Quotes about the trip
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“You're our honorary sixth member with mysterious abilities and visions of the future. The Snow White to our motley group of dwarfs. Plus, you're way better looking than the rest of these guys.”

Michelle Rowen (1971) Canadian writer

Source: Dark Kiss

Guy, Future

“It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.”

Lena Horne (1917–2010) American singer, actress, civil rights activist and dancer

Variant: It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.

Motivational, Deep, Success, Inspirational

“My attraction had been immediate and profound. And it had nothing to do with the way he looked. My attraction was to what resided between his lines.”

Augusten Burroughs book You Better Not Cry: Stories for Christmas

Source: You Better Not Cry: Stories for Christmas

“If it meant that I would never get to think of you that way, as long as you were happy, it was okay.”

Stephen Chbosky book The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Thinking, Happiness

“The past was gone. Nothing could change what had already been. Looking back at it, letting its wounds fester, indulging in regret was just a different, slower way to die. The living moved forward.”

Jim Butcher Captain's Fury

Source: Captain's Fury

Change, Past

“Susie: The way Calvin's brain is wired, you can almost hear the fuses blowing.
p64”

Bill Watterson (1958) American comic artist

23 Apr 92
The Days Are Just Packed
Source: The Complete Calvin and Hobbes

“Martyrdom, sir, is what these people like: it is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.”

George Bernard Shaw The Devil's Disciple

The Devil's Disciple, Act II
1900s

People

“So, your dad's hot."
"Thanks. He was that way when I met him, so I can't really take credit.”

Ally Carter (1974) American writer

Source: Perfect Scoundrels

“I live my own life and nurse my own wounds. It's not the best way to live. But it's the way I am.”

Jeffrey Eugenides book Middlesex

Source: Middlesex

Life

“God gives us the vision, then he takes us down to the valley to batter us into the shape of the vision, and it is in the valley that so many of us faint and give way. Every vision will be made real if we will have patience.”

Oswald Chambers (1874–1917) British missionary

Source: My Utmost for His Highest: Traditional Updated Edition

God, Patience

“Really? That would be a first. I'm the son of, Jason. I might as well be covered in blood or sewage, the way people treat me. I don't belong anywhere. I'm not even from this. But that's not enough to set me apart.”

Rick Riordan book The House of Hades

Source: The House of Hades

People

“When politicians start talking about large groups of their fellow Americans as 'enemies,' it's time for a quiet stir of alertness. Polarizing people is a good way to win an election, and also a good way to wreck a country.”

Molly Ivins (1944–2007) American journalist

People, Time, Country

“The only way I can pay back for what fate and society have handed me is to try, in minor totally useless ways, to make an angry sound against injustice.”

Martha Gellhorn (1908–1998) journalist from the United States

Letter as quoted in "Gellhorn: A Twentieth Century Life" (2003) written by Caroline Moorehead, pg. 142.

Fate

“The quickest way to kill the human spirit is to ask someone to do mediocre work.”

Ayn Rand (1905–1982) Russian-American novelist and philosopher

“The way through the world
Is more difficult to find than the way beyond it.”

Wallace Stevens (1879–1955) American poet

World

“One way to remember who you are is to remember who your heroes are.”

Walter Isaacson book Steve Jobs

Source: Steve Jobs

“The world is like a broken wrist that healed the wrong way, and will never be the same again.”

Frances Hardinge book Fly by Night

Source: Fly by Night

World

“It's been agony but I couldn't have done it any other way.”

Quentin Crisp (1908–1999) writer, Actor

“And so we go.' It's my way of saying that I'm prepared for the next adventure. The next chapter. The next challenge. Whatever comes my way, I'm ready for it. Because that truly is the way it was meant to be…”

D.J. MacHale The Soldiers of Halla

Source: The Soldiers of Halla

“I know
the odds are all against me
and I know
you might not feel this way too
but I know
I would rather die trying
to know
if I could mean something to you”

David Levithan The Realm of Possibility

Source: The Realm of Possibility

Feeling

“Suddenly, madness was everywhere, and I was determined to learn about the impact it had on the way society evolves. I've always believed society to be a fundamentally rational thing, but what if it isn't? What if it is built on insanity?”

Jon Ronson (1967) British journalist, documentary filmmaker, radio presenter and nonfiction author

Source: The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry

Learning, Madness

“Artemis: If I win I'm a prodigy. If I lose then I'm mad. That is the way history is written.”

