Silly Quotes - Page 13

• Home is a place in the mind. When it is empty, it frets. It is fretful with memory, faces and places and times gone by. Beloved images rise up in disobedience and make a mirror for emptiness. Then what resentful wonder, and what half-aimless seeking. It is a silly state of affairs. It is a silly creature that tries to get a smile from even the most familiar and loving shadow. Comical and hopeless, the long gaze back is always turned inward.

  Maeve Brennan

  Memories, Home, Mirrors

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• Leaning her silly, beautiful, drunken head on my shoulder, she said, "Oh, Esther, I don't want to be a feminist. I don't enjoy it. It's no fun." "I know," I said. "I don't either." People think you decide to be a "radical," for God's sake, like deciding to be a librarian or a ship's chandler. You "make up your mind," you "commit yourself" (sounds like a mental hospital, doesn't it?). I said Don't worry, we could be buried together and have engraved on our tombstone the awful truth, which some day somebody will understand: WE WUZ PUSHED.

  Joanna Russ

  Beautiful, Fun, Tombstone

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• I can see us, living in the woods, her wearing that A, me with a S maybe, S for silent, S for stupid, for scared. S for silly. For shame.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Stupid, Woods, Scared

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2011). “Speak”, p.101, Macmillan

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• Ivy Hisselpenny was the unfortunate victim of circumstances that dictated she be only-just-pretty, only-just-wealthy, and possessed of a terrible propensity for wearing extremely silly hats.

  Gail Carriger

  Ivy, Hats, Victim

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• There is something infinitely better than happily-ever-after. There is happiness. Happiness is a living, dynamic thing, Eve, and has to be worked on every moment for the rest of our lives. It is a far more exciting prospect than that silly static idea of a happily-ever-after. Would you not agree?" - Aidan Bedwyn

  Mary Balogh

  Ideas, Ever After, Moments

  Mary Balogh (2003). “Slightly Married”, p.342, Dell

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• In the end, I take my shoes off and stick my feet in, letting the lukewarm water lick at my ankles. It feels good, and not just because I’m stoned. I make a mental note to add this to Dulcie’s list of things worth living for. For some reason, I keep seeing her rolling her eyes at me, that big, goofy grin stretching her face like Silly Putty. On my private list, I add her smile. She doesn’t have to know.

  Libba Bray

  Eye, Shoes, Feet

  Libba Bray (2009). “Going Bovine”, p.249, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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• The question is… How did a girl like Annabelle manage to talk a man like you into joining our silly little family party?” Annabelle smiled sweetly. “I promised he could tie me up afterward and spank me.

  Susan Elizabeth Phillips

  Girl, Party, Men

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• It seemed silly to wash one day when I would only have to wash again the next. It made me tired just to think of it.

  Sylvia Plath

  Depression, Tired, Thinking

  Sylvia Plath (2008). “The Bell Jar”, p.95, Faber & Faber

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• Wendy, Wendy, when you are sleeping in your silly bed you might be flying about with me saying funny things to the stars.

  James M. Barrie

  Stars, Sleep, Funny Things

  James M. Barrie (2013). “Peter Pan (Peter and Wendy) (Annotated Edition)”, p.38, Jazzybee Verlag

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• One must be a little foolish if one does not want to be even more stupid.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Stupid, Want, Littles

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• The boys had asked why, if it acted slowly, was it called quicksand. The Mollusks had replied that, as far as they were concerned, most English names for things were silly. The word that they used for quicksand was a deep grunt that translated roughly to "uh-oh.

  Ridley Pearson

  Boys, Names, Mollusks

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• Then he kissed her. Betsy didn't believe in letting boys kiss you. She thought it was silly to be letting first this boy and then that one kiss you, when it didn't mean a thing. But it was wonderful when Joe Willard kissed her. And it did mean a thing.

  Maud Hart Lovelace

  Believe, Mean, Kissing

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• One is always willfully absurd.... If one does not say silly things with a purpose, then he is merely an idiot.

  Galen Beckett

  Doe, Purpose, Idiot

  Galen Beckett (2010). “The House on Durrow Street”, p.206, Spectra

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• Andrei, did you like the opera?" "Not particularly." "Andrei, do you see what you're missing?" "I don't think I do, Kira. It's all rather silly. And useless." "Can't you enjoy things that are useless, merely because they are beautiful?" "No. But I enjoyed it." "The music?" "No. The way you listened to it.

