Author Quotes

In spite of her cute little angelic face and pink sneakers, Brianna is actually a baby Tyrannosaurus rex. On STEROIDS!

Rachel Renee Russell

Sometimes grasping words sounded desperate, or expecting, and ruined a damn good thing. Let it ride.

Eric Jerome Dickey

You are my country, Desdemona.... My Egypt. My hot, harrowing desert and my cool, verdant Nile, infinitely lovely and unfathomable and sustaining.

Connie Brockway

I liked having some time to myself. Our family was such a close one, you could get smothered. Of course, we didn't always agree with one another. Sometimes I quarreled with my brother and sisters, but I couldn't remember hating anyone for more than five minutes.

Oh, I don't read. I skulk about in search of quotations that might make me appear educated.

Tasha Alexander

So, to add to a momentous day, I corrected a misconception that my family had held for at least fifteen years and came out to them as straight.

At twenty-eight I'd had a handful of beaux, but had only been in love once, and that had been awful enough to make me doubt men and myself for a good long while.

What looks like a people problem is often a situation problem.

Fandom, after all, is born of a balance between fascination and frustration: if media content didn't fascinate us, there would be no desire to engage with it; but if it didn't frustrate us on some level, there would be no drive to rewrite or remake it.

I'd gazed into the abyss and the abyss had gazed back, just like Daddy always said it would: You want to know about life, Mac? It's simple. Keep watching rainbows, baby. Keep looking at the sky. You find what you look for. If you go hunting good in the world, you'll find it. If you go hunting evil... well, don't.

Karen Marie Moning

Don't sit back and wait for God to do it all. Ask for His advice, but be prepared to do the hard yards yourself.

Morris Gleitzman

The use of force is always an answer to problems. Whether or not it's a satisfactory answer depends on a number of things, not least the personality of the person making the determination. Force isn't an attractive answer, though. I would not be true to myself or to the people I served with in 1970 if I did not make that realization clear.

Affection isn't so plentiful in this life that any of us can afford to reject it when it's offered, whatever its source.

There is no water and still less soap. We have no city, but lots of hope.

Mary Pope Osborne

I always fear that when I really impose my will on something, the universe is gonna punish me.

Let go of the past, of the things I wanted, of the people I loved, and move forward.

Once, there was a girl who vowed she would save everyone in the world, but forgot herself.

This self-respect and sense of self-worth, the innermost armament of the soul, lies at the heart of humanness; to be deprived of it is to be dehumanized, to be cleaved from, and cast below, mankind.

Laura Hillenbrand

People were never meant to be idols. We aren't supposed to be worshipped. Only God deserves that kind of praise.

Karen Kingsbury

It was because a great-looking man with no apparent mental defects found her attractive. Imagine feeling so buoyant over something so juvenile.

My stories do have plot. They're not just scattered language; they're controlled, toward an end. I do love storytelling. I start out in a very plain, old-fashioned way. I'm obviously not connecting with the thousands of people I thought were out there. Maybe because I grew up with smart peers, people up on music, science, the world. I grew up with some smart damn people, and that might have hindered me as a writer. You had to be quick.

If you want the fire of God, you must become the fuel of God.

The one thing I am now sure of is that if there is such a thing as destiny, it is a result of our passion, be that for money, power, or love. Passion, for better or worse. It can keep a soul alive even if all that survives is a shimmering. I've even seen it. I've been bathed in it. I've been changed by it.

I see what grief does, how it strips you bare, shows you all the things you don't want to know. That loss doesn't end, that there isn't a moment where you are done, when you can neatly put it away and move on.

Elizabeth Scott (author)

Being somewhere but not completely: that was home for Danny.... All he needed was a cellphone or I-access, or both at once, or even just a plan to leave wherever he was and go someplace else really really soon.