Quotes by American Authors - Page 2723

I would say Randolph's a horse's ass, but that would be unfair to the horse.
Suzanne Johnson
I am the sun... And the air...
Rainbow Rowell
You burn bright and you burn hard, like a fire in a dumpster,and nobody is so worriedabout you burning as they are worried about the fire spreading.
Kris Kidd
He wished he could be anywhere else and anyone else but Here and Him.
James R. Silvestri
I think about the hurt that stories cannot ease, not with a thousand tellings.
Anita Shreve
Cabeza de Vaca had wrapped her in his arms and in his language, whispering about a life she did not understand although understanding seemed to form just beyond the sea and sand, waiting there for her to grow older. Even when the story confused her, she had caught words or phrases, ideas like fish, bold and surprising, tasting of her father’s mind. She had learned quickly to nod and speak because he needed her to do this, because his need surrounded her like the blue sky. She was his bastard, and he had loved her. Yes, he had loved her. That was the memory she couldn’t bear.
Sharman Apt Russell
Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot,Nothing is going to get better. It's not.
Dr. Seuss
A ghost is something that fills a hole inside you, where you lost something. It's a memory. Sometimes it can be painful, and sometimes it can be scary. Sometimes it's hard to tell where the ghost ends and real life begins.
Nathan Ballingrud
A woman calls from Seaview to say her linen closet is missing. Last September, her house had six bedrooms, two linen closets. She's sure of it. Now she's only got one. She comes to open her beach house for the summer. She drives out from the city with the kids and the nanny and the dog, and here they are with all heir luggage, and their towels are gone. Disappeared. Poof. Bermuda triangulated.
Chuck Palahniuk
Well I'm finding it harderto be a gentleman every dayAll the manners that I've been taughthave slowly died awayBut if I held the door open for youIt wouldn't make your day.
The White Stripes
Regarding solar power systems, the bigger the system is, the more likely it may go on fire.
Steven Magee
No matter how much restitution she paid with every word and deed, her blood-stained hands could never really be clean, even if no one else knew they were dirty.
Stacy Hawkins Adams
He put the x-ray up on the light screen: The tumor was a large white circle in the middle of the picture. It looked like a headlight coming straight at me, full-speed ahead.
Mike Lingenfelter
The only way in which the world can be grasped ultimately lies, not in thought, but in the act, in the experience of oneness.
Erich Fromm
You cannot say 'no' to the people you love, not often. That's the secret. And then when you do, it has to sound like a 'yes'. Or you have to make them say 'no.' You have to take time and trouble.
Mario Puzo
Despite the personalization of life’s events, all people largely experience the same general transformative stages of life and eventually we all encounter a row of similar tragedies. We do not experience identical lives or exemplify replicable personalities. Every person is a receptacle whom is capable of experiencing the full gamut of the entire human condition. Our lives act as a period of apprenticeship, which we devote laboring to discover the truths that we can live by.
Kilroy J. Oldster
some people are lonely for all the right reasons.
Meg Rosoff
While toxic food is bad for your health and well-being, so are negative and unethical people.
Frank Sonnenberg
Honest self-understanding liberates us from our stuck emotions.
C. Terry Warner
Do people choose the art that inspires them — do they think it over, decide they might prefer the fabulous to the real? For me, it was those early readings of fairy tales that made me who I was as a reader and, later on, as a storyteller.
Alice Hoffman
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Ken Poirot
I wanted myself. I wouldn't let what was mine be destroyed.
Stephenie Meyer
Bonhoeffer thought of death as the last station on the road to freedom.
Eric Metaxas
Living to create an earthly legacy is a short-sighted goal.
Rick Warren
Sometimes you can get more answers by not asking any questions.
Kenneth Eade
Even in death she was more beautiful to him than she ever was alive.
David S.E. Zapanta
Tatiana said. "Go on with Dasha. She is right for you. She is a woman and I'm-" "Blind!", Alexander exclaimed. Tatiana stood, desolately failing in the battle of her heart. "Oh, Alexander. What do you want from me..." "Everything", he whispered fiercely.
Paullina Simons
So although there is no phoenix here, there is, nonetheless, a fierce, stubborn, wildly insightful, arrogantly honest, crazily committed, and caring human, who will take the heat, the brunt of whatever silver spoon joke you may have, so I can help you have everything you want in your life. And I mean everything.
Lauren Handel Zander
Did you… need something?” he asked in a tight voice.tI swallowed hard, my mind racing with a million things to say. The fear pricking at me, telling me I had one last chance to wimp out. To walk away.tBut I shook my head. No. Not this time.t“Yes,” I said simply. “I need something.”t“And what, may I ask, do you need?”tI met his eyes. “You.
Mari Mancusi
In the book, you lost your powers. In the movie, you chose not to use them as much. I guess I did a little of both.
