Quotes about place
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“It's a good idea to have your own books with you in a strange place”

Source: Inkheart

“I have struck a city - a real city - and they call it Chicago. The other places don’t count. Having seen it, I urgently desire never to see it again. It is inhabited by savages”

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

“Whoever you are, now I place my hand upon you/ That you may be my poem/ I whisper with my lips close to your ear/ I have loved many women and men, but I love none better than you.”

Walt Whitman (1819–1892) American poet, essayist and journalist

Love, Women, Men

“I can’t let you go now. I want to go places with you; obscure little places, just to be able to say: here I came with her.”

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

“I closed my eyes and tried to sleep. But it was not until much later that I was able to get any real sleep. In a place far away from anyone or anywhere, I drifted off for a moment.”

Haruki Murakami book The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

Source: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

Sleep

“Or society places a supreme value on control -- hiding what you feel. Our culture mocks "primitive cultures" and prides itself on supression of natural instincts and impulses.”

Jim Morrison (1943–1971) lead singer of The Doors

Feeling, Nature

“Alaska has long been a magnet for dreamers and misfits, people who think the unsullied enormity of the Last Frontier will patch all the holes in their loves. The bush is an unforgiving place, however, that care nothing for hope or longing.”

Jon Krakauer book Into the Wild

Source: Into the Wild

Love, People, Hope, Thinking

“The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their silence at times of crisis.”

Dan Brown book Inferno

Source: Inferno

Hell, Silence, Time

“Everything in life has a place, and when one thing moves, it must go somewhere else.”

Cecelia Ahern book A Place Called Here

Source: A Place Called Here

Life

“they say every man needs protection, they say every man must fall.
yet I swear I see my reflection, some place high above this wall….. and someday I shall be released.”

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

“But it was my parents I longed for mostly. I wanted to be a little girl again and cuddle into them, wriggling in between them like I'd done in their bed when I was three or four, snug and warm in the safest place in the world.

Instead I had Hell.”

John Marsden (1950) author

Source: Darkness, Be My Friend

World, Girl, Hell, Parent

“I’ve seen your foot up close.”
Curran pointed to his chest. “I’ve seen it here.” He moved his hand to his jaw. “Here.” He touched the place over his cheek where my kick had cut him. “And here.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Slays

“I sometimes think it is because they are so bad at expressing themselves verbally that writers take to pen and paper in the first place”

Gore Vidal (1925–2012) American writer

Thinking

“The practice of love offers no place of safety. We risk loss, hurt, pain. We risk being acted upon by forces outside our control.”

Bell Hooks book All About Love: New Visions

Source: All About Love: New Visions

Love, Pain, Loss, Hurt

“A person does not belong to a place until there is someone dead under the ground.”

Gabriel García Márquez book One Hundred Years of Solitude

Source: One Hundred Years of Solitude

Personality, Dead

“Civilisation is the distance that man has placed between himself and his own excreta.”

Brian W. Aldiss (1925–2017) British science fiction author

Source: The Dark Light Years

“Grace is the light or electricity or juice or breeze that takes you from that isolated place and puts you with others who are as startled and embarrassed and eventually grateful as you are to be there.”

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

Light

“Each time I think there is no place lower to go, I find that there is at least one place that will mess you up worse than you were.”

Walter Dean Myers (1937–2014) American writer

Source: Lockdown

Thinking, Time

“Seems to me-" Lee said, feeling for the words, "seems to me the place you fight cruelty is where you find it, and the place you give help is where you see it needed….”

Philip Pullman (1946) English author

Source: His Dark Materials Trilogy: The Golden Compass / The Subtle Knife / The Amber Spyglass

Feeling, Help, Fight

“There is not a thing as the wrong place, or the wrong time. We are where we are at the only time we have. Perhaps it's where we're meant to be.”

Shashi Tharoor (1956) Indian politician, diplomat, author

Source: Riot

Time

“I used to work in a fire hydrant factory. You couldn’t park anywhere near the place.”

