Latest Quotes

“Love is many things none of them logical.”

— William Goldman, The Princess Bride: S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure

“A baby has brains, but it doesn't know much. Experience is the only thing that brings knowledge, and the longer you are on earth the more experience you are sure to get.”

— L. Frank Baum, Oz: The Complete Collection (Illustrated)

“I think you are wrong to want a heart. It makes most people unhappy. If you only knew it, you are in luck not to have a heart.”

— L. Frank Baum, Oz: The Complete Collection (Illustrated)

“You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it.”

— J.M. Barrie, The Annotated Peter Pan (The Centennial Edition) (The Annotated Books)

“Never say goodbye because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting.”

— J.M. Barrie, The Annotated Peter Pan (The Centennial Edition) (The Annotated Books)

“I don't understand it, and I don't like what I don't understand”

— E.B. White, Charlotte's Web

“Whether you like it or not, alone is something you'll be quite a lot!”

— Dr. Seuss, Oh, The Places You'll Go!

“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.”

— Dr. Seuss, I Can Read With My Eyes Shut

“It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.”

— Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass (Bantam Classics)

“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”

— Neil Gaiman, Neil Gaiman/Chris Riddell 3-Book Box Set: Coraline; The Graveyard Book; Fortunately, the Milk

“I think there's a part of the brain, probably somewhere in the back, that won't give up believing in magic. It was the part that made cavemen believe that drawing elks on stone would make for a good hunt the next day. And it's still chugging along, making you think you have lucky socks, or that your…”

— Adam Rex, The True Meaning of Smekday

“I was pretty sure if you loved everything you didn’t really love anything.”

— Adam Rex, The True Meaning of Smekday

“There is nothing sweeter in this sad world than the sound of someone you love calling your name.”

— Kate DiCamillo, The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread

“You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. But the most important thing is, even if we’re apart… I’ll always be with you.”

— A.A. Milne, The Complete Tales and Poems of Winnie-the-Pooh

“You’re mad, bonkers, completely off your head. But I’ll tell you a secret. All the best people are.”

— Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass (Bantam Classics)

“When someone is crying, of course, the noble thing to do is to comfort them. But if someone is trying to hide their tears, it may also be noble to pretend you do not notice them.”

— Lemony Snicket, The Complete Wreck (A Series of Unfortunate Events, Books 1-13)

“Until the moss had reached our lips, and covered up our names.”

— Emily Dickinson, The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson

“We want to see Ivana Trump because we are so desperate in Alaska for any semblance of glamour and culture.”

— Sarah Palin, Democracies end when they are too democratic

“Given that we are already living in what Princeton political scientist Sheldon Wolin calls a soft or inverted totalitarian system, an illiberal democracy, the transformation feared by Sullivan will be welcome, clarifying, a fresh breath of honesty, in which the trappings are tossed aside and the ugl…”

— Christopher Ketcham, Anarchists for Donald Trump—Let the Empire Burn

“The Bernie campaign is hypersensitive to any whiff of being treated as a smaller, protest candidacy, to failures to acknowledge that Sanders won more than 40 percent of the primary vote, or to being dismissed by what they see as the Democratic establishment. And an endorsement of Hillary Clinton by…”

— Edward-Isaac Dovere, Sanders supporters warn Obama: Don't try to stop Bernie