Tell Quotes

What I am telling you is that you do not need to know to love, and it is right that you feel it all in any moment. And it is right that you see it through–that you are amazed, then curious, then belligerent, then heartbroken, then numb. You have the right to all of it.

If you don’t know how to die, don’t worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately.

The distribution of plants in a given locality is not more marked and defined than that of the birds. Show a botanist a landscape, and he will tell you where to look for the lady’s-slipper, the columbine, or the harebell.

All we can do is go around telling the truth.

When people tell me I can’t do something, I have a visceral reflex to say, ‘Yes, I can.’

On the bright side,” Percy said, “both Jason and I outrank you, Octavian. So we can both tell you to shut up.

How I grew up, everybody was telling me, “You can’t do this, you can’t get tattoos, you’ve got to look a certain way.” Now, I’m like, “Why?”

Tell the sun and stars hello for me.

I was a fight to the death, and I felt great.

But some nights, I must tell you, I go down there after everyone has fallen asleep. I swim back and forth in the echoing blackness. I sing a love song as well as I can, lost for a while in the home of the rain.