Menna Van Praag Quotes
Top 30 wise famous quotes and sayings by Menna Van Praag
Menna Van Praag Famous Quotes & Sayings
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Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.' " "William Morris.
And, like most people, you're too scared, stubborn or stupid to give yourself what you need until you're shaken awake by something.
She is no longer a woman of moderation. She is illuminated. She is fire and ice. She is passion, excitement and joy.
It's a great shame, she thinks, that the heart cannot feel joy without also feeling pain, that it cannot know love without also knowing loss.
Noa Sparrow has never been much liked by people and she doesn't much care. That isn't strictly true, of course.
You know, some people don't see the things right under their noses. They mistake the everyday for what's ordinary and unimportant.
I long for
a little life,
an everyday life,
a splash of sunlight
through a window
a smile from a stranger -
a heart to hold in mine.
a little life,
an everyday life,
a splash of sunlight
through a window
a smile from a stranger -
a heart to hold in mine.
Solving mysteries is as much about having an open mind as keeping your eyes open. Isn't it the same in science?
Now you're discovering the great secret of great writing: one line of true feeling is worth a thousand pages of clever thinking.
She still hasn't cried because to stay in shock feels safer, it keeps a distance between her and the thing she's trying to pretend hasn't happened.
If you wait until you're ready, you'll be dead," Stella says. "And, as a life strategy, I don't really recommend it.
A vast skylight is cut into the ceiling, so she can fall asleep studying the stars. She doesn't know their real names, preferring mysteries to facts,
Too much analysis kills a thing. Art is created from passion and inspires passion. And passion is beyond reason. Don't you think?
I know that a heart can hold on for a lifetime, hoping for the impossible, loving, wanting what it will never have.
But do you really want to spend your life like this, as if you're locked in a library?" "Of course." Alba grins. "I can't think of anything better.
Do you ever want to run away?" "Sometimes." Milly laughed. "But I also know that not everything I want every moment will actually make me happy.