Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
The ideal reader cannot sleep when holding the writer he was meant to be with.
The lack of alternatives to an illegal action does not legitimise that action.
This is why I am a Zionist: because Diaspora leads to hatred and the Holocaust.
Harm can come about without will or action. But will and action can avert harm.
I smiled and ran my hand through his dark curls. “So, Death, what do we do now?
I married an archeologist because the older I grow, the more he appreciates me.
If anyone is really determined to lend you a book, you never can get out of it!
Im not supposed to be within two hundred feet of a school or a Chuck E. Cheese.
It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.
It is in the nature of the human being to seek a justification for his actions.
Red is the first color of spring. It's the real color of rebirth. Of beginning.
Now that I've found the way to fly, which direction should I go into the night?
Mexico. Melancholy, profoundly right and wrong, it embraces as it strangulates.
From the first Lauren Luke tutorial I watched, I was completely taken with her.
Perhaps there are just some things you leave behind when you choose a new life.
In real life, of course, it is the hare that wins. Every time. Look around you.
It sounds shameful, but on my best days I write only about three or four hours.
The reason I never give up hope is because everything is so basically hopeless.
I am learning slowly to bring my crazy pinball-machine mind back to this place.
Now peculiar scraps of knowledge were stuck to him like lint from all his jobs.
There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.
If we wish ourselves to be high, we should treat that which is over us as high.
There is no such thing as a lousy job - only lousy men who don't care to do it.
God has judged me all my life. But that is God's privilege, my lady. Not yours.
Poor Congo, barefoot bride of men who took her jewels and promised the Kingdom.
I met Eva Ibbotson before I became a writer myself, and was in awe of her then.
My pain is constant and sharp, and I do not hope for a better world for anyone.
I could stay living in this city if they just installed Blaupunkts in the cabs.
We all agree that forgiveness is a beautiful idea until we have to practice it.
Now God, who has made us, knows what we are and that our happiness lies in Him.
We come to Scripture not to learn a subject but to steep ourselves in a person.
It takes courage to live through suffering; and it takes honesty to observe it.
According to Christian teachers, the essential vice, the utmost evil, is Pride.
How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.
We are born helpless. As soon as we are fully conscious we discover loneliness.
You can't go against the grain of the universe and not expect to get splinters.
Good people know about both good and evil: bad people do not know about either.
In great literature, I become a thousand different men but still remain myself.
The beauty of life, is that you don't have to be modernly beautiful to live it.
What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it.
There might be things more terrible even than losing someone you love by death.
To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung.
But however happy you are feeling, you can't talk with your mouth full of snow.
The bolt of Tash falls from above!' 'Does it ever get caught on a hook halfway?
Women with money and women in power are two uncomfortable ideas in our society.
One loves truly only once in a lifetime, Julian, even if one isn’t aware of it.
I prefer you like this, when you're in a foul mood, because you tell the truth.
Life is all we have, and if we can't look at it honestly, are we really living?
Never put your faith in a Prince. When you require a miracle, trust in a Witch.
It is well known that reading quickens the growth of a heart like nothing else.