H.P. Oliver Quotes
The sparrows jumped before they knew how to fly, and they learned to fly only because they had jumped
I'm scared all the time, " she whispered. "You'd be an idiot if you weren't, " Anne said. "And you wouldn't be brave either.
Who the hell calls at two in the morning?""Maybe it's Matt Wilde, confessing his love, " Lindsay says."Very funny,
An eye for an eye." "And the whole world goes blind, " Coral puts in quietly.
How old did someone have to be before they could be put to use to make tea?
Christmas used to be a good "idea" 'til somebody came up with the concept of giving wrapped up presents to each other... :-)
You want something and you wait and wait and feel like it's taking forever to come. Then it happens and it's over and all you want to do is curl back up in that moment before things changed.
I cannot pretend I am without fear. But my predominant feeling is one of gratitude.
Things change after you die, though- I guess because dying is about the lonliest thing you can do.
A warning to you both - choose to follow me or oppose me and I will kill you.-Connor Kenway
...I've never really had a party before.""Why did you have one now?" I say, just to keep him talking.He gives a half laugh. "I thought if I had a party, you would come.
I say, thirteen is too many dogs for good mental health. Five is pretty much the limit. More than five dogs and you forfeit your right to call yourself entirely sane.Even if the dogs are small.
Is what I did really so much worse than what anybody else does?Is it really so much worse than what you do?Think about it.
Your laughter is louder than my personal demons' whispers.
You were meant for me, Poppy. I can feel it in my fingertips when I touch you.
I think of Lindsay in the bathroom of Rosalita’s, and wonder how many people are clutching secrets like little fists, like rocks sitting in the pits of their stomachs. All of them, maybe.
I'd never undetstood how Hana Could lie so often and easily. But just like anyhting else, lying becomes easier the more you do it.
Time gives our lives numerous opportunities demarcated into moments that allow us to connect the dots while looking back.
Motion is life and life is motion, and a breakthrough is a catapult move that sets goals in motion.
The parent of every great and lasting decision is a thought. Therefore, contemplate deeply and thoroughly and then execute.
They told us love was a disease. They told us it would kill us in the end.For the very first time I realize, that this, too, might also be a lie.
This is 911 dispatch, and the nature of your emergency… fire, ambulance, police or… physics?
Every library should try to complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads.
If there is no case to take care of, then you will take care to create a case to take care of. Otherwise your system becomes useless.
Little thieves get shot, but great ones escape.” Kelly Oliver, WOLF: A Jessica James Mystery
My experience with public libraries is that the first volume of the book I inquire for is out, unless I happen to want the second, when that is out.
An older author is constantly rediscovering himself in the more or less fossilized productions of his earlier years.
If you think that I am going to bother myself again before I die about social improvement or read any of those stinking upward and onwarders - you err - I mean to have some good out of being old.
Thou oh my country hast thy foolish ways Too apt to purr at every stranger's praise.