Bella Lovely Quotes

#1. New York makes even a rich man feel his unimportance. New York is cold, glittering, malign. The buildings dominate. There is a sort of atomic frenzy to the activity going on; the more furious the pace, the more diminished the spirit.

Henry Miller

#2. Not every novel that wants to be a tragedy gets to be one.

Jane Smiley

#3. I'm afraid of the dark, but I choose to sleep in the dark. I can fall right to sleep with the lights on. But I want to be someone who can sleep in the dark, so that's the choice that I make.

Amanda Lindhout

#4. Has anyone ever actually told you how up yourself you are?

Deborah Levy

#5. Silly of me not to have realized it. One often finds Greek temples lurking in the woods of English estates. Sneaky things, temples.

Victoria Alexander

#6. Players with fight never lose a game, they just run out of time

John Wooden

#7. Cecilia did not know why her three slender daughters loved watching overweight people sweat and cry and starve.

Liane Moriarty

#8. Dang! Look at that RAINBOW! Piper shouted, accidently spewing bits of apple pie from her overstuffed mouth. All quickly turned and saw ...
... exactly what Piper claimed, a rainbow.

Victoria Forester

#9. To dissect a poem as if it were a system is a crime, even a sacrilege.

Emil M. Cioran

#10. Literature is still doing the same job that mythology did earlier, but filling in its huge cloudy shapes with sharper lights and deeper shadows.

Northrop Frye

#11. It's nothing serious," he said. "It's just an obsession.

Mary Gaitskill

#12. So they crucified their Messiah? Well can I believe it. That He was a Son of the Living Spirit would be naught to them, if indeed He was so ... They would care little for any God if he came not with pomp and power.

H. Rider Haggard

#13. Spending time with her father was like showering with a cheese grate - it got more painful each time.

Steven Manchester