Lost Quotes
It took a special kind of madness to try to be a pirate and a good man at the same time.
You can't change where you came from, but you can change where you go from here. Just like a book. If you don't like the ending, you make up a new one.
No one's happy here, you know that. But I am content, and maybe that's enough for me.
The truist indication of gratitude is to return what you are grateful for.
These were the tales that echoed in the head long after the books that contained them were cast aside.
The stories in books hate the stories contained in newspapers.
Sometimes it's hard to see the rainbow when there's been endless days of rain.
I think the failure of The American church to affirm the goodness of civilizational life is our greatest failing today.
I'd never had a mind for math. ... It was a logic that made little sense to me. In my perception, the world wasn't a graph or a formula or an equation. It was a story.
He wanted to limit me to his own investigation of who I was . . .
Warm, enticing scents were floating down, basil and oregano and tomato. It made Wes long for something, something he couldn't place. A happy childhood, a home.
It was a place you could make into a home if your home hadn’t worked out.
Keep being the author of your own story. Never let anyone else write it for you again.
The phone collapsed distances, just as the radio did, and, like the radio, it relied on the miracle of imagination: one had to concentrate deeply, plunge headlong into it.
The Truth is, we all get lost as we try to find our way. Perhaps the key is to stop, take a look around and enjoy the scenery as we go.
There is no lifeguard on duty. We each swim at our own risk during this short journey." ~ Lisa Fantino/Amalfi Blue
Story!" The dwarf snorted. "You'll be talking about "happily ever after" next. Do we look happy? There's no happily ever after for us. Miserabily ever after, more like.
Do you see? The story I have to tell is so small, of the people who stayed when everyone else fled.
Neither man nor angel can discern hypocrisy, the only evil that walks invisible except to God alone.
The warrior who goes off to battle should not boast as the one who returns from it.
I don’t know what I did to deserve someone as smart and beautiful as you.”"You were you. And maybe that was enough.
An editor sleeping with his writer was not as bad as a psychoanalyst sleeping with his patient, or even a professor sleeping with an undergraduate, let alone a president with an intern.
Muslim and non-Muslim from across the world flocked to Baghdad to be part of Al-Ma'mun's project "Bait Al-Hekmah" or "House of Wisdom
Not to mention, "Magnus noted, "that Jace killed him. That would put anyone off".
He unfolded his arms and moved to the side. I was fine with that. Again with the glowering, though. Seen that, done it myself. So last year.
It felt now as if I'd never known them and I couldn't know them again. It seemed to me that whatever had existed back in the place where I'd grown up was so far away now, impossible to retrieve.
She knew him in that way you can only know a person as a child. Like if you cracked away the adult shell, you'd find that child, happily sitting inside, smiling at you.
Is this love? Does love need to hurt this much? Or is this a forced kind of love that slaughters all involved?
It was then I thought of Corsica, the place we had discovered together. I craved the wind, the sun and salt, the simplicity of the island.
Still life is boring. Never stand still! Jumping bean life!
Thats what happens to Snow in Texas, lady. It freaking MELTS!!" Leo Valdez- The Lost Hero
Once again, off this skinny prick of a copper went. BANG! SLAP! PUNCH! It was more like a Batman movie! He could hit me all night, but it wouldn’t make any difference.
I felt like Dirty Harry, only, my weapon wasn’t as big as his! I don’t know what it is with guns, but once you’ve got your hand on one, you think you’re one of the untouchables.
It's not always so easy, " she said softly."Why not? It's a part of who you are, isn't it?" he asked with all the sympathy of an asp being prodded with a stick.
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?
Isaac stopped her at the bottom of the stairs with a crooked smile. "I would wish you sweet dreams, but how can they be memorable if I won't be in them?
Your like Martha Stewart on crack, ” my neighbor shouted as I stuck another cardinal in with the daisies.
I don't want what I can't have. I don't want to want what I can't have. -Nate
Little tape recorders, that's what kids are, Cat thought. If you want to find out what your husband is saying behind your back, play Barbie with your daughter.
When you stop making excuses, you start making progress!
Khione’s eyes flared pure white. For once, she seemed at a loss for words. She stormed back up the stairs—literally. Halfway up, she turned into a blizzard and disappeared.
Out of all the medical advancements in human history I'm still most in awe of that tiny little piece of toilet paper that can stop a gushing razor cut in its tracks.
The greatest religion you can ever have throughout your entire existence, is Love.
The harder the struggle, the bigger the gain. The important thing is to stick with it, repetitively and consistently.
I presented my feminine side with flowers. She cutthe stems and placed them gently down my throat.And these tu lips might soon eclipse your brightesthopes.
A good listener is a witness, not a judge of your experience.
To explain God after merely reading the scriptures is like explaining the city of New York after seeing it only in a map.
Yes, this man had the persistence of an insect.
There is never a lost opportunity in business