Quotes About Wittlinger

#1. The whole idea of boys being people you would actually choose to spend time with was pretty much totally incomprehensible to me. i could never think of anything to say to them, and they seemed equally dumbstruck by my presence.

Ellen Wittlinger

#2. I trust the red sun setting, the leafless November trees. On Monday morning I look foward fearlessly to Friday's eve. But humans are not as reliable as nature, as trees. I wonder if you'll come back; I trust only that you leave.

Ellen Wittlinger

#3. I like to believe the happy ending lasts forever.

Ellen Wittlinger

#4. I want to look at all my tears, she said. which made me shiver

Ellen Wittlinger

#5. Why is it that people don't know what to say when something bad has happened to someone they know? Maybe because they think there are some magic words that will make everything all right again, only they don't know what the words are.

Ellen Wittlinger

#6. It's a lie, you know, to pretend that nothing is important to you. It's hiding. Believe me, I know because I hid for a long time. But now I won't do it anymore. The truth is bioluminescent. I don't lie, and I don't waste time on people who do.

Ellen Wittlinger

#7. Rather the artist's delight in what becomes, the cheerfulness of artistic creation that defies all misfortune, is merely a bright image of clouds and sky mirrored in a black lake of sadness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#8. The strongest amongst you is he who subdues his self

Ali R.A

#9. And she said we all had to find God inside ourselves, in the things we loved most.

Ellen Wittlinger

#10. Bunny was a good soul and a strong believer but she would have been that way whether she went to church or not, wouldn't she. church doesn't make you a better person.

Ellen Wittlinger

#11. Decisions in 10 minutes or less, or the next one is free.

Brian Valentine

#12. But you can only lie about who you are for so long without going crazy.

Ellen Wittlinger

#13. Well, you just have to make sure that you're his escape

Ellen Wittlinger

#14. 'The Karate Kid' was just lightning in a bottle. The second movie is a very worthy sequel, because you got to explore the Okinawan culture and learned about Miyagi's life. The third, as is always the case, was made because the second one made a lot of money.

Martin Kove

#15. Old age is when you resent the swimsuit issue of Sports Illustrated because there are fewer articles to read.

George Burns

#16. Sometimes people think they're above the laws the rest of us live by. they're blind to their own imperfections.

Ellen Wittlinger

#17. Christianity is the greatest intellectual system the mind of man has ever touched.

Francis Schaeffer

#18. When there's an elephant in the room, you can't pretend it isn't there and just discuss the ants.

Ellen Wittlinger

#19. I have been waiting on her all my life. I was the waitress. Waiting on her and waiting for her. What was I waiting for? Waiting for her to step into her self or step out of her invalid self. Waiting for her to take the voyage out of her gloom, to buy a ticket to a vital life.

Deborah Levy

#20. Well, it sounds strange, but when i think of God, i think of a soft whirring noise - like a spinning ball of energy - something i can tap into when i need it.

Ellen Wittlinger

#21. My name is Mike. Instantly forgettable. Unlike Heather. What a breathless little name that is.

Ellen Wittlinger

#22. It seems obvious to me that the more queer books there are in the wolrd, the more queer kids we reach with the message that they are not alone, the fewer LGBT kids become one of these grim statistics.

Ellen Wittlinger

#23. Oh, darling, you know we writers must occasionally stretch a point to heighten the dramatic situation.

Patrick Dennis

#24. Nobody is like anybody else. that's why nobody gets along with anybody else.

Ellen Wittlinger

#25. I was in love with the sound of the slamming door, it sounded the way i felt, like damn you to hell! and i hate what you're doing to me! and Life sucks.

Ellen Wittlinger

#26. When people say they love you, you just have to decide to believe them, because you'll never know for sure.

Ellen Wittlinger

#27. This is what war does. Right here, in my hands. This is war.

Patrick Ness

#28. I think you manifest what you believe, and when you believe that you have no choice you lose choice.

Alice Englert

#29. If you grow up with less, you are much better able to deal with having less. That is itself a kind of freedom.

William Deresiewicz

#30. I believe in anything it would be nature - trees, clouds, rain - the life cycles that begin and end, season after season. that makes sense to me - nature as God.

Ellen Wittlinger

#31. What's normal, she said. adults are all just weird in different ways.

Ellen Wittlinger

#32. I personally feel that I should support people who are doing good work and people should also support such good work.

Aamir Khan

#33. The more devils we have within us, the more chance we have to form angels.

Nikos Kazantzakis

#34. Well," she said, "I should think it would do every man good to have a wife who isn't as in awe of him as everyone else is. Somebody has to keep you humble.

Brandon Sanderson

#35. You give everyone the benefit of the doubt. they don't always deserve it.

Ellen Wittlinger