Violette's Quotes

#1. If you have a dream , don't waste your energies explaining why. - Author: Paulo Coelho

#2. To find relief in what has been, we must make ourselves eternal. - Author: Violette Leduc

#3. There's no sustenance in the past. - Author: Violette Leduc

#4. The life of a human being on this earth is very short - the years fly by - and the opportunity is past - forever. You know that the ONLY REASON for a human being's life on this earth is to attain to the Knowledge of God - all else is nothing, all else passes away as a wind passes away. - Author: Violette Nakhjavani

#5. I am disappointed. Violette knows how I feel about smart girls turning into needy sex objects for dumb boys. - Author: Melina Marchetta

#6. Just reading about the various opinions concerning the conduct of the recent championship matches convinces me that the only thing to which two chessplayers could agree is that a third one is over-rated. - Author: Arpad Elo

#7. I give myself to adjectives body and soul, I die with pleasure for them. - Author: Violette Leduc

#8. And there it was. That slight lisp. That awful accent. That funny face that made him ache. Charlie wasn't just a cheat. He was a liar as well. Because Violette Zidane wasn't just the girl he was shagging, like he told the cop. She sort of owned his heart a little. Kind of a lot. - Author: Melina Marchetta

#9. A man polished to the nail.
[Lat., Ad unguem factus home.] - Author: Horace

#10. At the age of five, of six, at the age of seven, I used to begin weeping sometimes without warning, simply for the sake of weeping, my eyes open wide to the sun, to the flowers ... I wanted to feel an immense grief inside me, and it came. - Author: Violette Leduc

#11. Those are pretty," She commented, leaning down to smell the flowers.
"They're from Violette," I said, watching for her reaction.
"They look like weeds," she replied, straightening. - Author: Amy Plum

#12. We are talking. It's a shame. What is said is murdered. Our words that will not grow any bigger or any lovelier will wilt inside our bones. Words wither feelings. - Author: Violette Leduc

#13. Were there stories I wrote along the way that were terrible clinkers? God, yes. But they were all a product of their time, and I did the best I could. - Author: Len Wein

#14. Drink, my angel; everything I have inside me is yours, soak it up through the paper, through the sleeve of my coat. Suck my blood out of the hollow of my elbow where you are lying, where you are keeping warm. It's just as you please, it will always be just as you please from now on. - Author: Violette Leduc

#15. Far from making me feel different and special, my [spiritual] experiences made me feel the same, ordinary, and interconnected. If I felt more spiritual, everyone else felt more spiritual as well. (276) - Author: Julia Cameron

#16. I was afraid of having to present my big nose to strangers. - Author: Violette Leduc

#17. I walk without flinching through the burning cathedral of the summer. My bank of wild grass is majestic and full of music. It is a fire that solitude presses against my lips. - Author: Violette Leduc

#18. There is nothing harder in life than to not conform to the common life of humanity; to be an exception, to be different in all those things which pertain to our every day life ... - Author: Violette Nakhjavani

#19. To write is to inform against others. - Author: Violette Leduc

#20. I was and I always shall be hampered by what I think other people will say. - Author: Violette Leduc

#21. Looking for Narnia? You're in the wrong universe - Author: Melissa De La Cruz

#22. My mother never took my hand. - Author: Violette Leduc

#23. Love can do funny things to you. It can make you happy; it can make you sad. It can even make you downright miserable. - Author: Danielle Violette

#24. Arthur is very obviously checking Louis out. "What?" Louis asks finally. "So you're Violette's new consort," the older revenant says, amused. "You're with her for six months and you want to run away? Try five hundred years." Louis's jaw drops. - Author: Amy Plum

#25. Every man's reputation proceeds from those of his own household. - Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero

#26. Often, we melt into our ecstasies as though they were jams, as though we were sinking into syrupy bowls of gooseberries, of raspberries, of bilberries. - Author: Violette Leduc