Paula McLain Quotes

I've always been pretty energetic.

He's just rather more lively than most fossils.

I look like this because I'm alive," Reagan said. "Because I've had experiences. Do you understand?

Rose was so full of life and passion that sometimes she seemed more human than I was.

I was really, really, really nervous when I got this role because I did feel it was important to make Alice [Cullen] just as lovable as I read her being on paper and, kind of, full of vitality. In my head she is just this light and breath of fresh air in very dramatic settings - because I feel like we're always extremely dramatic in this film. I wanted people to be able to relate to her.

I want to feel all there is to feel, he thought. Let me feel tired, now, let me feel tired. I mustn't forget, I'm alive, I know I'm alive, I mustn't forget it tonight or tomorrow or the day after that.

I feel 30. [Publo] Picasso said he always felt 30. Well, I do.

To think and to be fully alive are the same.

Anger is the spirits telling you that you are alive.

Nothing is ugly as long as it is alive.

Almost dead yesterday, maybe dead tomorrow, but alive, gloriously alive, today. -- Mat Cauthon

There is a sun, a light that for want of another word I can only call yellow, pale sulphur yellow, pale golden citron. How lovely yellow is!

I contemplate the body, dead and diseased as well as alive and healthy.

Be light, light, light - full of light!

She's no flibberti-gibberti mamzell, but a whir-stir-get-lost-sir bundla dynamite!

Something had changed in me, even if I didn't know what it was just yet. All I could think was that I felt alive for the first time.

Once you lose that sense of wonder at being alive, you're pretty much on the way out.

you're never more alive than when you're almost dead.

Many of us fear that we are not attractive or desirable enough to attract others. We have believed that we are "not enough." Today let's remind ourselves that we all receive our beauty, energy, and light from the same inexhaustible source. As we acknowledge this and begin to love and appreciate ourselves as we are, our channel opens and we have available to us the infinite vitality, beauty, and magnetism of the life force.

A person has to be busy to be alive.

To be awake is to be completely alive. I have never yet met a man who was quite awake.

It’s precisely because of the pain, the we can get the feeling, through this process, of really being alive—or at least a partial sense of it.

Words are the light and sound of our existence, the heat lightning by which the night is illuminated.

We all hope. It's what keeps us alive.

I knew that to find and to feel Yoav again would be terribly painful, because of what had become of him, and because of what I knew he could ignite in me, a vitality that was excruciating because like a flare it lit up the emptiness inside me and exposed what I always secretly knew about myself: how much time I'd spent being only partly alive, and how easily I'd accepted a lesser life.