money, Funny

“Things pass us by. Nobody can catch them. That's the way we live our lives.”

Haruki Murakami book Hear the Wind Sing

Variant: All things pass. None of us can manage to hold on to anything. In that way, we live our lives.
Source: Hear the Wind Sing

“Nine times out of ten, talking is a way of avoiding doing things.”

Patricia C. Wrede Dealing with Dragons

Source: Dealing with Dragons

Time

“there is only one way under high heaven to get the best of an argument - and that is to avoid it.”

Dale Carnegie (1888–1955) American writer and lecturer

“Damn real live people, getting in the way of peaceful ideals.”

John Scalzi book Old Man's War

Source: Old Man's War

People, Peace

“The best way to weaken one's enemy was to get him to believe that you were on his side.”

Paulo Coelho book The Devil and Miss Prym

Source: The Devil and Miss Prym

“There is nothing more to be said or to be done tonight, so hand me over my violin and let us try to forget for half an hour the miserable weather and the still more miserable ways of our fellowmen.”

Arthur Conan Doyle book The Five Orange Pips

Source: The Five Orange Pips

Weather, Forgetting

“I'm not a teacher: only a fellow traveler of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead - ahead of myself as well as you.”

George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish playwright

Travel, Teachers

“It all ends in one of two ways: either someone gets eaten or something blows up.”

Jim Henson (1936–1990) American puppeteer

“There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.”

Anaïs Nin (1903–1977) writer of novels, short stories, and erotica

Imagination, Reality

“Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don't fight them. Just find a new way to stand.”

Oprah Winfrey (1954) American businesswoman, talk show host, actress, producer, and philanthropist

Search, Fight

“Man is born to live, to suffer, and to die, and what befalls him is a tragic lot. There is no denying this in the final end. But we must deny it all along the way.”

Thomas Wolfe (1900–1938) American writer

Suffering

“Weren’t all books ultimately related? After all, the same letters filled them, just arranged in a different order. Which meant that, in a certain way, every book was contained in every other!”

Cornelia Funke Inkheart trilogy

Source: Inkdeath

Books

“Confound you handsome young fellows! You think of having it all your own way in the world. You don't understand women. They don't admire you half so much as you admire yourselves.”

George Eliot book Middlemarch

Source: Middlemarch

Women, World, Understanding, Thinking

“There are good sailors. Well, some good sailors. In a way they are ideal as husbands. They drop in every six months for a wild celebration, then they drop out again before one gets bored with their company or annoyed with by their habits.”

Kerry Greenwood (1954) Australian crime writer

Source: Queen of the Flowers

“You want the bad news, or the really bad news? (Eros)
Oh, let’s see…how about we make my day special, and start with the worst, then work our way up? (Julian)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon Fantasy Lover

Source: Fantasy Lover

“The body shuts down when it has too much to bear; goes its own way quietly inside, waiting for a better time, leaving you numb and half alive.”

Jeanette Winterson book The Passion

Source: The Passion

Time, Waiting

“Somewhere along the way America became a giant mall with a country attached.”

Ben Fountain book Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk

Source: Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk

Country

“You have endless ways you can commit suicide without dying dying.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Diary

Source: Diary

Suicide

Zoë Heller (1965) British writer

Source: What Was She Thinking? [Notes on a Scandal]

Feeling

“Recognizing how totally ignorant you are is the only honest way to deal with people who've been through something traumatic.”

Banana Yoshimoto book The Lake

Source: The Lake

People

“I think we can all agree that sleeping around is a great way to meet people.”

Chelsea Handler (1975) American comedian, actress, author and talk show host

People, Thinking, Sleep

“Are you threatening to kidnap me?"
"If you want to look at it that way," Jace said, "yes.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Bones

Source: City of Bones

“The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way”

Robert T. Kiyosaki (1947) American finance author , investor

Inspirational, Success, Motivational, Positive

“He looks at me in such a way that I know for sure-he's never looked at another girl quite like this.
And the I'm in his arms, and we're hugging and kissing, and we're both shaking, because we both know-this is the night we become real.”

Jenny Han book P.S. I Still Love You

Source: P.S. I Still Love You

Girl, Kiss, Night

“The most telling and profound way of describing the evolution of the universe would undoubtedly be to trace the evolution of love.”

Pierre Teilhard De Chardin (1881–1955) French philosopher and Jesuit priest

Love, Universe

“Love is the way back into Eden. It is the way back to life.”

Francine Rivers (1947) American writer

Source: Redeeming Love

Love, Life

“Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.”

Noam Chomsky (1928) american linguist, philosopher and activist

Education

“Life is just a short walk from the cradle to the grave, and it sure behooves us to be kind to one another along the way.”

