Quotes about the trip
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“To know you're going to die, and to be prepared for it at any time.
That's better. That way you can actually be more involved in your life
while you're living.”

Mitch Albom Tuesdays with Morrie

Source: Tuesdays with Morrie

Life, Time

“Anything you need, you tell him and he'll get it for you. If he offends you in any way, let me know and I'll kill him when I get up.”

Sherrilyn Kenyon book Night Pleasures

Source: Night Pleasures

“It was in a way a comforting idea; if there was all the time in the world, then the happenings of a given moment became less important.”

Diana Gabaldon book Outlander

Source: Outlander

World, Idea, Time

“I know that I brought this all on myself. I know that I deserve this. I'd do anything not to be this way. I'd do anything to make it up to everyone. And to not have to see a psychiatrist, who explains to me about being "passive aggressive.”

Stephen Chbosky book The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“The cafe windows wrapped all the way around the observation floor, which gave us a beautiful panoramic view of the skeleton army that had come to kill us.”

Rick Riordan book The Titan's Curse

Source: The Titan's Curse

Beauty

“There weren't any villains though. The world was just complicated in various ways, and there weren't any obvious villains to be found. It was excruciating.”

Tatsuhiko Takimoto (1978) writer

World

“Only one way to win when you're being chased by someone bigger and tougher than you. Turn straight around, punch their teeth out, and hope the gods are fond of you.”

Scott Lynch book Red Seas Under Red Skies

Source: Red Seas Under Red Skies

God, Hope

“He dared to do what men and women don't even dare to think. And look what he's done already: he's torn open the sky, he's opened the way to another world. Who else has ever done that? Who else could think of it?”

Philip Pullman book The Subtle Knife

Source: The Subtle Knife

Women, Men, World, Thinking

“There, he had seen every thing to exalt in his estimation the woman he had lost, and there begun to deplore the pride, the folly, the madness of resentment, which had kept him from trying to regain her when thrown in his way.”

Jane Austen book Persuasion

Source: Persuasion

Madness

“The best way to avoid responsibility is to say, "I've got responsibilities."”

Richard Bach (1936) American spiritual writer

Illusions : The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah (1977)
Source: Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah

“so it's always a process of letting go, one way or another”

Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer

Source: The Roominghouse Madrigals: Early Selected Poems, 1946-1966

“Those who succeed in an outstanding way seldom do so before the age of 40. More often, they do not strike their real pace until they are well beyond the age of 50.”

Napoleon Hill (1883–1970) American author

Source: Think and Grow Rich: The Landmark Bestseller - Now Revised and Updated for the 21st Century

Age

“If you desire to help thy friend, do so in a way that will not bring thy friend's burdens upon thyself.”

George S. Clason book The Richest Man in Babylon

Source: The Richest Man in Babylon

Help

“We think because we have words, not the other way around. The more words we have, the better able we are to think conceptually.”

Madeleine L'Engle (1918–2007) American writer

Thinking

“I want to tell them, "Chip, Kim, there is no way to suicide-proof a person.”

Julie Anne Peters (1952) American writer

Source: By the Time You Read This, I'll Be Dead

Suicide, Personality

“It was just a normal day, a day like any other. But most of all it was a day in which everything was exactly the way it should be.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Choice

Source: The Choice

“Don’t bother trying to explain your emotions. Live everything as intensely as you can and keep whatever you felt as a gift from God. The best way to destroy the bridge between the visible and invisible is by trying to explain your emotions.”

Paulo Coelho book Brida

Source: Brida

God

“I loved you way before you ever had a chance to put a spell on me. I loved you at 'I've never been to Long Island,'" Zach said.
I couldn't keep a big goofy grin from my face.
I loved you at 'I like seals,'" I admitted. He grinned back.”

Meg Cabot Jinx

Source: Jinx

Love, Chance

“What happens if your choice is misguided,
You must try to correct it
But what if it’s too late? What if you can’t?
Then you must find a way to live with it.”