  Ayn Rand

  Beautiful, Thinking, Missing

  Ayn Rand (2009). “We the Living”, p.88, Penguin

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• I wake up in the morning and I feel like I’m missing something. I know that there’s something not right, and it takes me a while to remember what it is . . . then I remember. My best friend is gone. My only friend. It was silly of me to rely so much on one person.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Morning, Missing, My Best Friend

  Cecelia Ahern (2005). “Rosie Dunne”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

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• At the end of the day, when I am lying in bed and I know the chances of any of our theology being exactly right are a million to one, I need to know that God has things figured out, that if my math is wrong we are still going to be okay. And wonder is that feeling we get when we let go of our silly answers, our mapped out rules that we want God to follow. I don't think there is any better worship than wonder.

  Donald Miller

  Letting Go, Lying, Math

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• Let it be. Silly song, really. You let it be, it returns. There's the truth. You let it be, it drags you to the ground. You let it be, it crawls up your walls.

  Colum McCann

  Song, Wall, Return

  Colum McCann (2009). “Let The Great World Spin”, p.72, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• A hundred years from now, people will look back on us and laugh. They'll say, 'You know what people used to believe? They believed in photons and electrons. Can you imagine anything so silly?' They'll have a good laugh, because by then there will be newer better fantasies... And meanwhile, you feel the way the boat moves? That's the sea. That's real. You smell the salt in the air? You feel the sunlight on your skin? That's all real. Life is wonderful. It's a gift to be alive, to see the sun and breathe the air. And there isn't really anything else.

  Michael Crichton

  Real, Moving, Believe

  Michael Crichton (1997). “The Lost World”, Knopf

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• The best training is to learn to accept everything as it comes, as from Him whom our soul loves. The tests are always unexpected things, not great things that can be written up, but the common little rubs of life, silly little nothings, things you are ashamed of minding one scrap

  Amy Carmichael

  Soul, Training, Littles

  Amy Carmichael (2010). “Candles in the Dark: Letters of Hope and Encouragement”, p.14, CLC Publications

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• Such silly things, children -- and so embarrassing -- because they keep changing themselves out of shame, out of a need to be loved or something. While animals are born who they are, accept it, and that is that. They live with greater peace than people do.

  Gregory Maguire

  Children, Animal, People

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• Cruelty...prefers abstraction. Some have tried to resolved this gap by hunting or butchering an animal themselves, as if those experiences might somehow legitimize the endeavor of eating animals. This is very silly. Murdering someone would surely prove that you are capable of killing, but it woudln't be the most reasonable way to understand why you should or shouldn't do it.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Animal, Hunting, Might

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• Oh, do you have A Tale of Two Cities?" "That silly thing? Men going around getting their heads chopped off for love? Ridiculus." Will unpeeled himself from the door and made his way toward Tessa where she stood by the bookshelves. He gestured expansively at the vast number of volumes all around him. "No, here you'll find all sorts of advice about how to chop off someone else's head if you need to; much more useful.

  Cassandra Clare

  Men, Doors, Cities

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• It leaned forward, elbows on its knees, all amusement vanishing from its features, leaving its chiseled visage quietly regal, dignified. "I give you my word, Gabrielle O'Callaghan," it said softly. "I will protect you." "Right. The word of the blackest fairy, the legendary liar, the great deceiver," she mocked. How dare it offer its word like it might actually mean something? A muscle leapt in its jaw. "That is not all I have been, Gabrielle. I have been, and am, many things." "Oh, of course, silly me, I left out consummate seducer and ravager of innocence.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Liars, Mean, Giving

  Karen Marie Moning (2004). “The Immortal Highlander”, p.70, Delacorte Press

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• She had the feeling that the door was looking at her, which she knew was silly, and knew on a deeper level was somehow true.

  Neil Gaiman

  Doors, Feelings, Levels

  Neil Gaiman (2012). “Coraline”, p.66, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• I'm sentimental--I know. I'm desperate and silly--I know that too. Oh, help me!

  Anne Frank

  Sentimental, Helping, Desperate

  Anne Frank, General Press (2016). “The Diary of a Young Girl”, p.108, GENERAL PRESS

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