Harrower Quotes

#1. But
You
Don't
Know
What
It's
Like.

Pierce The Veil

#2. So they had all had more troubles than she. Did that really make them superior? If two men were walking along the street and a brick fell on one, missing the other, did that make the injured one a better person?

Elizabeth Harrower

#3. But sooner or later people have to take up their own lives, not disperse them out as though they were knitting wool that a clever knitter might handle better.

Elizabeth Harrower

#4. I can't see the world as a great hospital with us all nursing and pitying each other.

Elizabeth Harrower

#5. If we lived forever, there would be time to recover from mistakes of twenty years duration.

Elizabeth Harrower

#6. Perhaps this was part of growing older, to undergo hideous alterations in the deepest certainties, in love, in lovers, finally in one's self.

Elizabeth Harrower

#7. You can admire the way someone meets hard circumstances, but you can't admire him because of them.

Elizabeth Harrower

#8. The life of labor does not make men, but drudges.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#9. What is it about someone genuine that makes other people want to crucify him in some tiny-seeming way? Someone has probably written the reason down in a book. But no one takes any notice, if we do know.

Elizabeth Harrower

#10. I was attracted to the strangeness of his mind as a psychiatrist might have been drawn to an interesting case. he wanted a resident analyst. Neither of us understood.

Elizabeth Harrower

#11. There can be very little of present-day science and technology that is not dependent on complex numbers in one way or another.

Keith Devlin

#12. Any stressful thought that you have about the planet, for example, shows you where you are stuck, where your energy is being exhausted in not fully meeting life as it is, without condition.

Byron Katie

#13. Don't think I am going to let Bob Hoskins take all his clothes off and me not take a look? I just had a quick look up and down, like you would.

Judi Dench

#14. She smiles at her reflection in a spoon.

Edie Brickell

#15. I've never had a problem with a woman who knows what she wants and isn't afraid to ask for it."
Even as her heart stuttered, she narrowed her eyes. "Is that supposed to be a come-on?"
He lifted his hands and donned an innocent expression. "Wouldn't think of it.

Julie Ann Walker

#16. It is always safe to assume, not that the old way is wrong, but that there may be a better way.

Henry Harrower