The Quote Keeper's Archive

"New York is an ugly city, a dirty city. Its climate is a scandal, its politics are used to frighten..."

ifyoufailiwilllikeyoumore — Mon, 10 Jun 2013 23:23:16 -0400

“New York is an ugly city, a dirty city. Its climate is a scandal, its politics are used to frighten children, its traffic is madness, its competition is murderous. But there is one thing about it— once you have lived in New York and it has become your home, no place else is good enough.”

- Megan McCafferty, Second Helpings

"I cry a lot because I miss people. They die and I can’t stop them. They leave me and I love them..."

ifyoufailiwilllikeyoumore — Mon, 10 Jun 2013 16:15:25 -0400

“I cry a lot because I miss people. They die and I can’t stop them. They leave me and I love them more.”

- Maurice Sendak

"We die to each other daily. What we know of other people is only our memory of the moments during..."

ifyoufailiwilllikeyoumore — Tue, 04 Jun 2013 11:27:28 -0400

“We die to each other daily. What we know of other people is only our memory of the moments during which we knew them. And they have changed since then. To pretend that they and we are the same is a useful and convenient social convention which must sometimes be broken. We must also remember that at every meeting we are meeting a stranger.”

- T.S. Eliot, The Cocktail Party (via ponceau)

"and that’s the beauty of books. In so many ways, they never really end."

ifyoufailiwilllikeyoumore — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 18:57:37 -0400

“and that’s the beauty of books. In so many ways, they never really end.”

- Markus Zusak, http://zusakbooks.tumblr.com/ (via imallaboutthemwords)

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ifyoufailiwilllikeyoumore — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 19:07:06 -0500

"Love is never better than the lover."

ifyoufailiwilllikeyoumore — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 16:15:38 -0500

“Love is never better than the lover.”

- Claudia, The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

"What difference do it make if the thing you scared of is real or not?"

ifyoufailiwilllikeyoumore — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 16:12:22 -0500

“What difference do it make if the thing you scared of is real or not?”

- Pilate, Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison

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ifyoufailiwilllikeyoumore — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 16:04:51 -0500

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ifyoufailiwilllikeyoumore — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 00:05:44 -0500

"There are so many fragile things, after all. People break so easily, and so do dreams and hearts."

ifyoufailiwilllikeyoumore — Sat, 19 Jan 2013 00:08:06 -0500

“There are so many fragile things, after all. People break so easily, and so do dreams and hearts.”

- Neil Gaiman
(via acaya)

akala-beach: “We ate well and cheaply and drank well and...

ifyoufailiwilllikeyoumore — Wed, 29 Aug 2012 02:05:06 -0400

akala-beach:

“We ate well and cheaply and drank well and cheaply and slept well and warm together and loved each other” (Ernest Hemingway)

"Before you quit, try."

ifyoufailiwilllikeyoumore — Tue, 28 Aug 2012 11:28:39 -0400

“Before you quit, try.”

- Ernest Hemingway (via ifyoufailiwilllikeyoumore)

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ifyoufailiwilllikeyoumore — Tue, 14 Aug 2012 17:20:26 -0400

"I’d rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach 10,000 stars how not to dance."

ifyoufailiwilllikeyoumore — Sun, 12 Aug 2012 13:08:53 -0400

“I’d rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.”

- e.e.cummings

"The most solid advice for a writer is this, I think: Try to learn to breathe deeply, really to taste..."

ifyoufailiwilllikeyoumore — Thu, 09 Aug 2012 13:02:57 -0400

“The most solid advice for a writer is this, I think: Try to learn to breathe deeply, really to taste food when you eat, and when you sleep really to sleep. Try as much as possible to be wholly alive with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.”

- Ernest Hemingway

"All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are..."

ifyoufailiwilllikeyoumore — Fri, 03 Aug 2012 15:08:19 -0400

““All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you: the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was. If you can get so that you can give that to people, then you are a writer.””

- Ernest Hemingway (via imallaboutthemwords)

"There is a particular genus of teenagers who break out into song spontaneously with their friends,..."

ifyoufailiwilllikeyoumore — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 00:27:53 -0400

“There is a particular genus of teenagers who break out into song spontaneously with their friends, know all the words to Rent and/or Wicked, and will do anything for a taste of being onstage in front of an audience. They’re called theater geeks, and I am a card-carrying member of their ranks.”

- Lin-Manuel Miranda

creator of the Tony Award winning musical, In the Heights

(via mylife-in-widescreen)

"To say “I love you” one must first know how to say the “I”."

ifyoufailiwilllikeyoumore — Sun, 08 Jul 2012 22:28:46 -0400

“To say “I love you” one must first know how to say the “I”.”

- The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand

(via noloveisnotdead)

"You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club."

ifyoufailiwilllikeyoumore — Sun, 08 Jul 2012 22:28:21 -0400

“You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.”

- Jack London (via imallaboutthemwords)

"How vain is it to sit down to write if you have not stood up to live."

ifyoufailiwilllikeyoumore — Sun, 08 Jul 2012 22:28:05 -0400

“How vain is it to sit down to write if you have not stood up to live.”

- Henry David Thoreau

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