Goodread Author Quotes

Goodread Author Quotes

“For love is a celestial harmony

Of likely hearts compos'd of stars' concent,

Which join together in sweet sympathy,

To work each other's joy and true content,

Which they have harbour'd since their first descent

Out of their heavenly bowers, where they did see

And know each other here belov'd to be.”

Edmund Spenser

“There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.”

C.S. Lewis

“You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.” 

― Madeleine L'Engle

“No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.” 

― Robert Frost

“I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.” 

― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.” 

― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.” 

― C.S. Lewis

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.” 

― Oscar Wilde

“You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,

Love like you'll never be hurt,

Sing like there's nobody listening,

And live like it's heaven on earth.” 

― William W. Purkey

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.” 

― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” 

― Eleanor Roosevelt, This is My Story

“If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.” 

― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” 

― Maya Angelou

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” 

― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” 

― H. Jackson Brown Jr., P.S. I Love You

love and light

Trace

xoxo