Hannah Quotes

Tragedy was like that, a razor that sliced through time, severing the now from the before, incising the what-might-have-been from reality as cleanly as any surgeon's blade.

It should be held as an eternal truth, that what is morally wrong can never be politically right.

There is hardly a better way to avoid discussion than by releasing an argument from the control of the present and by saying that only the future will reveal its merits.

Through my sudden tears, the train lights smeared like shooting stars. Lying before the rippling blue window, below the slurred lights of the world above, it was as if we were underwater.

Whoa, you got my head in the cloudsWhoa, you got me thinking out loudThe more you dream about me the more I believeThat nothing's ever out of reachSo dream, dream, dream

If the Almighty chose to establish his religion by miracles, he chooses to carry it on by means.

Ah, you noticed that black sheep on the hills aren't nearly as plentiful as the white. They're a particularly hardy lot.

Lulu twirled in front of Jolene, banging into the seat. her eyes sparkled in that I'm-either-going-to-scream-or-fall-asleep-any-second kind of way.

Look at us. One bleeding body, one corpse, and a husk who's been half dead for years. No one who took an objective look at this room could think it was anything but too late, Ruth. For all of us.

You think winter will never end, and then, when you don't expect it, when you have almost forgotten it, warmth comes and a different light.

I was born walking, born in the nowhere between galaxies.

... allow me to be an old man for a moment and to remind a young girl who is used to being impulsive that there can be none of that anymore.

Humble yourself, and you will find that Love is spreading a carpet of flowers beneath your feet.

It felt as if she were bleeding - but it wasn't blood that leaked out of her, not something that could be easily transfused. Instead she was losing her dreams.

Time doesn't stop. Your life doesn't stop and wait until you get ready to start living it.

I loved the abandoned subway stations, rushing past the darkened platforms, the sprawl of graffiti like old letters. Letters left by ghosts.

Don't ever let anyone tell you that college is for smart people. College eats smart people alive.

I've never begged. not for anything... except my mother's love.And that was a useless waste of time.

You know the most common phrase in the movies is 'let's get out of here?

Nobody is wired wrong because there’s no wrong and right in the way we are.

I guess that’s the thing about riding on cloud nine—it can’t last forever. And that particular fall was hard and fast.

Marah will come looking for me one day, Kate had said, pressing the journal into my hands. Be with her when she reads it. And my boys… show them these words when they can’t remember me.

Twas doing nothing was his curse. Is there a vice can plague us worse?

If you are going to start, don't quit. But if you are going to quit, don't even start!

The true secret of giving advice is after you have honestly given it to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not and never persist in trying to set people right.

A man who accustoms himself to buy superfluities is often in want of necessities.

To those who know thee not no words can paint! And those who know thee know all words are faint!

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal.

Ideas as distinguished from events are never unprecedented.

Imagination frames events unknown In wild fantastic shapes of hideous ruin And what it fears creates.

Equality is the result of human organization. We are not born equal.

Tolerance and celebration of individual differences is the fire that fuels lasting love.

Going to the opera like getting drunk is a sin that carries its own punishment with it and that a very severe one.

Prayer is not eloquence but earnestness not the definition of helplessness but the feeling of it not figures of speech but earnestness of soul.

We are outside again, walking, when he takes a bite and stops dead. "Wow, " he says after a minute. Then, "Wow, " again.I smile. Everyone remembers their first taste of Paris. This will be his.

All of my relationships have happened organically with people who are super cool and in my life and it just moved into a relationship zone.

It is so cool to think that there are two female, Indian actresses on prime-time American network television who are considered attractive and funny and smart.

I loved to do sports when I was young. We were on a family holiday and went sailing. I just loved it. And there, you can say, life began to change for me.

That's a big goal of mine, to try and grow as much of my own food as possible.

This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst expect the best and take what comes.

If I could travel back in time, I'd bring back the entire Wu-Tang Clan.

Turns out you have a really fun time if you go to work every day and focus on being silly and funny and happy!

My mom used to call me a parrot, because the way I spoke would change in every country we'd go to.

The thing about dating someone who listens to a totally different genre than you is they can help you find things to appreciate in that genre.

That's so romantic, to wake up and find that he's packed a bag - and that for the next 48 hours, everything is taken care of.

All through childhood, I wrote verses and mysteries. There is, for me, one connection: structure. My poetry is metrical, rhyming.

My sister, singer Jessie Ware, and I are always exchanging music. We brainstormed her wedding playlist for months.