Libba Bray A Great and Terrible Beauty

Source: A Great and Terrible Beauty

“You don't believe me?" Jace asked. "Fine. Go ahead. Kiss me right now."
Alec stared at him in horror.
"Exactly. Despite my staggering good lucks, you actually don't like me that way.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Glass

Source: City of Glass

Kiss

“A mistake is simply another way of doing things.”

Katharine Graham (1917–2001) American publisher

“The further you go, the more you have to be proud of. At the same time, in order to come a long way, you have to be behind to begin with. IN the end, though maybe it's not how you reach a place that matters. Just that you get there at all.”

Sarah Dessen Lock and Key

Source: Lock and Key

Time

“A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.”

Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867) French poet

Books

“In a strange way we were free. We'd reached the end of the line. We had nothing more to lose. Our privacy, our liberty, our dignity: all of this was gone and we were stripped down to the bare bones of our selves.”

Susanna Kaysen book Girl, Interrupted

Source: Girl, Interrupted (1994)

“I have come to the conclusion that there is only one way under high heaven to get the best of an argument— and that is to avoid it. Avoid it as you would avoid rattlesnakes and earthquakes.”

Dale Carnegie How to Win Friends and Influence People

Source: How to Win Friends and Influence People

“There is a destiny which makes us brothers; none goes his way alone. All that we send into the lives of others comes back into our own.”

Edwin Markham (1852–1940) American poet

"A Creed To Mr. David Lubin", stanza 1, LINCOLN & Other Poems (1901), page 25.
Context: There is a destiny that makes us brothers:
None goes his way alone:
All that we send into the lives of others
Comes back onto our own.

I care not what his temples or his creeds,
One thing holds firm and fast
That into his fateful heap of days and deeds
The soul of man is cast.

“I stay cool, and dig all jive,
That's the way I stay alive.
My motto,
as I live and learn,
is
Dig and be dug
In return.”

Langston Hughes (1902–1967) American writer and social activist

"Motto"
Montage of a Dream Deferred (1951)
Variant: My motto,
As I live and learn,
is:
Dig And Be Dug
In Return.

Learning

“A real relationship is two-way.”

Sophie Kinsella book Can You Keep a Secret?

Source: Can You Keep a Secret?

“A mistake constantly made by those who should know better is to judge people of the past by our standards rather than their own. The only way men or women can be judged is against the canvas of their own time.”

Louis L'Amour (1908–1988) Novelist, short story writer

Source: Education of a Wandering Man (1989), Ch. 10

Women, Men, People, Time

“Do not think about guys who have broken your heart six ways. It is mentally deranged to chase after heartbreak.”

E. Lockhart (1967) American writer of novels as E. Lockhart (mainly for teenage girls) and of picture books under real name Emily J…

Source: The Treasure Map of Boys: Noel, Jackson, Finn, Hutch, Gideon—and me, Ruby Oliver

Guy, Thinking, Heart

“Try to find pleasure in the speed that you're not used to. Changing the way you do routine things allows a new person to grow inside of you. But when all is said and done, you're the one who must decide how you handle it.”

Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist

Pleasure, Change, Personality, Speed

“Writing is one of the ways I participate in transformation.”

Toni Cade Bambara (1939–1995) author, activist, professor

“If you look at old pictures, Irene Casey is so pretty. Not just young, but pretty the way you look when your face goes smooth, the skin around your eyes and lips relaxed, the pretty you only look when you love the person taking the picture.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Rant

Source: Rant

Love, Personality

“One of the most important resources that a garden makes available for use, is the gardener's own body. A garden gives the body the dignity of working in its own support. It is a way of rejoining the human race.”

Wendell Berry (1934) author

Support

“I mean putting yourself out there in the way of overwhelming happiness and knowing you're also putting yourself in the way of terrible harm. I'm scared to be this happy. I'm scared to be this extreme.”

Ann Brashares The Second Summer of the Sisterhood

Source: The Second Summer of the Sisterhood

Happiness

“Fear is the greatest form of oppression.
The best way to rise up in protest is to live your life to
its fullest!”

Megan McCafferty (1973) American novelist

Source: Second Helpings

Life, Fear

“The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant, and let the air out of the tires.”

