graceppley’s most recent Quotables

The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don’t just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.

Can one explain the magic of life to someone who cannot perceive it in the smallest everyday things?

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.

Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.

It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not.

Books are for life.  Not just for homework.

“The art of being yourself at your best is the art of unfolding your personality into the person you want to be...Be gentle with yourself, learn to love yourself, to forgive yourself, for only as we have the right attitude toward ourselves can we have the right attitude toward others.”

But I love your feet
only because they walked
upon the earth and upon
the wind and upon the waters,
until they found me.

"We all have this perfect little box of "who we want to be," but it is unnecessary. Throw the box away. You're already you. What more can you be?"

If you are lonely when you are alone, you are in bad company.

I was raised among books, making invisible friends in the pages that seemed cast from dust and whose smell I carry on my hands to this day.

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.

Saying ‘I notice you’re a nerd’ is like saying, ‘Hey, I notice that you’d rather be intelligent than be stupid, that you’d rather be thoughtful than be vapid, that you believe that there are things that matter more than the arrest record of Lindsay Lohan. Why is that?’

“They love their hair because they're not smart enough to love something more interesting.”

I take quite a lot of pride in not knowing what's cool.

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.