Alice Childress (1916–1994) American playwright and author

Life

“I'd spent way more years worrying about how to look like a poet -- buying black clothes, smearing on scarlet lipstick, languidly draping myself over thrift-store furniture -- than I had learning how to assemble words in some discernible order.”

Mary Karr (1955) American writer

Source: Lit

Learning, Clothes

“I (Percy) set Nico on guard duty with Beckendorf and the Stoll brothers, figuring he'd be safely out of the way.
…
"What's happening?" Nico demanded, trying to climb up next to me.”

Rick Riordan book The Titan's Curse

Source: The Titan's Curse

“There´s no way to protect yourself against heartbreak. That's just a part of life.”

Jenny Han book P.S. I Still Love You

Source: P.S. I Still Love You

Life, Parting

“Teasingly she took the apple from his mouth. Juice ran down his chin. Slowly, deliberately, she leaned over and licked the sweet juice from his chin.
I will have to admit though, that I will never look at an apple in quite the same way.”

Terry Goodkind book Wizard's First Rule

Source: Wizard's First Rule

“Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other.”

Euripidés Orestes

Source: Orestes (408 BC), l. 298, as translated by William Arrowsmith

love, Love, Help

“Nobody ever lives their life all the way up except bullfighters.”

Ernest Hemingway book The Sun Also Rises

Source: The Sun Also Rises

Life

“Okay, now you're starting to scare me," Wes says.
"No, scary is the way people can alter their voices on cue. Like your imitation of that creepy guy who lives at your house."
"You mean my dad?" he laughs.”

Laurie Faria Stolarz (1972) American writer

Source: Deadly Little Lies

People, Guy, Housing

“True character is revealedby the way people react to the bigger challenges in life.”

Alyson Nöel (1965) writer

Life, People

“A wild angel had appeared to him, the angel of mortal youth and beauty, an envoy from the fair courts of life, to throw open before him in an instant of ecstasy the gates of all the ways of error and glory.”

James Joyce book A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Source: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Life, Youth, Beauty, Angels

“Stories are like children. They grow in their own way.”

Madeleine L'Engle A Swiftly Tilting Planet

Source: A Swiftly Tilting Planet

Children

“My mother is currently associating with some undesirables who are attempting to transform her into an athlete of sorts, deprave specimens of mankind who regularly bowl their way to oblivion.”

John Kennedy Toole A Confederacy of Dunces

Source: A Confederacy of Dunces

“I wished that love could be simple, that it was always given and returned in the same measure, equally and at the same time, that all the planets aligned in a perfect way to dispel all doubts, that it was easy to understand and never painful.”

Mary E. Pearson (1955) young-adult fiction writer

Source: The Heart of Betrayal

Love, Pain, Understanding, Time

“Friends are God's way of apologizing for your family.”

Wayne W. Dyer (1940–2015) American writer

Source: The Power of Intention: Learning to Co-create Your World Your Way

God, Family

“Sam said to me the other day, "I love you like 20 tyrannosauruses on 20 mountaintops," and this is the exact same way in which I love him.”

Anne Lamott (1954) Novelist, essayist, memoirist, activist

Love

“Julie always tried to stand beside me, or talk to me, or in some other way mortify me.”

Wendelin Van Draanen Flipped

Source: Flipped

“And he made love to her, offering his body in both tenderness and anger, unsure which was the best way to pass her bits of his soul so that she could patch her own with it”

Jodi Picoult book The Pact

Source: The Pact

Love, Soul, Anger

“the pain we suffer is a way to make us appreciate what comes next.”

Mitch Albom (1958) American author

Source: The First Phone Call from Heaven

Pain, Suffering

“Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book. If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.”

Alice Walker (1944) American author and activist

Books, Art, Personality

“I have tried in my way to be free.”

Leonard Cohen (1934–2016) Canadian poet and singer-songwriter

“If there was a universal law regarding mankind, it was that they’d find a way to ferment anything, given time.”

Brandon Sanderson (1975) American fantasy writer

Source: Firefight

Law, Universe, Time

“Not quite what one expected, but once it happened one realized it couldn't be any other way.”

Donna Tartt book The Secret History

Source: The Secret History

“I like football. I find its an exciting strategic game. Its a great way to avoid conversation with your family at Thanksgiving.”

Craig Ferguson (1962) Scottish-born American television host, stand-up comedian, writer, actor, director, author, producer and voice a…

Family, Game, Football

“Just the way it never rains when you have an umbrella, you'll never run into people if you look fantastic. But go outside in pajamas, and you'll run into every ex you have.”

