Quotes by American Authors - Page 2347

Rules don't count when the dream is big enough.
Dexter Yager
We were in the middle of a scene, and this crazy woman comes roaring out of the crowd, screaming, grabs my whip, and damned if she didn’t punch me.” Rubbing his reddened chin, the man’s lips curved a little. “It’s almost funny, but still, she ruined our scene.
Cherise Sinclair
I ran from them. Nights, yellow lights scoured sand. What was ever found but women in skirts folded around the men they loved that Friday? No one found me. And how could that have been, here, whereeven botanical names were recordedand small roads mapped in red?Night, the sky is black paper pecked with pinholes.
Deborah Ager
I firmly believe that everyone deserves to live within walking distance of either beauty or convenience, if not both. (48)
Victoria Moran
That's what love is like when you're young. Like spinning, filling you with excitement and joy, losing yourself in the moment. But if you don't have a focus point to keep you stable, you lose your balance and before you know it, you're falling and you can't see who you're taking down with you because you've been too busy spinning to see what else has been going on." (Nora)
Theresa Smith
Heartbreak sounds like dead silence. For a second. Then the world crashes and continues around you.
Cynthia A. Rodriguez
There are all sorts of losses people suffer - from the small to the large. You can lose your keys, your glasses, your virginity. You can lose your head, you can lose your heart, you can lose your mind. You can relinquish your home to move into assisted living, or have a child move overseas, or see a spouse vanish into dementia. Loss is more than just death, and grief is the gray shape-shifter of emotion.
Jodi Picoult
You wear your honor like a suit of armor... You think it keeps you safe, but all it does is weigh you down and make it hard for you to move.
George R.R. Martin
She raised one leg and gave me all her weight as I dipped her. She either trusted me or wanted to fall.
John Green
We will not sleep, but will all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye. You'll see me again. But you'll never know when. Hear that shifting, ambiguous rhythm, that promise of all things possible, and the ear is on its way to being free.
Richard Powers
And I’m not spying! I’m evaluating!”“It’s the same difference!
Kim Harrison
Whatever else you set out to do, begin by getting to know God and seeking His will in your life. If you do that, you will find Him. He will lead you. He will bless you. What a wonderful promise! But it is conditional. If you turn your back on the Lord, He will cast you off forever.
James C. Dobson
Never tell a depressed person to “Cheer up.” Unless you want them to tell you to “Shut up.
Toni Sorenson
Patience, beautiful," he uttered in a low tone.
Lisa Carlisle
You cannot build a superstructure on a cracked foundation.
Billy Graham
The more things you have in common with the normal population the more you are not being yourself.
Ray Mancini
I wonder about death, I who may never know it. It looks much like ecstacy, the way they open their mouths as they drown, the way their fingers dig into your skin. Their eyes are wide and startled and they trash in your hands as though with an excess of passion.
Holly Black
There's 7 billion 46 million people on the planet and most of us have the audacity to think we matter.
George Watsky
Without pain, how would we know what true joy feels like?
Tim Hiller
I sometimes find, especially among my peers, that authenticity is not a…means of growing in holiness, but a convenient cover for endless introspection, doubt, uncertainty, anger, and worldliness. So that if other Christians seem pure, assured, and happy we despise them for being inauthentic.Granted, the church shouldn’t be happy-clappy naive about life’s struggles. Plenty of psalms show us godly ways to be real with our negative emotions. But the church should not apologize for preaching a confident Christ and exhorting us to trust Him in all things. Church is not meant to foster an existential crisis of faith every week
Kevin DeYoung
I'm from Missouri you must show me.
Colonel Willard D. Vandiver
Beauty is a behavior. As is ugliness.
Richelle E. Goodrich
In evaluating ourselves, we tend to be long on our weaknesses and short on our strengths.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
Without Freedom of Thought, there can be no such Thing as Wisdom; and no such Thing as publick Liberty, without Freedom of Speech; which is the Right of every Man, as far as by it, he does not hurt or controul the Right of another: And this is the only Check it ought to suffer, and the only Bounds it ought to know.
Benjamin Franklin
She opened her eyes. "Is this real?""Very real." I brushed the soaked strands off her cheek, wondering if I was lying or not and if I should care if I was. "Angel, let me kiss you.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
I hate gender stereotypes like girls love princesses and boys like guns. . . my point is that tying particular behaviors and interests to particular gender seems to be the major reason guys who like dance get called names.
Melissa Kantor
You are the candle, love is the light, enlighten the mind, and heart with your empowering light.
Debasish Mridha
Trust the one with experience, not the one with ideas.
Marty Rubin
He proved that it was equally true if the disregard was by a ruler or by a people. "It spreads like a disease," he said. "And it's infinitely more deadly when the law is disregarded by men pretending to act for justice than when it's simply inefficient, or even when its elected administrator's are crooked.
Walter Van Tilburg Clark
Da used to say that lies were easy, but trust was hard. Trust is like faith: it can turn people into believers, but every time it's lost, trust becomes harder and harder to win back.
