Quotes About Reflection

A peacefulness follows any decision, even the wrong one.

Whenever a young thing wants to be free minus serious thought, she gets pregnant and then gets married. Voilà!

PAST CLAWS AND EFFECT

Spending is worse than pain, she thought; it lasts longer.

Life's too short to try and understand cold-blooded creatures.

Good judgment comes from experience; experience comes from bad judgment.

The writer's job is not to write a novel, hold it up and say, "Here I am," but to write a novel, hold it up and say, "Here YOU are.

It doesn't matter what I think. It matters what you think, Donny boy. Tonight was the best thing that could have happened to you. You will now either get out of the business and lead a normal life

And don't worry about the bits you can't understand. Sit back and allow the words to wash around you, like music.

An autobiography is a book a person writes about his own life and it is usually full of all sorts of boring details.

I'm afraid men are not always quite as clever as they think they are. You will learn that when you get a bit older, my girl.

Now that I am alone, I don't have to hide it; I don't have to hide anything any longer. I can let my face go because no one can see me; because there's twenty-one thousand feet between me and them... No, I don't have to press my teeth together or tighten the muscles of my jaw...

It was pleasant to take a hot drink up to her room and have it beside her as she sat in her silent room reading in the empty house in the afternoons. The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives.

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What on earth were you trying to do, make yourself look handsome or something? You look like someone's grandmother gone wrong!

Aren't I going back to England? No, she said. I Could never do that. Heaven shall take my soul, but Norway shall keep my bones.

When you're writing, it's rather like going on a very long walk

There are a whole lot of things in this world of ours you haven't started wondering about yet.

Matilda had never once stopped to think about where Miss Honey might be living. She had always regarded her purely as a teacher, a person who turned up out of nowhere and taught at school and then went away again. Do any of us children, she wondered, ever stop to ask ourselves where our teachers go when school is over for the day? Do we wonder if they live alone, or if there is a mother at home or a sister or a husband?

I didn't know which direction I was going in. I just went on walking and calling out, walking and calling; and each time I called, I would stop and listen. But no answer came.

A little nonsense now and then, is relished by the wisest men

They also talked about themselves, each one saying how beautiful she thought she was. Aunt Sponge had a long-handled mirror on her lap, and she kept picking it up and gazing at her own hideous face.

Back in the cave

There are a whole lot of things in this world of ours you haven't started wondering about yet.