Kim Culbertson Quotes

#1. But this wasn't a movie. In life, we didn't get to have credits roll to tell us when we'd come to the end of our epiphany arc. To know when to applaud. In life, there were no credits, no sound tracks. In life, things often didn't work out.

Kim Culbertson

#2. No wide road leads to God.

Nikos Kazantzakis

#3. People are probably always buried where we're standing.

Kim Culbertson

#4. Homeschool doesn't give you a get out of teenage jail free card. It just
gives you fewer opportunities to become the butt of someone's lame Facebook joke.

Kim Culbertson

#5. Most of us are living in a prison of our fixed, false beliefs and never try to find the door to get out to see and feel the beauty of life, even when the door is wide open and welcoming.

Debasish Mridha

#6. Set it up in Zimbabwe, Every man gotta right to decide his own destiny, And in this judgment there is no partiality. So arm in arms, with arms, we'll fight this little struggle, 'Cause that's the only way we can overcome our little trouble.

Bob Marley

#7. I don't like slapdash careless prose, and if I saw myself doing it, I would give up writing altogether.

Ruth Rendell

#8. All our Western thought is founded on this repulsive pretence that pain is the proper price of any good thing.

Rebecca West

#9. Once I have a vision of something I want to accomplish, I tend to slog doggedly toward my goal until I achieve it; this is a skill from my youth.

Arlene Blum

#10. I'm not boring to be around. Something will always happen.

Mila Kunis

#11. But that was the thing about metaphors, those tricky comparisons of dissimilar things. They weren't always tricky. Or dissimilar.

Kim Culbertson

#12. Isn't it odd that you have to keep proving you're alive?

Robert Preston

#13. Kissing meant he had to touch. Touching meant he wanted to crush her under him. Getting her under him meant he had to be inside her, and when he got there the only thing that kept him from losing it and going all caveman on her was the knowledge that he'd scare her to death if he did.

Anne Calhoun

#14. The division is based on knowledge, based on qualifications - but as I learned from the factionless, a system that relies on a group of uneducated people to do its dirty work without giving them a way to rise is hardly fair.

Veronica Roth

#15. Love is the beauty of this world pressed nose to nose with all its pain.

Kim Culbertson

#16. Cherk: a charming jerk.

Kim Culbertson

#17. Science is continually correcting what it has said. Fertile corrections ... science is a ladder ... poetry is a winged flight ... An artistic masterpiece exists for all time ... Dante does not efface Homer.

Victor Hugo

#18. People think being alone makes you lonely, but I don't think that's true. Being surrounded by the wrong people is the loneliest thing in the world.

Kim Culbertson

#19. It's not the light that's attracting me, but the darkness that's driving me on.

Julien Torma

#20. That was the great thing about growing up. We got to write our own endings, thousands of them, over and over. That WAS life. It was a million little endings. Even when other people thought we were writing them wrong.

Kim Culbertson

#21. You should try things on, see if they fit you. If they don't, it's not failure. It's a choice. But always let yourself have a choice, let yourself have possibilities.

Kim Culbertson

#22. I wanted to say something to him about regret, about how I didn't really believe in the idea of regret because it was always based on what might have happened. People always held up the now, the concrete now, and compared it to what might have been, and that wasn't a fair comparison.

Kim Culbertson

#23. I stand at a window, looking out at a dark world streaked
with light. And I see what you see,
my eyes filled with a constant threat of tears,
at all the desolate beauty in the world.

Kim Culbertson

#24. You might be an old soul, Carter, but you're still seventeen

Kim Culbertson

#25. I don't think anyone who tries something they love is a failure. I think it's the people who don't try who are failures.

Kim Culbertson

#26. Did it wver throw them off, jumping so quickly between fantasy and reality?

Kim Culbertson

#27. What's painful is that what you had together, all your inside jokes and favorite restaurants and that movie you both loved but everyone else hated - that's gone, and there's no replacement for it, you never replicate it, never get to have it ever again ...

Kim Culbertson