Sarah Rees Brennan Quotes
I'd rather live laughing for one year than live without laughing for one hundred.
Quotes to Explore
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There are days where you do everything right and nothing goes in your favour.
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For most of my time in Tallahassee, I did a lot of transportation.
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I would not be gotten into a schoolhouse until I was eight years old. Nor did I accomplish much after I started. I doubt if I had gone to school six months in all when my father died. I was fourteen at the time.
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I believe that fate is choices - it's not chance.
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I don't deserve this award, but I have arthritis and I don't deserve that either.
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What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it. Dull to the contemporary who reads it and invaluable to the student, centuries afterwards, who treasures it.
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I personally see myself as a musician in the first place. You know, I don't want to say I will be a producer and DJ for the rest of my life. I can totally see myself being in another band in five years, if that's what my heart and soul wants to do, if that's what will make me happy. I'm totally happy to just not DJ anymore.
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If being a woman is a factor politically, it's usually not because of a conscious bias, but because women are a novelty.
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I had a career that was very short, but it had a lot of thrills.
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I couldn't find anyone doing something about the astounding injustices women were experiencing, so I decided to do something myself. I cannot tell you how many people ridiculed my efforts.
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This is a world in which reasons are made up because reality is too painful.
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No one can become fully aware of the very essence of another human being unless he loves him.
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Americans are generally decent and fair people with a commitment to sense, but some of us, swept up by our passions, wade too far into a sea of sensibility.
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I wasn't an easy, happy-go-lucky girl because I used to think about everything so much, and I think I probably still do.
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My main point is to be funny; if I can slip a message in there, fine.
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You can always plan where you think your life is going to go but I don't think you can really plan your future.
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I have a very steadfast tendency to parent myself, to monitor my development into the person I want to be. I've tried to keep the corruption minimal.
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Travel, of course, narrows the mind.
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Love is cheering and sharing and compassion and giving and receiving. Love is an action thing more than a word thing, that brings comfort or joy or relief to anyone or anything.
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A God you understood would be less than yourself.
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Each blockage is a blockage. Each impasse is an impasse. You have to find a solution; there is no recipe that fits each one of them.
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Sincerity is the key which will open the door through which you will see your separate parts, and you will see something quite new. You must go on trying to be sincere. Each day you put on a mask, and you must take it off little by little.
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I'd rather live laughing for one year than live without laughing for one hundred.
