Explore Book Quotes

“We spend more time learning how to make a living than we do learning to make a life.”

“We are members of a body, not only when we choose to be, but in our whole existence.”

“I did have a mother, I know I did. I have to find her. I will. I WILL!”

“There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.”

“At breakfast Anthony found a Corvette Sting Ray car kit in his breakfast cereal box and Nick found a Junior Undercover Agent code ring in his breakfast cereal box but in my breakfast cereal box all I found was breakfast cereal.”

“We have had a good time while we were young, but it is in the nature of Time to fly.”

“Love is heavy and light, bright and dark, hot and cold, sick and healthy, asleep and awake- its everything except what it is!”

“It is no good wishing for what was not to be.”

“Disgusted, I dare say, and gone home as suddenly as he came. It’s nothing to me, of course, but I should think he would have come and bid us goodbye like a gentleman,” she said to herself, with a despairing look at the gate, as she put on her things for the customary walk one dull afternoon.

“Part of the problem . . . is that everyone is in such a hurry. . . . People haven’t found meaning in their lives, so they’re running all the time looking for it. They think the next car, the next house, the next job. Then they find these things are empty, too, and they keep running.”