Latest Quotes

“I will never, ever regret the things I've done. Because most days, all you have are places in your memory that you can go to.”

— Jojo Moyes, Me Before You

“Some mistakes... Just have greater consequences than others. But you don't have to let the result of one mistake be the thing that defines you.”

— Jojo Moyes, Me Before You

“He looked at her and for a moment she lived in the bright blue worlds of his eyes, eagerly and confidently.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is The Night

“Taking her hand he led her out into a broad stretch of hard sandy soil that the moon flooded with great splendor. They floated out like drifting moths under the rich hazy light, and as the fantastic symphony wept and exulted and wavered and despaired, Ardita's last sense of reality dropped away, and…”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Offshore Pirate

“You're the only girl I've seen for a long time that actually did look like something blooming.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is The Night

“It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is The Night

“I want to know you moved and breathed in the same world with me.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Short Stories

“I wish I had done everything on Earth with you.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side Of Paradise

“She was beautiful, but not like those girls in the magazines. She was beautiful, for the way she thought. She was beautiful, for the sparkle in her eyes when she talked about something she loved. She was beautiful, for her ability to make other people smile, even if she was sad. No, she wasn't beaut…”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful And The Damned

“His heart beat faster and faster as Daisy’s white face came up to his own. He knew that when he kissed this girl, and forever wed his unutterable visions to her perishable breath, his mind would never romp again like the mind of God. So he waited, listening for a moment longer to the tuning fork tha…”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“I fell in love with her courage, her sincerity, and her flaming self respect. And it's these things I'd believe in, even if the whole world indulged in wild suspicions that she wasn't all she should be. I love her and it is the beginning of everything.’”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, hopelovelittleshepherd.blogspot.ca

“Her heart sank into her shoes as she realized at last how much she wanted him. No matter what his past was, no matter what he had done. Which was not to say that she would ever let him know, but only that he moved her chemically more than anyone she had ever met, that all other men seemed pale besid…”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, A New Leaf

“Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, it’s just not that good. It’s trying to be good, it has potential, but it’s not. And you…”

— Ira Glass, The New Kings Of Nonfiction

“If I create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head, almost nothing.”

— Marc Chargall, marcchagallart.net

“Don’t ask what the world needs, ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.”

— Howard Thurman, Meditations Of The Heart

“Go and make interesting mistakes, make amazing mistakes, make glorious and fantastic mistakes. Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here. Make. Good. Art.”

— Neil Gaiman, Commencement Address

“Whatever you do, the only secret is to believe in it and satisfy yourself. Don't do it for anyone else.”

— Keith Harding, Letters Of Note

“I have much confidence in you and even though you are tormenting yourself, the work you do is very good. Try to do some BAD work — the worst you can think of and see what happens but mainly relax and let everything go to hell — you are not responsible for the world — you are only responsible for you…”

— Sol LeWitt, Letters Of Note