House Quotes
We're all entitled to our different likes and dislikes. Imagine the world if we all liked the same things.
Yeah, right. Instead of watching TV, we'll practice our weird magical powers. Great. What's next? Zooming around on flying carpets?
I’d find someone else. No distractions. Men get in the way of ambition. Plus, they laugh at you when you fail
... for when a man's spirit has been thoroughly crushed, he may be peevish at small offenses, but never resentful of great ones.
Sometimes taking a first step is the biggest and most important journey of them all.
The universe is our picture. Only the immature imagine the cosmos to be what they think it is.
Discovery is dangerous . . . but so is life. A man unwilling to take risk is doomed never to learn, never to grow, never to live.
I've been deflecting Calypso's blushes all day. I don't have the energy to deflect yours, " he said through clenched teeth. "So either block or strip." -- The Twelfth House ~ The Elementals Book I
There is a hopeless longing for nostalgia that pervades the human soul, a return to the warm glow of remembrance or some imagined past.
Before you find the magic of life you have to open yourself up to the possibility of it being there.
Ferocity is a trait highly regarded amongst us.
I could only imagine how Jesus felt when He heard the voice of our Heavenly Father God Almighty for the first time. He was probably a little confused, terrified, and probably was nervous…
What was reckless, I decided, was the way people were writing off huge swaths of the world as unsafe, unstable, unfriendly, when all they needed to do was go and see for themselves
I struggled to think pure thoughts, as Hector sucked out my psyche with his eyes.
If the components of the body were organs and veins and cells, then the components of thought and language were words and grammar.
Heal the past and you'll heal the present." Kharis Macey
If I can teach myself the art of loneliness, then perhaps the art of writing will come more easily to me.
Something happens when you are alone most of the time, when there are no distractions. Your mind grows more powerful--muscular, even. It takes over and starts to carry you.
My dear girl, is it that you are so lonely that you had to create this?
I invented adventures for myself and made up a life, so as at least to live in some way.
Sometimes in this life, only one or two opportunities are put before us and we must seize them no matter the risk.
...WHAT DID YOU DO TODAY...that counts?...that carries meaning?...that made the day worthwhile?...what will you do tomorrow?
Trap yourself inside your own brain, switch off the light, block all the escape routes, then turn your back on everything you know to be reality and try and survive there. Try. Living. Nowhere.
Time is not an enemy as such, but a missing person, sending cryptic postcards from the past.
And, indeed, I will ask on my own account here, an idle question: which is better - cheap happiness or exalted sufferings? Well, which is better?
The more we can embrace failure, the more we will be able to open to it and the more confident and resilient we will become.
I think my reputation will look after itself, " Holmes said. "If they hang me, Watson, I shall leave it to you to persuade your readers that the whole thing was a misunderstanding.
By then there had been other men. She'd flung herself at other closed windows. The windows never broke, but her heart, at the end, was in splinters.
And Desire smiles, and forgets, for Desire is a creature of the moment.
She had a smile that could put a froth on a cup of coffee, and she knew it.
Lies can be expensive to maintain, Alexa. And I’m sure we haven’t seen one percent of the price that the lies in this case ultimately will exact.
It was quite elementary, ' returned the detective with a languid gesture of one hand.
You look at me as if I were a conjuror, ' Holmes remarked, with a laugh.
The more we are able to engage in enthusiastic disagreement with each other, the more we will be able to uncover the best in ourselves and each other.
I wonderif I should let my hair go greyso my advice will be better.
Everybody else cain't be wrong all the time. Sometimes it's gotta be you.
You're worried about her forgiving you...but you need to be worrying about why you're acting up in the first place.
She would drink until the trembling stopped. Then she would wilt over the piano like one of Celia's spinaches when Tam Lin forgot to water the garden.
For several moments, Mary couldn't hear anything over the violent pounding of her pulse.
The ability to tell a good route from a terrible one is a valuable skill when leading an expedition. Unfortunately for us all, it was a skill I did not possess.
Through a strange kind of geographic arrogance, Europeans like to think that the world was a silent, dark, unknown place until they trooped out and discovered it.
There are two ways to find a lost city. The first is to rely on luck alone, the second is to control all the information.
The situation was different in the jungle. Every inch of ground had to be earned, and was done so through much exertion with the blade.
Normally I would have been the first to go in search of cannibal monks, particularly as I had heard of a similar tradition at a nunnery in the Philippines. It's the sort of quest I can't resist.
Only a man who has his health, a full stomach and wears clean clothes would ever entertain the notion of tracking down the greatest lost city on Earth.