Book Quote by Stephen Chbosky Download Open image ““It's a great book. But try to be a filter, not a sponge.”” — Stephen Chbosky ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Book Books
“Be skeptical about this one. It's a great book. But try to be a filter, not a sponge.” — Stephen Chbosky Copy Share Image
“I was a sponge filled to capacity with the putrid gray water of all of those who had hurt me. I wondered if, like… — Elle Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Sometimes it seems like I'm a sponge, like I absorb people's moods.” — Carrie Firestone Copy Share Image
“I wonder how much deeper the ocean would be without sponges soaking up so much water.” — Neil Leckman Copy Share Image
“I want to take a sponge bath, but first I need to take that sponge and wash the dishes so I can fit my… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“I can read books. I can flow like a river. I can absorb everything that comes my way, good or bad.” — Abhaidev Copy Share Image
“I've skimmed through it a dozen times, the book glued to my side the past few days, like maybe the information will sink in… — J.M. Darhower Copy Share Image
“Books are like oxygen to a deep-sea diver," she had once said. "Take them away and you might as well begin counting the bubbles.” — Alan Bradley Copy Share Image
“Filters let in a cup of water,” he says, “but keep out the ocean.” — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
“I never have any clue what my next book is going to be about, when the time comes, the book starts pouring on its… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Sam dropped me off. When she was too far away to see me, I started to cry again. Because she was my friend again.… — Stephen Chbosky Copy Share Image
“It's great that you can listen and be a shoulder to someone, but what about when someone doesn't need a shoulder. What if they… — Stephen Chbosky Copy Share Image
Most of the people I know who were raised to be accommodating or were raised to just be nice and put everybody's needs ahead… — Stephen Chbosky Copy Share Image
I don’t want to start thinking again. Not like I have this last week. I can’t think again. Not ever again. — Stephen Chbosky Copy Share Image
“And then Patrick started running after the sunset. And Sam immediately followed him. And I saw them in silhouette. Running after the sun. Then,… — Stephen Chbosky Copy Share Image
That was always my hope that that is exactly what I would do. It was always part of the dream of this story -… — Stephen Chbosky Copy Share Image
And she says she wants to expose me to all these great things. And to tell you the truth, I don't really want to… — Stephen Chbosky Copy Share Image
“I'm sorry I bothered you, Susan. I'm just having a tough time. That's all. Have a good one," I said and walked away.” — Stephen Chbosky Copy Share Image
When we were all getting ready to leave, I walked up to my grandfather and gave him a hug and kiss on the cheek.… — Stephen Chbosky Copy Share Image
It's like he would take a photograph of Sam, and the photograph would be beautiful. And he would think that the reason the photograph… — Stephen Chbosky Copy Share Image
Five minutes of a lifetime were truly spent, and we felt young in a good way. — Stephen Chbosky Copy Share Image
I feel like a big faker because I've been putting my life back together, and nobody knows. — Stephen Chbosky Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
It's like the query letter problem that I just mentioned, magnified a hundredfold. You might be good at telling a story, but that doesn't… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I don't think I have made as much of my life as I should have. I should have written more books. — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
Some books are not read in the right way because they have skipped a stage of opinion, assume a crystallization of information in society… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It takes thought and research and a backache and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The purpose of this book is to supply, in the form suitable for laymen, guidance in the adoption and execution of an investment policy. — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
