Charlotte Quotes

Throwing yourself into the purse of a dream is the biggest adventure you can take on.

Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilised by education: they grow there, firm as weeds among stones.

Self-education is the only possible education the rest is mere veneer laid on the surface of a child's nature.

Why?" She asked in a confused whisper. "Out of all the women in the world, why did you choose this mortal?""Because fate drove me to you.

You can start anew at any given moment. Life is just the passage of time and it’s up to you to pass it as you please.

Fear is the thing that makes the heart grow.

I just want to be someone, to mean something to anyone…

The final magnificent spark of a firework is only the last seconds of the fall. Though it’s invisible to most, it’s the way up that creates all the impact.

Do what ought to be done, here and now, to get you somewhere — anywhere.

Why did you do all this for me?' he asked. 'I don't deserve it. I've never done anything for you.' 'You have been my friend, ' replied Charlotte. 'That in itself is a tremendous thing.

Pilar, if anyone, should have understood how awful it was to be surrounded by people who had their own version of the truth. People who wouldn’t listen to you long enough to know you at a

You have been my friend... And that in itself is a tremendous thing.

I had no male friends now, though I did have a strong community of intelligent, supportive, funny women and I felt confused as to why they weren't enough for me,

We take to the breeze, we go as we please.

Mr Reichman was brilliant and very good at what he did, but he was still a man, and men rarely knew what decisions a woman had or hadn't made.

Neither Boncer nor Teddy comes out of the house, not even to watch from the veranda. Here, laying the dead to rest, like washing and feeding and birth, is women’s work.

his wife might, I verily believe, be the very happiest woman the sun shines on

Beauty is given to dolls, majesty to haughty vixens, but mind, feeling, passion and the crowning grace of fortitude are the attributes of an angel.

I want to remember to notice the wonders of each day, in each moment, no matter where I am under any circumstance.

The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter - often an unconscious but still a faithful interpreter - in the eye.

She must disappear for a time from the human surface, And sacrifice everything for this, To recreate herself from the depths of her world.

Words do not always need a destination.We can leave them behind us at the borders of feelings.Running around headless in the vague zone.And that is the privilege of artists: to live in confusion.

If your prayers are not fertile, what are they? How do you make the Buddy System feminine? Pink is feminine.

I feel a new era coming in, standing on the shore, waiting for it to slowly greet me.

Hurting people you love is the heaviest kind of regret.

It started to hurt less because it mattered so much less.

My mind is killing me”— The Glass Child, Stuck In My Mind

When I discovered music — when I discovered the craft of shaping a song — my being fell into place.

She had on a blue bonnet, and with a pair of lovely eyes of the same colour, has contrived to make me feel devilish odd about the heart.

How all my brain was in tumult, and all my heart in insurrection! Yet in what darkness, what dense ignorance, was the mental battle fought!

I am not a broken heart, and I am not your fault.

It all takes time and lessons and places, but I’m learning to listen to my restless heart, telling me to “go, go, go!

Wilbur never forgot Charlotte. Although he loved her children and grandchildren dearly, none of the new spiders ever quite took her place in his heart.

Human interaction. The most complicated form of happiness I will never figure out.

I am living a simple life with a complicated mind and I have yet to find a state of mind where I feel safe with who I am, where I am, with what I do.

When I watch my mind and stay with my body, out of that comes some course of action.

We can burst the bonds which chain us, Which cold human hands have wrought, And where none shall dare restrain usWe can meet again, in thought.

The night seemed long. Wilbur's stomach was empty and his mind was full. And when your stomach is empty and your mind is full, it's always hard to sleep.

Dear world, I am excited to be alive in you, and I am thankful for another year.

This world can be quite wonderful once you let yourself be a part of it. It’s on your side, you know?

I don’t want to be a critic of the world. I want to encourage it.

I think I’m learningthat sometimes the bravest thing is not to face the world, but to turn away from it.

Some people make you want to be a better person, and that, for me, is the purest form of love.

I want people to feel safe around me. Calm and at peace and I want to make people feel accepted. I want to express confidence on my own path, and spread confidence to other people on theirs.

This is the story of a girl gone mad while trying to find a little bit of love.

I am a worried person with a stressed out soul, living a simple life with no capital.

... and you might say “no, you will never do that, that’s not you, not who I know, not who I thought you were”and I will say“watch me”for I never did this to fit inor stand outbut to live.

My favorite place in the world is next to you.

You are to me like white islands, in a world of vast darkness.

Find something you love and go for it with all your heart. No excuses, no plan B. Never settle for anything less than you know you can do.It will be hard, but I promise it will be worth it.