C.S. O'Kelly Quotes

We as authors sign a pact with our readers they'll go on reading because they trust us to play fair with them and deliver what we've promised.

Wizards are always hungry.

If your creation is taking 99% perspiration, it stinks and you need more inspiration.

We are all shaped by what we do.

Whatever beginning goals you set for yourself, following through on them will build momentum and a sense of achievement and those small success will point the way to bigger ones

I am not simply teaching the reading I am teaching the reader.

What do we mean when we say our school 'values' reading?

She needed to come with an instructional manual. And one not written in Spanish.

Changes are inevitable and not always controllable. What can be controlled is how you manage, react to and work through the change process.

There’s a lot of frogs to kiss before you realize they’re all frogs.

Our experiences shape who we are.

Dave walked closer to me, his dark eyes combing my every move. "Do you always hold your guitar like that?"I dropped my pick. "Do you always shop at Hot Topic?

My ex wants to come and rescue me.’‘Too late! I already rescued you. Who does this guy think he is?

It’s okay to be crazy and scared and brave at the same time!

Most of the time, if you treat people right, you don't have to be afraid of them.

I'm afraid of everything I don't know.

Left unstewarded, anger, resentment, fear, frustration—any form non-Love takes—can grow into all sorts of warfare, internal and external.

It is the very use of coercion, positive or negative, that breaks or deadens the spirit, which is the source of motivation.

Not knowing who you are is a certain kind of hell.

When the leaves stop falling wasn't her time to die, it was your time to live.

I loved you as a boy and fell in love with you as a man. You’re in here so deep that there is no you, no me. Only us.

You knew me before I made my millions, and you were nice to me when you didn’t have to be. That’s the kind of person I want in my corner.

There. Let the gods of friendship and common sense strike him dead.

Sometimes a friendship is more like a war.

Dreams won't always take you on a straight path to destiny, but they're usually related to what your soul wants for you.

Why would anyone want to live in a cage when we are free persons? This is the point to make, when we can rattle cages it means we are behind bars and are not free.

If you can put this book down, it means you need more coffee and less sleep. After all, sleep is for the weak which is why I get 8 hours every night and 2 hours during the day and drink de-cafe.

The day I died was just like any other idle Thursday.

He needed a stiff drink. With a side of straightjacket.

The problem, as far as I can tell, is that women spend infinitely more time than men paying attention to, competing with, worrying about, everyone other than themselves.

Everything you see is in the process of making or unmaking or dying or living. Everything is in a state of change.

Not anymore, though, " he said. "And I guess that's the one perk of loving a dead girl. She never changes.

Beauty like hers had no place in his life.

Rediscovering our own miraculousness is the most important, valuable, world-peacing, beauty-spreading, kind, and generous thing we can do.

Crying is good for the soul. It means something needs to be released. And if you don't release the something, it just weighs you down until you can hardly move.

The difference between a boss and a leader: a boss says, 'Go!' – a leader says, 'Let's go!

All types and levels of art are beautiful, because art is beautiful, creativity is gorgeous and the artist itself is a masterpiece already.

Writing, photography...art. It's all about what's in focus.

There were two girls in a room. They were reading a book… Look again, and the room is empty. The end of the story will have to wait.

we became the books we read.

One of the most obvious signs of intelligence is not knowledge alone but imagination combined with reason.

Destiny doesn't always come when it's convenient or when you think it should. It comes when you're ready, whether you know it or not.

A peculiar sort of chaos looms beneath the pretense of peace.

Should I tell her of the moments of joy, the intense pleasure of holding the hand of the one you love and wishing that time would stand still?

If only I could freeze this moment, this feeling, because right now, nothing else mattered. I was f***ing flying.

None of it mattered, because there was music.

She's a girl after my own heart. Food first, conversation later.

Caelfel squared her shoulders. “I’m not afraid.”Geri turned away. “Good, because if you were, you are definitely in the wrong place.

Bad manners does not mean they make bad company.

I should feel energized and powerful, invulnerable and potent, but all I feel is lost.