Eoin Colfer Artemis Fowl

Variant: If I win, I'm a prodigy. If I lose, then I'm crazy. That's the way history is written.
Source: Artemis Fowl (2001)

History, Madness

“Remember, despite the fact that this book is being sold as a 'fantasy' novel, you must take all of the things it says extremely seriously, as they are quite important, are in no way silly, and always make sense.

Rutabaga.”

Brandon Sanderson Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians

Source: Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians

Books, Sense

“Humpty had always sat on walls, it was his way.”

Jasper Fforde book The Big Over Easy

Source: The Big Over Easy

“In a typical mental health catch-22, the alienating nature of depression tends to keep its sufferers from finding their way to the very support groups that might help them.”

Elizabeth Wurtzel book Prozac Nation

Source: Prozac Nation

Health, Support, Nature, Suffering

“The difference between hope and despair is a different way of telling stories from the same facts.”

Alain de Botton (1969) Swiss writer

Hope, Hope, Despair

“People are locked up in all sorts of ways.”

Emma Donoghue (1969) Irish novelist, playwright, short-story writer and historian

People

“That prison," I said with heartfelt sincerity, "Was absolutely the most awful thing that has happened to me in my entire life." I could tell by the way he looked at me that he thought my life had been filled with one awful thing after another.”

Megan Whalen Turner The Thief

Source: The Thief

Life, Sincerity

“There are thirty-two ways to write a story, and I’ve used every one, but there is only one plot – things are not as they seem.”

Jim Thompson (1906–1977) American writer

“President Wilson says a leader must treat public opinion the way a sailor deals with the wind, using it to blow the ship in one direction or another, but never trying to go directly against it.”

Ken Follett book Fall of Giants

Source: Fall of Giants

“It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.”

Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) American author and journalist

On the loss of a suitcase containing work from his first two years as a writer, as quoted in With Hemingway (1984) by Arnold Samuelson

Business, Thinking, Learning

“There are so many ways of being despicable it quite makes one’s head spin. But the way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people’s pain.”

James Baldwin book Giovanni's Room

Source: Giovanni's Room

Pain, People

“Can we actually "know" the universe? My God, it's hard enough finding your way around in Chinatown.”

Woody Allen book Getting Even

Getting Even (1971), My Philosophy

God, Universe

“The release of atomic power has changed everything except our way of thinking… the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker. (1945)”

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity

Problem, Thinking, Change, Heart

“Shane held the jewelry at arm's length, dangling it like a dead rat. "No way in hell am I caught dead or alive wearing that.”

Rachel Caine (1962) American writer

Source: Ghost Town

Hell, Dead

“The future reshapes the memory of the past in the way it recalibrates significance; some episodes are advanced, others lose purchase.”

Gregory Maguire book A Lion Among Men

Source: A Lion Among Men

Memory, Past, Future

“That's the difference between family and friends. Family is always there, no matter what, even when it's not right next door. Which means that you'll find a way to keep the connection alive. Especially since you realize how important it is.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Longest Ride

Source: The Longest Ride

Family

“Get it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but it's the only way you can do anything good.”

William Faulkner (1897–1962) American writer

Chance

“Books have a unique way of stopping time in a particular moment and saying: Let’s not forget this.”

Dave Eggers (1970) memoirist, novelist, short story writer, editor, publisher

Books, Time, Forgetting

“If we're all going to hell in a handbasket, we might as well make it a party on the way down”

James St. James (1966) American writer

Source: Party Monster: A Fabulous But True Tale of Murder in Clubland

Hell

“But she never looked back with regret. There were so many ways for things to get better.
-Jing-mei”

Amy Tan The Joy Luck Club

Source: The Joy Luck Club

“Through travel I first became aware of the outside world; it was through travel that I found my own introspective way into becoming a part of it.”

Eudora Welty book One Writer's Beginnings

Source: One Writer's Beginnings

World, Travel, Parting

“Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.”

Quentin Crisp book The Naked Civil Servant

Source: The Naked Civil Servant (1968), Ch. 18

Funny, Life

“You see, life only turns out good or bad for only a little bit. And then it turns out some other way.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Rant

Source: Rant

Life

“I ought to go upright and vital, and speak the rude truth in all ways.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet

Source: Self-Reliance

Truth

“To his way of thinking, the only thing more natural than death was sex.”

