Quotes by American Authors - Page 2264

I tell of hearts and souls and dances...Butterflies and second chances;Desperate ones and dreamers bound,Seeking life from barren ground,Who suffer on in earthly fateThe bitter pain of agony hate,Might but they stop and here forgiveWould break the bonds to breathe and liveAnd find that God in goodness bringsA chance for change, the hope of wingsTo rest in Him, and self to dieAnd so become a butterfly.
Karen Kingsbury
There's only a casual relationship between human behavior and logic.
Philip Houston
Light and flow is what shifts the world’s vibration, not the stagnation and resistance that comes with opposition.
Alaric Hutchinson
Real love is always chaotic. You lose control; you lose perspective. You lose the ability to protect yourself. The greater the love, the greater the chaos. It’s a given and that’s the secret.
Jonathan Carroll
Novelty. Security. Novelty wouldn't be a bad title. It had the grandness of abstraction, alerting the reader that large and thoughtful things were to be bodied forth. As yet he had no inkling of any incidents or characters that might occupy his theme; perhaps he never would. He could see though the book itself, he could feel its closed heft and see it opened, white pages comfortably large and shadowed gray by print; dense, numbered, full of meat. He sensed a narrative voice, speaking calmly and precisely, with immense assurance building, building; a voice too far off for him to hear, but speaking. ("Novelty")
John Crowley
Welcome to the house of Gray and Graves where we never lie still and death is only the beginning ...
C.M. Stunich
Ire, like an atom bomb, could clear the field but came with consequence.
Julia DeBarrioz
Everything that happens in our lives has meaning even though we may not understand it or even pay attention to it.
Debasish Mridha
You're allowed to have thoughts, she reminded herself. Just because others might scoff, that doesn't mean you won't anymore.
Lauren Myracle
Rock and Roll adolescent hoodlums storm the streets of all nations. They rush into the Louvre and throw acid in the Mona Lisa’s face.
William S Burroughs
Once I had her clean, I wrapped her in a towel and carried her back to the bed. A small red bloodstain was on the sheets, and again the possessive monster inside me threw back his head and roared his pleasure. I stood there holding her and letting the proof I was the only man to be inside her wash over me.Blythe turned her head, and I felt her stiffen in my arms. “Oh, I can clean that up,” she said, starting to wiggle.I pulled her tighter to my chest. “No. I’m going to dry you off and hold you some more. I like seeing that blood. I did that,” The pleasure in my voice made Blythe smile.
Abbi Glines
Whatever it takes to break your heart and wake you up is grace.
Mark Matousek
... going out late at night and laying in the dewy field and reading a Kurt Vonnegut book by moonlight.
John Green
She smiled, and her eyes started to drift downward. "Cather..." Back up to his eyes."You know that I'm falling in love with you, right?
Rainbow Rowell
I love you for who you are, not who the world thinks you should be.
Libba Bray
Nothingwould beeasier withoutyou,because youare everything,all of it-sprinkles, quarks, giantdonuts, eggs sunny-side up-youare the ever-expandinguniverseto me.
Kate DiCamillo
Criticism of others is thus an oblique form of self-commendation. We think we make the picture hang straight on our wall by telling our neighbors that all his pictures are crooked.
Fulton J. Sheen
We are designed for harmony, an ebb and flow that’s almost inconceivable it’s so flawless. So when things go wrong and our cells can’t communicate with each other, or there is miscommunication, there is a direct biological link to why we don’t think clearly, we don’t feel right, and our lives get stalled. tIt happens when a child gets abused.tIt happens when a brain gets physically wounded.tIt happens when fear or pain is so great it overrides everything else.tIt happens during times of prolonged stress.ttIt happens in the throes of depression.tIt happens when the brain gets pounded with negativity.tAnd sometimes we just don’t know why the wires in our brains get crossed.
Toni Sorenson
Red blood is just so hard to clean up" "You would know" I snap remembering Shade. "Because no matter how hard you try to hid it I see it all over your hands
Victoria Aveyard
Honesty is more than not lying. It is truth telling, truth speaking, truth living, and truth loving.
James E. Faust
Karass: A group of people linked in a cosmically significant manner, even when superficial linkages are not evident
Tommy Wallach
Home is where we tie one end of the thread of life.
Martin Buxbaum
If you've ever been hungry, you can never be full.
Dwayne Johnson
be waryof the boys whoonly ever tellhalf-thruthsbecause theywill only ever be half in lovewith you-slay those dragons
Amanda Lovelace
The best of humanity's recorded history is a creative balance between horrors endured and victories achieved, and so it was during the Harlem Renaissance.
Aberjhani
When God plays chess, you will notice that he never has to move a single piece...in order to win.
Lionel Suggs
Loving her is strange and confusing and damn risky. And if I had the chance I'd choose it all over again.
Autumn Doughton
It’s comforting to me,” he added, “that beauty can come from violence, if only in metaphor.
Keith Hollihan
I placed a jar in Tennessee and round it was upon a hill.
Wallace Stevens
Some women had more penises in their mouth than men had kisses in theirs but it's a relationship that clarifies their worth.
