Quotes by American Authors - Page 2420

You make me want to be.
Lisa Kessler
The corner of his mouth pulled up into a crooked, boyish grin that melted the heart I was so desperate to protect. “You don’t have a monopoly on fear. Until we kick Nero’s asses out of Reno—and trust me, I have every intention of doing that—you’re a target. If anything happened to you…” He shook his head, breaking eye contact. “Can’t even think about it.
Lisa Kessler
Trust is a good business practice.
Jim Blasingame
The Eδian encampment was quiet save for the crackle of campfires and the muted voices of soldiers, who where huddled in groups around the fires, discussing tactics or telling stories they'd never told anyone else, but needed to be told. In case they died in the morning.
Cynthia Hand
We must believe we are capable of transcending evil, of not needing to hide in the darkness or surrender to our basest fears.
Michael R. French
So our narcissism has bared forth an unflattering nakedness that shames our species. But this is humanity. This is our condition.
Zack Love
A poem is an event, like a wedding or birth.
Marty Rubin
Martin said, "It feels as though part of my self has detached and gone to Amsterdam, where it—she—is waiting for me. Do you know about phantom-limb syndrome?" Julia nodded. "There's pain where she ought to be. It's feeding the other pain, the thing that makes me wash and count and all that. So her absence is stopping me from going to find her. Do you see?
Audrey Niffenegger
Fear sticks like a barb in the mind. Someone cold enough to take advantage of it can attach strings to those barbs and make puppets of men and women.
Lance Conrad
I could break things in a thousand ways--anything from surgical dismantling as meticulous as a bomb squad work to wrecking ball style mass destruction. If I broke a thing, it stayed broke. If I broke one of my things, I lived with the pieces, or replaced it.
Joshilyn Jackson
As a Republic governed through the utilization of a democratic process, elections are necessary in order to give every United States citizen a voice in the governing of this great nation.
Byron Goines
Scattered among these things are reminders that sound once existed: a metronome, a drumming pad, a guitar pick, a trumpet mouthpiece, a music stand, a tuning fork, a block of rosin...The older instruments bear the marks of those who have already played them, the scuffs and bites and dents that are the mysterious scars of sound. In their midst the house hangs, tenuous and enveloping, a sounding board waiting to be struck.
Geoffrey O'Brien
Can't it be stopped?" said Lina. She shifted around under her blanket, trying to find a place to sit where rocks weren't digging into her.Maybe it can be stopped at the beginning," Maddy said. "If someone sees what's happening and is brave enough to reverse the direction."Reverse the direction?"Yes, turn it around."How would you do that?"You'd do something good," said Maddy. "Or at least you'd keep yourself from doing something bad."But how could you?" said Lina. "When people have been mean to you, why would you want to be good to them?"You wouldn't want to," said Maddy. "That's what makes it hard. you do it anyway. Being good is hard. Much harder than being bad.
Jeanne DuPrau
Ladies let me give you some advice: Men will treat you the way you let them. There is no such thing as “deserving” respect; you get what you demand from people,
Tucker Max
Maybe he was going to hell. Except, he could’ve sworn that was where he’d been the past ten years.
Kelly Moran
The worst part is watching someone you love love someone else
Sheena Hutchinson
Weekends don't count unless you spend them doing something completely pointless.
Bill Watterson
Smile in such a nice way that you introduce yourself.
Debasish Mridha
The reality and what it meant was slowly dawning: the betrayal, deception, and omission. Clandestine meetings. Evasion under questioning. In hindsight, Dana and Evan picked out the clues they’d missed, reevaluated the moments they’d been led astray, and tiptoed over possible theories as to how they’d been duped.
V.S. Kemanis
My heart is a thousand years old. I am not like other people.
Charles Bukowski
With infinite wisdom and care your life is constantly sustained because Nature flows through you.
Michael J. Cohen
Write to your heart’s content and by all means, have fun with your creation. It’s your moment to do absolutely anything within those pages.
Jennifer Murgia
I only know one story. But oftentimes small pieces seem to be stories themselves.
Patrick Rothfuss
He had golden-brown hair, the most vivid baby-blue eyes, and a body that belonged on the cover of Men’s Health magazine. Her gaze roamed over his broad shoulders and down his chest.
Lia Davis
Pa never told stories like Grandpa. Or treated the barn like family. Eli knew how Grandpa’s own pa had built the barn by hand, hauling bluestone for the foundation behind a stubborn ox with horns as wide as a tractor. How the smell of the plank walls was like family and how you never washed your chore coat so the animals would smell that you were family, too.
Sandra Neil Wallace
My name is Hazel. I started out as an idea, but I ended up something more. Not much more, to be honest. It's not like I grow up to become some great war hero or any sort of all important savior... but thanks to these two, at least I get to grow old.Not everybody does.
