Belle Quotes

Sometimes life isn’t what we want, it’s what we get.

Sometimes you have to walk away from what you want in order to find what you deserve.

The trouble with being angry is that it not only makes you feel stupid, it encourages you to say stupid things as well. Stupid things that are hard to take back and impossible to erase.

Only a man with nothing to hide could make that kind of racket.

He often came back ‘all thinky’ from work.

Speaking to a 'non-theist', 'How do you what you don't believe in if you have never read the Bible?'".

Sometimes the dustiest cover hides the best book. Sometimes the best cup is chipped.

In wartime, she thought to herself, you don’t call a death murder.

If you never try, you will never know what it means to succeed.

A home is a place one's heart creates and so recognizes as its own. A place it enters of its own free will. All others are merely dwelling places.

Everyone was important during the war. Everyone. We worked together and we won.

Why do I love writing YA? Because I get a chance to re-live my youth knowing all I know now...

I'm over the hill for come-on lines. On a quiet day, I can hear my liver rotting. For exercise, I fall down. ~ Clete

That's what makes a tragedy a tragedy. There's no rhyme or reason to it, only heartbreak. The only thing you can do when the ground stops shaking and the waters recede is try to save whoever's left.

The devil was always in the detail. And here the detail was certainly devilish.

It's so easy to judge things we don't understand.

I don't understand, " Belle cried. "I gave you gold. You only gave me grief.

There's still a question I must put to you, " said the cunger woman. "Can you give up Joshua to keep him?

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I don't want to die without telling you that I love you, " Everett's voice was a faint, wavering whisper, and his lips swollen and bloodied. "I always have.

People are so different in wartime. No one gets to be ordinary. Not really.

Ryan rolled his eyes. "Harper, you and David Stark have been circling each other since kindergarden.

I looked always outside of myself to see what I could make the world give me instead of looking within myself to see what was there.