It Is In Things. Quotes

There comes a time in one’s life, perhaps in middle age, when we stop and assess who we are, and the life we have.

I'm sorry, Cullen. I really am. I know this sucks. But you're better off anyway. And you'll be fine. You needed me. Now someone else needs me.

Do not ask questions until you have trained yourself not to know the answers.

A comment that starts with the words "I think" usually means the opposite.

[T]he atoms or elementary particles themselves are not real

It was like bouncing tennis balls off a mystery piece of furniture and deducing, from the direction in which the balls ricocheted, whether it was a chair or a table or a Welsh dresser.

There are three perquisites for living:1. Be yourself.2. Get over yourself (Things people have done to you

Someone said that if you're lonely at the top, it's because you didn't take anyone with you.

Many are called, few are chosen.

How to partner with the power of the cosmos to fulfill your destiny

A second chance is a direct pathway to a grateful heart and an astonished mind.

The best way to vanquish your enemies on the Internet? Ignore them.

Every artist gets asked the question, “Where do you get your ideas?” The honest artist answers, “I steal them.

Sometimes waiting and being disappointed was good, to remind me he didn't belong to me. Nothing belonged to me.

Sometimes we get so caught up in appearing smart that we become afraid to ask the question that will actually make us smart.

Love is only available to those willing to be continually brave in weakness.

Stress level: extreme. It's like she was a jar with the lid screwed on too tight, and inside the jar were pickles, angry pickles, and they were fermenting, and about to explode.

Refrigerators are good for keeping homemade moonshine less gross. Freezers are good for keeping rattlesnakes less angry. Garages are good to hide in when your wife finds either.

True rebels hate their own rebellion. They know by experience that it is not a cool and glamorous lifestyle

Life in Britain had seemed like one long antechamber to a room that had too many barriers to entry

Each morning, despite the unknowns, they made their legs move.

Moving a pile of bricks from one side of the room to the other requires strength. Time, discipline, patience.

Be careful what you wish for

I am a novelist, and my goal in writing a novel is to leave the reader not knowing what to think. A good novel shouldn't have a point.

They were everything they ought to be and nothing else.

Nothing was nothing else. Nothing was anything it shouldn’t be.

And once again, only the Small Things were said. The Big Things lurked unsaid inside.

What is impossible today can become possible tomorrow only if we do what is possible today.

Nobody is born with a style or a voice. We don't come out of the womb knowing who we are. In the beginning, we learn by pretending to be our heroes. We learn by copying.

She was talking to a tree. Just talking to a tree. Totally normal. People probably did it every day here. They're only trees. She fought an insane urge to laugh.

A tree can be tempted out of its winter dormancy by a few hours of southerly sun—the readiness to believe in spring is stronger than sleep or sanity.

The things that frighten us most are those that remind us of our fragile existence

Branding is about everything.

And here we see again that we do not decide our own lives. Dieneke, even if we won't see each other again on earth, we will never be sorry for what we did, that we took this stand.

As believers, everything we do is based on how we view God.

The opposite of Insecurity isn’t Security. It’s a Sense of Adventure.

... security is not having things

Some people exert more energy on less important things

The battle had been as hideous as you might expect between one side who were simply not afraid to die and another who regarded death as merely a door to the eternal life.

Who else but a lover retains the ability to wound the other person with such passion, such precision? And who else but that lover has the capacity to heal what he or she has done?

It's okay to keep a broken oven in your yard as long as you call it art.

It's not about becoming a movie star. It's about the down-in-the-dirt art of inhabiting the person you aspire to be while carrying on your shoulders the uncertain and hungry man you know you are.

In good time every secret must be shared and every miracle called into question.

I'm the old type setter who gets his blood poisoned from the ink.

Mother didn't understand that children aren't frightened by stories

I find I'm unable to speak, unable to move, snared in his serious gaze like some kind of frightened rabbit

I suppose I should be happy to be misread

The Law of Moronic Ubiquity: Anything in the universe that is generally considered to be idiot-proof will eventually be ruined by an idiot.

The Law of Chaos: Any activity or event that seems to lie beyond the boundaries of possibility will usually be the first thing to occur.

Tori gazed out on the calm Ancific Ocean across which, incredibly, she would be taking a coach.