Amy Neftzger Quotes

A library is the only single place you can go to learn something new, be comforted, terrified, thrilled, saddened, overjoyed, or excited all in one day. And for free.

I'm pretty sure that eating chocolate keeps wrinkles away because I have never seen a 10 year old with a Hershey bar and crows feet.

The worst kind of brokenness is the kind that you don’t know you have.

It's 4:58 on Friday afternoon. Do you know where your margarita is?

I don’t have to be logical. I’m a leopard. We’re considered wild animals, you know.

When I look over my past, I see that the stages in my life are like the phases of the moon. I've had periods where I was the waxing gibbous: fat with wealth and success. There have been other seasons when my happiness was like the waning crescent and I watched my joy fade away slowly, merging with the atmosphere around me as if it never existed. Then I felt as if I was left with nothing more than an illusion, but happiness returns in time and glows once more in corpulent fullness. It's time that makes the difference.

Magic is always there. Sometimes it just takes an artist to find it and show the rest of us where to look.

All great roads are paved with uncomfortable memories.

Choices are powerful things. In fact, they're more powerful than most things.

Imperfections don’t make something ugly.

Miracles need people as much as people need miracles.

That’s the first step to learning: admitting what you don’t know.

Memories are not always the best measure of things.

Quests are a huge inconvenience. Don't let anyone tell you differently, even if that person has experience. The problem is that people forget the pain and aggravation as soon as the quest ends successfully, and then they remember only the glorious parts. In this way quests are a bit like childbirth, even to the point of saying that quests often give birth to glory. Maybe.

There are no miracles on Mondays.

It doesn’t take objectivity to know what you want, and you’re not objective enough to know what you need.

When Death laughs, no one else does

Without stories, we'd have even more trouble recognizing what's real.

Death is only as strong as you believe it to be.

Failure to shed tears is a failure to live life fully. And the one thing that life requires of us all is to live it. Never be embarrassed by your ability to be alive.