Quotes by American Authors - Page 1184

Seek happiness for its own sake and you will not find it seek for duty and happiness will follow as the shadow comes with the sunshine.
Tyron Edwards
Miss. My. Wife.
Julia Quinn
Vanity is my favourite sin.
Al Pacino
The enjoyment comes from knowing the receiver understands the spirit of the gift.
Oprah Winfrey
I wish I could tell him that we’re going through the same thing. I wish I could speak to him like I want to instead of like I’m supposed to. But the idea of admitting that I need help is too much to bear, so I turn away.
Veronica Roth
A kiss says it all—I like you.I love you.I need you.I want you.I value you.I fancy you.I adore you.I prefer you.I missed you.I cherish you.I support you.I care for you.I long for you.I think of you.I treasure you.I hope for you.I consider you.I dream of you.I delight in you.I appreciate you.And I will never, ever forget you.
Richelle E. Goodrich
It was no wonder that they thus questioned one another's actual and bodily existence, and even doubted of their own. So strangely did they meet in the dim wood that it was like the first encounter in the world beyond the grave of two spirits who had been intimately connected in their former life, but now stood coldly shuddering in mutual dread, as not yet familiar with their state, nor wonted to the companionship of disembodied beings. Each a ghost, and awe-stricken at the other ghost.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
When your mother is made out of your dreams, anything real is bound to disappoint you.
Jodi Picoult
Where are you going?" she called after me, her voice mocking. "What's waiting for you out there?" "Nothing!" I shouted at her. "No one!
Leigh Bardugo
At one time in the world there were woods that no one owned
Cormac McCarthy
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
I felt as though I were snorting cocaine, or rappelling down a cliffside, or cliffsurfing off a cliff of pure cocaine.
Sam Lipsyte
Through their donations and work for voluntary organizations, the charitable rich exert enormous influence in society. As philanthropists, they acquire status within and outside of their class. Although private wealth is the basis of the hegemony of this group, philanthropy is essential to the maintenance and perpetuation of the upper class in the United States. In this sense, nonprofit activities are the nexus of a modern power elite.
Teresa Odendahl
And for a moment―for a split second―everything else falls away, the whole pattern and order of my life, and a huge joy crests in my chest. I am no one, and I owe nothing to anybody, and my life is my own.
Lauren Oliver
Some of the things I hated my parents for when I was younger are the same things I love my parents for now that I'm older.
Steve Maraboli
How perfect to be aboard a ship withmaybe a hundred years still in my pocket.But it's late, for all of us,and in truth the only ship there isis the ship we are all onburning the world as we go.
Mary Oliver
Joe was so tired that he had slept through first hour Spanish, second hour history, and most of third hour English. The English teacher, Mrs. Lane, hadn't taken a liking to that. She decided to send Joe to the principal to discuss why he was so sleepy, which Joe hadn't taken a liking to.
Belart Wright
You know how confusing the whole good-evil concept is for me.
Jim Butcher
Thus is the nature of love: that you must use it! A love unused is not love! If it is something that sits on the shelf that you don't know what to do with, it is not true to the nature of love! Use love!
C. JoyBell C.
Sure, it sucked to be lost, but I'd long ago realized I preferred it to depending on anyone else to get me where I needed to go. That was the thing about being alone, in theory or in principle. Whatever happened- good, bad, or anywhere in between- it was always, if nothing else, all your own.
Sarah Dessen
Dying, however, is lonely, the loneliest event of life. Dying not only separates you from others but also exposes you to a second, even more frightening form of loneliness: separation from the world itself.
IRVIN D.YALOM
It was a lesson most people learned much earlier; that even friendship could have an undisclosed shelf life. That loyalty and affection, so consuming and powerful, could dissipate like fog.
Jennifer Haigh
It amazed Forrest that so many men seemed to wake up in the morning needing some kind of beating or another, men saying and doing fantastic things for the sake of getting another man to smash his face.
Matt Bondurant
There are those who say that spiritual enlightenment is achieved through the denial of oneself; you must deny yourself many things, go and live in a mountaintop, never mingle with other people, talk to the birds..but I say to you, why should you dismantle your home? Where is the meaning in removing the bricks from your walls one by one? What is the purpose in uprooting your floors? Is there any significance in only allowing yourself a tin roof and a muddy bed? Why deny your house its structure? A truly enlightened soul is strong enough, is bright enough to live and shine through, even in a beautiful house! There is no need to ransack the house in order to see an inner beauty etched against a distraught surrounding. A bright and beautiful soul can shine forth even from inside an equally beautiful surrounding.
C. JoyBell C.
over his own dark Cealdish beard. “Nothing like your marvelous facebear,
Patrick Rothfuss
The bigger the star, the bigger the target.
Michael Jackson
As God is my witness, I'll never be hungry again.
Margaret Mitchell
She pulls a spare head from beneath a pile of shoes and raises it by the hair. It looks like one of those cheap, blue heads that botwhores keep for lonely sci-fi freaks who want to pretend they’re fucking the queen of Xenon.
