Elizabeth Costello Quotes

#1. No, Paul, I couldn't care less if you tell me made-up stories. Our lies reveal as much about us as our truths.' (Said to Paul by Elizabeth Costello, the interloping novelist-angel-inner voice).

J.M. Coetzee

#2. Nothing gold can stay [ ... ] so I guess we'll have to be silver.

David Levithan

#3. You see, everything going on in your life is stemming within you. The control of your life should always be in your hands. What other people think about you should not stop you from moving forward in life.

Hina Hashmi

#4. The most wonderful thing I hear is people coming up and saying 'Thank you for my childhood', which still blows my mind but is very sweet.

Daniel Radcliffe

#5. Some ex-lovers you see from time to time, and it's great to run into them; and some you'd like to run into, but they seem to avoid the stretch of road you're on when you put your foot down...

Bronwyn Angela White

#6. The time for lies is over.

James Dashner

#7. WARNING: The production of spirit is a very delicate and dangerous procedure. It should be left to the professionals and under absolutely no circumstance be replicated.

S.A. Tawks

#8. In our home we have a rule: You can disagree with a man's position as much as you want - after you have been able to state it to his satisfaction.

J. Irwin Miller

#9. Worry and improper thinking are luxuries as dangerous as drink.

Evangeline Walton

#10. The fact is that there is nothing wrong with most of us that a good, clean change of attitude and some new skills wouldn't fix.

Richard Bandler

#11. Hope is a fertile soil where flowers blossoms.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#12. Consciousness is always drawn to the most distracting object: the bumped toe, the loud noise, or the hurting heart.

Michael A. Singer

#13. She thought, instead, with longing of more books - of buying books - of slipping into a narrative of other people's lives. That was release.

Peter Straub

#14. Pike hung up. He knew he couldn't convince Darko with more talk. Darko would have to convince himself, and now he would either show or he wouldn't.

Robert Crais

#15. The only way things will change will be when we're all wilder, louder, riskier, sillier, unexpectedly overflowing with surprise.

Jill Soloway

#16. Working at the pharmacy, you get the impression that there are no healthy people in the world. The normal condition is not health but illness.

Boris Fishman