Dorothy Parker (1893–1967) American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist

Funny, For Parents, Children, Home

“Thinking of death--strange, beautiful, terrible and a long way off--made me feel happier than ever.”

Dodie Smith book I Capture the Castle

Source: I Capture the Castle

Death, Beauty, Feeling, Thinking

“What if the puzzle of the world was a shape you didn't fit into? And the only way to survive was to mutilate yourself, carve away your corners, sand yourself down, modify yourself to fit? How come we haven't been able to change the puzzle instead?”

Jodi Picoult book Small Great Things

Source: Small Great Things

World, Change

“Raise boys and girls the same way.”

Jenny Holzer (1950) American conceptual artist

Girl, Boy

“The easiest way to get brainwashed is to be born. All of the above principles then immediately go into action, a process which social psychologists euphemistically call socialization.”

Robert Anton Wilson book Prometheus Rising

Source: Prometheus Rising

“Gonna change my way of thinking, make my self a different set of rules. Gonna put my good foot forward and stop being influenced by fools.”

Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist

Fools, Thinking, Change

“On my way here I passed a local cinema and it turns out you were expecting me after all, for the billboards read: The Mummy Returns.”

Margaret Thatcher (1925–2013) British stateswoman and politician

Speech to Conservative Election Rally in Plymouth (22 May, 2001) http://www.margaretthatcher.org/speeches/displaydocument.asp?docid=108389 <br class="br">Post-Prime Ministerial

Reading

“I have survived. I am here. Confused, screwed up, but here. So, how can I find my way? Is there a chain saw of the soul, an ax I can take to my memories or fears?”

Laurie Halse Anderson Speak

Source: Speak

Fear, Soul, Memory

“By the way, is there anything sadder than toys on a grave?”

Fannie Flagg book Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe

Source: Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe

“The truth is, some relationships are supposed to last forever, and some are only supposed to last a few days. That’s the way life is.”

Sophie Kinsella book Can You Keep a Secret?

Source: Can You Keep a Secret?

Life, Truth

“The seat received him in a loose and distant kind of way, like an aunt who disapproves of the last fifteen years of your life and will therefore furnish you with a basic sherry, but refuses to catch your eye.”

Douglas Adams book Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

Source: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (1987)

Life, Distant

“I don't suppose it would help if I told you that is the way life is. The good suffer, the evil flourish, and all that is mortal passes away.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Princess

Variant: Pointless, needless suffering and pain? I don’t suppose it would help if I told you that was the way life is. The good suffer, the evil flourish, and all that is mortal passes away.
Source: Clockwork Princess

Life, Suffering, Evil, Help

“I couldn't stand it. I still can't stand it. I can't stand the way things are. I cannot tolerate this age.”

Walker Percy (1916–1990) Southern philosophical novelist

Age

“Transition is always a relief. Destination means death to me. If I could figure out a way to remain forever in transition, in the disconnected and unfamiliar, I could remain in a state of perpetual freedom.”

David Wojnarowicz (1954–1992) American painter, photographer, writer, filmmaker, performance artist, and AIDS activist

Source: Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration

Death, Freedom

“If you wish for something hard enough, the fairy tales teach us, you can get it in the end. But it's hardly ever the way you thought it would be, and the endings aren't always happy ones.”

Jennifer Weiner book Good in Bed

Source: Good in Bed

Happiness

“If you had hope, maybe you could find a way to make things change,. Because if you thought about it, there were so many reasons to try.”

Suzanne Collins book Gregor and the Code of Claw

Source: Gregor and the Code of Claw

Hope, Change

“But in some ways, the most significant choices one makes in life are done for reasons that are not all that dramatic, not earth-shaking at all; often enough, the choices we make are, for better or for worse, made by default.”

Marya Hornbacher book Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia

Source: Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia

Life

“But I've strayed so far from normal now, I'll never find my way back. And the truth is, I no longer want to.”

Alyson Nöel (1965) writer

Source: Saving Zoë

Truth

“Oh, no way," Leo said. "We've been sitting in a cave and you get the luxury tent? Somebody give me hypothermia. I want hot chocolate and a parka!”