Stephen King book 'Salem's Lot

Source: 'Salem's Lot

Death, Sex, Nature, Thinking

“Wanting something is not enough. You must hunger for it. Your motivation must be absolutely compelling in order to overcome the obstacles that will invariably come your way.”

Les Brown (1945) American politician

Hunger, Motivation

“Ironically, the utterly unselective omnivore -- "I'm easy; I'll eat anything" -- can appear more socially sensitive than the individual who tries to eat in a way that is good for society.”

Jonathan Safran Foer book Eating Animals

Source: Eating Animals

Appearance

“I am too much of a sceptic to deny the possibility of anything — especially as I am now so much occupied with theology — but I don't see my way to your conclusion.”

Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–1895) English biologist and comparative anatomist

Letter to Herbert Spencer (22 March 1886); this is often quoted with a variant spelling as: I am too much of a skeptic to deny the possibility of anything.
1880s
Source: Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley - Volume 1

“There are all sorts of dream interpretations, Freud's being the most notorious, but I have always believed they served a simple eliminatory function, and not much more - that dreams are the psyche's way of taking a good dump every now and then.”

Stephen King book The Stand

Source: The Stand

Dreams

“The only way that I could figure they could improve upon Coca-Cola, one of life's most delightful elixirs, which studies prove will heal the sick and occasionally raise the dead, is to put bourbon in it.”

Lewis Grizzard (1946–1994) American journalist

Life, Study, Dead

“Excuse our appearances. We are taking apart yesterday, to make way for tomorrow”

Megan McCafferty (1973) American novelist

Source: Perfect Fifths

Appearance

“I'm leaving!" she said, with, in her opinion, great drama and resolve.
But he just answered her with a sly half smile, and said, "I'm following."
And the bloody man remained two strides behind her the entire way home.”

Julia Quinn (1970) American novelist

Source: An Offer From a Gentleman

Smile, Home

“Fear tries to get us to give up but faith takes us all the way through to victory”

Joyce Meyer (1943) American author and speaker

Fear, Faith, Victory

“Power revealed is power sacrificed. The truly powerful exert their influence in ways unseen, unfelt. Some would say that a thing visible is a thing vulnerable.”

Guillermo del Toro book The Fall

Source: The Fall

“Then she lay on her back and gazed at the cloudless sky. Mr. Beebe, whose opinion of her rose daily, whispered to his niece that that was the proper way to behave if any little thing went wrong.”

E.M. Forster book A Room with a View

Source: A Room with a View

“Silena, take the Aphrodite crew to the Queens-Midtown Tunnel."

Oh my gods," one of her sisters said. "Fifth Avenue ison our way! We could accessorize, and monsters, like, hate the smell of Givenchy.”

Rick Riordan book The Last Olympian

Source: The Last Olympian

God, Hate, Sister

“Embrace silence since meditation is the only way to truly come to know your Source.”

Wayne W. Dyer (1940–2015) American writer

Silence

“Then stop trying to throw logic at nightmares. Sometimes the monsters are real, Anita. Sometimes they're real and the only way to defeat them is to be the bigger monster. ~Bibiana to Anita”

Laurell K. Hamilton book Bullet

Variant: Sometimes the monsters are real, Anita. Sometimes they’re real and the only way to defeat them is to be the bigger monster.'
- Chang Bibi to Anita
Source: Bullet

“You must take life the way it comes at you and make the best of it.”

Yann Martel book Life of Pi

Source: Life of Pi

Life

“There’s no way you can kill someone and get to the other side of the experience unchanged.”

Charlaine Harris book Definitely Dead

Source: Definitely Dead

“Every person is a possibility. The hopeless romantics feel it most acutely, but even for others, the only way to keep going is to see every person as a possibility.”

David Levithan book Every Day

Source: Every Day

Feeling, Personality

“I'll ride my bike all the stinkin' way to school for the rest of eternity if it means being with her.

-Bryce”

Wendelin Van Draanen Flipped

Source: Flipped

School

“That is the trick of good government. To make folk desire to live in such a way that there is no need for its intervention.”

