Author Quotes

Two fairies were sleeping peacefully on his bed. Dinnie was immediately depressed. He knew that he did not have enough money to see a therapist.

Martin Millar (writer)

And before you ask, I don't ask what equipment my lovers have, merely if they want to play.

Yasmine Galenorn

If I had known things would turn out this way, I would have trained harder. I would have learned to take care of myself. But I guess that's the point, isn't it? You never know what you're going to have to face, so you'd better be prepared.

Becca Fitzpatrick

… far greater Advantages would come to pass amongst Christians, if they would cease from Contention, Oppression, and (what tends and disposes them thereunto,) the killing of Beasts, and eating their Flesh and Blood; and in a short time humane murthers, and devilish feuds and cruelties among each other, would abate, and perhaps scarce have a being amongst them.

If it's easter than east and wester than west, it must be north.

Jessica Day George

We are like the phoenix," said Abuelita. "Rising again, with a new life ahead of us.

Pam Muñoz Ryan

Hmmmm...There certainly are a lot of pretty boys in this world.

One of the things I have come up against time and again in my career is the notion that because a book is easy to read it was somehow easy to write.

Empty words show an empty mind, and silence speaks most eloquently of all.

Sometimes it's easier not to think about things you can't do anything about.

One minute the teacher was talking about the Civil War. And the next minute he was gone. There. Gone. No 'poof.' No flash of light. No explosion.

Michael Grant (author, born 1954)

If you don't feel as close to God today as you did yesterday, who moved?

Chris Heimerdinger

A first kiss after five months means more than a first kiss after five minutes.

There must be a few times in life when you stand at a precipice of a decision. When you know there will forever be a Before and an After...I knew there would be no turning back if I designated this moment as my own Prime Meridian from which everything else would be measured.

When you became a student at Oxford you realized both your own mortality, in the flow of this near-millennium of students, and also the small particle of immortality that attaches to you when you begin to belong to an immortal place.

For a second I thought I might actually be alive," I said, looking at Nick's unshaven face. "Now I know- I've gone to Hell and you're my nursemaid.

Every time you make a decision to be less than what God wants for you, you're denying yourself some of God's blessings. It's up to you. You can live a life with God's blessings, or just exist with all the consequences of choosing wrong.

Terri Blackstock

I always say nothing you can imagine is totally impossible. It might be unlikely, but that's as far as I'll go.

I don't like phones. You can't be sure people are paying attention to you when you're talking to them.

Most people, looking back at their childhood, see it as a misty country half-forgotten or only to be remembered through an evocative sound or scent, but some episodes of those short years remain clear and brightly coloured like a landscape seen through the wrong end of a telescope.

D. E. Stevenson

What's fun for other people may not be fun for you- and vice versa.

Not as the plants and flowers of Earth, growing peacefully beneath a simple sun, were the blossoms of the planet Lophai. Coiling and uncoiling in double dawns; tossing tumultuously under vast suns of jade green and balas-ruby orange; swaying and weltering in rich twilights, in aurora-curtained nights, they resembled fields of rooted serpents that dance eternally to an other-worldly music.

Clark Ashton Smith

From 1949 to the present, for every dollar the US spent on an African, it spent $250.65 on an Israeli, and for every dollar it spent on someone from the Western Hemisphere outside the US, it spent $214 on an Israeli.

A calculating engine is one of the most intricate forms of mechanism, a telegraph key one of the simplest. But compare their value.

There, close enough to spit on—if I'd been a barbarian and inclined to spit—was the dragon.

Vivian Vande Velde