Kent Lamarc
Until you step into the unknown, you don’t know what you’re made of.
Roy T. Bennett
It’s as predictable as the tide and the moon. It ebbs and flows. Death comes and it goes.
Shea Ernshaw
Snow. I wondered what it felt like. Aunt Bernette said it could be both soft and hard, cold and hot. It stung and burned when the wind pelted it through the air, and it was a gentle cold feather when it drifted down in lazy circles from the sky. I couldn't imagine it being so many things, and I wondered if she had taken license with her story as Father always claimed. I couldn't stop thinking of it.Snow.
Mary E. Pearson
Music could do that, create a magical oasis where nothing else mattered except hearing the next line of the score.
Elizabeth Camden
I'm working on this book on the trial of Socrates. It started out with the idea of the problem of freedom of thought...and expression...I started by spending a year on the English Seventeenth Century Revolutions, and I had a fascinating time. And then I felt I couldn't understand the English Seventeenth Century Revolutions without understanding the Reformation. When I got to the Reformation, I felt that I had to understand the premonitory movements that began in the Middle Ages. When I got there, I felt I had to understand the classical period." (quoted in Andrew Patner, I. F. Stone: A Portrait, p. 21)
I.F. Stone
Green meant water, green patches meant farmers and farmers meant agriculture. Agriculture meant food to eat and food to sell, which meant towns and transport. They had reached civilization.
T.K. Naliaka
And who is to say that loving a person isn’t just loving the idea of that person and not the actual person, all these incomprehensible clots of flesh with all their years gone by and vanished, all their history stored in basements even they cannot reach?
Catherine Lacey
I come by my alarmism honestly. I have learned this custom over the years as I have settled into being a true New Yorker. This is how we welcome foreigners to our shores. Because we are so often frightened by living here, we are annoyed and offended when visitors fail to show the proper signs of terror. So we try to scare the living daylights out of them.
David Rakoff
Every man carries his own past with him," Hayt said.
Frank Herbert
A stóirín, ya are a handful of trouble, but I kind of like it.
Michelle M. Pillow
True love is night jasmine a diamond in darkness the heartbeat no cardiologist has ever heard. It is the most common of miracles fashioned of fleecy clouds - a handful of stars tossed into the night sky.
Jim Bishop
We do it, Jackson, because compassion must be louder than pride.
Victoria Schwab
The practice of mindfulness is nothing more than focusing on the current moment.
Debasish Mridha
Don’t wait for a vacation to enjoy life. Start to enjoy it now, today, wherever you are.
Debasish Mridha
I'm on the edge, Neblin, I'm off the edge - I'm over the edge and falling into hell on the other side.''Calm down, John,' he said. 'We can work through this. Just tell me where you are.''I'm down in the cracks of the sidewalks,' I said, 'in the dirt and in the blood, and the ants are looking up and we're damning you all, Neblin. I'm down in the cracks and I can't get out.
Dan Wells
Anxiety is who people want you to be. Calm is who you are.
Maria Dorfner
She hadn’t planned any of this, but her thoughts ran away with her, and she hated how pathetic she must sound. Poor little human needed the big bad angel to rescue her. Yuck.
India Drummond
There was something delightfully intimate about the relationship between predator and prey.
Nenia Campbell
Eaters of Wonder BreadMust be underbred.So little to eat.Where's the wheat?
Roy Blount Jr.
I liked this God very much because you hardly had to talk to it and it never talked back. Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality
Donald Miller
No one is better at not beating America than England.
Jon Stewart
Moving closer, Dana cupped Aidan’s face in both hands. His jaw was as smooth as it looked. His skin warm. His eyes tormented. Her pulse picked up at the contact.
Dianne Duvall
The myriad choices of his fateSet themselves out upon a plateFor him to chooseWhat had he to lose
Lou Reed
God is the color of water. Water doesn't have a color.
James McBride
Unless it was Cokie, gifts from men weren't free.
Ruta Sepetys
Sometimes it takes years to really grasp what has happened to your life.
Wilma Rudolph
We have known for a long time that Prince Charles' empty sails are so rigged as to be swelled by any passing waft or breeze of crankiness and cant. He fell for the fake anthropologist Laurens van der Post. He was bowled over by the charms of homeopathic medicine. He has been believably reported as saying that plants do better if you talk to them in a soothing and encouraging way.
Christopher Hitchens
He was cold and tired, but he ignored the cold. Around him stars shone. Some bright, some dim, the most constant things in life. Segundo smiled up at them, happy at least to be dying among friends.
Orson Scott Card
Oh how wrong we were to think immortality meant never dying
Gerard Way
It snowed all week. Wheels and footsteps moved soundlessly on the street, as if the business of living continued secretly behind a pale but impenetrable curtain. In the falling quiet there was no sky or earth, only snow lifting in the wind, frosting the window glass, chilling the rooms, deadening and hushing the city. At all hours it was necessary to keep a lamp lighted, and Mrs. Miller lost track of the days: Friday was no different from Saturday and on Sunday she went to the grocery: closed, of course.
Truman Capote