Brian K. Vaughan
Word Powers:A beautiful bitch has four legs, not two. Even terms of, so called, endearment have unintended manifestations. Guard your grill.
T.F. Hodge
Morgan was looking at the food in front of her suspiciously, as if it intended to merely reside for a bit inside her, then liberate itself at a most inconvenient time.
Lynn Kurland
Distance is meaningless, as is time, when minds and souls intertwine.”-Gerome in CHANGELING-
Vaun Murphrey
The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground.
Thomas Jefferson
Self-justification is a verbal defense for restoring the appearance of righteousness without doing anything about the substance.
Eugene H. Peterson
I kiss the soil as if it is the last time I will recognize the beauty she has given the trees.
A.P. Sweet
You have to take opportunities and make an opportunity fit for you, rather than the other way around.
Sheryl Sandberg
Ask the question, receive the answer; don't ask the question, don't receive the answer.
D.R. Silva
Marriage is sleeping together in a bed a little too narrow.
Jeffrey Rasley
The lesson of Buffett was: To succeed in a spectacular fashion you had to be spectacularly unusual.
Michael Lewis
Like plumbing, medicine is a profession where you learn early on not to put your fingers in your mouth.
Diana Gabaldon
It's a shame you left without a word, you know. She was just beginning to trust you before that. Before you got angry. Before you ran off. Just like every other man in her life. Lusting after her, full of sweet words, then just walking away. Leaving her alone. Good thing she's used to it by now, isn't it? Otherwise you might have hurt her. Otherwise you just might have broken that poor girl's heart
Patrick Rothfuss
Bonobos are... ambassadors from a primordial world of peace through pleasure, inviting us in one kiss at a time.
Susan Block
In the high country of the mind one has to become adjusted to the thinner air of uncertainty...
Robert M. Pirsig
Beautiful is sick, so we’re here to smother her back to health.
B.L. Brunnemer
Time and time again when I talk to individuals about approaching love with will and intentionality, I hear the fear expressed that this will bring an end to romance. This is simply not so. Approaching romantic love from foundation of care, knowledge, and respect actually intensifies romance.
Bell Hooks
Each one of us is serious individually, but together we become frivolous.
Barbara W. Tuchman
We've been given a second chance. How many people can say that?
Mary J. Williams
Don't water your weeds
Harvey MacKay
I wasn't sure what was happening between us, but I didn't want it to happen without me.
Shaun David Hutchinson
Reading...is a full-contact sport; we crash up against the wave of words with all of our intellectual, imaginative, and emotional resources.
Thomas C. Foster
Alex understood such discipline. He knew the rarity of it, and the cost. And on the rare occasions when he happened to touch her, he did wonder what else she might have been, if she had not been so determined to be typical.
Meredith Duran
All was in God's plan, and he had to accept even as he didn't understand.
Barbara Cameron
To have an eye for opportunity is to be a Data Scientist.
Damian Mingle
You asked why the rate hate Overlanders so deeply. It is because they know one will be the warrior of the prophecy," said Vikus."Oh, I see," said Gregor. "So, when's he coming?"Vikus fixed his eyes on Gregor. "I believe he is already here.
Suzanne Collins
If you want to grow spiritually, the place to start is with God.
Elizabeth George
For him I was like the land, something to care for...well, he loved to make things grow. But he resembled the land more than me. He needed constant cultivation, or the fruit turned wild.
Bruce-Novoa
If they succeed, it will not matter if Man becomes immortal.He will have nothing to live for.
James Edwin Gunn
Jen, we did it. Everyone's free now.
Margaret Peterson Haddix
Healthy surrender means allowing yourself to "be" rather than being in a constant state of want.
Bryant McGill
Yay!' he said. 'Now we can eat peanut butter sandwiches and ride fish ponies! We can fight monsters and see Annabeth and make things go BOOM!
Rick Riordan
Alone in the forest, Katsa sat on a stump and cried. She cried like a person whose heart is broken and wondered how, when two people loved each other, there could be such a broken heart.
Kristin Cashore
Be wonderful! Because you are already beautiful.
Debasish Mridha
For Kerouac, the embodiment of American Zen was Gary Snyder, the Pulitzer Prize-winning Buddhist poet and essayist, who he fictionalized as Japhy Ryder in The Dharma Bums. Snyder was a practicing Buddhist and a translator of classic Chinese texts before Kerouac met him. He was the Zen guru of the Beats at the same time that Alan Watts popularized Buddhism for middle-class Americans in best-selling books and magazine articles of the late 1950s. Snyder had studied with Watts for a while but thought him 'square.' 'He was cool in relation to the people around him,' Snyder once said, referring to 'middle class, needy' Americans, but he was 'never actually cool.' Then Snyder added with a wink, '[and] you know what I mean, as the Big Bopper says,' invoking the rock-and-roll classic 'Chantilly Lace' for those hip and in-the-know.
Joel Dinerstein