Tova Quotes

#1. Little me would've liked big me.
- Tova Goodman

Rachel Fershleiser

#2. The life of a snail is as full of tasty food, comfortable beds of sorts, and a mix of pleasant and not-so-pleasant adventures as that of anyone I know

Elisabeth Tova Bailey

#3. Sixteen- and 17-year-olds pay taxes and can join the army, so surely they should in turn be given their right to vote.

Lucy Powell

#4. The sentence that best expresses a snail's way of life: 'The right thing to do is to do nothing, the place to do it is in a place of concealment and the time to do it is as often as possible.

Elisabeth Tova Bailey

#5. Horror writers are specialists in the worst-case scenario.

Richard Laymon

#6. Those of us with illnesses are the holders of the silent fears of those with good health.

Elisabeth Tova Bailey

#7. It seemed far more reasonable to belong to a species that had evolved natural tooth replacement than to belong to one that had developed the dental profession.

Elisabeth Tova Bailey

#8. Open wide the mind's cage-door,
She'll dart forth, and cloudward soar.

John Keats

#9. The greatest stories are simple, but well told.

Tova Dian Dean

#10. The average estimate themselves by what they do, the above average by what they are.

Friedrich Schiller

#11. My father is an atheist. My mother is Buddhist. They encouraged my siblings and me to take the best part of other religions to make our own belief system.

Winona Ryder

#12. The better looking you are the harder your life, under one condition: You're of above average intelligence. It's those unintelligent attractive people who have it best.

Gregor Collins

#13. A canopy of sticky young leaves clung to the branches above him. There were startling yellow clouds of forsythia, trails of purple aubrietia; a young willow shook in a fountain of silver.

Rachel Joyce

#14. Given the ease with which health infuses life with meaning and purpose, it is shocking how swiftly illness steals away those certainties ... Time unused and only endured still vanishes, as if time itself is starving, and each day is swallowed whole, leaving no crumbs, no memory, no trace at all.

Elisabeth Tova Bailey

#15. You know, all that really matters is that the people you love are happy and healthy. Everything else is just sprinkles on the sundae.

Paul Walker

#16. All boys belong in insane asylums.

Brandon Mull

#17. Never look back, never forget.

Jessica Day George

#18. What majesty is in a creeping Snail, what reflection, what earnestness, what timidity and yet at the same time what firm confidence!

Elisabeth Tova Bailey

#19. Illness isolates; the isolated become invisible; the invisible become forgotten. But the snail ... the snail kept my spirit from evaporating.

Elisabeth Tova Bailey

#20. Real character is formed in the midst of the battles of the soul.

Hugh B. Brown

#21. Fight against something and you focus on the thing you hate. Fight for something and you focus on the thing you love.

Simon Sinek