Monica Hesse Quotes

Sometimes hope can be poisonous. ~ Monica Hesse

When things come to an end in a way you didn't expect, in a way you never could have imagined, do they really come to an end? Does it mean you should keep searching, for better answers, for ones that don't keep you up at night? Or does it mean it's time to make peace? ~ Monica Hesse

We need girls who are pretty so the soldiers don't notice that they're also smart and brave and working against them ~ Monica Hesse

Isn't love the opposite of rational? ~ Monica Hesse

Maybe we can't barter our feelings away, trading good deeds for bad ones and expecting to become whole. ~ Monica Hesse

My heart will still ache sometimes. Maybe more often than not. I think it's possible to be healed without feeling whole. ~ Monica Hesse

Lucky has become such a relative term, when the standards to meet it involve only not being treated like a criminal in your own home city. ~ Monica Hesse

The absence of pain is not the same as the presence of happiness". ~ Monica Hesse

None of these are the miracles I was looking for. But they're miracles nonetheless ~ Monica Hesse

Girls in love will do desperate and creative things. ~ Monica Hesse

I found a girl who wasn't the girl I was looking for. I let go of a friend I'll still miss every day. I'll go back to work. I'll get better. I'll get better slowly. I'll find all the secret, hidden things. ~ Monica Hesse

Tow best friends meeting on the street to say so many things at once: I betrayed you, I love you, I want to save you, I'm sorry. All around Europe, people are dying by the hundreds of thousands. And here, in my city, the Nazis slaughtered a family because of events that started with love and jealousy and a slip of the tongue. ~ Monica Hesse

But when it comes down to it, we all die alone. ~ Monica Hesse

As economies change, as landscapes change, nostalgia is the only good America will never stop producing. We gorge on it ourselves and pass it down to generations. ~ Monica Hesse

I would care that someone understood we were flawed and scarred and doing the best we could in this war. We were wrapped up in things that were so much bigger than ourselves. We didn't know. We didn't mean to. It wasn't our fault. ~ Monica Hesse

We must love the people in front of us. We must forgive ourselves for the things we did to survive. The things we broke. The things that broke us. ~ Monica Hesse

But I suppose love doesn't stop, even in wars. There's only so much time a day that you can spend being terrified of something before your instinct to feel natural human emotions would kick in. ~ Monica Hesse

It is the greatest tragedy and the greatest beauty of a relationship: that at some level, the person you are closest to will always be a total friggin' mystery. ~ Monica Hesse

But I supposed love doesn't stop, even in wars. ~ Monica Hesse

Ooo la la! That kiss was fine, and it was full of all the words I didn't need to say. ~ Monica Drake

The First Flowers
Beside the brook
Toward the willows,
During these days
So many yellow flowers have opened
Their eyes into gold.
I have long since lost my innocence, yet a memory
Touches my depth, the golden hours of morning, and gazes
Brilliantly upon me out of the eyes of flowers.
I was going to pick flowers;
Now I leave them all standing
And walk home, an old man. ~ Hermann Hesse

No use lamenting over it! I was now living in a blaze of unsatisfied desire, of suspenseful expectancy, that often made me wild and crazy. I often saw the image of my dream beloved before me with more than lifelike clarity, much more clearly than my own hand; I spoke to it, wept before it, cursed it. I called it mother and knelt before it in tears; I called it beloved and sensed its ripe, all-fulfilling kiss; I called it devil and whore, vampire and murderess. It lured me into the tenderest dreams of love and into acts of dissolute shamelessness; nothing was too good and precious for it, nothing too bad and vile. ~ Hermann Hesse

I used to pretend that I was Tom attacking Jerry, who was drawn on the ball. ~ Monica Seles

I sells ladies fings, and vis nun, she comes up to me stall an' afore you can blink an eye, she picks up a couple of bread an' cheeses, tucks 'em in 'er petticoats, an' is off round the Jack Horner, dahn ve frog an' toad, quick as shit off a stick. I couldn't Adam an' Eve it, bu' vats wot she done. When I tells me carvin' knife wot I seen, she calls me an 'oly friar, an' says she'll land me one on me north and south if I calls Sister Monica Joan a tea-leaf. Very fond of Sister, she is. So I never says nuffink to no one, like. ~ Jennifer Worth

I have never lied about my relationship with Bill Clinton. The only proven liar, at this point, and the only admitted liar, is Bill Clinton; not Gennifer Flowers, not Kathleen Willey, not Paula Jones and not Monica Lewinsky, at this point. He is the only proven liar. ~ Gennifer Flowers

I had grown a thin mustache, I was a full-grown man, and yet I was completely helpless and without a goal in life. ~ Hermann Hesse

