Quotes - Jene' Koenig (Colorado Springs, CO) Showing 1-30 of 73

#1

“Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: love, ordinary, people

11980 likes

#2

“If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.”
― George Bernard Shaw

tags: kill, laughter, misattributed-oscar-wilde, truth

3929 likes

#3

“You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.”
― oscar wilde

tags: attributed-no-source

7806 likes

#4

“Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories

9938 likes

#5

“Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

tags: life

11447 likes

#6

“When I looked at you, my life made sense. Even the bad things made sense. They were necessary to make you possible.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer

1303 likes

#7

“I don't think that there are any limits to how excellent we could make life seem.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything Is Illuminated

tags: happiness, life

830 likes

#8

“He loved her, of course, but better than that, he chose her, day after day. Choice: that was the thing.”
― Sherman Alexie, The Toughest Indian in the World

tags: choice, love

753 likes

#9

“That's right, I am a book kisser.”
― Sherman Alexie, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

143 likes

#10

“What kind of life can you have in a house without books?”
― Sherman Alexie, Flight

tags: books, boredom, dullness, inspiration, life, necessity, reading

242 likes

#11

“sometimes we need all the glue we can get, just to hold ourselves together.”
― Cecelia Ahern, Thanks for the Memories

434 likes

#12

“You gotta be rich to be insane, Hol. Losing your mind is not a luxury for the middle class.”
― Cecelia Ahern, P.S. I Love You

tags: p-s-i-love-you

138 likes

#13

“At seven, I didn't insist on my version of the world.”
― Eileen Favorite, The Heroines

2 likes

#14

“Unheralded we came into this world. Unheralded we will go out. But while we are in this world, we do such deeds that even if this generation does not remember, the next generation cannot forget.”
― Vikas Swarup, Al Milyūnayr Al Mutasharrad =Slumdog Millionaire

25 likes

#15

“The one conclusion I have reached is that whiskey is a great leveler. You might be a hotshot advertising executive or a lowly foundry worker, but if you cannot hold your drink, you are just a drunkard.”
― Vikas Swarup, Q & A

tags: alcohol

24 likes

#16

“Love doesn't happen in an instant. It creeps up on you and then it turns your life upside down. It colors your waking moments, and fills your dreams. You begin to walk on air and see life in brilliant new shades. But it also brings with it a sweet agony, a delicious torture.”
― Vikas Swarup, Q & A

tags: love

146 likes

#17

“He knew that I love you also means I love you in a way that no one loves you, or has loved you, or will love you, and also, I love you in a way that I love no one else, and never have loved anyone else, and never will love anyone else.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything Is Illuminated

108 likes

#18

“The Eskimos have four hundred words for snow, and the Jewshave four hundred for schmuck.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything is Illuminated

16 likes

#19

“Grandfather kicked the stop pedal, and my face gave a high-five to the front window.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything is Illuminated

17 likes

#20

“Well, you will have to do. If you had died along with your mother, I would have taught the cat to read.”
― Frances Hardinge, Fly by Night

7 likes

#21

“Brand a man as a thief and no one will ever hire him for honest labor - he will be a hardened robber within weeks. The brand does not reveal a person's nature, it shapes it.”
― Frances Hardinge, Fly by Night

28 likes

#22

“If wits were pins, the man would be a veritable hedgehog.”
― Frances Hardinge, Fly by Night

29 likes

#23

“You, sir, are a romantic, and I'm afraid the condition is incurable.

-Eponymous Clent”
― Frances Hardinge, Fly by Night

30 likes

#24

“True stories seldom have endings.
I don't want a happy ending, I want more story.”
― Frances Hardinge, Fly by Night

tags: endings

146 likes

#25

“When you resort to violence to prove a point, you’ve just experienced a profound failure of imagination.”
― Sherman Alexie, The Toughest Indian in the World

70 likes

#26

“I'm a poet who can whine in meter”
― Sherman Alexie

30 likes

#27

“Forks are absurd, he scoffed. They insult your food. They make it think you're killing it twice.”
― Clare B. Dunkle, The Hollow Kingdom

tags: cutlery, forks, humor

27 likes

#28

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
― Oscar Wilde

84583 likes

#29