Author Quotes

Some reckon their age by years, Some measure their life by art; But some tell their days by the flow of their tears And their lives by the moans of their hearts.

Protective coloration...you learn to use it to get along in the world if you want. Only I got sick of living in the box the world prescribed; it was far to small to hold me. So I knocked down a few walls.

Bruce Coville
Bruce Coville
Longing for something that you once had is a mistake because the pictures in your mind are never the same as whatever it is you are longing for.

Jane Urquhart
Jane Urquhart
But loss is a precious stone to me, a nectar Distilled in time, preaching the truth of winter To the fallen heart that does not cease to fall.

A strange thing, words. Once they're said, it's hard to imagine they're untrue.

For I see that then I was still all in a state of innocence, but that innocence, once lost, is lost forever.

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

When someone is always looking over their shoulder, they're more likely to trip.

James Rollins
James Rollins
Always plan for the fact that no plan ever goes according to plan.

Simon Sinek
Simon Sinek
I didn't have time to lose it. I didn't have time to lie down in the corner shop and scream and beat the floor until my hands bled. I didn't have time to miss Jack. Stroma kept on chattering away and getting excited over novelty spaghetti shapes and finding the joy in every little thing, and it occurred to me even then that she was probably looking after me, too.

Knowledge and action combined can win over any adversity known to man.

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.

What a recovery of the wisdom of the Mother brings to all of us is the knowledge of inseparable connection with the entire creation and the wise, active love that is born from that knowledge.

Repentance clothes in grass and flowers the grave in which the past is laid.

Most people have no imagination. If they could imagine the sufferings of others, they would not make them suffer so. What separated a German mother from a French mother?

It was the strangest sensation, fallin' in love. 'Bout the only thing I compare it to would be jumpin' off a big cliff. Once you're past the edge, there ain't no particular reason to be graspin' for a line a safety. You just keep on fallin' anyhow, so you might as well enjoy it the whole way down.

To act the part of a true friend requires more conscientious feeling than to fill with credit and complacency any other station or capacity in social life.

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

You gonna put on your big-girl panties and fight with the boys, now? He looked over his shoulder as if he expected me to blush or something. Who says I wear panties? I was certain that he flushed red this time. Laughing, I left him shaking his head and went on inside to find the Kid. We had work to do.

Faith Hunter
Faith Hunter
I learned that the Holy Water better be fresh, that I need practice throwing the spheres, and that someone has to watch my back so asshats don't steal my demons.

Organic chemistry is the study of organs; inorganic chemistry is the study of the insides of organs.

I truly believe that our major social ills would disappear if we just spent our lives perfecting the art of connecting with each other.

Life is full of opportunities to feel exactly the way
you want to feel.

Poetry wants to make things mean more than they mean, says someone, as if we knew how much things meant, and in what unit of measure.

Fishing, Danny boy, is purely a state of mind. Some men, when they are fishing, are after fish. Me, I'm after things you could never set a barbed hook in.

William Kent Krueger
William Kent Krueger