K.A. Last Quotes

In the end you should always do the right thing even if it's hard.

The woods were my Ritalin. Nature calmed me, focused me, and yet excited my senses.

I believe that we have the ability to change our lives using our imaginations. Imagination is a muscle—the more you use it, the stronger it gets.

Youth endures all things, kings and poetry and love. Everything but time.

Your name is a golden bell hung in my heart. I would break my body to pieces to call you once by your name.

Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land.

That which is impermanent attracts compassion. That which is not provides wisdom. (116)

Quoting son, Noah Levine: Once you see what the heart really needs, it doesn’t matter if you’re going to live or die, the work is always the same. (25)

people see so many movies that when they finally see one not so bad as the others, they think it's great. an Academy Award means that you don't stink quite as much as your cousin.

Running with a drowsy child of Hades was more like doing a 3 -legged race with a life size rag doll.

The doors of heaven and hell are adjacent and identical.

History, like love, is so apt to surround her heroes with an atmosphere of imaginary brightness.

Death is perfectly safe. (55)

great books are the ones we need

writing about a writer's block is better than not writing at all

Being uneducated is no guarantee against being obnoxious.

Ignorance, as they say, is usually fatal, but sometimes it can be bliss.

Traditions tell us where we have come from. Scripture itself is a better guide as to where we should now be going.

I would look up at the moon and see that it was not the smooth orb we had all believed, but a pitted and scarred world with no air.

[D]etachment means letting go and nonattachment means simply letting be. (95)

Here is one of the worst things about having someone you love die: It happens again every single morning.

No matter how bad things are, you can always make things worse.

You're better than this. Better than whatever it is you're going to do now.

I felt like one of Apollo's sacred cows- slow, dumb, and bright red.

I'm thinking maybe letting the latches burn is the right idea. Let everything burn until there's nothing left but ashes and cool rain.

I am what I am. I would tell you what you want to know if I could, for you have been kind to me. But I am a cat, and no cat anywhere ever gave anyone a straight answer.

You won't know the meaning of success without knowing how it feels to fail.

Some loves have to be given up, others have to be forgotten. Strange as it may sound, if you think of me as a monster, but I can love most passionately. I do not think of myself as evil.

God, he was probably too young to be this old, but life had a way of being about experience, rather than calendar days.

Love and magic are like oil and water--they just don't mix.

The pieces all fit together. Yet everything was falling apart.

He stared at her, knowing with certainty that he was falling in love. He pulled her close and kissed her beneath a blanket of stars, wondering how on earth he'd been lucky enough to find her.

I have been wandering to find him and my happiness is so great that it even weakens me like a wound. And this is the marvel of marvels, that he called me Beloved, me who am but as a dog.

I'm backing down now. I really do love you. That's why I'm doing this.

Тhere isnʹt much I wouldnʹt do for you. Тhe stupider, the better.

Want to have a short phone call with someone? Call them at 11:55 a.m., right before lunch. They'll talk fast. You may think you are interesting, but you are not more interesting than lunch.

Never make a decision until you have to.

If you cannot say what you mean, your majesty, you will never mean what you say and a gentleman should always mean what he says.

Creators aren't gods. They make places, which is quite hard. It's men that make gods. This explains a lot.

There was nothing new in sitting on this dock, on this or that wooden bench, watching for his boat to come. In some ways, she was always waiting for him.

How soon will we accept this opportunity to be fully alive before we die? (88)

Luck is a woman. She's drawn to those that least deserve her.

We need a shroud. A shroud for the son of Hermes.

If you spend your life sparing people’s feelings and feeding their vanity, you get so you can’t distinguish what should be respected in them.

This pool is a triumph of imagination. That's how you win at life, Gin. You have to imagine your way through. Never say something can't be done. There's always a solution, even if it's weird.

The essence of wisdom is to know when to be doing, and when it's useless even to try

I have always believed that poems beg to be read aloud, even if the reader is in a world all her own.

Emotions come and go and can't be controlled so there's no reason to worry about them. That in the end, people should be judged by their actions since in the end it was actions that defined everyone.

Personal perception of perfection is like that. You see what you want to see. After awhile you just see what you need to.

Thats why your doing this? Because Lissa told you to?