Quotes about the trip
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“An empty frame, in which the picture is always changing, makes a statement about how time is always passing. It doesn't really stop, even in a single image. I t just feels that way.”

Sarah Dessen book The Truth About Forever

Source: The Truth About Forever

Feeling, Change, Time

“Life Plan:
I asked her what she planned to do with her life & she said she was way beyond that point already. I'm just happy I remember to be there when it happens, she said.”

Brian Andreas (1956) American artist

Life, Happiness

“The only way we know it's true is that we both dreamed it. That's what reality is. It's a dream everyone has together.”

Jeffrey Eugenides book Middlesex

Source: Middlesex

Dreams, Reality

“Alec looked merely irritated by this comment. "The only way you could raise enough money to hire Magnus by selling lemonade is if you put meth in it.”

Cassandra Clare The City of Lost Souls

Source: City of Lost Souls

Money

“Laughing is just another way of showing people your wise”

E.E. Cummings (1894–1962) American poet

Source: AnOther E.E. Cummings

People

“The only way to retrieve a secret, once known, is to replace it with a lie.”

Orson Scott Card book Xenocide

Source: Xenocide

Lie, Secret

“I'd never chosen to be alone, but that was the way things had turned out, and I'd grown used to it.”

Sebastian Faulks book Engleby

Source: Engleby

“if someone really wants to see you, they always find a way. Always.”

Mindy Kaling book Why Not Me?

Source: Why Not Me?

“And if you can find any way out of our culture, then that's a trap too. Just wanting to get out of the trap reinforces the trap.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Invisible Monsters

Source: Invisible Monsters

“Don't make me have to chase after you again, because there's no way in hell you can get away from me, lady.”

Johanna Lindsey (1952–2019) American writer

Source: A Heart So Wild

Hell

“Holding hands, for example, is a way to remember how it feels to say nothing together.”

Nicole Krauss (1974) American novelist

Feeling

“I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.”

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

Positive, Life

“Friends are God's way of apologizing to us for our families”

Tennessee Williams (1911–1983) American playwright

Funny, For Bestfriend, God, Family

“And I think that's what our world is desperately in need of - lovers, people who are building deep, genuine relationships with fellow strugglers along the way, and who actually know the faces of the people behind the issues they are concerned about.”

Shane Claiborne The Irresistible Revolution

The Irresistible Revolution (2006)
Source: The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical

People, World, Lovers, Thinking

“Being a nerd, which is to say going too far and caring too much about a subject, is the best way to make friends I know.”

Sarah Vowell book The Partly Cloudy Patriot

Source: The Partly Cloudy Patriot (2003)

“… I feel as though I made a face and the wind changed, and now I have to go through life grimacing in this horrible way.”

Nick Hornby book High Fidelity

Source: High Fidelity

Life, Feeling, Change

“When you get a thing the way you want it, leave it alone.”

Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

“The world makes much less sense than you think. The coherence comes mostly from the way your mind works.”

Daniel Kahneman book Thinking, Fast and Slow

Source: Thinking, Fast and Slow

World, Thinking, Sense

“The best way is not to fight it, just go. Don't be trying all the time to fix things. What you run from only stays with you longer. When you fight something, you only make it stronger.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Invisible Monsters

Source: Invisible Monsters

Time, Fight

“When someone tells you something big, it's like you're taking money from them, and there's no way it will ever go back to being the way it was. You have to take responsibility for listening.”

Banana Yoshimoto book The Lake

Source: The Lake

Money

“Everything is the way it is because everything was the way it was. Sometimes I feel ensnared in this, as if no matter what I do, what will come has already been fixed.”

Jonathan Safran Foer book Everything Is Illuminated

Source: Everything Is Illuminated

Feeling

“But I do know we’re deficient in some way. We are too involved in materialistic things, and they don’t satisfy us. The loving relationships we have, the universe around us, we take these things for granted.”

Mitch Albom Tuesdays with Morrie

Variant: We are too involved in materialistic things, and they don't satisfy us. The loving relationships we have, the universe around us, we take these things for granted.
Source: Tuesdays with Morrie

Love, Universe

“Often admitting our weakness and fear is the first step to finding rest in God. Our trust in Him isn't conveyed though superhuman confidence as much as it comes in the way of childlike reliance on Him.”

Tracie Peterson (1959) American writer

Source: Morning's Refrain

God, Fear, Confidence

“We all try to forget what hurts us, it is sometimes the only way we can continue.”

Anne Perry (1938) English author

Hurt, Forgetting

“The dead are way more organized than the living.”

China Miéville book Un Lun Dun

Source: Un Lun Dun

Dead

“Success makes so many people hate you. I wish it wasn't that way. It would be wonderful to enjoy success without seeing envy in the eyes of those around you.”

Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962) American actress, model, and singer

As quoted in The Films of Barbra Streisand (2001) by Christopher Nickens and Karen Swenson
Variant: Success makes so many people hate you. I wish it wasn't that way. It would be wonderful to enjoy success without seeing envy in the eyes of those around you.

Success, Hate, People, Success

“I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.”

Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890–1969) American general and politician, 34th president of the United States (in office from 1953 to 1961)

TV talk with Prime Minister Macmillan (31 August 1959) <br class="br"> "Selected Quotations", Eisenhower Archives, Eisenhower Library, 2007-04-01, http://web.archive.org/web/20070208232736/http://www.eisenhower.archives.gov/ss1.htm, 2007-02-08 http://www.eisenhower.archives.gov/ss1.htm, <br class="br">1950s

People, Peace, Thinking

“Really, according to the shrinks, I am angry at everyone ever. Especially them.

I am all anger and resentment all the time.

Not one of them has ever suggested that maybe I lie because the world is better the way I tell it.”

Justine Larbalestier (1967) Australian young-adult fiction author

Source: Liar

Lie, World, Time, Anger

“… some people coddle their own afflictions the way others spoil small pedigreed dogs with cans of pate.”

Lionel Shriver book We Need to Talk About Kevin

Source: We Need to Talk About Kevin

People, Dogs, Affliction

“I did not lose myself all at once. I rubbed out my face over the years washing away my pain, the same way carvings on stone are worn down by water.”

Amy Tan (1952) American novelist

Pain, Water

“One school of thought says that the best way to handle an issue like this is exposure therapy," Mad Rogan said. "For example, if you're terrified of snakes, repeated handling of them will cure it."
Aha. "I'm not handling your snake.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Burn for Me

School, Madness

“I'm a good person. In most ways. But I'm beginning to think that being a good person in most ways doesn't count for anything very much, if you're a bad person in one way.”

Nick Hornby (1957) English novelist

Thinking, Personality

“And there is a time, glorious too in its own way, when one scarcely exists, when one is a complete void. I mean, when boredom seems the very stuff of life.”

Henry Miller (1891–1980) American novelist

Life, Time

“Everyone has the right to doubt everything as often as he pleases and the duty to do it at least once. No way of looking at things is too sacred to be reconsidered. No way of doing things is beyond improvement.”

Edward de Bono (1933) Maltese physician

Source: The Use of Lateral Thinking

“… the way we eat represents our most profound engagement with the natural world. Daily, our eating turns nature into culture, transforming the body of the world into our bodies and minds.”

Michael Pollan book The Omnivore's Dilemma

Source: The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals

World, Nature

“You discarded most of the lies along the way but held on to the one that said life mattered.”

Stephen King (1947) American author

Life

“Anger, Tessa thought, was satisfying in its own way, when you gave in to it. There was something gratifying about shouting in a blind rage until your words ran out.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Angel

Source: Clockwork Angel

Rage, Anger

“They spoke less and less between them until at last they were silent altogether as is often the way with travelers approaching the end of a journey.”

Cormac McCarthy (1933) American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter

Source: Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West

Travel

“So…
be your name Buxbaum or Bixby or Bray
or Mordecai Ali Van Allen O'Shea,
you're off to Great Places!
Today is your day!
Your mountain is waiting.
So… get on your way!”

Dr. Seuss (1904–1991) American children's writer and illustrator, co-founder of Beginner Books

Source: Oh, The Places You'll Go!

Mountain, Waiting

“I didn't call you because I'm tired of you only wanting me around when you need something. I'm tired of watching you be in love with someone else - someone, incidentally, who will never love you back. Not the way I do.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Glass

Variant: No." Magnus strode toward him. "I didn't call you because I'm tired of you only wanting me around when you need something. I'm tired of watching you be in love with someone else-someone, incidentally, who will never love you back. Not the way I do.
Source: City of Glass

Love

“Our rational minds can never understand what has happened, but our hearts.. if we can keep them open to God, will find their own intuitive way.”

Ram Dass (1931–2019) American contemporary spiritual teacher and the author of the 1971 book Be Here Now

God, Understanding, Heart

“How can I shed tears for a man I should never have allowed to touch me in any way?”

Janet Fitch book White Oleander

Source: White Oleander

Tear

“The way of the miracle-worker is to see all human behavior as one two things: either love, or a call for love.”

Marianne Williamson (1952) American writer

Love, Behavior

“I needed her to stop. Needed not to hear the pain in her voice--to see the way she was twisting the pocketbook strap. If she kept talking, she might break down and tell me everything.”

