So I Did. Quotes

If you're alive, kick into drive. Chase whimsies. See if you can turn dreams into a way to make a living, if not an entire way of life.

How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck chlamydia?

He looked like the sort of person who would tell you that he did not have an umbrella to lend you when he actually had several and simply wanted to see you get soaked.

I try to maintain a positive attitude at all times, because clients notice little things like that, and if you're frowning and crying all the time and saying "why? why?", they get worried.

The problem then with Jesus is that he cannot be removed from his time and transplanted into our own without simply creating him anew

There are as many kinds of love as there are flowers and bugs put together but men and women and their needs are all the same.

Yup, believe it: I was born on March 28, yet my name is April.

I don't know why wicked places generally look wicked. You'd think they'd look nice, to fool people, but they hardly ever do.

With a library it is easier to hope for serendipity than to look for a precise answer.

Why do my movies make people feel so dead inside?

There's one thing worse than a failed old religion: a naïve and arrogant new one.

In religion as in parenthood, uncritical loyalty to our ancestors may implicate us in an injustice against our descendants: imprisoning them in the errors of our ancestors.

Every cloud has a silver lining

I wondered if I could just drop the role I carried like a mantle of a dethroned prince.

The girl was cinnamon colored in the way of Native America after it had been raped by Europe.

I understand your problem. I'd like to help you out

You should never wear anything you can't afford to lose.

That's the thing about distance: It either gives you time to move on form someone, or it makes you realize just how much you need them.

You've got nothing to be worried about, " he whispers slowly, his breath hot against my cheek, "because, baby, I'm all yours.

Is there a difference between loving someone and being in love with someone?

Dark haired guys are so, so much better.

It's gonna take me a lot longer than a year without you to get over you.

I need you because I'm in love with you, Eden, and I have no idea how I'll ever get over you.

That's the thing about distance: It either gives you time to move on from someone, or it makes you realize just how much you need them.

It was supposed to be us against the world, Tyler and me versus everyone else. Now it's just me.

Boredom is not black licorice, Snicket, " she said. "There's no reason to share it with me.

Imogen was a bright girl naturally, but she had read so many novels that her brain was completely turned.

Heroic ambition seemed to have been the cause of much of the world's pain then - quite like it is now. No villain ever saw himself a villain: he only saw himself a hero

She would speak her story in Spanish and la señora Maureen would tell hers in English

If you cannot see it, you will not be it

He did not see at the moment how foolish it was for two of them to go on alone

[A]s a parent you just have no idea what anything means. On some level everything your kids do and say is in code.

Bullshit makes the flowers grow and that is beautiful

Friendship (as the ancients saw) can be a school of virtue

There are injuries which nature cannot forgive

Dixon was not unconscious of this awed reverence which was given to her

Every night she wrote in that ledger.

That's something I've always fond odd, people smile when they're sad. There's no such thing as a sad smile.

So Shakespeare stole

The world’s magic sneaks up on you in secret, settles next to you when you have your head turned.

He had to keep busy

I love you guilty. It makes it easier for me to wrap you around my finger.

I studied how to use the clothes washer. The handy instructions on the lid helped

The only reason you say that race was not an issue is because you wish it was not. We all wish it was not. But it’s a lie. I came from a country where race was not an issue

...our family became a place where you screamed for help but no one heard, not ever.

He ran his hand up and down his left achilles tendon. Very tender

being well and well being is my way of life

A lady decidedly. Fast? perhaps. Original? undoubtedly. Worth knowing? rather.

I suppose we all tend to want the impossible. And sometimes in attempting it we achieve something near enough to the impossible to elicit satisfaction.

Execution is everything. Even if you start a business with the wrong idea or too many competitors, you can out-execute all the better ideas in the right market.