Author Quotes

Vampires, real vampires, didn't nibble on the necks of nubile young virgins. They tore people to pieces and sucked the blood out of the chunks.

David Wellington (author)

Oh! make me Thine forever;
And should I fainting be,
Lord! let me never, never,
Outlive my love to Thee!

It's my red hair that interferes with my good sense. All that color so close to my brain, it plum disorients me most days.

But there was still something missing. Something that nagged at her-an emptiness she couldn't explain. There were mornings she woke with her heart pounding wildly and the sensation of arms wrapped around her. But the feeling slipped away the moment she opened her eyes, and no matter how quickly she squeezed them shut, she couldn't recapture the contentment she'd felt.

Everything wrong I've ever done has always seemed like the right thing to do at the time.

Judith McNaught

She could not trust herself to hope—but without hope, she realized, she had no reason to go on.

Melissa de la Cruz

So some unlucky Engineer Does all the fit Materials compound, That are in Art or Nature found; Will glorious Fire-Works prepare.

For parents to restrain the inclinations of their children in marriage is an usurped power.

I know everything, but I don't understand any of it.

Discipline is rarely enjoyable, but almost always profitable.

Helplessness in the face of a child's suffering is the curse of parenthood.

Uncharged with invisible meaning, the visible is nothing, mere clay; and without visible circumstance, a territory, to connect to, our spirit is shapeless, nameless, and undefined.

There will be three, kin of your kin, who hold the power of the stars in their paws.

The answer to this riddle has a hole in the middle, And some have been known to fall in it. In tennis it's nothing, but it can be received, And sometimes a person may win it. Though not seen or heard it may be perceived, Like princes or bees it's in clover. The answer to this riddle has a hole in the middle, And without it one cannot start over.

Trenton Lee Stewart

If the curriculum we use to teach our children does not connect in positive ways to the culture young people bring to school, it is doomed to failure.

Life is like a huge lottery in which only the winning tickets are visible.

Jostein Gaarder

Men make the mistake of thinking that because women can't see the sense in violence, they must be passive creatures. It's just not true. In one important way, at least, men are the passive sex. Given a choice, they will always opt for the status quo. They hate change of any kind, and they fight against it constantly. On the other hand, what women want is stability, which when you stop to think about it is a very different animal.

Eric Van Lustbader

Truth is only stranger than fiction if you're a stranger to the truth. Which means you're either a liar or you're fictional.

Pseudonymous Bosch

Is she become a rag doll? Are the wolves become children? It seems quite possible, there on the twilight fringes of dying. With some faint spark of herself, the little girl holds on to the idea. Even a rag doll has more life than does a dying child.

When a clandestine couple kisses, it is much more likely that sex will immediately follow. This is because there is much more risk. Once you have kissed secretly, it is very difficult not to have sex. It would be impolite not to have sex. You have to show that you are serious about each other.

Feminism justified female victim power by convincing the world that we lived in a sexist, male-dominated, and patriarchal world.

Free is the vote, the right inviolate,
But victory falls to him whose aim is straight.

Francesco Dall'Ongaro

Worry is the most popular form of suicide. Worry impairs appetite, disturbs sleep, makes respiration irregular, spoils digestion, irritates disposition, warps character, weakens mind, stimulates disease, and saps bodily health. It is the real cause of death in thousands of instances where some other disease is named on the death certificate.

William George Jordan

Some day your head won't find my lap so easily. Trust is a habit you'll soon break.

Be good, be young, be true! Evil is nothing but vanity, let us have the pride of good, and above all let us never despair.

Alexandre Dumas, fils