Tim Gunn (1953) American actor and fashion consultant

Source: Gunn's Golden Rules: Life's Little Lessons for Making It Work

People

“Go all the way with it. Do not back off. For once, go all the goddamn way with what matters.”

Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) American author and journalist

Source: The Complete Short Stories

“There is an odd synchronicity in the way parallel lives veer to touch one another, change direction, and then come close again and again until they connect and hold for whatever it was that fate intended to happen.”

Ann Rule (1931–2015) True crime writer

Fate, Change

“And in the end, I lost him. I did it on purpose, the way Garance lost
Baptiste in the crowd. I needed to be alone, I felt. I wanted to be going on alone to my future.”

Susanna Kaysen (1948) American writer

Future

“In the library I felt better, words you could trust and look at till you understood them, they couldn't change half way through a sentence like people, so it was easier to spot a lie.”

Jeanette Winterson book Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

Source: Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

People, Lie, Change

“Overall, she seemed to be going for a sort of mid-’80s postapocalyptic cyberpunk girl-next-door look. And it was working for me, in a big way. In a word:.”

Ernest Cline book Ready Player One

Source: Ready Player One

Girl

“Sometimes we know in our bones what we really need to do, but we're afraid to do it. Taking a chance and stepping beyond the safety of the world we've always known is the only way to grow, though and without risk there is no reward.”

Wil Wheaton (1972) American actor and writer

Source: Just a Geek: Unflinchingly honest tales of the search for life, love, and fulfillment beyond the Starship Enterprise

World, Chance

“i want to give up my bearings, slip out of who i am, shed everything, the way a snake discards old skin.”

Khaled Hosseini book And the Mountains Echoed

Source: And the Mountains Echoed

“Things have a way of settling back.”

Jenny Han book P.S. I Still Love You

Source: P.S. I Still Love You

“I'm not going out of my way looking for devils; but I wouldn't step out of my path to let one go by.”

Robert E. Howard (1906–1936) American author

"Beyond the Black River" (1935)
Context: "There's nothing in the universe cold steel won't cut," answered Conan. "I threw my ax at the demon, and he took no hurt, but I might have missed in the dusk, or a branch deflected its flight. I'm not going out of my way looking for devils; but I wouldn't step out of my path to let one go by."

“It is a time of change,'' Sazed said. ''Perhaps it is also time to learn of other truths, other ways.”

Brandon Sanderson (1975) American fantasy writer

Source: The Well of Ascension

Truth, Learning, Change, Time

“Love sucks. Sometimes it feels good. Sometimes it's just another way to bleed.”

Laurell K. Hamilton book Blue Moon

Source: Blue Moon

Love, Feeling

“That wasn't why they destroyed the warren. It was just because we were in their way. They killed us to suit themselves.”

Richard Adams book Watership Down

Source: Watership Down

“The Dude just pounded his way in a straight line, convinced that the lion was a figment of his imagination and that the vampire ahead of him was just Grendel's deformed mutant brother.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Gifts

Imagination

“I pull my lower lip all the way in between my teeth. If I try hard enough, maybe I can gobble my whole self this way…. I didn't try hard enough to swallow myself.”

Laurie Halse Anderson Speak

Source: Speak

“As my father used to say: “There are two sure ways to lose a friend, one is to borrow, the other to lend.””

Patrick Rothfuss book The Name of the Wind

Source: The Name of the Wind (2007), Chapter 49, “The Nature of Wild Things” (p. 354)

“This is not a love story, but love is in it. That is, love is just outside it, looking for a way to break in.”

Jeanette Winterson book Lighthousekeeping

Source: Lighthousekeeping

Love

“I heard that the best way to get over someone is to get under someone else.”

Kerry Cohen (1970) American writer

“When we grow up, we find ways to hide our anxieties, our loneliness, our fear and sorrow. But children hide nothing, putting everything into their tears, which they spread liberally about for the whole world to see.”

Yōko Ogawa book The Diving Pool: Three Novellas

Source: The Diving Pool: Three Novellas

Children, World, Fear, Tear

“The way i see it, love is just a bigger, stickier form of trust.”

Jodi Picoult (1966) Author

Source: Mercy

Love

“Choose always the way that seems the best, however rough it may be; custom will soon render it easy and agreeable.”

Pythagoras (-585–-495 BC) ancient Greek mathematician and philosopher

As quoted in A Dictionary of Thoughts: Being a Cyclopedia of Laconic Quotations from the Best Authors of the World, both Ancient and Modern (1908) by Tyron Edwards, p. 101

Powerful

“The way Leo figured it, he spent more time crashing than he did flying. If there was a rewards card for frequent crashers, he'd be, like, double platinum level.”

Rick Riordan book The House of Hades

Source: The House of Hades

Time, Flying