Willemijn Ten Quotes

#1. Everything people did seemed so silly, because they only died in the end.

Sylvia Plath

#2. What felt interminable the first time now passes with a quickness borne of familiarity. It makes me wonder if life seems to accelerate as we get older simply because our days and our experiences become routine. The things we recognize flash right by, where once they held our attention.

Hugh Howey

#3. That doesn't sound quite right to me - what choice did I have but to survive?

Cindy C. Bennett

#4. I was a sidelines child: never class president, never team captain, never the one with the most valentines in my box.

Lois Lowry

#5. Laws for the liberal education of youth, especially of the lower class of people, are so extremely wise and useful, that, to a humane and generous mind, no expense for this purpose would be thought extravagant.

John Adams

#6. Maybe more youngsters would stay home at nights if they were not afraid to stay alone at nights.

Herbert V. Prochnow

#7. Great conversations or presentations take you to ideas you'd never considered.

Carmine Gallo

#8. The words seemed to bite physically into Gatsby.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#9. Hey, angel, your horns are sticking up.

Andrew Peterson

#10. But spring in England is like a prolonged adolescence, stumbling, sweet and slow, a thing of infinitesimal shades, false starts, expectations, deferred hopes, and final showers of glory.

Laurie Lee

#11. Girls at war opt for a quieter cruelty than fistfights and drive-by shootings. Girls circumvent the corporeal and go straight for each other's souls. The bleeding is harder to stanch.

Jillian Lauren

#12. Be that self which one truly is.

Soren Kierkegaard

#13. A man in all the world's new fashion planted, That hath a mint of phrases in his brain.

William Shakespeare