Quotes by New Zealander Authors - Page 7

Breathing is medicine. I forgot how to breathe, but I’m learning all over again.
Mandi Lynn
You trying to make me crazy?” “Everyone needs a hobby.
Nalini Singh
It was quite the most incredible event that has ever happened to me in my life. It was almost as incredible as if you fired a 15-inch shell at a piece of tissue paper and it came back and hi
Ernest Rutherford
Let's just enjoy it for ourselves. Dawn is such a private hour, don't you think? Such a solitary hour. One always hears that said of midnight, but I think of midnight as remarkably companionable—everyone together, sleeping in the dark.''I am afraid I am interrupting your solitude,' Anna
Eleanor Catton
I wish to be able to call myself deserving of my lot,' Moody said carefully. 'Luck is by nature underserved.
Eleanor Catton
Warren Buffett is one of the best learning machines on this earth. The turtles which outrun the hares are learning machines. If you stop learning in this world, the world rushes right by you.
Lucas Remmerswaal
You’re my wife, Suki. That gives me every right.
Sofia Grey
How long have you been with Raphael?”“You ask a lot of questions for a dead woman.”“What can I say? I prefer to die well-informed.”-Venom and Elena
Nalini Singh
We are only constrained by the boundaries of our imagination
David Moffett
Only ignorance excuses stupidity
Nalini Singh
I know about me. I am the moons sister, a tidal child stranded on land. The sea always in my ear, a surf of eternal discontent in my blood.
Keri Hulme
Flirt with him if you want, Honor, but you're mine.
Nalini Singh
Ever since I was 12 years old, my mother have always taught me to learn to be a leader. To start learning now! When you have the time to take time to learn and have every chance to be mentored. Don't be ashamed to be high maintenance when it comes to development.
Janna Cachola
You will find the way, daughter of the forest. Through grief and pain, through many trials, through betrayal and loss, your feet will walk a straight path.
Juliet Marillier
Unfortunately, mainstream news has become infotainment, sharing more in common with the entertainment industry than with traditional journalism. Gossip, characterizations and injections of drama are subtly infused with facts, altering the truth in a similar way to how dramatists twist true stories to create greater excitement.
Lance Morcan
It’s your hero complex, isn’t it? You should see someone about that.”t“Right after I get my head examined.
Brynn Kelly
You held me down and rammed me so hard I deep-throated you from the other end.
Marita A. Hansen
You think everyone pervs you."... "That's cos they do, and you're just jealous, cos I'm gorgeous and you're not." ~ conversation between Dante &Ash
Marita A. Hansen
Using your imagination means that you are using your most powerful tool of creation, manifestation and modification
Dorothy Holder
I love to close my eyes a moment and think of the land outside, white under the mingled snow and moonlight--the heaps of stones by the roadside white--snow in the furrows. Mon Dieu! How quiet and how patient!
Katherine Mansfield
Like the end, the myth of the beginning overlaps the cycle of birth and death, unfolding like a Möbius strip in ceaseless continuum, which is the paradox that sits above and beyond intellectual explanation in the realm where empirical logic halts.
Gwendolyn Taunton
The nature of your work does not have to be the culture of your team.
Janna Cachola
Sacrifice is the ecstasy of giving the best we have to the One we love most.
J. Oswald Sanders
She was an autocrat, didn't really believe in democracy. The benefit of her approach was that, if you work with twenty people and ask everybody's opinion, you would never achieve what she did.
Theresa Sjoquist
Each time we come to a book we give it a different reading because we bring a different person to it. It is not you who reads the book, the book reads you
Jack Lasenby
Raphael lifted a finger, tracing it over her cheekbone. She flinched. Not because he was hurting her. The opposite. The places he touched ... it was as if he had a direct line to the hottest, most feminine part of her. A single stroke and she was embarrassingly damp. But she refused to pull away, refused to give in." (page 33 , Gollancz edition)
Nalini Singh
Stories change us. They change the world. People are stories of themselves.
Karen Healey
Smile like you are a winner and you will win over people around you. Smile.
Janna Cachola
Isn't life,' she stammered, 'isn't life--' But what life was she couldn't explain. No matter. He quite understood.'Isn't it, darling?' said Laurie.
Katherine Mansfield
Where did you get the control sample?" A flash of dark heat raced through him and he knew himself well enough to identify it as a dose of pure jealousy. "From Tamsyn." A pause, as if she was debating whether to continue. "I know you'd react negatively if I approached a make. You're... possessive." "Sugar, I'm way past possessive." His voice was no longer fully human.