Robin Hobb book Assassin's Apprentice

Source: Assassin's Apprentice

“Hello, I'm Shellie's new boyfriend and I'm out of my mind.
If you so much as talk to her or even think her name, I'll cut you in ways that'll make you useless to a woman.”

Frank Miller book The Big Fat Kill

Source: The Big Fat Kill

Thinking

“You can kill time in a number of ways but it always depends on the kind of time you're fighting: some time is unkillable, immortal”

Martin Amis book Money

Source: Money

Time, Fight, Dependency

“She doesn't speak, and I say nothing more. We just stare at each other, letting the tears roll down our cheeks. That's what tears are for, after all. A way for the soul to bleed.”

Cody McFadyen (1968) Cody McFadyen

Source: Shadow Man

Soul, Tear

“We go on our hands and knees and crawl our way towards the truth”

Ian McEwan book Atonement

Source: Atonement

Truth

“If there were an honorable way to get rich, I’d do it, even if it meant being a stooge standing around with a whip. But there isn’t an honorable way, so I just do what I like.”

Confucius book Analects

Source: Analects of Confucius

“Most hatred is based on fear, one way or another. Yeah. I wrapped myself in anger, with a dash of hate, and at the bottom of it all was an icy center of pure terror.”

Laurell K. Hamilton book Guilty Pleasures

Source: Guilty Pleasures

Hate, Fear, Anger

“Thus worshiping, serving, studying, praying, each in its own way squeezes selfishness out of us; pushes aside our preoccupations with the things of the world.”

Neal A. Maxwell (1926–2004) Mormon leader

World, Study, Selfishness

“You can put it another way, of course; you always can.”

Julian Barnes book The Sense of an Ending

Source: The Sense of an Ending

“She remembered timidly standing atop the Luthadel city wall, afraid to use her Allomancy to jump off, despite Kelsier's coaxing. Now she could step off a cliff and muse thoughtfully to herself on the way down.”

Brandon Sanderson (1975) American fantasy writer

Source: The Hero of Ages

“On way. He OK? Aeron
Coming. Something wrong? Lucian
Take me out of your address book. William”

Gena Showalter (1975) American writer

Source: The Darkest Secret

Books

“There really is only one ending to any story. Human life ends in death. Until then, it keeps going and gets complicated and there's loss. Everything involves loss; every relationship ends in one way or another.”

Charlie Kaufman (1958) American screenwriter

Life, Death, Loss

“It was the old New York way of taking life "without effusion of blood": the way of people who dreaded scandal more than disease, who placed decency above courage, and who considered that nothing was more ill-bred than "scenes," except the behaviour of those who gave rise to them.”

Edith Wharton The Age of Innocence

Source: The Age of Innocence (1920), Ch. 33

Life, People, Disease, Courage

“Cosmic time is the same for everyone, but human time differs with each person. Time flows in the same way for all human beings; every human being flows through time in a different way.”

Yasunari Kawabata (1899–1972) Japanese author, Nobel Prize winner

Time, Personality

“If the blind put their hands in God's, they find their way more surely than those who see but have not faith or purpose.”

Helen Keller (1880–1968) American author and political activist

God, Faith

“Even as a small child, I understood that woman had secrets, and that some of these were only to be told to daughters. In this way we were bound together for eternity.”

Alice Hoffman book The Dovekeepers

Source: The Dovekeepers

For Mother, Secret, Daughters

“The best way to know life is to love many things”

Vincent Van Gogh (1853–1890) Dutch post-Impressionist painter (1853-1890)

1880s, 1880, Letter to Theo (Cuesmes, July 1880)
Variant: I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.
Context: I think that everything that is really good and beautiful, the inner, moral, spiritual and sublime beauty in men and their works, comes from God, and everything that is bad and evil in the works of men and in men is not from God, and God does not approve of it.
But I cannot help thinking that the best way of knowing God is to love many things. Love this friend, this person, this thing, whatever you like, and you will be on the right road to understanding Him better, that is what I keep telling myself. But you must love with a sublime, genuine, profound sympathy, with devotion, with intelligence, and you must try all the time to understand Him more, better and yet more. That will lead to God, that will lead to an unshakable faith.

Love, Life

“When they kissed she immediately felt his tongue, tensed and strong, pushing past her teeth, like some bully shouldering his way into a room. Entering her.”

Ian McEwan book On Chesil Beach

Source: On Chesil Beach

Kiss, Strong, Past