Mara Wilson
It’s easier for me to make sense of it that way than it is for me to face the other way—reality. And yet, those evil spirits that were unleashed—be they fake entities from a stupid carnival ride, or cruel malevolencies from dark spiritual chasms of our universe—have stayed with me all these years
Tim Cummings
A Memory Is Better Than A Phony!
Latif Mercado
Any love is natural and beautiful that lies within a person’s nature; only hypocrites would hold a man responsible for what he loves, emotional illiterates and those of righteous envy, who, in their agitated concern, mistake so frequently the arrow pointing to heaven for the one that leads to hell.
Truman Capote
Socialism and Communism have failed, but now Capitalism is failing us.
Jo M. Sekimonyo
I was cautious in what I said before the young lady; for I could not be sure that she was sane; and, in fact, there was a certain restless brilliancy about her eyes that half led me to imagine she was not.
Edgar Allan Poe
Life had sure been simpler when I hadn't dated.
Charlaine Harris
Was there ever any question on how much I could take? You kept feeding me your bullshit hoping I would break.
Five Finger Death Punch
How could I ask for a better friend? Someone who gives me a backup plan. Instead of someone who makes me the backup plan.
Sarah Mylnowski
When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?
Don Marquis
Perhaps family itself, like beauty, is temporary, and no discredit need attach to impermanence.
Gregory Maguire
While the opportunity to improve yourself and your situation is a great thing, our striving to build perfect lives seems to have morphed into perfectionism so focused on itself that we forget about others in the world. We work so hard to build the ultimate luxury sedan, to embody society's standard of beauty, and to achieve historical scientific breakthroughs that we conveniently forget our family members in other parts of the world who must walk miles each day in their only set of clothing for the opportunity to go to school.
Holly Sprink
If everything is amplified, we hear nothing.
Jon Stewart
It was magic, the oldest magic of all when day became night, gods working in tandem, and I gave it the full benefit of my witness for the singular wonder it was.
J.D. Stanley
It was like that kid had been born knowing how to read. He was only in the second grade but he loved to read stories by himself - and he never asked anybody else to read to him.
Carson McCullers
When the mouth cries, I want to see God, the heart has reached its finest moment. Once we have sought and seen God, all other things have a way of finding us.
Gayle D. Erwin
Every choice is limited. That's life.
Lauren Oliver
There is not a man beneath the canopy of heaven, that does not know that slavery is wrong for him.
Frederick Douglass
Doubt is a storm. We either ride it out, or we change our course. Neither is right or wrong--to stay or go. Twenty years ago, should you have really married X, or Y? This college, or that? A life-changing decision one makes becomes the right decision by the fact of simply having been made.
T.M. McNally
We love America just as much as they do. But in a different way. You see, they love America like a 4-year-old loves his mommy. Liberals love America like grown-ups. To a 4-year-old, everything Mommy does is wonderful and anyone who criticizes Mommy is bad. Grown-up love means actually understanding what you love, taking the good with the bad and helping your loved one grow.
Al Franken
Love is like a brick. You can build a house, or you can sink a dead body.
Lady Gaga
The purest love always reveals itself during acceptance.
Shannon L. Alder
Nothing cuts the nerve of the desire to pursue holiness as much as a sense of guilt. On the contrary, nothing so motivates us to deal with sin in our lives as does the understanding and application of the two truth that our sins are forgiven and the dominion of sin is broken because of our union with Christ.
Jerry Bridges
I want an ending when the woman is happy instead of good.
Elin Hilderbrand
Just when normal life felt almost possible--when the world held some kind of order, meaning, even loveliness (prismatic spray of light through an icicle; the stillness of a sunrise), some small thing would go awry and the veil of optimism was torn away, the barren world revealed. They learned, somehow, to wait those times out. There was no cure, no answer, no reparation.
David Wroblewski
In the pursuit of trying to be all things to all people or trying to live up to another person’s expectations, do you find yourself saying ‘Yes’ when you wish you’d said ‘No?’ When something is not in your best interest or goes against your values, learn to refuse and graciously reply, “No.
Susan C.Young
And the open road rolled out in front of us.
Alexandra Bracken
For a long time that had seemed to her to be the key to life: Life--real life--was just a solitude waiting to be transfigured. If Phillip was with her, the solitude she needed would be shattered, and along with it whatever wondrous thing might have come her way if she had been alone.
Kevin Brockmeier
We have a set of rules for our faith, our sexuality, our marriages, our dating relationships, for choosing a church—nothing is off-limits. We tell ourselves to always do this, and never do that, and everything will turn out perfectly. Worse than that, we back up our rules with Bible verses and tell everyone else to follow them too.
Allison Fallon
Courage is fueled by the motivation to take the first step into the unknown.
Cheryl Nielsen
As far as God goes, I _am_ a nonbeliever. Still am. But when it comes to a devil---well, that's something else.
William Peter Blatty