#v

But she’d managed to find her way into our reality, perhaps because she had an important mission here, perhaps because she was here to save us from what people call the monotony of life. ↗

— Jostein Gaarder

#life

Animals can be driven crazy by placing too many in too small a pen. Homo sapiens is the only animal that voluntarily does this to himself. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

#love

I save the best of myself for novels, and I believe it shows. ↗

— Anne Tyler

#best #i #i believe #myself #novels

When you fall head over heels for someone, you're not falling in love with who they are as a person; you're falling in love with your idea of love. ↗

— Maria Bello

#falling #falling in love #head #heels #idea

At first I didn't know if I wanted to do TV again. I can get bored quickly. ↗

— Maria Bello

#bored #first #get #i #i can

My biggest dream since I was a kid was to be the woman sneaking on the pirate ship dressed like a man, who was this great sword fighter, and the captain fell in love with her. ↗

— Maria Bello

#biggest dream #captain #dream #dressed #fell

And I am interested in the fact that class is very much a factor in America, even though it's not supposed to be. ↗

— Anne Tyler

#america #class #even #fact #factor

From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends. ↗

— Hilaire Belloc

#ends #first #friends #homes #laughter

I would advise any beginning writer to write the first drafts as if no one else will ever read them - without a thought about publication - and only in the last draft to consider how the work will look from the outside. ↗

— Anne Tyler

#advise #any #beginning #consider #draft

I believe implicitly that every young man in the world is fascinated with either sharks or dinosaurs. ↗

— Peter Benchley

#dinosaurs #either #every #fascinated #i