Quotes of: Story-books Keyword

Sickness occurs when we desire what we need and what’s desirable with equal intensity, suffering our lack of perfection as if we were suffering for lack of bread.

The Book of Disquiet

Everything that happens where we live happens in us. Everything that ceases in what we see ceases in us. Everything that has been, if we saw it when it was, was taken from us when it went away.

The Book of Disquiet

Write, write, write! Get your you-know-what in the chair and write more books: write the books of your heart and don’t let stress steal your joy.

Beautiful Demons

An angel is an empty comic book thought bubble. The content has to be filled in by the viewer.

The Bride Stripped Bare By Her Bachelors, Even

Those who make objectivity a religion are liars. they are scared of human pain. They dont want to be objective, it's a lie: they want to be objects, so as not to suffer.

The Book of Embraces

Era stata la prima a vedere il mio lavoro, sa? E la prima a credere in me, a considerarmi un artista, non un ragazzo con un sogno

The Book of Lost and Found

Then again, in some of our meetings, the Upyri bring cocktails, shaking both cocks and tails. Bitches. You can't live with them, they can't live without you. It's a lose-lose situation.

The Book of the Forsaken

She knew that there were all kinds of ways to make a conquest and that one of the surest roads to a woman's genitals was through her sadness.

The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

Once the writer in every individual comes to life (and that time is not far off), we are in for an age of universal deafness and lack of understanding.

The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

My sisters were wrong to name the Vargas boys in the oath. Names had nothing to do with it. All boys were destined to break your heart.

The Book of Broken Hearts

No matter how long you waited, no matter how hard you wished, no matter how much you missed the past, time marched forward.

The Book of Broken Hearts

But there's something fundamentally wrong in a system where a girl like Meredith would even consider staying with a boy like Dylan if she has the chance to be free of him.

The Book of Ivy

I'm not sure how we got to this place, where a girl's only value is in what kind of marriage she has, how capable she is of keeping a man happy.

The Book of Ivy

But I want to be better than the lessons they taught me. I want my love to be greater that my hate, my mercy to be stronger than my vengeance.

The Book of Ivy

I'm glad she's not faking affection. It's more honest than what her husband is doing, at least. Dislike is an emotion I can respect.

The Book of Ivy

Life is one sick joke after another, I'm discovering. Because it hardly seems fair that it should hurt so much to finally get exactly what I've been wishing for.

The Book of Ivy

You are exactly who you need to be in this moment. Don't begrudge that or justify it.

The Big Book of YOU: Spiritual Principles for Creating Your Life and Accepting What Is

The man or the woman in whom resides greater virtue is the higher; neither the loftiness nor the lowliness of a person lies in the body according to the sex, but in the perfection of conduct and virtues.

The Book of the City of Ladies

It was a great fucking time, the short era of disaster euphoria, for nothing enhances pleasures and blocks guilt like a looming cataclysm.

The Book of My Lives

It's not only the event itself, but the way we explain it to ourselves that causes depression.

The Bounce Back Book: How to Thrive in the Face of Adversity, Setbacks, and Losses

How many women are there ... who because of their husbands' harshness spend their weary lives in the bond of marriage in greater suffering than if they were slaves among the Saracens?

The Book of the City of Ladies