June Ahern > June's Quotes

“Doomed to Hell. Every last one of you.”
― June Ahern, The Skye in June

“How hurtful it can be to deny one's true self and live a life of lies just to appease others.”
― June Ahern

“It is as easy to dream a book as it is hard to write one. -Honore de Balzac, novelist (1799-1850)”
― June Ahern

“You learn best by reading a lot and writing a lot, and the most valuable lessons of all are the ones you teach yourself.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“You need to learn how to select your thoughts just the same way you select your clothes every day. This is a power you can cultivate. If you want to control things in your life so bad, work on the mind. That's the only thing you should be trying to control.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

“The past beats inside me like a second heart.”
― John Banville, The Sea

“What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?”
― George Eliot

“Music can lift us out of depression or move us to tears - it is a remedy, a tonic, orange juice for the ear. But for many of my neurological patients, music is even more - it can provide access, even when no medication can, to movement, to speech, to life. For them, music is not a luxury, but a necessity.”
― Oliver Sacks

“My religion is nature. That’s what arouses those feelings of wonder and mysticism and gratitude in me.”
― Oliver Sacks

“A book is a gift you can open again and again.”
― Garrison Keillor

“I stayed up all night playing poker with tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died.”
― Steven Wright