Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
If you're going to do something that's going to cause offence to people, you're always going to get a reaction.
He was the soul of politeness to everyone -- to some with a hint of aversion, to others with a hint of respect.
I fancy that the Hell of Too Many People would occupy a respectable place in the hierarchy of infernal regions.
The secret of man's success resides in his insight into the moods of people, and his tact in dealing with them.
Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It means a thousand petty humiliations and hardships.
Because - oh shut up laughing, you two - because they've just been turned down by girls they asked to the ball!
Just because you’re allowed to use magic now you don’t have to whip your wands out for every tiny little thing!
Or perhaps in Slytherin, you'll make your real friends. Those cunning folk use any means to achieve their ends.
Well, better expelled and able to defend yourselves than sitting safely in school without a clue," said Sirius.
They don't know we're not allowed to use magic at home. I'm going to have a lot of fun with Dudley this summer.
Her grief was so big and wild it terrified her, like an evil beast that had erupted from under the floorboards.
Am I going to have to carry you? If so, it would complete my badass knight-in-shining-armor act with you today.
Join me? Patting the spot beside him, he inclined his head. “Pretty please? I’m lonely all by myself over here.
I know somewhat too much; and from this knowledge, once one has been infected, there seems to be no recovering.
When we are stirred to lament the loss of the gods, it is more than likely the gods who are doing the stirring.
What compels any of us to do the things we do when deep down a part of us just wants to break free from it all?
I’m on the benevolent side of antisocial. I don’t mind people, but I’d prefer not to have a lot of them around.
Rule number four for me as a writer? Plotlines are like sharks: They either keep moving or they die. ~J.R. Ward
Let nature do the freezing and frightening and isolating in this world. let men work and love and fight it off.
Notoriety and public confession in the literary form is a frazzler of the heart you were born with, believe me.
I write a lot in my head. The revision goes on internally. It's not spontaneous and it doesn't have a schedule.
There are few things under heaven more unnerving than the silent, accumulating contempt and hatred of a people.
I was guilty and irritated and full of love and pain. I wanted to kick him and I wanted to take him in my arms.
Is there not too much tension in the world at present, and might it not be better if more people were slackers?
Normally, what you’re envious of is a book, not a writer: standards, ideas, levels … almost nonexistent things.
Under all wrongdoing lies personal vanity or the feeling that we are endowed and privileged beyond our fellows.
Here I have opportunity enough for the exercise of my talent, as the chief of my time is spent in conversation.
I never could be so happy as you. Till I have your disposition, your goodness, I never can have your happiness.
Well, my comfort is, I am sure Jane will die of a broken heart, and then he will be sorry for what he has done.
To be claimed as a good, though in an improper style, is at least better than being rejected as no good at all.
Dare not say that man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death. I have loved none but you.
My god has always been a laissez-faire deity, giving you the initial goods and sending you on to make your way.
There is something I have noticed about desire, that it opens the eyes and strikes them blind at the same time.
When you're an author, you're always two people. Jasper the writer is different from Jasper the person at home.
...beauty is the projection of ugliness and by developing certain monstrosities we obtain the purest ornaments.
There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an afternoon.
You can research until you're falling asleep, but that still doesn't mean you're really fluent in the material.
And indeed nothing had happened, a momentous nothing, just another of the great world's shrugs of indifference.
You put up with your voice and speak with it because you haven't any choice. But it's what you say that counts.
If you presume to love something, you must love the process of it much more than you love the finished product.
This is a writer’s lesson: To learn that the sounds that we imagine can be the clearest, loudest sounds of all.
Why does life feel, to us as we experience it, so desperately urgent and so utterly pointless at the same time?
That's the trouble with caring about anybody, you begin to feel overprotective. Then you begin to feel crowded.
There is no pleasing New Englanders, my dear, their soil is all rocks and their hearts are bloodless absolutes.
The whole city stopped - And this is a pause worth savouring, because the world will soon be complicated again.
Writing is physical for me. I always have the sense that the words are coming out of my body, not just my mind.
One only dies once, and if one does not die well, a good opportunity is lost and will not present itself again.
The most effective teacher will always be biased, for the chief force in teaching is confidence and enthusiasm.
I write the big scenes first, that is, the scenes that carry the meaning of the book, the emotional experience.
[we see that] science is eminently perfectible, and that each theory has constantly to give way to a fresh one.