Rick Riordan book The Lost Hero

Source: The Lost Hero

“To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves”

Will Durant (1885–1981) American historian, philosopher and writer

Durant, Will. Commencement Speech. We Have a Right To Be Happy Today https://web.archive.org/web/20130106111821/http://www.willdurant.com/youth.htm. Webb School of Claremont, CA. 7 Jun 1958. <br class="br">Context: To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves; let us be above such transparent egotism. If you can't say good and encouraging things, say nothing. Nothing is often a good thing to do, and always a clever thing to say.

“Best way to find the weakness of the enemy is to understand their ways.”

Melina Marchetta (1965) Australian teen writer

Source: Froi of the Exiles

Understanding

“The Lord's way builds individual self esteem and develops and heals the dignity of the individual, whereas the world's way depresses the individual's view of himself and causes deep resentment”

Spencer W. Kimball (1895–1985) President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

World

“Madame Lily Devalier always asked "Where are you?" in a way that insinuated that there were only two places on earth one could be: New Orleans and somewhere ridiculous.”

Tom Robbins book Jitterbug Perfume

Source: Jitterbug Perfume

“It's all mirror, mirror on the wall because beauty is power, the same way money is power, the same way a gun is power.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Invisible Monsters

Variant: It's all mirror, mirror on the wall because beauty is power the same way money is power the same way a gun is power.
Source: Invisible Monsters

Money, Beauty

“… the opposite of love is not hate -- it's apathy. It's not giving a damn. If somebody hates me, they must "feel" something… or they couldn't possibly hate. Therefore, there's some way in which I can get to them.”

Leo Buscaglia (1924–1998) Motivational speaker, writer

Love, Hate, Feeling

“Unshed tears leave a deposit on your heart. Eventually they form a crust around it and paralyze it, the way mineral deposits paralyze a washing machine.”

Susanna Tamaro (1957) Italian writer

Source: Follow Your Heart

Tear, Heart

“May you live in such a way that your death is just the beginning of your life.”

Max Lucado (1955) American clergyman and writer

Source: Outlive Your Life: You Were Made to Make A Difference

Life, Death

“It often happens that we blurt out things that may in some kind of way be harmful to us, but we are silent about things that may make us look ridiculous; because in this case effect follows very quickly on cause.”

Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860) German philosopher

“Change isn't easy. Changing the way you live means changing the way you think, means changing what you believe about life. That's hard.”

Dean Koontz book One Door Away from Heaven

Geneva Davis; chapter 1, p. 8
Source: One Door Away from Heaven (2001)
Context: Change isn't easy, Micky. Changing the way you live means changing the way you think. Changing the way you think means changing what you believe about life. That's hard, sweetie. When we make our own misery, we sometimes cling to it even when we want so bad to change, because the misery is something we know. The misery is comfortable.

Life, Thinking, Change

“Sometimes when we are generous in small, barely detectable ways it can change someone's life forever.”

Margaret Cho (1968) American stand-up comedian

Life, Change

“All good people agree,
And all good people say,
All nice people, like Us, are We
And every one else is They:
But if you cross over the sea,
Instead of over the way,
You may end by (think of it!) looking on We
As only a sort of They!”

Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936) English short-story writer, poet, and novelist

Source: Debits And Credits

People, Thinking, Sea

“Froi heard Zabat's voice echo over and over again throughout the gorge. Wonderful. The gods had found a way of multiplying the idiot's voice.”

Melina Marchetta (1965) Australian teen writer

Source: Froi of the Exiles

God

“But at times I wondered if I had not come a long way only to find that what I really sought was something I had left behind.”

Jon Krakauer book Into Thin Air

Source: Into Thin Air

Time

“The suffering of a loved one was in many ways worse than one's one suffering because it left one feeling so very helpless.”

Mary Balogh (1944) Welsh-Canadian novelist

Source: First Comes Marriage

Love, Feeling, Suffering

“So, you're like Angel? (Amanda)
You watch way too much television. Angel has a soul. I don't. (Kyrian)
Now you're back to being scary again. (Amanda)
Baby, you ain't seen scary yet. (Kyrian)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon book Night Pleasures

Source: Night Pleasures

Angels, Soul, Baby

“If the road is easy, you're likely going the wrong way.”

