Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
I don't really think of my blog as a real blog. It's a lame blog. It's more like my when-the-mood-strikes update, or smoke signal.
I never could have written the screenplay because I would have been forced to learn new software and I can't learn one more thing.
I was happy. I loved the night, I loved t so much it almost hurt. In the night everything seemed possible. I wasn't sleepy at all.
I don't think we'll ever know all there is to know about gardening, and I'm just as glad there will always be some magic about it!
I grew up on genre. If it had a dragon on the cover, I was interested. But horror, especially, really gripped me in its bony fist.
I walked to the lake and sat on the shore for a few minutes, just staring at the moonlight on the water. Moonlight never gets old.
I don't think he'd [Andy Warhol] be that amazed because he was so driven to be the Picasso of the second half of the 20th century.
There are days I drop words of comfort on myself like falling leaves and remember that it is enough to be taken care of by myself.
When I write, I'm talking to myself constantly to make sure that it sounds OK; it has kind of a nice rhythm and a nice jump to it.
My mom once told me that a good relationship isn't where the other person makes you feel better, but where they make *you* better.
By the time you have your protagonist attempting to assassinate the Pope, you've sort of signaled that everything is on the table.
Pubescent girls, it seems, are manifestly more likely to exhibit extreme and bizarre psychological symptoms than are teenage boys.
I remember in my early 20s when I felt I couldn't live past 30. I was learning how to write. I had a lot of hard work ahead of me.
All my years to this moment All my roads to this wall. All my words to this silence All my pride to this fall. -Songs of Sapphique
Now that I have a child of my own, I'm in awe of - and deeply grateful for - the time my parents spent in taking me to bookstores.
Bad temper is its own scourge. Few things are more bitter than to feel bitter. A man's venom poisons himself more than his victim.
To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread.
Mystery magnifies danger, as a fog the sun, the hand that warned Belshazzar derived its horrifying effect from the want of a body.
To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.
A dream, all a dream, that ends in nothing, and leaves the sleeper where he lay down, but I wish you to know that you inspired it.
Up the two terrace flights of steps the rain ran wildly, and beat at the great door, like a swift messenger rousing those within;.
"I saw her, in the fire, but now. I hear her in music, in the wind, in the dead stillness of the night," returned the haunted man.
It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known.
By the by, who ever knew a man who never read or wrote neither who hadn't got some small back parlour which he would call a study!
An evening wind uprose too, and the slighter branches cracked and rattled as they moved, in skeleton dances, to its moaning music.
In the Destroyer's steps there spring up bright creations that defy his power, and his dark path becomes a way of light to Heaven.
Every science is a mutilated octopus. If its tentacles were not clipped to stumps, it would feel its way into disturbing contacts.
I've been embraced by a new community. That's what happens when you're finally honest about who you are; you find others like you.
And it's wrong of you to think that love leaves room for nothing else. It's possible to love something and still condescend to it.
Still shaking, in the pew, I understood that it isn't the dead we cry for. We cry for ourselves, and I didn't deserve my own pity.
-She is like the wind, open and free. If I cage the wind, would it die? -Then don't cage it, Mikhail. Trust it to stay beside you.
The queen of crime, Agatha Christie, was always more concerned about the clockwork cleverness of the plot, never the investigator.
I think our police are excellent, probably because I have not done anything that has occasioned being beaten up by these good men.
We stumble on, thinks Jaslyn, bring a little noise into the silence, find in others the ongoing of ourselves. It is almost enough.
Riggedy riggedy white Come and spend the night We'll play some games Some wild some tame Cause if you will, you might. By, Laberge
Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have.
Each country thinks its school is in a specific crisis, without ever linking the school's crisis to that of the society around it.
I rise near dawn, make a strong cup of coffee, wander to my desk and come fully awake by reading something written the day before.
Passion and platonic friendliness, often contrary siblings, frequently wear similar faces to hide the great distance between them.
You invite things to happen. You open the door. You inhale. And if you inhale the chaos, you give the chaos, the chaos gives back.
When you write a book, you want to have fidelity to the character. Characters and their emotions guide the structure of the novel.
Now's the time to be alive - to see it all happen, to be a part of it. That makes the blood race, and each breath is an adventure.
Women are almost always angry with men for one reason or another. It's one of things you'll have to get used to, as you get older.
Stop yelling at the movie, you ain’t never gonna change it like that. Go change the movie in the projector. You are the projector.
...Francis Galton, founder of the eugenics (master race) movement which continues today under the heading of 'population control'.
Becoming a YA author was actually a very lucky accident. When I wrote the Queen of Everything, I thought it was a book for adults.
You can hold a secret, hold it so far in that it drives nearly every thought and every move you make- your very heartbeat, almost.
Maybe we all just wanted someone to believe in. That's all each of us wanted, and it should be so simple, but it never was simple.
Don't wait for an employer, friend, or mentor to show appreciation for your work. Take pride in your own efforts on a daily basis.
Man's guilt in history and in the tides of his own blood has been complicated by technology, the daily seeping falsehearted death.