Quotes by American Authors - Page 852

Coming up behind her, Westcliff settled his hands at her waist, easily dodging her attempts to throw him off. He pulled her hips back firmly against his and spoke against her ear. “Are you angry because I started making love to you, or because I didn’t finish?” Lillian licked her dry lips. “I’m angry, you bloody big hypocrite, because you can’t make up your mind about what to do with me.” She punctuated the comment with the hard jab of one elbow back against his ribs.” ~ Marcus and Lillian
Lisa Kleypas
Asking children to grow virtues hydroponically, looking only within themselves for guidance, is like asking each one to invent a personal language―a pointless and isolating task if there is no community with whom to speak.
Jonathan Haidt
Love will cost you dearly.And it will break your heart.But in the end, it will save the world.
Sarah Thebarge
I've always enjoyed a challenge," Niko remarked, shifting through the powder to lift something out. "I think perhaps there are other things I could enjoy instead. Bonsai trees, painting, forging my own weapons. The opportunities are endless." He opened his hand to show me the small braid of several yellowed hairs. "Voodoo." "Think it would work?" I perked up. Killing from a distance wasn't usually my thing, but in this case, I'd make an exception.
Rob Thurman
Then I think of Charlie and our first New Year’s apart, and how I miss him. I miss him so much, but it’s confusing, because I missed him long before he was dead, and that’s the bitch of it all. I missed him long before he was dead.
A.S. King
The tragedy of this world is that everyone is alone. For a life in the past cannot be shared with the present.
Alan Lightman
When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
Mark Twain
Sometimes, Reynie, trouble itself is the key. - Mr. Benedict
Trenton Lee Stewart
I want you to stay. I need you to go.
Kimberly Sabatini
... Play the age as comedy if you want to get away with murder.
James Agee
Pro and con are opposites, that fact is clearly seen. If progress means to move forward, then what does congress mean?
Nipsey Russell
The fact that God is infinite makes the study of His Word a lifetime occupation.
Billy Graham
I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.
Kami Garcia
By the early-afternoon hours, if your brain is normal, it's running strictly on inertia and reflex. All you can do during those hours are the things that are exactly like other things you've done in similar situations. Creativity is out of the question. You might argue that you don't notice any difference in your thinking during the afternoon. That's because you're too dazed to notice anything during those hours. I'm sure it's true for me; I believe you could set my eyebrows on fire during the afternoon and I wouldn't notice until sometime the next morning.
Scott Adams
I'm still not sure I didn't hallucinate the conversation while overdosing on his pheromones.
Sylvia Day
For many of us, it's just one thing standing in our way of completely following Jesus.
Craig Groeschel
It was a hideous ancient thing that stood on tiger feet in the middle of the floor. Like a showpiece. And he did enjoy showing it. He would bring his friends upstairs to the master bathroom so that they could admire the monstrosity while he told them the whole long boring story of how he’d gotten it at an estate sale in Hollywood. Some bimbo actress from the silent-screen days had supposedly slit her wrists while she was in the thing. ‘Cashed in her chips,’ Harold liked to say. ‘In this very tub.
Richard Laymon
My shitty book, no one is going to read, about a total asshole and a completely fucked up world.
Scott Talbot Evans
There is a different world on the other side of your present attitude.
Bryant McGill
Toward evening, Harriet found herself thinking the oddest thoughts: that twilight is not really dark. It's gray. The sun gone, the world turns gray, without emotion, without color. It seemed a fitting time for a little girl to slip free of all this pain, to let go.
Eloisa James
Being alone is better than sitting next to a lover and feeling lonely.
Richard Linklater
The older I get the more I enjoy my childhood…! ~James A. Murphy
James A. Murphy
Where we choose to be, where we choose to be--we have the power to determine that in our lives. We cannot reel time backward or forward, but we can take ourselves to the place that defines our being.
Sena Jeter Naslund
There are times when the world is rearranging itself, and at times like that, the right words can change the world.
Orson Scott Card
My life exists in an imagined reality.
Mandy Patinkin
I do not mean that there is anything intellectually contemptible in being formally "godless" -- that is, in rejecting all religious dogmas and in refusing to believe in the God those dogmas describe.One might very well conclude, for instance, that the world contains far too much misery for the pious idea of a good, loving, and just God to be taken very seriously, and that any alleged creator of the universe in which children suffer and die hardly deserves our devotion.It is an affective -- not a strictly logical -- position to hold, but it is an intelligible one, with a certain sublime moral purity to it; I myself find it deeply compelling; and it is entirely up to each person to judge whether he or she finds any particular religion's answer to the "problem of evil" either adequate or credible.
David Bentley Hart
We pass through this world but once. Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within.
Stephen Jay Gould
To love a swamp, however, is to love what is muted and marginal, what exists in the shadows, what shoulders its way out of mud and scurries along the damp edges of what is most commonly praised. And sometimes its invisibility is a blessing. Swamps and bogs are places of transition and wild growth, breeding grounds, experimental labs where organisms and ideas have the luxury of being out of the spotlight, where the imagination can mutate and mate, send tendrils into and out of the water.
Barbara Hurd
All the great stories are about obsession and people who are obsessed.
Marty Rubin
Having learned to write news, I now distrust newspapers as a source of information, and I am often surprised by historians who take them as primary source for knowing what really happened. I think newspapers should be read for information about how contemporaries construed events, rather than for reliable knowledge of events themselves.
