Still Alice Quotes

They were such solitary creatures that when they met their mates they would begin to scream, for they were drawn to each other, yet were enemies still. ~ Alice Hoffman

And while a bald head and a looped ribbon were seen as badges of courage and hope, her reluctant vocabulary and vanishing memories advertised mental instability and impending insanity. Those with cancer could expect to be supported by their community. Alice expected to be an outcast. ~ Lisa Genova

I wish I could concentrate on dancing
Instead of spending so much time pretending
I am still in junior high
But with Rem, I want to be sixteen
Or, like Alice in Wonderland,
Sometimes smaller,
Sometimes bigger still. ~ Stasia Ward Kehoe

I love the natural world - it comes from my culture, which grew out of a people enslaved. ~ Alice Walker

Being Irish-American myself, Irish-American material is readily at hand to me. ~ Alice McDermott

All the different ways of talking English I throw together like a salad and dine greedily in my mongrel tongue. ~ Alice Randall

As long as the Earth can make a spring every year, I can. ~ Alice Walker

I don't know nothing, I think. And glad of it. ~ Alice Walker

Every life is meant to help all lives; each man should live for all men's betterment. ~ Alice Cary

She remembered a story one of her governesses told her, about a little girl who went into a house that wasn't hers. She sat in three chairs and tasted three bowls of porridge and rolled in three beds. And for being too curious (and, Alice thought, very rude) the little girl was eaten up by the bears who lived there. ~ Christina Henry

I missed her then but it was an odd sort of missing because by then, I knew the meaning of forever. ~ Alice Sebold

You cannot dispute the ridiculous. You cannot argue reasonably with evil. ~ Alice Hoffman

You have the Destiny Blade and Bone Cutter, in addition to the talents inherited from your mother. Alice wields powerful magic, and I am Grimalkin. ~ Joseph Delaney

Remember, its all about you and the dress. Nothing more, so keep the accessories very discreet. ~ Alice Temperley

I watched my brother and my father. The truth was very different from what we learned in school. The truth was the line between the living and the dead could be, it seemed, murky and blurred. ~ Alice Sebold

I can be almost terminally grief-stricken because things are so dire, but at the same time, there's a real lightheartedness about just the recoverability of life, of how things change, how they're not the same, ever again. ~ Alice Walker

I've learnt some Things. Like the way friendship can be just as intense, beautiful and endless as romance. Like the way there's love everywhere around me - there's love for my friends, there's love for my paintings, there's love for myself. ~ Alice Oseman

Freedom to rock, freedom to talk. Freedom, raise your fist and yell. ~ Alice Cooper

I've just met the love of my life and lost him all in the space of an hour. ~ Alice Severin

The woman with the cat complex is named Mrs. Alice Plesher, but she doesn't reveal her first name to him and Sai only finds out by accident, later. Mrs. Plesher calls the paper and is put through to Sai. He has no idea why although he could guess the new guy gets all of the reporter-on-the-beat drudgery assignments until proven worthy. Alice speaks haltingly as if hardened by age and her voice reveals a rasp. Sai pictures her in a long house dress from the fifties, wide pink and white stripes fading with age
a smock of beige over the dress, a multitude of cats clinging to the fabric like stick-ons. ~ Justin Bog

How is it you can all talk so nicely?' Alice said, hoping to get it into a better temper by a compliment. 'I've been in many gardens before, but none of the flowers could talk.' 'Put your hand down, and feel the ground,' said the Tiger-lily. 'Then you'll know why.' Alice did so. 'It's very hard,' she said, 'but I don't see what that has to do with it.' 'In most gardens,' the Tiger-lily said, 'they make the beds too soft - so that the flowers are always asleep.' This sounded a very good reason, and Alice was quite pleased to know it. 'I never thought of that before!' she said. ~ Lewis Carroll

Some people don't understand that it is the nature of the eye to have seen forever, and the nature of the mind to recall anything that was ever known. ~ Alice Walker

... Obel pushed his chair back. "Tea," he said quietly. "Tea is what I suggest. ~ Alice Broadway

A scene," Mary told us, "is a moment when there is some form of tension. A scene leads to the next scene. And a causal connection between scenes is what leads you to the story. A scene should be very clearly developed, and when the action is finished, the scene is over. An anecdote is, 'Oh, I missed the train. You'll never believe what happened ... ' An anecdote leads to nothing. ~ Alice Steinbach

There are things that do not change, which have an absolutely and transcendent validity, and which every person has a right to know. Religiously, morally, humanly, and politically our great nation can only hope to survive if it stands firmly on the ground of truth and gives its children the bread for which they hunger. This is the great task of education. ~ Alice Von Hildebrand

He wore his own innocence like a comfortable old coat. ~ Alice Sebold

Memory is the way we keep telling ourselves our stories - and telling other people a somewhat different version of our stories. ~ Alice Munro

She was disappearing a little more each day, so thin, so frail, a wisp of smoke. One day she would surely vanish altogether, and there was no way to stop her. ~ Alice Hoffman

I am not convinced that men and women were ever meant to share the same house, though some people can do it beautifully. ~ Alice Walker

Competition is. In every business, no matter how small or how large, someone is just around the corner forever trying to steal your ideas and build his success out of your imagination, struggling after that which you have toiled endless years to secure, striving to outdo you in each and every way. If such a competitor would work as hard to originate as he does to copy, he would much more quickly gain success. ~ Alice Foote MacDougall

Neurology and psychiatry should be treating the same organ. ~ Alice Weaver Flaherty

He begins to sing to her, very softly, almost not singing at all, just a whisper of a tune. He spins out the tune like it is a tale he is telling her, until he feels her body relax, until he feels her falling into sleep. He sings to let her know he's there, to stay anchored to the earth, to keep from laughing or crying in amazement that he is lying with Alice in his arms, he sings as if music could keep her alive, as if music could feed her soul, as if music could weave a protective spell around her to survive these days and these weeks and these months and these years, he sings as if he could give her a piece of himself, which will ring inside of her like a bell, like a promise, like hope whenever she needs him; and in his singing, he promises her every single thing he can think of, and more. ~ Laura Harrington

She knew that sex was a means of getting ahead and saw nothing wrong in exploiting male weaknesses for her own purposes. ~ Alice Walsh

It should be natural, and that's how I like women to look. I like them to feel comfortable and look organic. ~ Alice Temperley

We recall that to the Cherokee, as to other people who have noticed how long it sometimes takes for humans to develop fully, adulthood comes
if it is coming at all
at the age of fifty-two. ~ Alice Walker

Here's the thing, say Shug. The thing I believe. God is inside you and inside everybody else. You come into the world with God. But only them that search for it inside find it. And sometimes it just manifest itself even if you not looking, or don't know what you looking for. Trouble do it for most folks, I think. Sorrow, lord. Feeling like shit. It? I ask. Yeah, It. God ain't a he or a she, but a It. But what do it look like? I ask. Don't look like nothing, she say. It ain't a picture show. It ain't something you can look at apart from anything else, including yourself. I believe God is everything, say Shug. Everything that is or ever was or ever will be. And when you cam feel that, and be happy to feel that, you've found it. ~ Alice Walker