Mass Quotes #17
I believe it’s been a hell of a year and I believe that in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary, we will all be okay.
– Izzie Stevens, Grey’s Anatomy
Books make great gifts because they have whole worlds inside of them. And it’s much cheaper to buy someone a book than it is to buy them the whole world!
– Neil Gaiman
He had what Avery called “fetal motherboard syndrome”: he had to be touching some kind of online device at all times or he became skittish.
– Maureen Johnson, The Bermudez Triangle
“This book is pushing me, Zillah, making me write it. It excites me, and it drives me. In its pages, myth and matter merge. What happens in one time can make a difference in what happens in another time, far more than we realize. What Gedder does is going to make a difference, to the book, perhaps to the world. Nothing, no one is too small to matter. What you do is going to make a difference.”
– Matthew Maddock in A Swiftly Tilting Planet by Madeleine L’Engle
I draw because words are too unpredictable.
I draw because words are too limited.
If you speak and write in English, or Spanish, or Chinese, or any other language, then only a certain percentage of human beings will get your meaning.
But when you draw a picture, everybody can understand it. If I draw a cartoon of a flower, then every man, woman, and child in the world can look at it and say, “That’s a flower.”
So I draw because I want to talk to the world. And I want the world to pay attention to me.
– Sherman Alexie, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
He heard Mrs. Kitteridge yelling from above. He couldn’t hear the worlds, but he understood that help was coming. He had only to keep Patty from falling away, and as they went again beneath the swirling, sucking water, he strengthened his grip on her arm to let her know: He would not let her go. Even though, staring into her open eyes in the swirling salt-filled water, with sun flashing through each wave, he thought he would like this moment to be forever: the dark-haired woman on shore calling for their safety, the girl who had once jumped rope like a queen, now holding him with a fierceness that matched the power of the ocean—oh, insane, ludicrous, unknowable world! Look how she wanted to live, look how she wanted to hold on.
– Elizabeth Strout, Olive Kitteridge
It’s not a slam at you when people are rude, it’s a slam at the people they’ve met before.
– F. Scott Fitzgerald
Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure, but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.
– F. Scott Fitzgerald
Knowing; Grey’s Anatomy
“Is it better to know, than to wonder? Is it better to wake, than to sleep? Is it better to make the worst decision than none at all? We have to sweep today’s possibilities under tomorrow’s rug, until we can’t anymore. Until we finally understand what Benjamin Franklin meant…that knowing is better than wondering, that waking is better than sleeping, and that even the biggest failure, even the worst entrappable mistake, beats the hell out of never even trying.”
-Merideth; Grey’s Anatomy
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