43 Quotes About Wisdom-in-fiction

Use all this life to make yourself a great writer, thoughtful and kind, slowly, surely over the years.

Who knows? Maybe you both live happily ever after, or maybe three months from now you end the relationship because he doesn't squeeze the toothpaste from the bottom...nothing is guaranteed." - Olivia Harper, Secret Need

Beware the dangers of making decisions after the sun sets. Best to tuck your worries under your pillow and sleep on them till morning. Sometimes in the night the worries will be ironed out by your sleeping head.

Goodness is funny because it draws you to it while curiously possessing you with the untrammelled desire to turn it into something bad.

For years, measuring herself against others less tolerant, she’d thought of herself as a kind and good person, even generous. It occurred to her that she’d been using an imperfect measuring stick.⁣

Use your strength, but always remember that any strengthmay become a weakness.

You think that it’s not magic that keeps you alive? Just ‘cause you understand the mechanics of how something works, doesn’t make it any less of a miracle. Which is just another word for magic. We’re all kept alive by magic, Sookie. My magic’s just a little different from yours, that’s all.

There is one thing, Emma, which a man can always do if he chooses, and that is his duty; not by manoeuvring and finessing, but by vigour and resolution. - Mr. Knightley

It's crazy what you can talk yourself out of when you're scared and into when you're not.