Wally Lamb book I Know This Much Is True

Source: I Know This Much Is True

Pain

“those of us who read because we love it more than anything, who feel about bookstores the way some people feel about jewelers…”

Anna Quindlen (1952) journalist, Novelist

Source: How Reading Changed My Life

Love, People, Feeling, Reading

“As long as a thing is unknown, it belongs to us in a way that well-known things do not. For we have the opportunity to fill the empty, unknown spaces for ourselves, and in them there is room for imagination and for hope.”

Cameron Dokey (1956) American writer

Hope, Imagination

“Silence has sometimes a remarkable power of showing itself as the disembodied sould of feeling wandering without its carcase, and it is then more impressive than speech. In the same way to say a little is often to tell more than to say.”

Thomas Hardy book Far from the Madding Crowd

Source: Far from the Madding Crowd

Feeling, Silence

“He was a romantic in his own harsh way…yet he was also realist enough to know that some times love actually did conquer all.”

Stephen King book The Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three

Source: The Drawing of the Three

Love, Time

“I'll pray that you grow up a brave man in a brave country. I will pray you find a way to be useful.

I'll pray, and then I'll sleep.”

Marilynne Robinson Gilead

Source: Gilead

Sleep, Country

“I’m blushing at my own stupid, nonsensical, meaningless thought process, which, by the way, nobody knows about except me.”

Sophie Kinsella book I've Got Your Number

Source: I've Got Your Number

Stupidity

“… he had a way of taking your hand which made it clear he'd have to be the one to let go."

From Alice Hoffman's "Local Girls", pg.102.”

Alice Hoffman (1952) Novelist, young-adult writer, children's writer

Source: Local Girls

Girl

“I didn't mean to send love letters, but that is what they became. On their way to you, my words turned into heartbeats on the page.”

Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer

Source: Love in the Afternoon

Love

“Look at the way you live. You've sold out. Next thing I know you'll become a Republican." She shook her head. "Where are the values I raised you with?”

Jeannette Walls book The Glass Castle

Source: The Glass Castle

“Luck has a way of evaporating when you lean on it.”

Brandon Mull (1974) American fiction writer

Source: Keys to the Demon Prison

“Sorry… my mind was wandering… one time it went all the way to Venus and ordered a meal I couldn’t pay for.”

Steven Wright (1955) American actor and author

Time

“Just pity him, my boy. Tomorrow we'll be on our way, but he'll have to keep his own disagreeable company until the day he dies.”

Patrick Rothfuss book The Name of the Wind

Source: The Name of the Wind

Boy

“Love itself became the object of her love. She loved herself in love, she loved loving love, as love loves loving, and was able, in that way, to reconcile herself with a world that fell so short of what she would have hoped for.”

Jonathan Safran Foer book Everything Is Illuminated

Source: Everything Is Illuminated

Love, World, Hope

“The backside of a mountain is a fight against human nature. You have to care as much about yourself on the way down as you did on the way up.”

Mitch Albom (1958) American author

Mountain, Nature, Fight

“All living things contain a measure of madness that moves them in strange, sometimes inexplicable ways. This madness can be saving; it is part and parcel of the ability to adapt. Without it, no species would survive.”

Yann Martel book Life of Pi

Source: Life of Pi

Parting, Madness

“We do not wait for inspiration. We work because we've jolly well got to. But when all is said and done, we toil at this particular job because it's turned out to be our particular job, and in a weird sort of way I suppose we may be said to like it.”

Ngaio Marsh (1895–1982) New Zealand writer

Source: Ngaio Marsh: A Life

Waiting

“That’s the way it is with dreams. They scratch at your door. You see them through the peep hole: a stray dream looking for a home. You think it might go away if you ignore it. Wrong. It’s still there when you open the door, smiling. Wagging its tail.”

Monique Duval (1924–2014) Canadian journalist

Smile, Dreams, Home, Thinking

“By the way, there is nothing cute about a pink wheelchair. Pink doesn't change a thing.”

Sharon M. Draper book Out of My Mind

Source: Out of My Mind

Change

“We should resolve now that the health of this nation is a national concern; that financial barriers in the way of attaining health shall be removed; that the health of all it's citizens deserves the help of all the nation.”

Harry Truman (1884–1972) American politician, 33rd president of the United States (in office from 1945 to 1953)

Health, Help

“… you spend a much larger part of your life being old, not young. Rules change along the way. The first things to go are those things you thought were eternal.”

Douglas Coupland (1961) Canadian novelist, short story writer, playwright, and graphic designer

Life, Change, Parting

“The Alchemists’ beliefs are my beliefs,” I say quickly.

She arched an eyebrow. “Are they? I would hope your beliefs would be your beliefs.”

