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Israelmore Ayivor
My view of writing "Coldest Girl in Coldtown" was to take every single thing that I loved from every vampire book I had ever read and dump it into one book--everything I like--trying to evoke some of the decadence… Vampires are a high-class monster: They want to dress up. They want to drink a lot of absinthe, or force their victims to drink a lot of absinthe. They have big parties and have elegant rituals. I think that's a thing we associate with vampires--they are the royalty of our monsters. We expect them to be rich, we expect them to be well-dressed. I wanted to have some of that be true because I like it, and have some of it not be true because it's kind of weird.I wanted to put in the idea of infection, which I was really interested in and which was a big feature of the vampire books I read growing up. And, the fear and desire for infection--the way in which our urge towards loving vampires is nihilistic. Our fear of them is our survival instincts kicking in.
Holly Black
Most of the time, beauty lies in the simplest of things.
Winna Efendi
On a grim and dismal day that shattered my last ounce of confidence, I broke down and whimpered, “I’m awful and hideous and incompetent and boring and utterly useless.” And then you grinned at me and said, “That’s okay.
Richelle E. Goodrich
We" (your spirit guides and angels) believe in what-we-feel, you believe in how-you-feel.
Linda Deir
If you're not at least a tiny bit jealous at this point, you might want to check for your own pulse.
Emily Matchar
In an era of stress and anxiety, when the present seems unstable and the future unlikely, the natural response is to retreat and withdraw from reality, taking recourse either in fantasies of the future or in modified visions of a half-imagines past
Alan Moore
To live the life the gods have given you, you must clutch wisely, then run. Run like the houds of hell on a sinner's scent!
Scott Lynch
. . . when it comes down to it, that’s what life is all about: showing up for the people you love, again and again, until you can’t show up anymore.
Rebecca Walker
I do not believe that God has given us this trial to not purpose. I know that the day will come when we will clearly understand why this persecution with all it's sufferings has been bestowed upon us -- for everything that Our Lord does is for our good. And yet, even as I write these words I feel the oppressive weight in my heart of those last stammering words of Kichijiro in the morning of his departure: "Why has Deus Sama imposed this suffering on us?" and then the resentment in those eyes that he turned upon me. "Father", he had said "what evil have we done?"I suppose I should simply cast from my mind these meaningless words of the coward; yet why does his plaintive voice pierce my breast with tall the pain of a sharp needle? Why has Our Lord imposed this torture and this persecution on poor Japanese peasants? No, Kichijiro was trying to express something different, something even more sickening. The silence of God. Already twenty years have passed since the persecution broke out; the black soil of Japan has been filled with the lament of so many Christians; the red blood of priests has flowed profusely; the walls of churches have fallen down; and in the face of this terrible and merciless sacrifice offered up to Him, God has remained silent.
Shūsaku Endō
Me and Vinny are dead careful, and we only had sex once without a condom, our first time, and it's a scientific fact that virgins can't get pregnant. Stella told me.
David Mitchell
When you decide to face your life squarely, you stop moving round in circles.
Chinonye J. Chidolue
Few of us ever live in the present. We are forever anticipating what is to come or remembering what has gone.
Louis L'Amour
If a child shows himself to be incorrigible, he should be decently and quietly beheaded at the age of twelve, lest he grow to maturity, marry, and perpetuate his kind.
Don Marquis
There are literally a million ways to deal with any situation and Madiba was the best teacher in tutoring me to see those ways, but lying was never an option.
Zelda la Grange
a lot of human behavior was really acting out our responses to dangers long past.
Orson Scott Card
Our bodies are the quanta and our minds are the qualia - together they form a physical entity capable of interaction with many forms in the universe.
Rajeev Kurapati
Indeed this gentleman's stoicism was of that not uncommon kind, which enables a man to bear with exemplary fortitude the afflictions of his friends, but renders him, by way of counterpoise, rather selfish and sensitive in respect of any that happen to befall himself.
Charles Dickens
Maybe it's time to stop punishing yourself for past sins."tHe wished it was that easy, but it wasn't. So if he was already this deep in, what was one more transgression? Snagging the hem of her tank top between two fingers, he tugged it taut. "I suppose you think you're the woman to show me the way?"tLeaning in close, she whispered into his good ear, "No one knows more about sinning than a Sweet.
Avery Flynn
The target of life and the idea of life is that every time must be converted into something.
Sunday Adelaja
The Saints are the Sinners who keep on trying.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Life without faith, is like an empty beautiful chocolate box!
Beta Metani' Marashi
The discovery of your purpose (the reason for your existence) generates the passion and dedication it takes to pursue and fulfill it...
Assegid Habtewold
Don’t expect miracles why you have not done anything.
Sunday Adelaja
Outstanding beauty like outstanding gifts of any kind tends to get in the way of normal emotional development and thus of that particular success in life which we call happiness.
Milton R. Sapirstein
Il pessimismo radicale sconfina nell'ottimismo.
Guido Morselli
I don’t want to take away anybody’s religion, but simply to make them see what religion really means.
Abhijit Naskar
Marial and Uncle were no longer by his side, and they never would be again, but Salva knew that both of them would have wanted him to survive, to finish the trip and reach the Itang refugee camp safely. It was almost as if they had left their strength with him, to help him on his journey.
Linda Sue Park
That, after all, was his job. The title of emperor carried with it only a single duty.To make everything better.
Brandon Sanderson
We seemed to be trapped in an episode of One Life To Waste. It's all very dull.
Cassandra Clare
They view New York as Satan's waiting room." "If this is the waiting room, where does the guy reside or work?" "New Jersey, I assume," Kyle said with a smile. "I mean, dude, have you been to Jersey?