Steven Wright (1955) American actor and author

“Walk with care in dark places, and do not put your faith in anyone who promises you the forgiveness of the Lord or a certain place in Paradise.”

Clive Barker book Mister B. Gone

Source: Mister B. Gone

Faith, Forgiveness

“Some of us are born in the right place, and some of us have to go look for it.”

Chris Wooding book Poison

Source: Poison

“Lord, grant that my work increase knowledge and help other men. Failing that, Lord, grant that it will not lead to man’s destruction. Failing that, Lord, grant that my article in Brain be published before the destruction takes place.”

Walker Percy book Love in the Ruins

Source: Love in the Ruins

Men, Knowledge, Help

“Because of you, the world makes sense to me in a way it didn't before. I have a place now, with you.”

Sylvia Day (1973) American writer

Source: Reflected in You

World, Way, Sense

“Love is a piano dropped from a four story window and you were in the wrong place at the wrong time.
-Two Little Girls (Little Plastic Castle)”

Ani DiFranco (1970) musician and activist

Love, Girl, Time

“Go to the Black Sea, meet new people, see beautiful places, get killed by a mutant carnivorous kangaroo goat. One item off my bucket list.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Rises

People, Beauty, Sea

“He knew what the wind was doing to them, where it was taking them, to all the secret places that were never so secret again in life.”

Ray Bradbury book Something Wicked This Way Comes

Source: Something Wicked This Way Comes

Life, Secret

“I have moments like that alot, when my brain falls asleep or something, and the next thing I know I've missed something, as if a puzzle piece fell out of the universe and left me staring at the blank place behind it.”

Rick Riordan book The Lightning Thief

Source: The Lightning Thief

Universe

“What a man wants is a mate and what a woman wants is infinite security,’ and, ‘What a man is is an arrow into the future and a what a woman is is the place the arrow shoots off from.”

Sylvia Plath book The Bell Jar

Source: The Bell Jar

Future

“She didn't like being twelve. It felt like someplace between who she'd been and who she was about to be. It felt like no place at all.”

Alice Hoffman The Story Sisters

Source: The Story Sisters

“You will have a story in there… or a character, a place, a poem, a moment in time. When you find it, you will write it. Word after word after word after word.”

Patricia MacLachlan (1938) American writer of children's books

Source: Word After Word After Word

Time

“The world isn't a sad place, it's just big.”

Jean-Luc Godard (1930) French-Swiss film director, screenwriter and film critic

World, Sadness

“If you write with passion in your own style, you will make a place for yourself”

Dean Koontz (1945) American author

Passion

“Everyone needs a place. It shouldn't be inside of someone else.”

Richard Siken (1967) American poet

“You sound as if you don't mind what happens to it," said Tessa. "Won't you miss it here? This place has been your home."
His fingers stroked her wrist lightly, making her shiver.
"You are home for me now.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Prince

Source: Clockwork Prince

Home

“Are we going to New Orleans?"

"No", she said, backing out of the spot. "We're going to West Virginia."

"I assume by 'West Virginia,' you actually mean 'Hawaii,'" I said. "Or some place equally exciting.”

Richelle Mead book Last Sacrifice

Source: Last Sacrifice

“Dear me! If only men and women would trust, understand and help as my children do, what a capital place `the world would be!”

Louisa May Alcott book Little Women

Source: Little Women

Women, Men, Children, World

“Because you may think a bed is a peaceful thing, Sir, and to you it may mean rest and comfort and a good night's sleep. But it isn't so for everyone; and there are many dangerous things that may take place in a bed.”

Margaret Atwood book Alias Grace

Source: Alias Grace

Peace, Thinking, Sleep, Night

“I wondered about the explorers who'd sailed their ships to the end of the world. How terrified they must have been when they risked falling over the edge; how amazed to discover, instead, places they had seen only in their dreams.”

Jodi Picoult book Handle With Care

Source: Handle with Care

World, Dreams

“We knew that Cecilia had killed herself because she was a misfit, because the beyond called to her, and we knew that her sisters, once abandoned, felt her calling from that place, too.”

