Ned Vizzini Quotes

“It's such a silly little thing, the heart.”

“Sometimes," Catelyn said slowly, "the best thing you can do is nothing. When I first came to Winterfell, I was hurt whenever Ned went to the godwood to sit beneath his heart tree. Part of his soul was in that tree, I know, a part I would never share. Yet, without that part, I soon realized, he would not have been Ned. Jeyne, child, you have wed the north, as I did ... and in the north, the winters will come." She tried to smile."Be patient. Be understanding. He loves you and he needs you, and he will come back to you soon enough. This very night, perhaps. Be there when he does. That is all I can tell you.”

“Humor is the ability to see three sides to one coin.”

“it is not the first language that is all-important, but which language captures the adolescent's imagination when he or she first discovers literature.”

“The art of translation lies less in knowing the other language than in knowing your own.”

“Perfection is no more a requisite to art than to heroes.”

“After paying for the wedding about all a father has left to give away is the bride.”

“Inspiration could be called inhaling the memory of an act never experienced.”

“Classic means standard as opposed to Romantic: form before meaning as opposed to meaning before form. It grows from inside out while Romantic grows from outside in.”

“Artists by definition innocent don't steal. But they do borrow without giving back.”