Am Quotes (page 295)

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• writing
• saying
• thinking

...I have to write to discover what I am doing. Like the old lady, I don't know so well what I think until I see what I say; then I have to say it again. Flannery O'Connor

• men
• road
• world

On this road there are no godspoke men. They are gone and I am left and they have taken with them the world. Cormac McCarthy

• about life
• wonder
• wonderful

This is strange, Henry. Before, as soon as I came home from all sorts of places I would sit down and write in my journal. Now I want to write you, talk with you. [...]I love when you say all that happens is good, it is good. I say all that happens is wonderful. For me it is all symphonic, and I am so aroused by living - god, Herny, in you alone I have found the same swelling of enthusiasm, the same quick rising of the blood, the fullness. [...]Before, I almost used to think there was... Anais Nin

• she
• enough is enough
• handsome

She is tolerable, but not handsome enough to tempt me, and I am in no humor at present to give consequence to young ladies who are slighted by other men. Jane Austen

• soul
• souls
• mine

He's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same. Emily Bronte

• time
• summer
• excellence

You’re JOKING!” said Fred Weasley loudly. The tension that had filled the Hall ever since Moody’s arrival suddenly broke. Nearly everyone laughed, and Dumbledore chuckled appreciatively. “I am not joking, Mr. Weasley,” he said, “though now that you mention it, I did hear an excellent one over the summer about a troll, a hag, and a leprechaun who all go into a bar...” Professor McGonagall cleared her throat loudly. “Er — but maybe this is not the time . . . no . . .” said Dumbledore. J. K. Rowling

• choose
• humanity
• free

I am a believer in free will. If my dog chooses to hate the whole human race except myself, it must be free to do so. Diana Wynne Jones

• lies
• always
• right

I am in revolt against the age-old lie that the majority is always right. Henrik Ibsen

• regret
• writing
• little

I am but little disposed to put things in writing. One almost always regrets doing so. Charles Baudelaire

• serious
• generally
• any

I am not trying to make a point by telling stories. Chosen examples are never serious evidence for any worthwhile generalization. Richard Dawkins

• smart
• party
• today

How am I to dress up in my finery, and go off and away to smart parties, after the sorrow I have seen today? Elizabeth Gaskell

• together
• little
• old

I still am a little late, though. I'm trying. There's a lot of shit to do to pull this old ass together. Cyndi Lauper

• skipper
• seeing
• shall

I've drawn myself apart from them all; I am my own skipper and later on I shall see where I come to land Anne Frank

• old
• nature
• appearance

The sense of wishing to be known only for what one really is is like putting on an old, easy, comfortable garment. You are no longer afraid of anybody or anything. You say to yourself, 'Here I am --- just so ugly, dull, poor, beautiful, rich, interesting, amusing, ridiculous -- take me or leave me.' And how absolutely beautiful it is to be doing only what lies within your own capabilities and is part of your own nature. It is like a great burden rolled off a man's back when he comes to want... David Grayson

• wellness
• memories
• competition

You have a... remarkable memory,” I say haltingly. “I remember everything about you,” says Peeta, tucking a loose strand of hair behind my ear. “You’re the one who wasn’t paying attention.” “I am now,” I say. “Well, I don’t have much competition here,” he says. I want to draw away, to close those shutters again, but I know I can’t. [...]“You don’t have much competition anywhere. Suzanne Collins