Terry Goodkind (1948) American novelist

Variant: Zedd used to tell me that if the road is easy, you're likely going the wrong way." - Richard

“Now he was kissing me, not in a scary way, not with hostility, but with warm, seductive intent. In a hayloft, in the barn, in the middle of the night. This scene brought to you by the lettersand.”

Cate Tiernan (1961) American novelist

Source: Immortal Beloved

Hostility, Kiss, Night

“There's no way to release yourself from a memory. It ends when it wants to end, whether it's in a flash or long after you've begged it to stop.”

David Levithan book Every You, Every Me

Source: Every You, Every Me

Memory

“because I have learned the hard way how deadly these beauties can be.”

Suzanne Collins (1962) American television writer and novelist

Beauty, Learning

“It wasn't an excuse. It was a fact. He'd had to make his way alone, and no one—not rock stars, not professional athletes, not software billionaires, and not even geniuses — ever makes it alone.”

Malcolm Gladwell (1963) journalist and science writer

Source: Outliers: The Story of Success

Star

“… you look like you fell out of a crazy tree and hit every branch on the way down.”

Jim Butcher Proven Guilty

Source: Proven Guilty

Tree

“It could have happened lots of ways. But this is the way it happened. This is the path we took. This is our story.”

Jenny Han book P.S. I Still Love You

Source: P.S. I Still Love You

“There must exist a paradigm, a practical model for social change that includes an understanding of ways to transform consciousness that are linked to efforts to transform structures.”

Bell Hooks (1952) American author, feminist, and social activist

Source: Killing Rage: Ending Racism

Understanding, Effort, Change

“Living Memory
I carry you with me into the world,
into the smell of rain
& the words that dance between people
& for me, it will always be this way,
walking in the light,
remembering being alive together”

Brian Andreas (1956) American artist

People, World, Light, Memory

“There are many ways of getting strong, sometimes talking is the best way.”

Andre Agassi book Open. An Autobiography

Source: Open

Strong

“The offing was barred by a black bank of clouds, and the tranquil water-way leading to the uttermost ends of the earth flowed somber under an overcast sky--seemed to lead into the heart of an immense darkness.”

Joseph Conrad book Heart of Darkness

Source: Heart of Darkness

Water, Heart

“I would rather die than ever see you suffering this way. I don't want you or any child I ever have or any woman I ever love to go through or feel what you're going through, but it's happened and I don't know what to do.”

Melina Marchetta book Looking for Alibrandi

Source: Looking for Alibrandi

Love, Feeling, Suffering

“We each die countless little deaths on our way to the last. We die out of shame as humiliation. We perish from despair. And, of course, we die for love.”

Clive Barker book Absolute Midnight

Source: Absolute Midnight

Love, Death, Despair

“Your ideal possession candidate's a thirteen-year-old recently orphaned schizophrenic girl three days away from her period on her way to see the shrink with whom she's romantically besotted.”

Glen Duncan book I, Lucifer

Source: I, Lucifer

Girl

“Accidental sex. He made it sound like I fell down, and there just happened to be an erection in the way.”

Laurell K. Hamilton book Incubus Dreams

Source: Incubus Dreams

Sex

“The best way to get your point across is to entertain.”

George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish playwright

“If it makes you feel better, I’m not happy with the way all this went down any more than you are. But sometimes things have to go wrong in order to go right. (Acheron)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Kiss of the Night

Feeling, Happiness

“I mean, I knew I wasn't a nice person, but what did I do in my past life to deserve this? I must have hit a bus full of nuns while driving a stolen car on my way to selling drugs to schoolchildren!”

Joss Whedon (1964) American director, writer, and producer for television and film

Life, Cars, Past, Personality

“Always fall in with what you're asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever's going. Not against: with.”

Robert Frost (1874–1963) American poet

As quoted in Vogue (14 March 1963)
1960s
Variant: Always fall in with what you're asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever's going. Not against: with.

Life