Quotes by New Zealander Authors - Page 4

[On doors of opportunity] If that door doesnt open, Dont worry. It was probably best you got locked out than be locked in. Move on the next door.
Janna Cachola
Risk anything! Care no more for the opinion of others ... Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth."(Journal entry, 14 October 1922)
Katherine Mansfield
But it was the dark hunger in his tone that got to her. Damn kinky vampire had actually liked the
Nalini Singh
We’ve all experienced pondering a problem all day long only to find we receive the solution when forgetting about the problem and thinking of something else. When we stop concentrating so hard, we allow our subconscious to flourish, and those who do this more than others are often called geniuses.
James Morcan
I could taste the salt on her lips, each kiss like a summer wave breaking on an empty beach.
Michael Faudet
You're unpredictable and dangerous and protect those you love fiercely. You should be proud. To me you're more than a knight in some stupid shiny armour. You're the monster who no one can tame but the woman he loves. - Tess Snow
Pepper Winters
We can do whatever we wish to do provided our wish is strong enough. But the tremendous effort needed- one doesn't always want to make it-does one? ... But what else can be done? What's the alternative? What do you want most to do? That's what I have to keep asking myself in the face of difficulties.
Katherine Mansfield
Freedom runs faster than a Samoan cop that’s been paid to run. Freedom always run faster.
Ta'afuli Andrew Fiu
I don't think all writers are sad, she said.I think it's the other way around—all sad people write.
Lang Leav
I saw love in your smile and I recognized it for the first time in my life. But you had a plane to catch and I was already home.
Lang Leav
You’d better touch me before something happens spontaneously that makes me look embarrassingly desperate.”t“Really?” He lowered just close enough for his chest to graze the fabric covering her bra, squeezing a squeak from her throat. “I’d like to watch that. You’re making abstinence sound fun.
Brynn Kelly
IF YOU WALK THROUGH THE FIRE I’LL COME TO THEE. As Bob walked past he wondered how many gods that piece of advice might apply to.
Adam Christopher
He sank to his knees, absolutely full of despair and sadness. For a long time, droplets of blood continued to fall into his lap.
Phillip W. Simpson
Pride does not only come with great responsibility. It is buy one get one free. Great responsibility will require great resourcefulness.
Janna Cachola
History will be kind to me for I have written it. Winston Churchill
Ron Mayes
There are different kinds of anger. There is the kind that flares bright, like a fire devouring dry wood – an anger that dies as quickly as it ignites. There is the kind that takes its time to rise, but leaves devastation in its wake when it does. And then, there is the anger that is always there, in the pit of your belly – gnawing, biting and twisting – and reminding you of its presence every waking moment. This is the kind that can kill you, if given enough time.
Sam J. Charlton
True greatness, true leadership, is achieved not by reducing men to one's service but in giving oneself in selfless service to them.
J. Oswald Sanders
Spirituality is a universal currency. It is part of every religion, every faith, and every person. Everybody has a belief system.
Emma Mildon
Riley knelt down, clasping the fur at the back of her neck. “You’re fucking bruised all down your back. Why the hell didn’t you tell me it hur
Nalini Singh
Spirituality is about oneness—one love, one seeker, one soul, and one spirituality that speaks to all people. No matter a person’s fame, fortune, or faith, they are one with you.
Emma Mildon
Our wounds can so easily turn us into people we don't want to be, and we hardly see it happening. Protect your heart, love yourself, and be with people who love and care for you.
Sue Fitzmaurice
A queen keeps a court that is spoken about. A goddess keeps a court that is never forgotten.
Nalini Singh
He shushed her, laughing. “I’d like to be that spider, if that woman was you.
Brynn Kelly
I had accepted that all the dark memories were mine. But I had never realized that the beautiful ones were mine too. I had a right to them. And the right to embrace them, regardless of what happened before and after. I had a right to my happiness, as well as my grief.
Linda Olsson
There is no such thing as a weakness, only blindspots. No such thing as failure, they are just detours and scenic routes to remember your success
Janna Cachola
If there’s one thing I have learned it’s that if you carry on as though nothing strange is happening, it usually stops being strange
Sarah-Kate Lynch
Accept what it, forget what was.
Sue Fitzmaurice
Cynicism, like gullibility, is a symptom of underdeveloped critical faculties.
Jamie Whyte
If you only do what others have already done, you will only feel what others have already felt. However, if you choose to achieve something that no one has ever done, then you will have a satisfaction that no one else has ever had.
Edmund Hillary
One day you will be nostalgic for today.
Lang Leav
I’d kill for you, Tess. I have killed for you. Don’t undermine me by fearing others. Fear me. Let me rule you!
Pepper Winters
Twill be the end of us all when it comes...The moon will devour the sun...The sea will rise in a great wave and drown the world...The Realms will fall...Evil will crawl across the land.
