William Pene Du Bois Quotes

#1. Half of this story is true and the other half might very well have happened.

William Pene Du Bois

#2. We are called to be strong companions and clear mirrors to one another, to seek those who reflect with compassion and a keen eye how we are doing, whether we seem centered or off course ... we need the nourishing company of others to create the circle needed for growth, freedom and healing.

Wayne Muller

#3. However you disguise novels, they are always biographies.

William Golding

#4. It seems strange to me that mechanical progress always seems to leave the slower demands of elegance far behind.

William Pene Du Bois

#5. The belief in miracles that all men cherish is born of immoderate indulgence in hope. There are people who go on hope sprees periodically and we all know the chronic hope drunkard that is held up before us as an exemplary optimist. Tip-takers are all they really are

Anonymous

#6. People blush at praise
not only praise of their bodies, but praise of anything that is theirs.

C.S. Lewis

#7. I can't abide people who dislike dogs,

Helen Simonson

#8. There is no snooze button on life
- Tara Daniels

Jill Shalvis

#9. The desire to run so far that he wouldn't be able to catch up played through me, but in my
gut, I knew he would. And somehow, it filled me with an odd sense of safety, knowing that,
no matter how far I ran, he would always be able to catch me, and I would always want him to.

Elizabeth Morgan

#10. If I ever see the twins again, it looks like I owe them a zombie-girl mud fight.

Susan Ee

#11. Life is like a novel.
Make yours the bestseller!

Suci Hidayat

#12. The difference of language, dress, and manners ... severs and alienates the nations of the globe.

Edward Gibbon

#13. That's the peculiar thing about nature," explained Mr. F., "it guards it's rarest treasures with greatest care.

William Pene Du Bois

#14. Biological evidence indicates that man, evolving with his food plants, developed horticulture and agriculture in both hemispheres at a time which may well have reached far back into the Pleistocene.

Russell Lord

#15. There are tiny, dirty rabbit holes that you have not been down that I have. I have taken people down into those tunnels with me, and they've never come out.

Maggie Stiefvater

#16. I'm fine. Jeff on the other hand, not so much.

Bella Jeanisse

#17. There's nothing gay about living life straight

Paul B. Tripp