Quotes of Penelope Lively

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I didn't want it to be a book that made pronouncements.

- Penelope Lively

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“ The price of your birthday outfits should go costlier with respect to the ages you lived. ”

- Anwesha Mohanty ‘Anny’

“ I felt overwhelmed. I didn’t expect a first kiss to be so…life altering. In a few brief moments, the rule book of my universe had been rewritten. Suddenly I was a brand new person. I was as fragile as a newborn, but instead of the doctor placing me in my mother’s arms, he’d put me in Ren’s. What would Ren do with me? Would he draw me near, soothe me, and teach me about this new world or would he reject me and tell the doctor there must be some mistake. There was no way to know. What a breakable and delicate thing a heart was, no wonder I’d kept mine locked away. ”

- Colleen Houck

“ I find it odd the greed of mankind. People only like you for as long as they perceive they can get what they want from you. Or for as long as they perceive you are who they want you to be. But I like people for all of their changing surprises, the thoughts in their heads, the warmth that changes to cold and the cold that changes to warmth... for being human. The rawness of being human delights me. ”

- C. JoyBell C.

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

- Voltaire

“ Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened. ”

- Dr. Seuss

“ It takes writing a billion bad words before you get to the good ones. ”

- Ray Bradbury

“ Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone. ”

- Pablo Picasso

“ And out of Tristan's heart there grew a hazel tree, and out of Iseult's a honeysuckle, and they arched together and clung and intertwined so that they could never be separated anymore. ”

- Rosemary Sutcliff

“ Never apologize for burning too brightly or collapsing into yourself every night. That is how galaxies are made. ”

- Tyler Kent White

“ You don't need a million dollars in the bank. You just have to have passion, hustle and drive ”

- Daymond John

“ Ladies, it’s harvest time!!! Take care of your crops, water them and weed them out. ”

- Charlena E. Jackson

“ God does not ask about our ability, but our availability. ”

- Unknown

“ Bagiku ada sesuatu yang paling berharga dan hakiki dalam kehidupan: 'dapat mencintai, dapat iba hati, dapat merasai kedukaan'. Tanpa itu semua maka kita tidak lebih dari benda. Berbahagialah orang yang masih mempunyai rasa cinta, yang belum sampai kehilangan benda yang paling bernilai itu. Kalau kita telah kehilangan itu maka absurdlah hidup kita. ”

- Soe Hok Gie

“ I spend most nights at home falling in love with the idea of you. ”

- Michael Faudet

“ Those who complain about being constrained in their job and life should ask themselves one simple question. Are you constrained by chains or in your own mind? ”

- RJ Intindola

“ I do love nothing in the world so well as you is not that strange? ”

- William Shakespeare

“ I constantly challenge my athletes with workouts that take them to the upper edge of their ability. Like Brett's, my philosophy is that your biggest competitor is yourself. I will never ask the impossible. But I will come close. Those who answer with courage and selfbelief instead of fear and doubt are the ones who realize their dreams. ”

- Siri Lindley

“ Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. ”

- Mahatma Gandhi

“ I believe in love the verb, not the noun. ”

- Greg Behrendt

“ 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

“ Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom. ”

- Thomas Jefferson

“ Stay strong, stay positive, and never give up. ”

- Roy T. Bennett

“ If you listen more, you will judge less; and when you judge less, you will appreciate differences; and you will be more happy. ”

- JOHN TASKINSOY