Sam J. Charlton
Assiduity, it means sit down until you do it. Commit yourself to your work and study.
Lucas Remmerswaal
You've only just discovered you have a heart. Let it beat a little.
Juliet Marillier
If you have a vision and there is no job title for it yet. That's a vision right there!
Janna Cachola
Death comes in endless forms. Of the body. Of the soul. Of the heart. - Catriona Mercant, philosopher and warrior. (circa 1419)
Nalini Singh
The future hovered in front of her, and she rode Cruise towards it, her hands steady on the reins and her head among the clouds.
Kate Lattey
Sometimes we just have to accept the fact we can't explain everything. Life happens, whether we want it to or not and we don't always have a reason why. Our job is to try and make some good come out of it.
Melissa Pearl
We were young. Everyone was young in those days. That’s the main complaint you hear from people who are getting old. You stop seeing young people. You begin to wonder if there are any left and whether there were only young people when you were young.
Lloyd Jones
All things in Fiji are paid for in blood.
Lance Morcan
Manipulating the media is akin to poisoning a nation’s water supply – it affects all of our lives in unimaginable ways.
Lance Morcan
Democrats and Republicans were essentially the same party with different faces and that was why, no matter how many promises each leader made, significant change rarely transpired.
James Morcan
Do I look like I want to be eaten alive after sex?
Nalini Singh
Just do it! First you make your habits, then your habits make you!
Lucas Remmerswaal
Life isn't static, and sometimes, we don't realize the value of knowledge or even of people, until further down the track, when we're mature enough to truly understand.
Nalini Singh
The purpose of life is soul growth. We are here to become transcendent and to become one with God. There is no more to life than this. In other words, we are here to love.
Sara Wiseman
..And now you've lost the only thing that ever made you feel alive
Keith Urban
Option 1: Attempt to back out.Probable result: Death after painful torture.Option 2: Do the job and hope.Probable result: Death but probably no torture (good)
Nalini Singh
If you look up the meaning of healing you can find many different definitions. There’s the adjective, noun, and verb (with and without objects). For argument’s sake we will use the verb. Still there are many definitions. The one that fits here is to free from evil; cleanse; purify; to heal the soul.Free from evil, even if you didn’t know it was there.
Mandi Lynn
Look forward, not back," the Hag said. "All is change. Do not regret. Instead, learn.
Juliet Marillier
Eyes are the windows to the soul. A smile is the mirror of the heart
Janna Cachola
Nine had heard whisperings that the secretive Bilderberg Group was effectively the World Government, undermining democracy by influencing everything from nations' political leaders to the venue for the next war. He recalled persistent rumors and confirmed media reports that the Bilderberg Group had such luminaries as Barack Obama, Prince Charles, Bill Gates, Rupert Murdoch, Tony Blair, Bill and Hillary Clinton, George Bush Sr. and George W. Bush. Other Bilderberg members sprung forth from Nine’s memory bank. They included the founders and CEOs of various multinational corporations like Facebook, BP, Google, Shell and Amazon, as well as almost every major financial institution on the planet.
James Morcan
Like a lot of stupid people, it took a great deal to get an idea into the king's head, but once there, there was no shifting it.
Richard Killeen
You been taking care of yourself a long time, Foxy. You must be fucking hungry for it. I bet you’re drenched right now.
Sherilee Gray
Jesus Christ, it's like living with Stevie bloody Nicks,' I said, 'only without the cocaine, which would be more fun.
Emily Perkins
Passion for what you do goes hand in hand with style.You can say I'm a passionista
Janna Cachola
Down they went, into the darkness. Down ancient, worn steps coated in slippery mildew. Down into the deep recesses of the earth, far beneath the corridors of Deep-Spire.
Sam J. Charlton
If he's after sledge I'd say he's a bottom, and a very sore one if he succeeds , cos your bro looks like he's got a third leg down there, it's so fucking huge. Got an eyeful once when I walked in on him while he was showering"...
Marita A. Hansen
Maybe that would be a good thing to do. He wasn't entirely sure, and that bothered him more than anything. How was he meant to judge right from wrong when he had never really striven to do right before? The only good thing he had known was his time with Drin, and Drin had died because o
Emily Veinglory
Is there anywhere else to sleep tonight... Anywhere?' I pleaded.There's Mei's office, but you'll have to sleep on the floor I'm afraid.' Mei was one of the Ward 9D dietitians.'I'll sleep on the floor any day. I'm used to it back in the Islands,' I laughed tiredly.I settled down on the floor. The three rugs I had brought to cushion my back worked surprisingly well. It was almost more comfortable than the thin mats on the cold concrete floors of the fales in Samoa. The idea of sleeping in someone's office was the best idea I had had all year. I decided that I would keep this secret to myself.
Ta'afuli Andrew Fiu