Epiphanies In Literature Quotes

#1. We're friends, I told him, it's an indefinable relationship.

Dodie Bellamy

#2. I don't think you have any control over who you are-it just happens. Sometimes in the morning I wake up and don't know who I am. I have to get out of bed and open the closet door, and then I think, oh yes, I'm the girl in the red dress.

MacDonald Harris

#3. There are two kinds of houses in the neighborhood where I grew up-the ones where the parents stayed married, and the ones where they didn't.

Jennifer Weiner

#4. There is no freedom about this: the world gives, and you just take what you're given, with no opportunity to choose.

Amos Oz

#5. Go find yourself first so you can also find me.

Jalaluddin Rumi

#6. Every human being has a right to hear what other wise human beings have spoken to him. It is one of the Rights of Men; a very cruel injustice if you deny it to a man!

Thomas Carlyle

#7. It is wonderful when you don't have the fear, and a lot of the time I don't ... I focus on what needs to be done instead.

Wangari Maathai

#8. I want everything back, the way it was. But there is no point to it, this wanting.

Margaret Atwood

#9. I mean, God, I'm so lucky right now with the opportunities that I've had. There's nothing to worry about.

Alison Lohman

#10. Adultery and cruelty have well-marked courses of action but what can a man do when his wife wants to appear naked on the stage?

John Cheever

#11. Love takes off the masks we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.

James Baldwin

#12. If you aren't happy with your life, change things until you are ... if you can't change something, change your attitude about it.

Ingrid Weir