Lost Quotes

Half of teachers leave the profession within their first four years, and kids with behaviour challenges and their parents are cited as one of the major reasons.

I got mixed up with some oddness in my youth, and the long and short of it is that I can't shuffle off this mortal coil until I have read the ten most boring classics.

Your Heart, Your Mind, Your Creator! Your Soul Will Follow.

As far as I was concerned, a little danger of head-shrinking is a small price to pay in return for a people who have remained true to an ancient code.

Folks in Irihs might not be as welcoming as they were here. Resentment lingers.''So we're going to be in danger.''No more than any other day of your life.

Having plans sounds like a good idea - until you have to put on clothes and leave your house.

More than half described Christians as literalistic, anti-intellectual, judgmental, self-righteous, and bigoted.

The heaven-and-hell framework has four central elements: the afterlife, sin and forgiveness, Jesus’s dying for our sins, and believing.

It is madness. But sometimes, madness is the only path forward.

A moment in heaven and a lifetime in hell, that’s the story of my life.

For a nanosecond, I meet her gaze.Despite the dark, I can see her eye color—it’s the prettiest, strangest shade of blue I’ve ever seen in my life—piercing, dark, and shiny. And then she is gone.

...a soft inward look some into his eyes, as if he was amazed to find himself alive on such a beautiful day.

everblaze: the unstoppable flame

Marco could not have known about the mystical effect of a full moon on cats and books left on their own in the library. Not until he saw the lines breathe, the words unveiled.

When you have cat stealers over for tea, you clean the house, buy bagels and cream cheese, and try to figure out how to trap your guests in a lie.

No one blames her.""That never matters, " said Alec. "Not when you blame yourself.

The art is not one of forgetting but letting go

How I love - writing, acting, breathing the atmosphere- and one day I'll have it. If I cannot write, I shall die.

Sometimes we're loyal to more than one thing. When there's a conflict, we have to choose which loyalty to honor.

If anything should take place behind closed doors, it was cruelty and betrayal.

Lions and tigers and pissed-off girls, oh my.

How did that go” [Butler] asked. “Your first lengthy conversation with a girl your own age.”“Fabulous, ” said Artemis, his voice dripping with sarcasm. “We’re planning a June wedding.

My whole life had split in two: Smith and not Smith. I liked the Smith parts of it so much better.

Taking a solemn oath and sticking to it casts everything in a different light and infuses the ordinary with significance. It can change a person more radically than any drug or many years of therapy.

You live in a deranged age - more deranged than usual, because despite great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.

The youth of Idaho falls should be encouraged to take drugs in order to cope up with the fact that there is plutonium in their drinking water.

He felt like a brother of mine, but not at all like my actual brother. He seemed like someone I'd always know even if I never saw him again.

I always say my biological clock must be digital, because I've never heard it ticking.

Love is love, " I told her, as I tell all of my patients who are ashamed to find themselves shattered by the death of a dog. "Loss is loss.

I'm convinced that petting a puppy is good luck.

I have a theory that you get the right dog, the dog you need, for a particular stage in your life.

I've always had this feeling, " Henry says, "that all dogs are really therapy dogs.

I wish dogs understood: 'We're going in five minutes.

There's a tree, " Starflight said, jumping to his feet. "In the fo

Never can true reconcilement grow where wounds of deadly hate have pierced so deep...

I wouldn't be comfortable, but at least I'd have marginal protection against pointy steel objects that went stab in the night.

Talent is being unabashedly and unapologetically fearless in the work that you do. The only difference between having talent and not having talent is fear.

He is a Shadowhunter, ” said Jocelyn. “His loyalty will be to Clave and Covenant.”“He’s my friend, ” said Magnus coldly. “His loyalty is to me.

You don't even know what loyalty means.""The hell I don't! Ciena, if I weren't loyal to you, would I be here?

There's always two ways of looking at things... that seeing what's positive about a situation is a lot more fun and gets you a lot further than looking for what might be wrong with it.

Neeta showed us there can be as much virtue in the things we do not do as on those we do.

I don't remember everything that happened, and I'm looking forward to the tale. But I know, I feel, that it was good. Even if I did die. It was a damn excellent dream.

Rules are for those who can't think of a better way.

Truly competent Literary Detectives are as rare as truthful men, Mr. Tweed -- you can see her potential as clearly as I can. Frightened of someone stealing your thunder, perhaps?

Stupidity is actually in a way the mark of intelligence - if you're not doing stupid things that defy logic you're probably not taking enough risks.

You don't pity a warrior for her scars, because scars are proof of survival and victory.

Sometimes I think you're still a prisoner. You're not free of this place in your head, Nathan. And you're definitely not free of those people. They haunt you.

Illusions connected with religion are generally most difficult to remove.

There is never a lost opportunity in business

I'm not afraid of you!' The wombat yelled. 'I saw you get stuck in the washing machine once. Round and round you went! Who's afraid of something that can't defeat a rinse cycle?