💬 Quotes

"You can spend your whole life trying to scrub the blood off your hands, only to realize the stain isn't on the skin—it’s in the bloodline."

"There’s no life I know to compare with pure imagination. Living there, you’ll be free, if you truly wish to be."

"Don't forget what happened to the man who suddenly got everything he wanted. He lived happily ever after."

"However small the chance might be of striking lucky, the chance is there."

"Invention, my dear friends, is 93% perspiration, 6% electricity, 4% evaporation, and 2% butterscotch ripple."

"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."

"I see everything. That is why I don't like new places, because then there is so much detail to take in and it makes me feel like my brain is buzzing."