Nothing was, nothing will be, everything has reality and presence. ~ Hermann Hesse

You love it, don't you? Admit it. I got you excited about football." He was gloating as he did a little victory dance.
You got me excited about something, that's for sure.
"I love it," I said, grinning back at him. I poked him in the stomach while he danced around like an idiot, feeling his taught stomach beneath my fingers. ~ Monica Alexander

You know, one meets so many people, the years pass and pass, but there are certain times, certain people - . . . They take up room. So much room. I was married to Howard for twenty-eight years and yet he made only a piddling dent in my memory. A little nick. But certain others, they move in and make themselves at home and start flapping their arms in the story you make of your life. They have a wingspan. . . . ~ Monica Wood

When I rode the train west,
I went looking for something,
but I didn't see anything wonderful.
I didn't see anything better than what I already had.
Home. ~ Karen Hesse

In a couple, sometimes, one or both people have to give up their personal life, dreams and ambitions for the good of the family. ~ Monica Bellucci

That is just what life is when it is beautiful and happy - a game! Naturally, one can also do all kinds of other things with it, make a duty of it, or a battleground, or a prison, but that does not make it any prettier. ~ Hermann Hesse

Her need for love is as wide as that sky out there and as impossible for an unwinged mortal to fulfill. ~ Monica Ali

My name is Monica, and I am not submissive. I stand six feet tall in heels. I am descended from one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century. I can sing like an angel, and growl like a lion. I am not owned. I am music. ~ C.D. Reiss

A man who is ill-adjusted to the world is always on the verge of finding himself. One who is adjusted to the world never finds himself, but gets to be a cabinet minister. ~ Hermann Hesse

I wish I got a lie-in on Saturday mornings but I never do. ~ Monica Ali

Love must not entreat,' she added, 'or demand. Love must have the strength to become certain within itself. Then it ceases merely to be attracted and begins to attract. ~ Hermann Hesse

As every one of us knows, there are some festivals and games in which everything goes right, and every element lifts up, animates, and exalts every other, just as there are theatrical and musical performances which without any clearly discernible cause seem to ascend miraculously to glorious climaxes and intensely felt experiences, whereas others, just as well prepared, remain no more than decent tries. ~ Hermann Hesse

The art of love-giving and taking become one. ~ Hermann Hesse

I felt like a piece of trash. I felt dirty and I felt used and I was disappointed. ~ Monica Lewinsky

Have I told you how beautiful you look tonight?"
"That brandy you had before we left home has dulled your senses, Devlyn.
However, I appreciate your gallantry."
"Haven't you learned by now, that I'm far from gallant? A rake rarely is. ~ Monica Burns

God does not send us despair in order to kill us; he sends it in order to awaken us to new life. ~ Hermann Hesse

All existence seemed to be based on duality, on contrast. Either one was a man or one was a woman, either a wanderer or sedentary burgher, either a thinking person or a feeling person-no one could breathe in at the same time as he breathed out, be a man as well as a woman, experience freedom as well as order, combine instinct and mind. One always had to pay for one with the loss of the other, and one thing was always just as important and desirable as the other. ~ Hermann Hesse

The law?" I asked curiously. "What law's that, Leo?"
"The law of service. He who wishes to live must serve, but he who wishes to rule does not live long. ~ Hermann Hesse

We were glad to have in our midst a sprinkling of fools, who, although only comparatively foolish, provided a touch of colour and some occasion for laughter and mockery. ~ Hermann Hesse

The limitless jet-lag purgatory of Immigration and Baggage at Heathrow. ~ Monica Dickens

And as far as talent is concerned, there will be such an excess that our artists will become their own audiences, and audiences made up of ordinary people will no longer exist. ~ Hermann Hesse

Oh God." Chloe closed her eyes, and when they reopened, he saw an excitement that suddenly made him nervous. "We're going all James Bond, aren't we? I'm so on board with the idea. ~ Monica McCabe

I read with a kind of curious terror, learning that words can pin their readers to place, confer permanence on the ethereal, make the unimaginable true. ~ Monica Wood

He had not loved his son enough. This knowledge lived like a malignancy on his heart. ~ Monica Wood

The word of God is a Christian's instructions for life. God speaks to us through His word, so we cannot constantly be running on empty. ~ Monica Johnson

I had to experience despair, I had to sink to the greatest mental depths, to thoughts of suicide, in order to experience grace, to hear Om again, to sleep deeply again and to awaken refreshed again. I had to become a fool again in order to find Atman in myself. I had to sin in order to live again. Whither will my path yet lead me? This path is stupid, it goes in spirals, perhaps in circles, but whichever way it goes, I will follow it. He was aware of a great happiness mounting within him. ~ Hermann Hesse