Carmen Laforet Quotes

#1. When I left, I had learnt nothing. I took nothing with me. At least, that's what I thought then.

Carmen Laforet

#2. The most painful and jealously guarded secrets are perhaps the ones that everyone around us knows. Stupid tragedies. Useless tears.

Carmen Laforet

#3. What a relief to be away from the stares of those extraordinary beings!

Carmen Laforet

#4. Any man without a woman is incomplete, and vice-versa she's obsolete.

Kool Moe Dee

#5. I think, perhaps, you are more free than I am.

Maryann Austin

#6. I let quiet shape what I say, then realize there is nothing that can be fully said - the reason for gestures and eyes and art. Always something waiting, wanting, expectant, yet also curiously not.

Meia Geddes

#7. Laziness is a programmers main virtue.

Larry Wall

#8. Because of meat."
"It's for his tiger," said the cook.
Arin palmed his face, eyes squeezed shut. "Your tiger."
"He's very particular," said Roshar.
"You can't bring the tiger to the banquet.

Marie Rutkoski

#9. I had to smile to myself. In only a day or two, life seemed different from the way I'd always conceived of it. Complicated and very simple at the same time.

Carmen Laforet

#10. I do lots of crowd work in my set, because I enjoy writing material through riffing and conversation.

Chris Hardwick

#11. Tom Cruise only makes one or two film appearances a year. A baseball player can be the hero or the goat one-hundred and sixty-two times a year.

Dave Winfield

#12. I was realizing, for the first time, that everything goes on, turns gray, is ruined in the living. That there is no end to our story until death comes and the body decays ...

Carmen Laforet

#13. That profound night freedom was agreeable and exciting.

Carmen Laforet

#14. I write short, my words tight to the thread of the narrative.

Carmen Laforet

#15. It was the first time I traveled alone, but I was not scared.

Carmen Laforet