Nalini Singh
Highly engaged teams have highly engaged leaders. Leaders must be about presence not productivity. Make meetings a no phone zone.
Janna Cachola
It’s so dark - as if all the lights are just there to make the other places seem darker.
Margaret Mahy
I wear a lot of pink cos' seeing pink activates endorphins and energizes my creativity. It is a colour of femininity and fierceness
Janna Cachola
You bound him to you with your courage and your tales. You hold him to you now. You captured a wild creature when you had no place you could keep him.
Juliet Marillier
Timmy, who made a daring escape, also made a mistake of paying the taxi driver with a check made out of toilet paper.
Janet Frame
How fickle is my young male heart as it avidly jumps from love to love
Ben Mitchell
Now that I’ve reached the ripe old age of retirement, I feel it my duty to teach you everything I’ve learnt about love, so listen closely. Love is like… That’s as far as I’ve gotten I’m afraid.
Ben Mitchell
It was, she had to admit, some kind of wonderful to be kissed so deliciously by the only man who had dared play with her cat with the intention of winning.
Nalini Singh
I like your anger,' the Hag said mildly. 'I like your resistance. It makes you less than courteous, but altogether more interesting.
Juliet Marillier
Peace washed through her soul in the old store surrounded by thousands of books. This was her church and her place of worship.
A.W. Exley
His touch was like a bard's on his instrument, and it awakened a deep and mysterious music in my body.
Juliet Marillier
So you’ll cheat to win, huh?”“I’ll use any means necessary to win.”Her breasts ached at the smoky tone in his voice, like he’d reached out and rolled her nipples between his fingertips.
Tracey Alvarez
Eyes narrowed, Judd stared at the structure as if at a mortal enemy. Slapping his fellow lieutenant on the shoulder, Riaz said, "Don't even think about it." A pissed-off telekinetic versus the complex metal pylons and tubes of the jungle gym- the results would not be pretty.Judd glanced at his watch. "I'll destroy it later.
Nalini Singh
You ready for this? You ready for what I’m gonna do to you?
Sherilee Gray
Every letterthat she types;every keystrokethat she strikes-To spell your nameagain and again,is all she everwants to write.
Lang Leav
If we really are spiritual beings living a physical existence, then we have incredible power.
Sue Fitzmaurice
You were a kidnapping waiting to happen - you're lucky it was me.""Luckiest day of my life.
Brynn Kelly
And at times I murmured the token phrase to the doctor, ‘When can I go home?’ knowing that home was the place where I least desired to be. There they would watch me for signs of abnormality, like ferrets around a rabbit burrow waiting for the rabbit to appear.
Janet Frame
Languages, symbols and universals do not change, they cannot by virtue of what they – thus, with the passing of the Ages, Tradition does not change, but the form in which it decides to manifest does – thus some religions succeed whilst others fail and become extinct. Tradition itself can never cease to exist, but the religions which are its voice perish with the rise and fall of civilizations
Gwendolyn Taunton
We should always aim to read something different=not only the writers with whom we agree, but those with whom we are ready to do battle. Their point of view challenges us to examine the truth and to test their views...and let us not comment on nor criticize writers of whom we have heard only second-hand, or third-hand without troubling to read their works for ourselves...Don't be afraid of new ideas.
J. Oswald Sanders
How’s Her Royal Bitchiness?” “Alive.” “Pity.
Nalini Singh
When your position is one of peace, then you're truly powerful.
Sue Fitzmaurice
Ah, what happiness it is to be with people who are all happy, to press hands, press cheeks, smile into eyes.
Katherine Mansfield
Your cowboy persona meshed so well with the dreams Chris has of the torn and silent men she's been rejected by. The fact that you don't return messages turns your answerphone into a blank screen onto which we can project our fantasies.
Chris Kraus
Richard seemed to like our morning conversations about Brecht and Althusser and Andre Gorz, but later on he turned the group against me for being too cerebral and acting like a boy. And weren't all these passionate interests and convictions just evasions of a greater truth, my cunt? I was an innocent, a de-gendered freak, 'cause unlike Liza Martin, who was such a babe she refused to take her platforms off for Kundalini Yoga, I hadn't learned the trick of throwing sex into the mix.
Chris Kraus
I have discovered that even the mediocre can have adventures and even the fearful can achieve.
Edmund Hillary
Smile and Slay.You have to slay it in life or life will slay you.
Janna Cachola
What can I say? I prefer to die well informed.
Nalini Singh
We're all as susceptible to the lure of power.
Nalini Singh
Suffering, he thought later, could rob a man of his empathy, could turn him selfish, could make him depreciate all other sufferers.
Eleanor Catton