Judd Trichter
Writers need faith, or else we can never trust the action of our words!
Leslie Austin
I have all the books I could need, and what more could I need than books?
Catherynne M. Valente
Each one of us here today will at one time in our lives look upon a loved one who is in need and ask the same question: We are willing to help, Lord, but what, if anything, is needed? For it is true we can seldom help those closest to us. Either we don't know what part of ourselves to give or, more often than not, the part we have to give is not wanted. And so it is those we live with and should know who elude us. But we can still love them - we can love completely without complete understanding.
Norman Maclean
When you want a thing so badly for so long, and then it comes time to face that you cannot have it, sometimes—’‘Sometimes you can’t believe it when it comes to you. Sometimes you’re afraid to believe it. I understand your hesitation.
Robin Hobb
Graves leaned forward, eyeing me. “Hey, Dru. You were French-kissing awinged snake. Creeptastic.
Lili St. Crow
Even in dreams, you could not fall forever.
George R.R. Martin
Got plans for the rest of the day?"I looked back at him and my heart just stopped. Then it just started again thudding erratically. What the hell does that mean? I feel like I'm having a heart attack."No plans," I whispered. Test drive your mattress? Let me pretend to be a Skittle and you can taste my rainbow? Fifty Shades me? Please! Oh, holy horror, I'm freaking losing it.
Christine Zolendz
The soul of a child is the loveliest flower that grows in the garden of God.
Elizabeth George
Thoughts are just thoughts, and they can’t hurt you. My thoughts land in my mind like a butterfly; they stay for a while, then flutter away. The butterfly isn’t me. I can step away from it, and watch it, learn from it, enjoy it, without needing to absorb it into my identity.
Julie Farrell
Eventually, Krysomallos would be skinned for his fleece, which became known as the Golden Fleece, which means I am related to a sheepskin rug.This is why you don't want to think too hard about who you're related to in the Greek myths. It'll drive you crazy.
Rick Riordan
I'd had much practice turning my mind away from certain memories of my childhood. I could quickly dial her remembered voice from a whisper to a silence.
Dean Koontz
We think we can control our lives, but our lives control us. And everything that touches our lives controls us. People have less power than they think they do. It's just the reactions we control.
Tarryn Fisher
we tend to steer our lives in the direction of the lessons we need to learn
Don Campbell
The freedom of the open road is seductive, serendipitous and absolutely liberating.
Aaron Lauritsen
We are called to love - it is our home.
Caroline A. Shearer
Gail loved to talk about how stressed she was. She would do this thing where we'd be walking in the hallway, and suddenly she'd stop in her tracks, rub both of her temples with her index and middle fingers, and theatrically let out a deep guttural moan: "Mooooog.""Mooog. Minz. I am just so stressed out," she'd say. "I just want to go home, open a bottle of red wine, draw up a hot bath, light some candles and listen to David Gray." A note about me: I do not think stress is a legitimate topic of conversation, in public anyway. No one ever wants to hear how stressed out anyone else is, because most of the time everyone is stressed out. Going on and on in detail about how stressed out I am isn't conversation. It'll never lead anywhere. No one is going to say, "Wow, Mindy, you really have it especially bad. I have heard some stories of stress, but this just takes the cake.
Mindy Kaling
I used my history degree about twice a year whether I needed to or not.
Patricia Briggs
Not a week after Annie put her foot in Mrs. Huffmaster's duff, the Captain upped and laid down the date.
James McBride
We have a problem. "Congratulations." But it's a tough problem. "Then double congratulations."
W Clement Stone
Now that I've found you, it scares me witless to think of anything happening. To you. I'm not used to being... afraid." A sudden realization came to her, "So this is love," she said quietly. "The daily prospect of joy or disaster
Zoe Archer
Wherever you go, warm that place and people with love and kindness.
Debasish Mridha
The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together.
Carl Sagan
Don't be a fool, there is no such thing as just a girl.
Elissa Schappell
Only as we live, think, feel, and work outside the home, do we become humanly developed, civilized, socialized.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The Fremen were supreme in that quality the ancients called "spannungsbogen" -- which is the self-imposed delay between desire for a thing and the act of reaching out to grasp that thing.
Frank Herbert
MOMB - noun - One who can deal with all of the INSANITY of being a MOM... Because she's the BOMB!
Tanya Masse
Trade isn't about goods. Trade is about information. Goods sit in the warehouse until information moves them.
C.J. Cherryh
Extremes to the right and to the left of any political dispute are always wrong.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Are you happy?
Ray Bradbury
My larger point is that since each of us struggles daily with good and bad impulses, we might want to restructure our social institutions in order to make it a little easier to be good.
Richard D. Kahlenberg
Freedom is sloppy. But since tyranny's the only guaranteed byproduct of those who insist on a perfect world, freedom will have to do.
Bill Willingham
To enjoy a moment, you have to love and appreciate it.
Debasish Mridha