H.A. Lamb Quotes
Her shut-eyed smile transformed itself into something else: the smile of someone brave and knowing, someone whose pain had made her wise.
She was no stripper with a heart of gold, that was for sure. A heart of steel, more like.
Is that what love is all about? Needing them to come back to you when they're away? To come home and keep you safe?
There is more reason to say grace before beginning a book than there is to say it before beginning to dine.
Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of life's longing for itself.
Every time a written word is put to page it is the opportunity to expand our minds, whether we are the writer or the reader. Enjoy the journey wherever it may take you!
Everything bleeds into everything and fiction is just this funny desperate little attempt to staunch the bleeding.
You cannot believe what you do not believe, Rumi siad. I am an Untouchable because my karma dictates it.
Childhood only comes around once. Make your child's memories special. Take them on a new adventure each day. It is as simple as opening a book.
Write like you speak with the 'rhythms of human speech, ' as William Zinsser said, and in as few words as possible. Use action verbs to carry water.
Words were only an approximation of meaning. The meaning escaped between the words, dissolved, disappeared, like fog fading away between iron bars.
If I could just write it down in a piece of paper, then maybe she could get a decent night's sleep, eat a little of her dinner. Maybe she could have a minute's worth of peace.
So maybe that’s what love means. Having the capacity to forgive the one who wronged you, no matter how deep the hurt was.
Here is a girl who is pretty in a quiet way. I bet she's had a very sad life.
You know what 'Dolores' means? It's Latin, means sadness. Our Lady of Sorrow. Why are you so sad?
Step inside your favorite storybook and become lost in a journey only your imagination can envision.
We were seekers. You are that which is sought, Joshua. You are the source. The end is divinity, in the beginning is the word. You are the word.
People walk in the door because they need you to take care of them -- to feed them or fix them.
The three jewels of Tao: compassion, moderation, and humility. Balthasar said compassion leads to courage, moderation leads to generosity, and humility leads to leadership.
Change what you can, accept what you can't, and be smart enough to know the difference.
Every day is precious. You will never live THIS day again. It is ONE event in human history. Why not make it count? Time is a nonrenewable resource.
Sometimes one must become something one fears or loathes in order for the greater self to survive.
Yes, God has given us desire. But we are the ones that stoke it. What sort of kindling will we be using to make our fire?
What if I don’t like adventure?Then cultivate a taste for it. Take a chance. That’s how you grow.
You can be two things if you're a woman, Dolores. Betty Crocker or a floozy. Just remember your place - even if it kills you.
Change what you can, accept what you can’t, and be smart enough to know the difference
The sweet-smelling aroma of the island spices still hung in the air. It filled his nostrils and titillated his appetite all over again. His appetite drove him mad for something much more than food.
Let's face it. you become a deeper person amidst adversity. You become a more perceptive, strong, resilient person when life is not handed to you on a silver platter held by a butler.
That melting pot stuff was always more about what this country wanted to believe about itself than the way people really felt.
Getting a job scared her but she was determined not to shy away from risk. That’s what life’s all about. Climbing out onto the airplane wing and jumping off.
A question asked in earnest, deserves an earnest answer.
A little politeness might smooth the way ahead. Knowing it was his turn to be dispatched, the best he could hope for was as swift a death as the one Massetti had so thanklessly received.
In life, I always thought that an Atheist values life much more than any follower of any religion. I believe in that now more than ever. Hell has strengthened that opinion.
It was the sound of a thousand hungry children crying, ten thousand widows tearing their hair over their husband's graves, a chorus of angels singing the last dirge on the day of God's death.
I wonder if your mother was frightened by Peter Pan before you were born?
When you know what you want to communicate, ask yourself: Who is my audience and what does he know about the subject?
A fiction writer weaves a fabric of lies in hopes of revealing deeper human truths.