Victoria Schwab
Eliminate all unnecessary negativity from your life and watch it change for the better.
Tanya Masse
As I load my shirt into the washer for the night, I daydream about making a sign and hanging it around my neck. I could wear it to school tomorrow. It could read, I MISS CHARLIE KHAN.
A.S. King
Dark, cool, musty, smoky, where light fell funny and everyone looked like someone you knew or wanted to know. Or, more likely, wanted to forget.
David Baldacci
Don't waste today regretting yesterday instead of making a memory for tomorrow.
Laura Palmer
Accepted social gender roles and expectations are so entrenched in our culture that most people cannot imagine any other way. As a result, individuals fitting neatly into these expectations rarely if ever question what gender really means. They have never had to, because the system has worked for them.
Nicki Petrikowski
A theatrical spectacle is inherent whenever family members congregate and reacquaint themselves with powerful universal themes educed from homecomings including hugs, food, drink, conversation, politics, games, music, conflict, terror, mercy, smiles, tears, prayers, misfortune, and self-discovery.
Kilroy J. Oldster
Every morning I look in the mirror and remind myself: "No one owes you sh*t!" In this way, I am never disappointed. Never placing blame.
Brandi L. Bates
Sometimes I feel like I am on top of the world. Other times it feels like the world is on top of me.
Raegan Butcher
Customers don't know what they want until we've shown them.
Walter Isaacson
It was like this sometimes, and I felt I should look away, but I couldn't. I wanted to be there, having my face touched, defeating a heart like Peter's, but the next best thing was seeing it for Tiger Lily.
Jodi Lynn Anderson
You have the here and now. You have a future. Deal with the past so you can stop looking back. It's just the pain.
Jessica Park
I didn't know what I wanted. Maybe I never had. The emotional distance was never worth the togetherness, and yet I didn't learn. Nothing had changed. Had he reached for me, I would have forgotten to behave sensibly. Desire has no reason, and the need for intimacy had never stopped. I had not conjured up the images in years, his lips on mine, his hands, the urgency of our hunger. Now I was tormented by the memories.
Patricia Cornwell
She understood the risks, the limits, the possible consequences, and she was willing to accept all of that in return for the sheer joy of being with him. One night with him…one hundred… whatever fate allowed her, she would take.
Lisa Kleypas
Life is as simple as these three questions: What do I want? Why do I want it? And, how will I achieve it?
Shannon L. Alder
While we all share God's powerful DNA, we're also individual expressions of God. Meaning, there's no one else quite like you. So set the intention now to become clear on exactly what strengths and talents make you unique. When you know who and what you are, you reclaim your power and you feel empowered to move forward with clarity, confidence, and conviction, along with a joyful sense of divine purpose.
Rebecca Rosen
Something tugged inside him. A flutter of unease.Do you sing? Those had been her first words to him, the day she had bought him. A band of nausea circled Arin’s throat, just as it had when she had asked him that question, in part for the same reason. She’d had no trace of an accent. She had spoken in perfect, natural, mother-taught Herrani.
Marie Rutkoski
I sit watching until dusk, hypnotized. I think of the sea as continually sloshing back and forth, repetitive, but my psyche goes with the river- always loping downhill, purposeful, listening only to gravity.
Ann Zwinger
Maybe I'd die. Maybe I'd burn to ash in wind, or blacken like the pines. Charred skeletons, I'd add one to the count. I didn't feel scared. I didn't think to panic. The trail wasn't burning. I was raw, ripe for loving. I wasn't stopping.
Aspen Matis
We are all children coming inside from recess with varying degrees of dirt on us.
Shannon L. Alder
Sometimes troubles make us stronger. We put things in perspective and find priorities.
Gail Gaymer Martin
Dominant negativity cheats reality of its mutual positives.
Bryant McGill
You just gotta tell her, man,’ I said. ‘You just gotta say, “Angela, I really like you, but there’s something you need to know: when we go to my house and hook up, we’ll be watched by the twenty-four hundred eyes of twelve hundred black Santas.
John Green
I think you're wrong.""Think what you like.
Robert Jackson Bennett
From there, a more difficult period began. Even the villains, the world's worst people, the one percent, what have you, imagine themselves to be the heroes of their own stories, and I saw myself this way. I, too, could be a hero or protagonist, and not some mere bystander in the greater drama of someone else's life. It was awkward to see a murderer as a hero, so I had to constantly remind myself of how Auggie's stepfather had been selfish and evil.
Alex Kudera
You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
Toni Morrison
The line between the living and the dead may not be much of a line at all, but the terrain is not for the weak of heart.
Shannon Huffman Polson
Let us dance in the sun, wearing wild flowers in our hair...
Susan Polis Schutz
The first duty of a human being is to assume the right relationship to society-more briefly to find your real job and do it.
Charlotte P. Gilman
The key to our scientific future,....is hidden in our past
Dan Brown
Julie Seagle: I would never in a million years go skydiving.Finn is God: What if I took you?
Jessica Park