Nina George Quotes
Top 82 wise famous quotes and sayings by Nina George
Nina George Famous Quotes & Sayings
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Otherwise he stayed in the background, a small figure in a painting, while life was played out in the foreground. However,
I'm looking for what I was capable of before... Or to be more precise, I'm trying to see whether I'm still capable of it.
As long as you can walk, you will find a walking stick. As long as you are brave, someone will help you.
I'll send you a friend request."
"You do that, sonny. I'm on the Internet every last Friday in the month, from eleven to three.
"You do that, sonny. I'm on the Internet every last Friday in the month, from eleven to three.
It still comes a huge shock to me to discover that love doesn't need to be restricted to one person to be true.
A surprise visit? That's so romantic...but fairly risky."
"If you don't take any risks, life will bass you by," Cunco shipped in.
"If you don't take any risks, life will bass you by," Cunco shipped in.
Perdu reflected that is was a common misconception that booksellers looked after books. They look after people.
... love couldn't stop a woman from wishing to string up her husband because he was a serious pain in the neck.
I need to cry some more. I'll drown if I don't...Sometimes you're swimming in unwept tears and you'll go under if you store them up inside.
Death doesn't matter
It makes no difference to life.
We will always remain what we were to each other.
It makes no difference to life.
We will always remain what we were to each other.
All right," she said. "Give me the books that are kind to me, and to hell with the men who don't give a damn about me.
The further life advanced, the more protective the elderly were of their good days: nothing should imperil the time they had left.
What's the point of knowing the date of your own death? I'd spend the rest of my life out of my mind with fear.
He had found beneath the sorrow a place where emotion and happiness could live alongside tenderness and the realization that he was lovable after all.
I like being alive, even if it's occasionally a real struggle and fairly pointless in the grand scheme of things.
... books are a very recent means of expression in the broad sweep of history, capable of changing the world and toppling tyrants.
Shouldn't we carry on living the same way until the last, because that is what vexes death the most - to see us drinking life to the final draft?
And it began when you first took a risk, failed and realized that you'd survived the failure. With that knowledge, you could risk anything. Marianne
The journey is over when you begin to love, thought Jean, as the two youngsters feasted their eyes on each other.
He had to ask these questions and then remain absolutely silent. Listening in silence was essential to making a comprehensive scan of a person's soul.
It's amazing how close you are to your essential self as a kid, he thought, and how far from it you drift the more you strive to be loved.
First, that one had to gaze upon the dead, cremate them and bury their ashes - and then begin to tell their story.
He calls books freedoms. And homes too. They preserve all the good words that we so seldom use. Leniency. Kindness. Contradiction. Forbearance.
Star salt (the stars' reflection in a river) Sun cradle (the sea) Lemon kiss (everyone knew exactly what this meant!) Family anchor (the dinner table)
Reading - an endless journey; a long, indeed never-ending journey that made one more temperate as well as more loving and kind.
She loved historical novels in which women dressed as men and outgrew their limited opportunities. And
Perdu and Cuneo gaped at creatures that seemed to have sprung from Middle Earth or Winterfell. Such is the power of books.
Defiance: I see a little girl in pretend armour, fighting off all the things she doesn't want to be. Well
The first category comprised those for whom books were the only breath of fresh air in their claustrophobic daily lives. His favorite customers. They
She freed me from my misanthropy, silence and inhibitions. From my compulsion to only make the right moves.
And slowly, infinitely slowly, he began to trust. Not the sea, from from it; no one should make that mistake!
he didn't have the courage to trust someone again. To trust someone entirely because in love there is no other way. He
Samy was Samantha. She was wearing a white linen dress. She also had on hobbit feet, huge and extremely hairy ones.
Do we only decide in retrospect that we've been happy? Don't we notice when we're happy, or do we realize only much later that we were?