💬 Quotes

"Whipped creamed aerated bubbles of fun, or they’d never be so light, or they’d never be so bright."

"A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men."

"Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and that Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do."

"The boy whose religion is a series of 'don'ts' is usually a boy whose mind is a series of 'dos'."

"There comes a time in every rightly-constructed boy's life when he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for hidden treasure."

"You don't know about me without you have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; but that ain't no matter."

"It was a lovely day, and the world was full of blossoms and the birds were singing as if that were the business they were sent into the world to do."

"Tom was a glittering hero once more—the pet of the old, the envy of the young. His name even went into immortal print, for the village paper magnified and embellished it."

"I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day in January of 1960; and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency room near Petoskey, Michigan, in August of 1974."

"Biology is destiny. My biology designed a labyrinth, and I have been wandering through it my entire life."

"Like all great travelers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen."

"It is a truth universally acknowledged that we are all of us, to some degree, the products of our ancestors' mistakes."

"There are two things you can never change in this life: you can't change the past, and you can't change the people you love."

"We are all made of stories. Our genes are just the ink, but the history we inherit is the paper that holds the narrative together."

"If you take a bad boy and make him dig a hole every day in the hot sun, it will turn him into a good boy."

"You can't depend on anyone else to do it for you."

"Sometimes you have to be in the right place at the right time, but that doesn't mean you just sit back and wait for it to happen."

"I’m not saying it’s not your fault, but you’re a kid. You’re not supposed to be able to fix everything."

"When you spend your whole life living in a hole, the only way you can go is up."

"There is no lake at Camp Green Lake. There once was a very large lake here, the largest lake in Texas. That was over a hundred years ago. Now it is just a dry, flat wasteland."