Novelist Quotes

I guess this is how love is when it comes undone. No matter how tight you knit the stitches, a sharp tug on a loose thread will transform your warm sweater into a mangled heap of yarn that you can't reuse or repair.

There's no sense to being Irish unless you know the world's going to break your heart.

Love is about needing someone, about feeling as if the day isn't quite right if they're not there. Its about knowing that, no matter how bad a day you've had, the moment you see them again or hear their voice, the world is back in its place.

Evil is short lived. Never judge of the whole round of life by the mere segment you can see. The whole is, in the end, perfect.

And in the end, I think, we're all just trying to survive, aren't we?

Janice Y. K. Lee

Don't ever get old. With each year that passes, the old Viking idea of jumping off a cliff to one's death looks better and better. The only thing to hope for is that you get so senile that you think you're twenty years old again. That would be fun to relive.

Camilla Läckberg

The only animal capable of giving man a fair fight is man. Actually, among ourselves, we fight unfairest of all, and the more we practice, the nastier we get.

Robert Buettner

After all, this is a world of rock and water and air. It is elemental. It is not ours.

Love, is it? First you lose your appetite, then you lose your tongue, then you take leave of your senses, and that's love!

Customers are ninjas now. They are stealthily evaluating you right under your nose.

History is just the present in retrospect. Times change but people do not.

Jeanne C. Stein

You can take the girl out of the library, but you can't take the neurotic, compulsively curious librarian out of the girl.

Where lies the line between sorcery and science? It is only a matter of terminology, my friend.

Alan Dean Foster

Anglo-Saxon barbarians. Arthur should have been made a Knight

William W. Johnstone

Never does one so constantly see so many different things as when peering from a small window.

A heart may be lifted up and cast down in the same moment, as sometimes sunshine comes while rain is falling and builds upward in the sky tall reaches of misty, unlikely beauty.

Caroline Pafford Miller

Your past is your shadow. It has form but no substance, except in the places you allow it to touch you. (

Depression is like a headache or true love or any of those indefinable concepts. If you've never been there, you don't know what it's like until you're too far in to stop the process.

It isn't important what you do, it is the attitude with which you proceed through the world that matters.

I am filled suddenly with hope. I don't think I will ever die. We are looking for ghosts, but, I think, a good story will do.

When I read passages like this, I want to look for the nearest wall to bang my head against.

For the entire state of Georgia, having the premiere of Gone With the Wind on home ground was like winning the Battle of Atlanta 75 years late.

It is by surmounting difficulties, not by sinking under them that we discover our fortitude.

Hannah Webster Foster

Places come to exist in our imaginations because of stories, and so do we. When we reach for a "sense of place," we posit an intimate relationship to a set of stories connected to a particular location, such as Hong Kong or the Grand Canyon or the bed where we were born, thinking of histories and the evolution of personalities in a local context. Having "a sense of self" means possessing a set of stories about who we are and with whom and why.

William Kittredge

A thought experiment courtesy of the Stoics. If you are tired of everything you possess, imagine that you have lost all these things.