Jeffrey Eugenides book The Virgin Suicides

Source: The Virgin Suicides

Sister

“We have reason to be afraid. This is a terrible place.”

John Berryman (1914–1972) American poet

“A good place to meet a man is at the dry cleaner. These men usually have jobs and bathe.”

Rita Rudner (1953) American comedian

Men

“I guess money can't buy happiness if you shop in the wrong places.”

Nora Roberts (1950) American romance writer

Source: Tribute

Money, Happiness

“Nancy, every place you go, it seems as if mysteries just pile up one after another.”

Carolyn Keene book The Message in the Hollow Oak

Source: The Message in the Hollow Oak

“Don't you think it would be wonderful to get rid of everything and everybody and just go some place where you don't know a soul?”

Haruki Murakami (1949) Japanese author, novelist

Soul, Thinking

“People think of heaven as a paradise garden, a place where they can float on clouds and laze in rivers and mountains. But scenery without solace is meaningless.”

Mitch Albom book The Five People You Meet in Heaven

Source: The Five People You Meet in Heaven (2003)

People, Mountain, Thinking

“Once you have lived in New York and made it your home, no place else is good enough”

John Steinbeck (1902–1968) American writer

Home

“There must be always remaining in every life, some place for the singing of angels, some place for that which in itself is breathless and beautiful.”

Howard Thurman (1899–1981) American writer

Life, Beauty, Angels, Singing

“This did not annoy Amanda for it had long been her theory that human beings were invented by water as a device for transporting itself from one place to another.”

Tom Robbins book Another Roadside Attraction

Source: Another Roadside Attraction

Water

“They were at the wrong place at the wrong time naturally they became heroes”

George Lucas (1944) American film producer

Source: A New Hope

Nature, Time

“‎"Matter flows from place to place, and momentarily comes together to be you. Some people find that thought disturbing; I find the reality thrilling.”

Richard Dawkins (1941) English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author

People, Reality

“It was the kind of place you went when your earthly troubles became too much for you and you were looking for a creative way to commit suicide.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Slays

Way, Suicide

“I don't think the real America is in New York or on the Pacific Coast; personally, I like the Middle West much better, places like North and South Dakota, Minneapolis and Saint Paul. There, I think, are the true Americans”

Charlie Chaplin (1889–1977) British comic actor and filmmaker

Thinking, Personality

“Chin held high, Miss Ohio beamed at an imagined crowd. "I want to be a motivational speaker."
"What are you going to motivate people to do?"
Smile still in place, she cut her eyes at Adina. "You know. Motivational… stuff.”

Libba Bray (1964) American teen writer

Source: Beauty Queens

People, Smile, Imagination, Motivation

“Boys do tell you how they really feel. I think you just have to be in the right place at the right time or maybe be the right person”

Kieran Scott (1974) American writer

Source: Megan Meade's Guide to the McGowan Boys

Feeling, Boy, Thinking, Time

“I'm the type who'd be happy not going anywhere as long as I was sure I knew exactly what was happening at the places I wasn't going to. I'm the type who'd like to sit home and watch every party that I'm invited to on a monitor in my bedroom.”

Andy Warhol (1928–1987) American artist

Happiness, Home

“I felt tears prick my eyes as I looked down at the model again, looking at that girl and boy on the curb. Forever in that place, together.”

Sarah Dessen book What Happened to Goodbye

What Happened To Goodbye (2011)
Source: What Happened to Goodbye

Girl, Boy, Tear

“You get a strange feeling when you're about to leave a place, I told him, like you'll not only miss the people you love but you'll miss the person you are now at this time and this place, because you'll never be this way ever again.”

Azar Nafisi book Reading Lolita in Tehran

Source: Reading Lolita in Tehran

Love, People, Way, Feeling

“There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment.”

