Maisie Knew Quotes

#1. Mrs. Wix gave a sidelong look. She still had room for wonder at what Maisie knew.

Henry James

#2. Through ignorance, through faith, through intelligence, through trickery and cunning, through illumination, the reader rewrites the text with the same words of the original but under another heading, re-creating it, as it were, in the very act of bringing it into being.

Alberto Manguel

#3. But the truth of the matter is, to live a good life, as a good person, it doesn't matter how you got there. It just matters that you do.

Hank Green

#4. We're both fucked up in different ways, but we agree to accept that.

Anonymous

#5. Words, they climb all over you/'Til they uncover you From where you hide.

Peter Gabriel

#6. Consciousness is part of our nature as sentient beings, but doesn't mean we are aware at a particular moment. By perceiving our consciousness - becoming conscious of consciousness, we become aware.

Ilchi Lee

#7. Sunsets.
The illusion either above the horizon or below it.
When day and night are linked in a way that cannot be one without the other, yet they cannot exist at the same time.

Ebelsain Villegas

#8. Fruitcake is like semen, there's a lot of it about but no one wants to swallow it

Oscar Wilde

#9. At first, Maisie had been glad to work with a female crewmember. So much the better to fend off the sneers, leers, and veiled derision of her male majority shipmates. But now she knew better. Karen was here to make neither friends nor feminist stands. She was here to ruin Maisie's career!

Mads Sukalikar

#10. The novel form is about the protagonist's struggle to transform his arbitrary, fragmented, given experience into a narrative as meaningful as his favorite books.

Elif Batuman

#11. Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.

Addison Mizner

#12. We each are young, we each have a heart, Oh, why should we thus stand coldly apart

Louisa May Alcott

#13. Y'know what they call the person who does all the work but gets none of the credit? An opportunity.

Brad Meltzer