Quotes - Jessamine Lee (jessaminelee) (Guatemala) Showing 1-30 of 90

#1

“According to his dad's journal, vampires had been through some of the worst epidemics in history. And apparently, during the days of the Black Plague, their biggest complaint had been rotten "food".”
― Heather Brewer, Eighth Grade Bites

27 likes

#2

“Morning, sunshine."
Vlad blinked at her. "Morning, sulfuric acid."
"Pardon me?"
"Well, isn't it just kinda wrong to call a vampire 'sunshine'?”
― Heather Brewer, Eighth Grade Bites

73 likes

#3

“Nothing could convince Aunt Nelly to let Vlad stay home for the duration of the school year, which just goes to prove that parents and guardians don't care if they're sending you to face bloodthirsty monsters, so long as you get a B in English.”
― Heather Brewer, Eighth Grade Bites

tags: junior-high, parents, school-is-hell

66 likes

#4

“The world is full of monsters with friendly faces.”
― Heather Brewer, Eighth Grade Bites

tags: otis-otis

168 likes

#5

“Because teachers, no matter how kind, no matter how friendly, are sadistic and evil to the core.”
― Heather Brewer, Eighth Grade Bites

tags: humor, teachers

323 likes

#6

“Whoever had decided that school should start so early in the morning and last all day long needed to be hunted down and forced to watch hours of educational televison without the aid of caffine.”
― Heather Brewer, Eighth Grade Bites

tags: vladimir-tod

380 likes

#7

“I'm a creature of the night for God's sake And she wants me home by eleven?”
― Heather Brewer, The Chronicles of Vladimir Tod Journal

tags: favorites

98 likes

#8

“It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle

tags: books, humor

4154 likes

#9

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul

134804 likes

#10

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

tags: books, humor

150048 likes

#12

“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories

tags: intelligence, self-deprecation

71500 likes

#13

“Each day means a new twenty-four hours. Each day means everything's possible again. You live in the moment, you die in the moment, you take it all one day at a time.”
― Marie Lu, Legend

6698 likes

#14

“Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

tags: books, literature, philosphy, poetry, reading

15805 likes

#15

“I lost myself the moment I found you.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, White Hot Kiss

548 likes

#16

“Free will, huh? Damn. It is a bitch.鈥� And then he smiled-he smiled-at me, a real smile, revealing those deep dimples. 鈥業 lost myself the moment I found you.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, White Hot Kiss

61 likes

#17

“I read; I travel; I become”
― Derek Walcott

tags: read, travel

1336 likes

#18

“Maybe some people are just meant to be in the same story.”
― Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun

2746 likes

#19

“When I only begin to read, I forget I'm on this world. It lifts me on wings with high thoughts.”
― Anzia Yezierska

1884 likes

#20

“Books: a beautifully browsable invention that needs no electricity and exists in a readable form no matter what happens.”
― Nicholson Baker

tags: books, inventions

2160 likes

#21

“Most of us can't help but live as though we've got two lives to live, one is the mockup, the other the finished version, and then there are all those versions in between.”
― Andr茅 Aciman

1298 likes

#22

“I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here.”
― Arthur C. Clarke

tags: extraterrestrials, humor, intelligent-life, life, science, universe

4047 likes

#23

“It doesn't matter. I have books, new books, and I can bear anything as long as there are books.”
― Jo Walton, Among Others

tags: books

2765 likes

#24

“A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe.”
― Madeleine L'Engle

tags: books, fire, star, universe

4494 likes

#25

“People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.”
― Saul Bellow

tags: book-lovers, libraries, reading

3628 likes

#26

“Here鈥檚 to books, the cheapest vacation you can buy.”
― Charlaine Harris

tags: books-vacation

8575 likes

#27

“A childhood without books 鈥� that would be no childhood. That would be like being shut out from the enchanted place where you can go and find the rarest kind of joy.”
― Astrid Lindgren

tags: books, children, children-s-literature

3117 likes

#28

“I was not yet in love, yet I loved to love...I sought what I might love, in love with loving.”
― Augustine of Hippo

1436 likes

#29

“A good book is an event in my life.”
― Stendhal, The Red and the Black

tags: books, literature, reading

3535 likes

#30

“I suspect it may be like the difference between a drinker and an alcoholic; the one merely reads books, the other needs books to make it through the day."

(Interview with The Booklovers blog, September 2010)”
― Gail Carriger

tags: addiction, book-lovers, books, survival

634 likes

#31

“Jesus!" Luke exclaimed.
"Actually, it's just me," said Simon. "Although I've been told the resemblance is startling.”
― Cassandra Clare

tags: humor, jace-wayland, simon-lewis

13707 likes

欧宝娱乐

Jessamine Lee > Jessamine's Quotes

Tags From Jessamine鈥檚 Quotes