Sarah Dessen book The Truth About Forever

Source: The Truth About Forever

Love, Time, Wise, Relationship

“Things pass, and the best we can do is to let them really go away. Getting rid of certain memories also means making some room for other memories to take their place.”

Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist

Memory

“There's a time and place for everything, and I believe it’s called 'fan fiction'.”

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

Time

“It was a house without kindness, never meant to be lived in, not a fit place for people or for love or for hope. Exorcism cannot alter the countenance of a house; Hill House would stay as it was until it was destroyed.”

Shirley Jackson book The Haunting of Hill House

Source: The Haunting of Hill House (1959)
Context: This house, which seemed somehow to have formed itself, flying together into its own powerful pattern under the hands of its builders, fitting itself into its own construction of lines and angles, reared its great head back against the sky without concession to humanity. It was a house without kindness, never meant to be lived in, not a fit place for people or for love or for hope. Exorcism cannot alter the countenance of a house; Hill House would stay as it was until it was destroyed.

Love, People, Hope, Housing

“The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.”

George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish playwright

The attribution to Shaw comes from Leadership Skills for Managers (2000) by Marlene Caroselli, p. 71. But this quote seems more likely to come from William H. Whyte. The Biggest Problem in Communication Is the Illusion That It Has Taken Place, Quote Investigator, 2014-08-31, 2015-11-09 http://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/08/31/illusion/, <br class="br">Misattributed

Communication, Problem, Leadership, Relationship

“Remember that no matter where I am or what I'm doing I've got a special place inside me that's all for you. It's been there since the day we met.”

Sara Zarr (1970) American children's writer

Source: Sweethearts

“To shut your eyes is to guess nothing of blindness. Beneath your world of skies and faces and buildings exists a rawer and older world, a place where surface planes disintegrate and sounds ribbon in shoals through the air.”

Anthony Doerr book All the Light We Cannot See

Source: All the Light We Cannot See

World

“Be compassionate… and take responsibility for each other. If we only learned those lessons, this world would be a better place.”

Mitch Albom Tuesdays with Morrie

Source: Tuesdays with Morrie

World, Learning

“One more thing," Jace said. "Is there a holy place around here?"
“Good idea. If you're going to take on a lair of vampires by yourself, you'd better pray first.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Bones

Source: City of Bones

Idea

“Wherever they go, and whatever happens to them on the way, in that enchanted place on the top of the forest, a little boy and his Bear will always be playing.”

A.A. Milne book The House at Pooh Corner

Source: The House at Pooh Corner (1928)
Context: Then Christopher Robin and Winnie the Pooh walked hand in hand down the forest path and they said goodbye. So they went off together. But wherever they go, and whatever happens to them on the way, in that enchanted place on the top of the forest a little boy and his bear will always be playing.

Way, Boy

“You're mistaken, Father. You were in paradise, but you didn't recognize it. It's the same with most people in this world; they seek suffering in the most joyous of places because they think they are unworthy of happiness.”

Paulo Coelho book The Devil and Miss Prym

Source: The Devil and Miss Prym

Happiness, People, World, Thinking

“You never know the last time you’ll see a place. A person.”

Jenny Han (1980) American writer

Source: It's Not Summer Without You

Time, Personality

“Rectory always sounded to me like a place you would find a proctologist.”

Jeff Lindsay book Dexter in the Dark

Source: Dexter in the Dark

“Wikipedia is the first place I go when I'm looking for knowledge… or when I want to create some.”

Stephen Colbert (1964) American political satirist, writer, comedian, television host, and actor

Knowledge

“This thing about looking for someone less different… It only really worked, he realized, if you were convinced that being you wasn't so bad in the first place.”

Nick Hornby About a Boy

Source: About a Boy

“Hollywood's a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss, and fifty cents for your soul.”

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

As quoted in Marilyn Monroe : In Her Own Words (1983), edited by Roger Taylor
Context: Hollywood's a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss, and fifty cents for your soul. I know, because I turned down the first offer often enough and held out for the fifty cents.

Soul, Kiss