Michael Murphy
As one tends to the graves of the dead, so I tend the books. I clean them, do minor repairs, keep them in good order. And every day I open a volume or two, read a few lines or pages, allow the voices of the forgotten dead to resonate inside my head. Do they sense it, these dead writers, when their books are read? Does a pinprick of light appear in their darkness? Is their soul stirred by the feather touch of another mind reading theirs? I do hope so, for it must be very lonely being dead.
Diane Setterfield
I didn’t know the grim reaper looked like Sid Vicious. – Jen
Nessie Strange
Lord Peter was hampered in his career as a private detective by a public school education. Despite Parker's admonitions, he was not always able to discount it. His mind had been warped in its young growth by "Raffles" and "Sherlock Holmes," or the sentiments for which they stand. He belonged to a family which had never shot a fox. 'I am an amateur,' said Lord Peter
Dorothy L. Sayers
It is a lie to write in such way as to be rewarded by fame offered you by some snobbish quasi-literary groups in the intellectual gazettes.
Ray Bradbury
He who fails to know his real and true competitor shall never be able to give a good account of his stewardship in life! Your true and real competitor is your real and true solemn duty to your Maker!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Most times when folks ask for advice, they already know what they should do. They just want to hear it from someone else.
Jeannette Walls (Author)
With me, the present is forever, and forever is always shifting, flowing, melting. This second is life. And when it is gone it is dead. But you can’t start over with each new second. You have to judge by what is dead. It’s like quicksand … hopeless from the start. A story, a picture, can renew sensation a little, but not enough, not enough. Nothing is real except the present, and already, I feel the weight of centuries smothering me. Some girl a hundred years ago once lived as I do. And she is dead. I am the present, but I know I, too, will pass. The high moment, the burning flash, come and are gone, continuous quicksand. And I don’t want to die.
Sylvia Plath
My experience of life is that it is not divided up into genres; it’s a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of pornography if you're lucky.
Alan Moore
In Dominion they have a saying about the Lasters. Those who can, Splice. Everyone else comes in Last.
L.E. Sterling
What happen to you are tiny matters? You can overcome every hurdle with positive attitude.
Lailah Gifty Akita
If people are connected with God, they would be safe
Sunday Adelaja
You're a Dark One," said Anton. "All you see in everything is evil, treachery, trickery.""All I do is not close my eyes to them," Edgar retorted. "And that's why I don't trust Zabulon. I distrust him almost as much as I do Gesar. I can even trust you more—you're just another unfortunate chess piece who happens by chance to be painted a different color from me. Does a white pawn hate a black one? No. Especially if the two pawns have their heads down together over a quiet beer or two.""You know," Anton said in a slightly surprised voice, "I just don't understand how you can carry on living if you see the world like that. I'd just go and hang myself.""So you don't have any counterarguments to offer?"Anton took a gulp of beer too. The wonderful thing about this natural Czech beer was that even if you drank lots of it, it still didn't make your head or your body feel heavy... Or was that an illusion?"Not a single one," Anton admitted. "Right now, this very moment, not a single one. But I'm sure you're wrong. It's just difficult to argue about the colors of the rainbow with a blind man. There's something missing in you... I don't know what exactly. But it's something very important, and without it you're more helpless than a blind man.
Sergei Lukyanenko
...you shouldn’t hate something you don’t know, because it may turn out to be the bearer of your greatest good fortune.
Izzeldin Abuelaish
That faith be analyzable does not necessarily imply a method for getting by without it. . . .
Julia Kristeva
Suffering is also one of the ways of knowing you're alive.
Jessamyn West
I speak of the human heart, not a logic puzzle." -Diego de Gama
Julia DeBarrioz
Carn Carby left, and ender mentally added him to his private list of people who also qualified as human beings.
Orson Scott Card
I surrender my soul to the Saviour.
Lailah Gifty Akita
People live in different worlds. There's a rich world, there's a poor world, and there's an extremely poor. The one you dwell is determined by the outcome of your sacrifice.
Michael Bassey Johnson
The lesson here is that high expectations can be counter-productive. We probably can do more to affect the quality of our lives by controlling our expectations than we can by doing virtually anything else. The blessing of modest expectations is that they leave room for many experiences to be a pleasant surprise, a hedonic plus. The challenge is to find a way to keep expectations modest, even as actual experiences keep getting better.
Barry Schwartz
How can you be nervous? Don't you see? We're in a library.
Eilis O'Neal
Her burdens were her own and burdens were for shoulders strong enough to bear them.
Margaret Mitchell
I'm having a stress flashback." Davy bonked his head on the table. "My brother has decided to break into the house of the richest guy in the county and seduce his sexpot daughter, under his nose.""I'm not going to seduce her," Sean said crabbily. "I'd go through the front door and talk to her right in front of her mother if I could, but those people think I'm festering sewage sludge.""No. They think you're dangerous, mentally unhinged festering sewage sludge," Davy corrected.
Shannon McKenna
I carry out sun rituals on the slopes of high mountains. But I am also taboo for myself, untouchable because forbidden.
Clarice Lispector
Intelligence and common sense, what makes a person a real genius.
Wazim Shaw
My dad used to say that life's a journey, but somebody screwed up and lost the map.
Rachel Caine
You deserve to be rich. You deserve to live a happy life. You deserve peace of mind. You deserve respect. You deserve loving relationships. And YES, it’s all possible.
Maddy Malhotra
Blood doesn't satisfy cravings. It magnifies them.
Matt Haig
On the porch were the still-smoking remains of long-stemmed roses, evidence that someone angry and passive-aggressive didn't know Peter was out of town.
Theric Jepson