Katherine > Katherine's Quotes

“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
― Bernard M. Baruch

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“some wishes come true. some wishes dont. sometimes you find out you were wishing for the completely wrong thing.”
― Kate Klise, Deliver Us from Normal

“All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

“If you think anyone is sane you just don't know enough about them.”
― Christopher Moore, Practical Demonkeeping

“Reality is like a fruitcake; pretty enough to look at but with all sorts of nasty things lurking just beneath the surface.”
― A. Lee Martinez, Gil's All Fright Diner

“When you cross over into the weird stuff, there's no going back. Hector has a theory on it. Calls it the law of 'Anomalous Phenomena Attraction.' He explained it to me once. Didn't really pay attention, but it boils down to 'weird shit pulls in more weird shit.”
― A. Lee Martinez, Gil's All Fright Diner

“Let me tell you, if you have never seen an agitated squirrel you have seen very little, nor have you heard much, because the sound of an angry squirrel is not to be forgotten.”
― Joe R. Lansdale, Bad Chili

“Now I have a cat. Well, that's not quite accurate. A cat and I have each other.”
― Kinky Friedman

“I support gay marriage. I believe they have a right to be as miserable as the rest of us.”
― Kinky Friedman

“You don't accomplish much by swimming with the mainstream. Hell, a dead fish can do that.”
― Kinky Friedman

“If you want to be free, all you have to do is let go.”
― Terry Hayes, I Am Pilgrim

“The driver thought I was crazy—but then his religion thinks stoning a woman to death for adultery is reasonable, so I figured we were about even.”
― Terry Hayes, I Am Pilgrim

“In war, the first casualty is truth.”
― Terry Hayes, I Am Pilgrim

“Life is too short to be lived badly.”
― Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return

“The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.”
― Mark Twain

“May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view.”
― Edward Abbey

“When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, "Why god? Why me?" and the thundering voice of God answered, There's just something about you that pisses me off.”
― Stephen King, Storm of the Century

“Good books don't give up all their secrets at once.”
― Stephen King

“Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.”
― Stephen King

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost

“I read.. because one life is not enough”
― Richard Peck

“Which is the true nightmare, the horrific dream that you have in your sleep or the dissatisfied reality that awaits you when you awake?”
― Justin Alcala

“The truth is...you're only as invisible as you feel, imaginary or not.”
― Michelle Cuevas, Confessions of an Imaginary Friend

“He remembers what I forget and I remember what he forgets. It's too late for either of us to make another old friend.”
― Abigail Thomas, What Comes Next and How to Like It

“I was young once and slender and pretty and I made the most of it. It's somebody else's turn now.”
― Abigail Thomas

“Here’s what I love about dogs. They aren’t careful not to disturb you. They don’t overthink. They jump on the bed or the sofa or the chair and plop down. They come and they go. I’m not sure they love me exactly, but they count on me because I am a source of heat and food and pleasure and affection. If one of them is lying next to me and suddenly prefers the sofa, I don’t take it personally. Dogs don’t wake up on the wrong side of the bed. There is no wrong side of the bed for a dog.”
― Abigail Thomas, What Comes Next and How to Like It

“SIX MONTHS AGO A FRIEND WAS ANGRY WITH ME and I with her. I had written about something someone said many years ago, but it was she who heard the words, not me, a fact I had completely forgotten. Her experience was precious, and she accused me of stealing her memory. Not only that, but what she remembered with grief I had somehow transmuted to gratitude, so besides stealing her memory, I also got it wrong. We argued, but there was no meeting place. For days the same questions went through my head. Is memory property? If two people remember something differently is one of them wrong? Wasn’t my memory of a memory also real? There were no solid answers, just winding paths I went round and round on. I thought of nothing else; a chasm had opened between me and my friend.”
― Abigail Thomas, A Three Dog Life: A Memoir

“THERE ARE ENORMOUS HOLES IN MY EDUCATION. I left college in March of my freshman year and never went back. I’ve never read Moby-Dick and it’s probably too late now. I know nothing about the history of music or the history of art except what I’ve learned through osmosis. But Outsider Art is its own context. I don’t have to know all about the Impressionists or the Abstract Expressionists. I don’t have to be able to fit this art into any historic chronology. I don’t feel like an ignoramus. Irony of ironies, I don’t feel like an outsider—to fall in love I only need eyes.”
― Abigail Thomas, A Three Dog Life: A Memoir

“What can come?” my grandson Sam asked, when he was very young, after his mother had warned him not to go into the woods after dark. What can come? This was a brilliant question. Can is scarier than will. What will come limits itself. What can come has no boundaries.”
― Abigail Thomas, What Comes Next and How to Like It