Novelist Quotes

Allow the world to live as it chooses, and allow yourself to live as you choose.

Rarely do members of the same family grow up under the same roof.

Avoid problems, and you'll never be the one who overcame them.

Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.

The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it.

True love stories never have endings.

Every problem has a gift for you in its hands.

I want to be very close to someone I respect and admire and have somebody who feels the same way about me.

Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.

Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah.

If it's never our fault, we can't take responsibility for it. If we can't take responsibility for it, we'll always be its victim.

The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the Master calls the butterfly.

What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly.

There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn what we need to learn; whatever steps we take, they're necessary to reach the places we've chosen to go.

Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding, find out what you already know, and you'll see the way to fly.

Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully.

Don't be dismayed by good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends.

If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem.

You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past.

Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't.

The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.

If you love someone, set them free. If they come back they're yours; if they don't they never were.

Can miles truly separate you from friends... If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there?

There was no end to the ways in which nice things are nicer than nasty ones.

Self criticism must be my guide to action, and the first rule for its employment is that in itself it is not a virtue, only a procedure.

Outside every fat man there was an even fatter man trying to close in.

One of the great benefits of organised religion is that you can be forgiven your sins, which must be a wonderful thing. I mean, I carry my sins around with me, there's nobody there to forgive them.

No wonder people are so horrible when they start life as children.

It was no wonder that people were so horrible when they started life as children.

His mouth had been used as a latrine by some small creature of the night, and then as its mausoleum.