Quotes about lit
Molly Worthen - Apostles of Reason: The Crisis of Authority in American Evangelicalism
It was evangelicals' sense of rudderlessness - their desire for an authority to guide them in questions of dogma, life, and worship - that led them to rediscover liturgy and history in the first place. The irony was that in their smorgasbord approach to non-Protestant tradition, in their individualistic rejection of the rules of any one church in favor of a free run of the so-called church universal, in their repudiation of American nationalism in favor of cosmopolitanism, young evangelicals wer
Charlotte Eriksson -
I will find comfort in the rhythm of the sea.
Charlotte Eriksson -
If I stay close to the sea, I will go on well.
Akshay Vasu -
They lit her wings with the flames, but she raised to the sky soaring over the clouds until the whole sky caught fire. She flew staring at the destruction with her cold eyes, while the clouds came down as the balls of fire and burnt everyone, who tried to take her wings away into ashes.
Jane Green -
Chick lit was amazing, and I was thrilled to be part of it.
Walter Lord -
Brilliantly lit from stem to stern, she looked like a sagging birthday cake.
Sarah Mlynowski -
I started a MySpace teen lit discussion group and invited people to join.
Robin Wasserman -
Teen fiction should be about teenagers - no matter how many arguments there are about what YA lit should be, this seems like the one thing we can all agree on.
Helen Hunt Jackson -
I know the lands are lit, with all the autumn blaze of Goldenrod.
Tertullian -
Hope is patience with the lamp lit.
Amy Reed - Beautiful
Your boyfriend smells bad, says Sarah as she sniffs the armpit of the giant sweatshirt.All boys smell bad I say and she nods her head like we have just figured out something very important.
Akshay Vasu -
She lit fire to the bridges and forts she built all these years, and she walked into it smiling and tears rolling down her cheeks.
E.A. Bucchianeri -
You can kill a book quicker by your silence than by a bad review.
Anne Sexton - The Complete Poems
No. Not really red,but the color of a rose when it bleeds.
Nathan Harris -
What if my name was Daniel, Lucas, Noah. Lucas Harris, That doesn't sound right. I think I'll stick with Nate.
Jennifer Elisabeth -
I write so I don’t call you.
Charlotte Eriksson -
I am a worried person with a stressed out soul, living a simple life with no capital.
Charlotte Eriksson -
My favorite place in the world is next to you.
Gertrude Stein -
It is very easy to love alone.
Laura Miller - The Magician's Book: A Skeptic's Adventures in Narnia
Buying a book is not about obtaining a possession, but about securing a portal.
Laura Miller - The Magician's Book: A Skeptic's Adventures in Narnia
If you've ever read one of those articles that asks notable people to list their favorite books, you may have been impressed or daunted to see them pick Proust or Thomas Mann or James Joyce. You might even feel sheepish about the fact that you reread Pride and Prejudice or The Lord of the Rings, or The Catcher in the Rye or Gone With the Wind every couple of years with some much pleasure. Perhaps, like me, you're even a little suspicious of their claims, because we all know that the books we've
Laura Miller - The Magician's Book: A Skeptic's Adventures in Narnia
Adventure,' then, is what might otherwise be called hardship if it were attempted in a different spirit. Turning a difficult task or a perilous journey into an adventure is largely a matter of telling yourself the right story about it, which is one thing that Lewis's child characters have learned from reading, 'the right books.
Laura Miller - The Magician's Book: A Skeptic's Adventures in Narnia
If we weigh the significance of a book by the effect it has on its readers, then the great children's books suddenly turn up very high on the list.
Charlotte Eriksson -
It's the smell of him in the bathroom, all I need to get ready for the day. Watching him get dressed, and the sound in the kitchen; a slow hum of a song and his movements, picking things to eat. The way I could observe him, for hours, just go on with his day – or as he sleeps – simply breathing in and out, in and out, and it's like the hymn that sings me to peace. I know the world is still out there and I know I'm not yet friendly to its pace, but as long as I know him with me, here, there, some
Charlotte Eriksson -
Take a shower, wash off the day. Drink a glass of water. Make the room dark. Lie down and close your eyes.Notice the silence. Notice your heart. Still beating. Still fighting. You made it, after all. You made it, another day. And you can make it one more. You’re doing just fine.
Sinclair Lewis - Arrowsmith
I was feeling rational and restless, which is horrible for watching movies
Egon Schiele -
Bodies have their own light which they consume to live: they burn, they are not lit from the outside.
Steven Magee -
Modern architecture predominately specializes in designing what are essentially dimly lit caves.
Jennifer Elisabeth - Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl
You battled monsters. You sweat and cried your way to this one prolific moment where you finally realize that those dark days and sleepless nights were pre-requisites to your becoming.
Virginia Woolf -
Are we not acceptable, moon? Are we not lovely sitting together here, I in my satin; he in black and white?
Raphael Zernoff -
We can allow ourselves to pass through the darkest valley without losing our light. One candle can lit millions of other candles, which are willing to receive the light.