Robert Darnton
She ran into the bathroom and powdered her face and the front of her dress, drew a surrealistic version of a mouth beneath her nose, and dashed into her bedroom to find a coat.
John Kennedy Toole
0 beautiful for patriot dream That sees beyond the years Thine alabaster cities gleam Undimmed by human tears! America! America! God shed his grace on thee And crown thy good with brotherhood From sea to shining sea!
Katharine Lee Bates
[O]ne person's 'barbarian' is another person's 'just doing what everybody else is doing.
Susan Sontag
Use your dick, don’t be one.
Marissa Clarke
You're not who I thought you'd be, Cas." "No?" "Your so much better.
Amy Tintera
The idea of saving anything was folly, a life especially. No life had been truly saved, not in the history of mankind. They were merely prolonged. Everything comes to an end.
Hugh Howey
I'll have you understand the United States has got the best navy in the world.""Well, . . . why, then, do we need a bigger navy?""We've got to have a still bigger navy because we're the richest nation on earth.
Clyde Brion Davis
It seems to me it's always the evil we refuse to see that does us the greatest harm.
Robert B. Baer
Nothing was working, and my friend was dead, and I didn't want to look at that.
Anthony Kiedis
Per aspera ad astra, Papa,' I whispered. Through hardship to the stars.
Ruta Sepetys
The metaphysical poetry of our innovative life springs from the aesthetic, scenic, and systematic processes of inventiveness, the creative impulse of an active mind generating aesthetical intuition.
Kilroy J. Oldster
It's raining outside. How did you get here? And how did you get to be twenty-eight?
Austin Grossman
The story goes that a public sinner was excommunicated and forbidden entry to the church. He took his woes to God. 'They won't let me in, Lord, because I am a sinner.''What are you complaining about?' said God. 'They won't let Me in either.
Brennan Manning
Money follows art. Money wants what it can't buy. Class and talent. And remember while there's a talent for making money, it takes real talent to know how to spend it.
Candace Bushnell
A fuller expression of Self comes from the journey for greater wholeness.
Kathryn V. White
The most important thing you must decide to do every day is put the Lord first.
Elizabeth George
Ma'am,' Augustus said, nodding toward her, 'your daughter's car has just been deservedly egged by a blind man. Please close the door and go back inside or we'll be forced to call the police.' After wavering for a moment, Monica's mom closed the door and disappeared.
John Green
The tulips have found me out.
Florence Ripley Mastin
There seems to be a direct correlation between the spike in suicides by young people and the increase in cyberbullying amongst young people.
Germany Kent
There once were four sistersWho were exceptionally ordinary,But desired more than a maiden should desireRavaged by their shameful wantsTheir loving hearts never bloomedInstead four wicked bramblesGrew in their placeEach taintedWith poisonous magic
Elissa Sussman
Sunsets, like childhood, are viewed with wonder not just because they are beautiful but because they are fleeting.
Richard Paul Evans
Revenge is not worthy of you. If you concentrate on revenge, you will keep those wounds fresh that would otherwise have healed.
Adeline Yen Mah
Teachers see coldness in the world and light fires in the minds of their students, hoping for a warm summer. Sadly, some cannot bear the flame, some turn away from the heat, and some twist the fire to burn.
Lance Conrad
Every gift comes with a price.” I frowned, and he grinned. “A kiss.”“Absolutely not!” But my blood raced, and I had to clench my hands in the grass to keep from touching him. “Don’t you think it puts me at a disadvantage to not be able to see all this?”“I’m one of the High Fae—we don’t give anything without gaining something from it.”To my own surprise, I said, “Fine.”He blinked, probably expecting me to have fought a little harder. I hid my smile and sat up so that I faced him, our knees touching as we knelt in the grass.“What about your part of the bargain?”“What?”He leaned closer, his smile turning wicked. “What about my kiss?”I grabbed his fingers. “Here,” I said, and slammed my mouth against the back of his hand. “There’s your kiss.
Sarah J Maas
She had told Kazan that she was bored with the roles she was playing because so many of them had been basically the same kind of empty-headed characterization. She wanted nothing ore than to challenge herself with more complex parts--and also wanted others to think of her as being more than a caricature....Anytime she had an opportunity to broaden her mind, she wanted to take advantage of it.
J. Randy Taraborrelli
We live that we might have experience; that through it we might gain wisdom, compassion, faith, and inner strength.
Richelle E. Goodrich
A journey begins with a single step
Ricky Maye
The past gathered out of the darkness where it stayed, and the dead raised themselves to live before him; and the past and the dead flowed into the present among the alive, so that he had for an intense instant a vision of denseness into which he was compacted and from which he could not escape, and had no wish to escape. Tristan, Iseult the fair, walked before him; Paolo and Francesca whirled in the glowing dark; Helen and bright Paris, their faces bitter with consequence, rose from the gloom. And he was with them in a way that he could never be with his fellows who went from class to class.
John Williams
Her voice was a hushed whisper against my ear. An audible smile.
Richard E. Gropp
My purpose of life is sweet indeed.I like to help people when in need.I am longing for happiness.I am expressing my kindness.I am expressing my love every day.I am compassionate all the way.
Debasish Mridha