Kathryn > Kathryn's Quotes

“One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”
― Anais Nin

“My favourite place in the world - the south beach at Aberystwyth -has a sewage outfall pipe on it”
― Caitlin Moran, How to Be a Woman

“As a woman I have no country. As a woman I want no country. As a woman, my country is the whole world.”
― Virginia Woolf

“Because I don’t live in either my past or my future. I’m interested only in the present. If you can concentrate always on the present, you’ll be a happy man. You’ll see that there is life in the desert, that there are stars in the heavens, and that tribesmen fight because they are part of the human race. Life will be a party for you, a grand festival, because life is the moment we’re living right now.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“You can always tell when a woman is with the wrong man, because she has so much to say about the fact that nothing's happening.”
― Caitlin Moran, How to Be a Woman

“And my life — and my mess of a mind — needed shape. I had 'lost the plot'. There was no linear narrative of me. There was just mess and chaos. So yes, I loved external narratives for the hope they offered. Films. TV dramas. And most of all, books. They were, in and of themselves, reasons to stay alive.”
― Matt Haig, Reasons to Stay Alive

“There is a crack in everything.
That's how the light gets in.”
― Leonard Cohen, Selected Poems, 1956-1968

“Everyone has his or her own way of learning things. His way isn't the same as mine, nor mine as his. But we're both in search of our destinies, and I respect him for that.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“The future is dark, which is the best thing the future can be, I think.”
― Virginia Woolf

“Light was everything. Sunshine, windows with the blinds open. Pages with short chapters and lots of white space and
Short.
Paragraphs.
Light was everything.”
― Matt Haig, Reasons to Stay Alive

“If the stone falls hard enough the ripples last a lifetime.”
― Matt Haig, Reasons to Stay Alive

“The ways creative work gets done are always unpredictable, demanding room to roam, refusing schedules and systems. They cannot be reduced to replicable formulas.”
― Rebecca Solnit, Men Explain Things to Me

“Your mind is a galaxy. More dark than light. But the light makes it worthwhile. Which is to say, don't kill yourself. Even when the darkness is total. Always know that life is not still. Time is space. You are moving through that galaxy. Wait for the stars.”
― Matt Haig, Reasons to Stay Alive

“I am rooted, but I flow.”
― Virginia Woolf

“Nothing is permanent in this wicked world, not even our troubles.”
― Charlie Chaplin

“It was time to be strong,
take a chance ... after all,
Forever was such a long time
to feel small.”
― Rachel Bright, The Lion Inside

“It felt like the scariest thing
he could do ...
But if you want things to change,
you first have to change you.”
― Rachel Bright, The Lion Inside

“Just got called a slag by two guys sitting outside the University of York library. A slag for books?”
― Laura Bates, Everyday Sexism

“This is a battle that we will win. Because women are wittier, brighter, stronger and braver than a misogynistic and patriarchal world has given us credit for.”
― Laura Bates, Everyday Sexism

“Yes, for the love of God young women, come along – learn your limits. Or, rather, know society’s limits. How dare you think you have the right to go out wearing whatever you like – how foolish and ignorant of you to expect not to be assaulted, you brazen hussies! What do you think this is? A free country?”
― Laura Bates, Everyday Sexism

“I confess that I am often lost in all the dimensions of time, that the past sometimes feels nearer than the present and I often fear the future has already happened.”
― Deborah Levy, Hot Milk

“I am not okay. Not at all and haven't been for some time. I did not tell her how discouraged I felt and that I was ashamed I was not more resilient and all the rest of it which included wanting a bigger life but that so far I had not been bold enough to make a bid for things I wanted to happen and I feared it was written in the stars that I might end up with a reduced life like hers...”
― Deborah Levy, Hot Milk

“I am not fond of the idea of my shrubberies being always approachable.”
― Jane Austen, Persuasion

“he sometimes took out a gun, but never killed; quite the gentleman.”
― Jane Austen, Persuasion

“I hated the quiet. I could hear my fears that much louder for it.”
― Alwyn Hamilton, Traitor to the Throne

“Life is too short to be lived badly.”
― Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return

“In life you'll meet a lot of jerks. If they hurt you, tell yourself that it's because they're stupid. That will help keep you from reacting to their cruelty. Because there is nothing worse than bitterness and vengeance... Always keep your dignity and be true to yourself.”
― Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood

“One can forgive but one should never forget.”
― Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood

“I finally understood what my grandmother meant. If I wasn't comfortable with myself, I would never be comfortable.”
― Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return