I’d never thought about it that way before, but I suddenly hoped desperately that her words were true.”

Richelle Mead book The Indigo Spell

Source: The Indigo Spell

Hope

“People are not stupid. They believe things for reasons. The last way for skeptics to get the attention of bright, curious, intelligent people is to belittle or condescend or to show arrogance toward their beliefs.”

Carl Sagan (1934–1996) American astrophysicist, cosmologist, author and science educator

People, Stupidity, Intelligence

“I loved the way he kissed me, as if he had to, as if he’d go crazy if he didn’t and had nearly waited too”

Sylvia Day book Bared to You

Variant: I loved the way he kissed me, as if he had to, as if he'd go crazy if he didn't and had nearly waited too long.
Source: Bared to You

Love, Kiss, Waiting

“All of us have darkness inside us, and at times it possesses and seduces us in ways we never thought possible.”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Infamous

Time

“That ain't me, that ain't my face. It wasn't even me when I was trying to be that face. I wasn't even really me them; I was just being the way I looked, the way people wanted.”

Ken Kesey book One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Source: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

People

“It is clear that the books owned the shop rather than the other way about. Everywhere they had run wild and taken possession of their habitat, breeding and multiplying, and clearly lacking any strong hand to keep them down.”

Agatha Christie book The Clocks

Source: The Clocks

Books, Strong

“‎There's no way to cheat a sensualist like me, somebody who can die laughing for hours over the pattern of the carpet in a hotel lobby.”

Anne Rice book Memnoch the Devil

Source: Memnoch the Devil

Cheating

“having
someone think of me that way was like discovering
a new window in the room i'd lived in all my life.”

David Levithan The Realm of Possibility

Source: The Realm of Possibility

Life, Thinking

“If I'm walking on thin ice, I might as well dance my way across.”

Mercedes Lackey (1950) American novelist and short story writer

Dance

“No matter how much you love someone, you still want to have you own way.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Lullaby

Source: Lullaby

Love

“I should be doing my homework now. But the way I look at it, playing in the snow is a lot more important. Out here I'm learning real skills that I can apply throughout the rest of my life.

- Such as?

- Procrastination and rationalization.”

Bill Watterson Calvin and Hobbes

Source: Calvin and Hobbes

Life, Learning

“Because this is the way things are meant to be.(Press Tilton)”

D.J. MacHale (1955) American television director and producer

“i still have no way to survive but to keep writing one line, one more line, one more line…”

Yukio Mishima (1925–1970) Japanese author

“Hey, Hot Stuff, Can’t wait till you get over that guy you were with. He sounds like a real jerk. Hope it’s soon. You’re way too tasty to be alone for too long. Come find me. I’m out here waiting. Your Future”

Greg Behrendt (1963) American comedian

Hope, Jerk, Guy, Waiting

“Were I to fall in love, indeed, it would be a different thing! but I have never been in love; it is not my way, or my nature; and I do not think I ever shall. And, without love, I am sure I should be a fool to change such a situation as mine.”

Jane Austen book Emma

Source: Emma

Love, Fools, Nature, Thinking

“Heroes rarely look the way we draw them in our minds: attractive, imposing figures with rippling muscles and strong chins. More times than not they are humble beings, small and flawed. It is only their spirits that are beautiful and strong.”

Richard Paul Evans (1962) American writer

Source: The Gift

Beauty, Strong, Time, Drawing

“The only way out is in.”

Junot Díaz book The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

Source: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

“Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever…it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything.”

Aaron Siskind (1903–1991) American photographer

Aaron Sussman, cited in: The Amateur Photographer's Handbook, (1973), p. vi
Sussman, Aaron. The Amateur Photographer's Handbook. Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1973.
Context: Photography is more than a means of recording the obvious. It is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever, whether it be a face or a flower, a place or a thing, a day or a moment. The camera is a perfect companion. It makes no demands, imposes no obligations. It becomes your notebook and your reference library, your microscope and your telescope. It sees what you are too lazy or too careless to notice, and it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything.

Love, Feeling

“But she never just accepted me for the way I was.”

Julie Anne Peters (1952) American writer

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

“Silence & smile are two powerful tools. Smile is the way to solve many problems & Silence is the way to avoid many problems.”

Iris Johansen (1938) Novelist

For Men, Smile, Problem, Silence

“Logic is a way of saying that anything which didn't happen yesterday won't happen tomorrow.”

Robert A. Heinlein book Glory Road

Glory Road (1963)
Context: Logic is a feeble reed, friend. "Logic" proved that airplanes can't fly and that H-bombs won't work and that stones don't fall out of the sky. Logic is a way of saying that anything which didn't happen yesterday won't happen tomorrow.