Dix Neuf Journal Quotes

#1. Each grabbing one silver-wrapped chocolate from Mrs. Cooper's basket, it struck Stella that everyone got the same thing, no matter which school they went to.

Sharon M. Draper

#2. Sometimes it might seem like I'm using my songs to give other people pointers. But mainly, they're for me, just little notes to myself that I collected, and the wisdom that I've read. I give myself a lot of advice.

Seinabo Sey

#3. If we say that religion is a virus, then why isn't science a virus?

Richard Dawkins

#4. Philosophy is the highest music.

Plato

#5. Your dad didn't die, so I won't be able to explain it to you.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#6. A woman over 30 will never wake you in the middle of the night to ask, "What are you thinking?". She doesn't care what you think.

Andy Rooney

#7. Often miracles are happening right in front of our eyes, but we think they should look different, so we miss them though they're right there.

Marianne Williamson

#8. If the kids don't believe, make them believe.

Alex Gaskarth

#9. If we go to church we are confronted with a system of begging so complicated and so resolute that all other demands sink into insignificance by its side.

Agnes Repplier

#10. Up here, people like that don't exist, Nash says quietly as he comes to stand beside me. He's so close his shoulder is brushing mine. I fight the urge to lean against him.

M. Leighton

#11. As I watch him, a sudden recognition comes over me: Tonight, I can be anyone I want ... maybe being happy only means living in the moment, appreciating the exact moment you're in and not thinking about the worries of the future.

Laura Fitzgerald

#12. From ancient to modern times, the human animal knows how to find fighting.

Brad Meltzer

#13. How does a project get to be a year late? One day at a time.

Fred Brooks

#14. The laws of men are not infallible.

Wayne Gerard Trotman

#15. The tea-infused steam was another smell that brought back a fistful of memories, and I let them come. Better to open the door for them, even if they are sad, than to let them burn your house down from the outside.

Alexander Gordon Smith