Marie Quotes

Got to love a dude that says things like "kinetic" and "detritus.

If you are not with me, you are against me. I have no mercy for my enemies.

When I write, it's purging for me. It's a therapeutic process.

I grew up in the South with my father; blues and country, that's always been my core. But I had it in me not to do what was expected. I wanted to find my own footing.

I don't ascribe to any particular style or period.

I have always been a singer/songwriter and I was pushed in places I didn't want to do, like pop or top forty. I don't belong there.

I was always writing music anyway. I just sort of fell into it. Writing for me is a therapeutic process.

If you lined up everyone I've ever dated, you wouldn't see any similarities.

I sit with the intention to write a record.

I went through a huge transition in my life where everything and everyone I knew and trusted didn't turn out to be that way.

I don't think that I'm a top 40 artist in any way. So I don't think I'm that mainstream.

I've never even been out of my BMI range. I'm 5-foot-3. If I gain five pounds, it shows.

Patches are a nun's jewels.

Yield all and trust all.

[On the legend that after being beheaded St. Denis walked six miles with his head in his hands:] It is only the first step that is difficult.

I love nothing and that is the true cause of my ennui.

God is not more incomprehensible than you; but if he is not more just, it is hardly worth while beIieving in him.

Faith is a devout belief in what one does not understand.

Impromptu thoughts are mental wild-flowers.

Life is better when we imagine it

Writers learn their craft, above all, from the work of other writers. From reading.

Mediocrity has a way of keeping demons from the door.

Time is the most terrible, the most discouraging, the most unconquerable of all obstacles, and one that may exist when no other does.

When one misses an opportunity one is apt to fancy that another will never present itself.

I always say the next book is my favorite, because without a "next" book, you don't really have a career as a book author.

My books are like my children. I love them all.

But coming to terms with one’s sorrow is one thing; sharing it with strangers is quite another.

I'm interested in the female dom/male sub dynamic, and how superficially it can seem like a total reverse of gender roles and maybe even subversive or something.

The pictures feel as essential to me as the text. I was always interested in including pictures with writing.

I think in general in my teens I had a lot of crushes on men on the Internet, most notably Momus since I was in my late teens. John Darnielle was also another big crush.

There is no Death,/What seems so is transition.

I must not say what I truly think, or you will tell me I flatter you-but I can only speak what I feel-and very often I cannot even do that when the feeling is very deep.

Education! Is it education to teach the young that their chances of happiness depend on being richer than their neighbors? Yet that is what it all tends to. Get on! - be successful!

the beginning of my history is - love. It is the beginning of every man and every woman's history, if they are only frank enough to admit it.

And out of heart's pain comes heart's peace; and out of desire, accomplishment.

A fine morning's killing, ay! All their necks wrung - all dead birds! Once they could fly - fly and swim! Fly and swim! All dead now - and sold cheap in the open market!

in my opinion, the Divine is revealed to all men once at least in their lives.

Patriotism is understood to be that virtue which consists in serving one's country; but in what way is this 'Patria' or country served by slaying its able bodied men in thousands?

A criminal is twice a criminal when he adds hypocrisy to his crime.

it seems a silly kind o' business to bring us into the world at all for no special reason 'cept to take us out of it again just as folks 'ave learned to know us a bit and find us useful.

The Press nowadays is not a literary press; classic diction and brilliancy of style do not distinguish it by any means.

If we choose to be no more than clods of clay, then we shall be used as clods of clay for braver feet to tread on.

He who would tell divers tales must know how to vary the tune.

But Fortune, who never forgets her duty, turns her wheel suddenly.

In times gone by there lived a Count of Ponthieu, who loved chivalry and the pleasures of the world beyond measure, and moreover was a stout knight and a gallant gentleman

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

It is thus that we walk through the world like the blind, not knowing whither we are going, regarding as bad what is good, regarding as good what is bad, and ever in entire ignorance.

It is a disgraceful thing to be ignorant.

Occupation is the best safeguard for women under all circumstances--mental or physical, or both. Cupid extinguishes his torch in the atmosphere of industry.

Happiness, like misfortunes, never comes alone.