Quotes Compiled

“Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the unfortunate that it comes early in life.” Anthony Trollope via Oxymoronica

“I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal” Jane Austen, via Oxymoronica

“Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the unfortunate that it comes early in life.” Anthony Trollope via Oxymoronica

“It is only by knowing how little life has in store for us that we are able to look on the bright side and avoid disappointment. ” Glasgow, via Oxymoronica

“But just as someone who wears a sign saying “Kick Me!” will, in the normal course of events, eventually be kicked, so too there was enough mischief being done in that basement to attract something unusually bad, something with more mischief on its mind. It had been waiting for a long time. Now that wait was about to come to an end.” (13)” John Conolly, The Gates

“I believe the universe wants to be noticed. I think the universe is improbably biased toward consciousness, that it rewards intelligence, in part because the universe enjoys its elegance in being observed. And who am I, living in the middle of history, to tell the universe that it – or my observation of it-is temporary?” (223)” John Green, The Fault In Our Stars

“But to be perfectly frank, this childish idea that the author has some special insight into the characters in the novel… it’s ridiculous. That novel was composed of scratches on a page, dear. The characters inhabiting it have no life outside of those scratches. What happened to them? They all ceased to exist the moment the novel ended.” (192)” John Green, The Fault In Our Stars

“I take quite a lot of pride in not knowing what’s cool,” I answered. (40)” John Green, The Fault In Our Stars

“Why are you looking at me like that?”
Augustus half smiled. “Because you’re beautiful. I enjoy looking at beautiful people, and I decided a while ago not to deny myself the simpler pleasures of existence. (16)” John Green, the Fault In Our Stars

“Ours is a world where people don’t know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.” Dan Marquis via The Oxymoronica