Sylvia Beach Quotes

#1. "When you left
he left
you took everything with you. But the absence of him is everywhere I look." - Bella Swan, New Moon

Stephenie Meyer

#2. I wish I could say I see my little brother more. We used to fight all the time but now that I don't see him very often I cherish the time I have with him.

Zac Efron

#3. I came to quite an opposite conclusion, and have not wavered from it since. I do not think[Pg 116] there will ever be a large tide of immigration into California; and I think, moreover, that, ten years hence, the present owners of land there will be glad to take far less than they ask for it now.

Edward Money

#4. Fitting people with books is about as difficult as fitting them with shoes.

Sylvia Beach

#5. So this was the reverse of dazzling Nauset.
The flip of the coin - the flip of an ocean fallen
Dream-face down. And here, at my feet, in the suds,
The other face, the real, staring upwards.

Ted Hughes

#6. Once you considered failure you were one step farther away from success.

Nora Roberts

#7. I think Hemingway's [book] titles should be awarded first prize in any contest. Each of them is a poem, and their mysterious power over readers contributes to Hemingway's success. His titles have a life of their own, and they have enriched the American vocabulary.

Sylvia Beach

#8. A second wave collapsed over my feet, lipped with white froth, and the chill gripped my ankles with a mortal ache.

Sylvia Plath

#9. [On working with James Joyce:] So, either you run your publishing business far away, where your writer can't get at it, or you publish right alongside of him - and have much more fun - and much more expense.

Sylvia Beach

#10. I am a citizen of the world.

Sylvia Beach

#11. I can remember the night I became a Christian. And man, this weight came off of me and all that kind of stuff. What I didn't realize was, that was just the beginning - of a huge journey.

Mike Yaconelli

#12. Even while an atheist, he held some things sacred.

Philip Zaleski