C.S. O'Kelly Quotes

Side by side we'll fight the tide, That sweeps in to take us down.Hand in hand we'll both withstand, Even as we drown.

He hated himself, " Gwen said. "You just got caught in the cross fire.

If you can love cats, you can love human beings, because you have to be able to love them without getting them at all.

Born with a silver spoon in his mouth, he was going out with a rifle in his hand.

Redemption was asking too much, but he could hope. Something told him he’d still be seeking absolution when he took his last breath on some distant day.

Are you able to open to the possibility that what you want is not what you need right now? If it was what you needed it would be in your life, right now, and it would come effortlessly.

All of my books are acts of subversion disguised as historical fiction.

The urge to draw near to the female silhouette resided deep in the ancient center of a man...

As the hero learns, readers learn too.

You hate to cultivate the mindset that anything that is not a braced neutral spinal position is probably going to kill you.

Lula, " I said, "do you ever think about getting married?"I guess I do. Doesn't everybody?"You have to let your husband kiss you once you're married. And you have to kiss him

The weak, the sinful, the uncertain - they are most often the ones called.

What you think, you see. Your expectations create your reality.

Adoption is a lifelong journey. It means different things to me at different times. Sometimes it is just a part of who I am. Other times it is something I am actively going through.

I'm talking to myself in two different personas now. I'm reaching for a full-throttle meltdown and why not? Why stop halfway? Why not just go for it, jump on and ride the wave?

Her chest feels very tight, as if she's suddenly full of poison. You have to keep it all inside. Like throwing yourself on a bomb to save everyone else. Except you're the bomb.

Sometimes comfort doesn't matter. When a shoe is freakin' fabulous, it may be worth a subsequent day of misery. Soak in Epsom salts and take comfort in the fact that you're better than everyone else.

Life goes on, and deadlines arrive, even when it seems the world should stopout of respect for a shattered self-esteem.

Life goes on, and deadlines arrive, even when it seem the world should stop out of respect for a shattered self-esteem.

Trust comes through honesty.

Why not believe in miracles, create them, invite them for dinner, and offer them a place to stay every single day? Just because we have not doesn’t mean we cannot.

Miracles and bliss are the norm.

For a guy who wore layers upon layers of armor, his give-a-shit was showing.

Everyone is terrified of death, as we spend our whole lives avoiding it.

Pel-i-cans, their beaks hold more than their bellies can.

Did he judge on appearance alone? would he judge me? "Goth" doesn't cut it when it comes to a word that describes me. I'm complex. Complicated. No one gets me, and I like it that way.

I give you my love & my luck. Don't throw either away.

Painted faces laughed. It was like a mad carnival where everyone was oblivious, lost in the bliss of chaos, a throng unaware of a bomb planted beneath thefloorboards.

May your troubles be lessYour blessings be more.And nothing but happinessCome through your door.

It's just us, right?'Hannah walks to her. She touches her cheek and finds her eyes. There is a desperate light hanging on her pupils. A flicker of passion, a flicker of shame.'It's just us.

A lingering grain of inefficacy capitulates to the arrogance of authority.

Sometimes I found it hard to believe that the person in the mirror was me.

We bask in the scent of cinnamon beforeMom puts a scone her plate.'His name is Rich, ' she says.I select a scone too.'I like a man with an adjective for a name.

The signs shifted in my mind like a kaleidoscope of visions.

Common sense got drunk and giddy when Olivia was on the premises. Maybe he should just raise a glass, too, and dub reason a lost cause.

She was thinking of doing a little Cuervo therapy.

I get to leave here and do what I love, whether I win or lose. And that seems to matter more than anything else.

Right then I wasn't a freak. I wasn't an ice queen. I didn't have powers. What I had was a friend comforting me when I needed it most. Right then I was just a normal girl, and Ryan was the superhero.

There is power within great sacrifice, within noble deeds. There are moments... brief, shining moments when the impossible becomes possible.

She broke my heart over and over, day after day, but I love her.

Just because I wear black and keep a private journal, that doesn't mean I'm going to blow up the school. Or terrorize mindless cheerleaders, for that matter.

Her sudden grin depleted some of his brain cells. She was evil like that.

That dress was designed to be a kill switch for rational thought.

She may resemble a mythical angel, but she moved like an x-rated wet dream

Each time a girl approached the table, Mortimer would smile. Like this: And each time the girl would shriek and run away.

Love is a gift. One that doesn't need to be returned, just accepted.

She knew her place in this family, always had. Knew why she was conceived. And it wasn't for a photo on the mantle.

The homeland might be lacking snakes, but it held its share of venom.

Finding joy in the everyday is bliss, is miraculous, and is totally rediscoverable by each of us. The main ingredient for bliss is releasing yesterdays and tomorrows, and remembering who we are now.

There’s nothing you have to be, do, or get in order to find bliss. Just slow down, listen, and remember.