Quotes of Peter Carey

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It did not occur to me that I might be a writer until I flunked out of my first year as a chemistry major, and found work as an apprentice writer of Volkswagen ads.

- Peter Carey

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“ Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great. ”

- Niccolo Machiavelli

“ One day she will be mine. I am telling you. I need to have her, and she needs me. She just doesn’t know it yet. There is no one in the world that could love her the way I could. ”

- Nico J. Genes

“ A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes. ”

- Robert Frost

“ Sometimes when I'm alone, I take the pearl from where it lives in my pocket and try to remember the boy with the bread, the strong arms that warded off nightmares on the train, the kisses in the arena. ”

- Suzanne Collins

“ Some symbols reach to your primordial archives. ”

- Talismanist Giebra

“ Hmm…now that I think about it, housecats are often coddled and petted. You don’t pet me nearly enough. You must be a lax owner. How selfish of you to deprive your cat of attention. ”

- Colleen Houck

“ We don’t really care for things that we get easily in life. Life always needs to be served hot. ”

- Subhasis Das

“ A bad attitude is like a flat tire, you can’t get very far until you change it. ”

- Unknown

“ feeling upset? look up a lover ”

- Arif Naseem

“ Being love rather than giving or taking love, is the only thing that provides stability. ”

- Ram Dass

“ You are everything I never knew I always wanted. ”

- Fools Rush In

“ A daily dose of daydreaming heals the heart, soothes the soul, and strengthens the imagination. ”

- Richelle E. Goodrich

“ The desires of man are frequently more influential than their rational thought. ”

- RJ Intindola

“ To being far away from everything and everyone Stefanie Sybens, Letters from the WhatWentBefore ”

- Stefanie Sybens

“ Most people never truly live because they never do what they truly love. ”

- Tanner Walling

“ Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall. ”

- Confucius

“ Stop hating yourself for everything you aren’t and start loving yourself for everything you already are. ”

- Unknown

“ Never make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option. ”

- Maya Angelou

“ ?Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats. ”

- Voltaire

“ It was like I’d met my life’s purpose. Like I’d been hurtling through the cosmos, blind, and without a destiny and he gave me one. He was fated to be the man who would break my heart at last. The heart I’d kept under scrutiny, sheltered, for this long, he tore through the heavy vaults and ripped it right out of my chest. From then on, there was no me, and no him. There was only us. ”

- Ellie Fox

“ I thought it (love) meant like you hold out your hand and someone takes it, holds it hard, and pulls you safe from the river. You talk. You tell him bits of yourself. You say here's where I hurt and you give it to him and he holds it and gives you where he hurts in return and you hold it and that's how you learn to love. ”

- Elizabeth George

“ Remember, darkness does not always equate to evil, just as light does not always bring good. ”

- P.C. Cast

“ Everyday of your life is a another lesson. If you learn the lesson well and apply it; whether positive or negative, you determine what happens in your tomorrow. ”

- David Kofi Awusi

“ I know that the whole point—the only point—is to find the things that matter, and hold on to them, and fight for them, and refuse to let them go. ”

- Lauren Oliver