K.A. Last Quotes

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.

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

I'm basically one of the best people I know.

The magician stood erect, menacing the attackers with demons, metamorphoses, paralyzing ailments, and secret judo holds. Molly picked up a rock.

The story of how I left Huckleberry begins -- as do all worthy stories -- with a goat

My only thought was to keep him away from Annabeth.

I stared at her. Maybe I wasn't the brightest guy in the world when it came to girls, but I was pretty sure Rachel had just dumped me, which was lame considering we'd never even been together.

I have never lived a life so much larger than death. (93)

What is jealousy but a reflection of your own failures?

There is a long time in me between knowing and telling.

Truly, a life in constant pain is the life of the damned.

Inconvenience in progress, work is regretted.

It's hard to be done a favor by a man you hate. It's hard to hate him so much afterwards. Losing an enemy can be worse than losing a friend, if you've had him for long enough.

There's always a way if you're not in a hurry.

of one hundred movies there's one that is fair, one that's good and ninety eight that are very bad. most movies start badly and steadily get worse

I tell you such fine music waits in the shadows of hell.

Be again, be again. (Pause.) All that old misery. (Pause.) Once wasn't enough for you.

well, death says, as he walks by, I'm going to get you anyhow no matter what you've been: writer, cab-driver, pimp, butcher, sky-diver, I'm going to get you

How do you manage it, she said, at your age? I told her I'd been saving up for her all my life.

I could read the great books but the great books don't interest me.

Men don’t often know those times when a girl could be had for nothing.

One can forgive Shakespeare anything, except one's own bad lines.

I am no indiscriminate novel reader. The mere trash of the common circulating library I hold in the highest contempt.

You surround yourself with your pain or you avoid it and let it find you when you are trying to do other things

Money is for doing things, my love. Don't sit on it like a hen sits on an egg. It doesn't hatch. I should know. I've made enough of it.

She heard Adrian say to Christian, ʺYou know, your shirtʹs kind of grungy-looking. Seems like you could put in a little more effort since youʹre dating a princess.ʺ

You know, Aunt Tasha makes jokes about how youʹd actually be a better queen than the others, except sometimes . . . I donʹt think sheʹs joking.

People with power always take advantage of those without power.

I know that love is about power, too. Who gives, who takes. Who is willing to risk showing their true self.

My son, your ineptitude is so vast, your incompetence so profound, that I am certain you are inhabited by greater power than I have ever known.

Aristotle deemed courage to be the first virtue, because it makes all the other possible.

For feeling, not events, is to me the essence of history.

Patterns repeat themselves in history

Because in this world, there is a line: on one side are the men who cannot get things done, and on the other side are the men who can. And not one in a hundred will cross that line. Will you?

We born dyin'...But you ask a man an' he talk like he gonna live forevah.

Reading is more important than writing.

That's the thing about destiny: It can't be predicted, and it's usually pretty odd.

Somebody said once or wrote, once: 'We're all of us children in a vast kindergarten trying to spell God's name with the wrong alphabet blocks!

Do not despair, my friend. Today is theirs, but the future is ours

Forgiving was the hardest thing. Sometimes forgiving was the hardest thing in the whole world.

That speaking the words, even if true, had little power to change the inevitable or even make him feel much better.

You have forced your way into my Hua, Eona. Change me. First, by your power- then, just by who you are.

Change not only was inevitable, but usually brought its own rewards.

You love life because life's all there is.

Men were always quick to believe in the madness of women.

You are what you inhabit.

Alice suspected Paul couldn’t really picture his father, just like she couldn’t picture Paul when he was away. Maybe that was the case with people you wanted more than was good for you.

Whatever can die is beautiful — more beautiful than a unicorn, who lives forever, and who is the most beautiful creature in the world. Do you understand me?

With a library it is easier to hope for serendipity than to look for a precise answer.

People shouldn't call for demons unless they really mean what they say.