Quotes About Experience

It was our story. It didn't have to have a happy beginning or a happy ending, but the middle was a feast at a banquet, a rich soapy bath, a night's rest at an inn and full stomach, a warm chest nestled up against my back, the soft heat of lips at my nape, stories whispered in my ear.

Pieces. Isn't that what all of life is anyway? Shards. Bits. Moments. Am I less because I have fewer, or do the few I have mean more?

Snow. I wondered what it felt like. Aunt Bernette said it could be both soft and hard, cold and hot. It stung and burned when the wind pelted it through the air, and it was a gentle cold feather when it drifted down in lazy circles from the sky. I couldn't imagine it being so many things, and I wondered if she had taken license with her story as Father always claimed. I couldn't stop thinking of it. Snow.

It's not every day one has a first kiss,' I said. 'May I remind you that it wasn't your first kiss?' 'It felt like it was. It was the first one that mattered.

It's other people who make us wise, and I haven't known nearly enough.

When your life has had few events to occupy it, it's amazing how a simple encounter can seem like an entire three-act play.

Some scars took longer to heal than others, and some scars, I knew, were necessary. Some things you should never forget.

But I had loved and been loved deeply and completely, not once but twice in my life. I would not trade that for all the riches that Montegue had to offer.

It was our story. It didn't have to have a happy beginning or a happy ending, but the middle was a feast at a banquet, a rich, soapy bath, a night's rest at an inn and a full stomach, a warm chest nestled up against my back, the soft heat of lips at my nape, stories whispered in my ear.

The queen once told me there were a hundred ways to fall in love. Maybe there were a hundred ways to find and give forgiveness too. I think I had already found a few.

Love's always a messy affair better left to young hearts. There are no ground rules to follow.

And now the senna and camomile were to flavour all her life. She was no longer to enjoy that mystical double existence, those delicious glimpses of dreamland, which made up for all the dulness of the common world that surrounded her.

We learned. Some of the things we learned left scars.

Time flies whether you are having fun or not.

Be glad that once you did experience that magic. It's part of who you are now, and you're richer for it.

The phenomenon of play is local: that is, while the phenomenon of play is universal, the experience of play is intrinsically tied to location and culture.

When one is young and on the threshold of life's long deception, rashness is all. —Françoise Sagan1

There are no pure people.

He had lunch with Cecilia that afternoon. They ate their corned beef on rye and cream cheese with lox in a diner peopled by waiters who looked like they´d met with utter disappointment and become attached to it.

I carry love wrapped in pain. That is my treasure and soon it will be yours.

I don't think there is any book that can't teach you something, even if it is how not to tell a story.

When I was a child I didn't care about getting an education, and I didn't finish high school.

Long ago they lowered insane persons into snake pits; they thought that an experience that might drive a sane person out of his wits might send an insane person back into sanity.

I don't usually look back. When I make foolish decisions, I file the consequences under lessons learned and tell myself not to be stupid in the same way again.