Quotes by American Authors - Page 236

Zombie!” Sammy calls. “I knew it was you.”Zombie?“Where are you taking him?” Ben says to me in a deep voice. I don’t remember it being that deep. Is my memory bad or is he lowering it on purpose, to sound older?“Zombie, that’s Cassie,” Sam chides him. “You know—Cassie.”“Cassie?” Like he’s never heard the name before.“Zombie?” I say, because I really haven’t heard that name before.I pull off the cap, thinking it might help him recognize me, then immediately regret it. I know what my hair must look like.“We go to the same high school,” I say, drawing my fingers hastily through my chopped-off locks. “I sit in front of you in Honors Chemistry.”Ben shakes his head like he’s clearing out the cobwebs.Sammy goes, “I told you she was coming.”“Quiet, Sam,” I scold him.“Sam?” Ben asks.“My name is Nugget now, Cassie,” Sam informs me.“Well, sure it is.” I turn to Ben. “You know my brother.
Rick Yancey
Lena Ella Haloway Tiddle." I pronounce her full name, very slowly, partly because I need to reassure myself of her existence—Lena, my friend, the worried one, the one who always pleaded for safety first, who now makes secret appointments to meet with boys. "You have some explaining to do.""Hana, you remember Alex," Lena says weakly, as though that—the fact of my remembering him—explains any
Lauren Oliver
I looked at him and the other two people whose names I’d just learned. “So . . . so this is home then?”Akinli looked at me, perplexed, then turned to Ben and Julie.“She said some girls left her here and told her it was home. That’s all she knows. She doesn’t even know you.” Julie wiped at her tears, trying to calm herself.He moved his eyes back to me as quickly as he could manage. “Kahlen? You remember me, right?”I stared into this face, searching for something familiar. I didn’t recognize the angle of his chin, the length of his fingers. I didn’t know the slope of his shoulder or the shape of his lips.“Akinli, right?” I asked. This poor boy. I pitied him in the depths of my heart. Clearly, he’d already been going through something, and I could see the last scrap of fight he had in him dying with those words.“Yes.”“I don’t remember ever seeing you before in my life. I’m sorry.”He pressed his lips together as if he was swallowing the urge to cry.“But,” I said, “I know your voice. I know it as if it were my own.
Kiera Cass
Peter..."He straightened, his back to her like a wall. Then, slowly, he turned his face toward her and met her eyes. His gaze sliced through her like a knife.Before she could stop herself, she asked, "Do you remember—"He took a step toward her. She felt the hear flare up between them."How could I forget?
Sarah Blakley-Cartwright
I hope that wherever else I have failed, whatever harm I have caused to strangers and friends, that you may speak for me. Not before a pulpit or upon a stage. Not with words great or loud. But only to be, to persist, to live a life with pride and worth. In twenty years’ time, thirty, or forty I hope that you may sit upon the porch of your home, look out upon a greening field that you have tilled, see your children surrounding you with love, and think for a moment upon me. That is all now that I truly wish for. To be for a moment in your thoughts, when I have long passed from this earth, and perhaps in a way I may find my redemption, an earthly redemption, not everlasting, but scared nonetheless.
Tara Conklin
Re-mind yourself who you are and Re-member you are already a conqueror!
Sanjo Jendayi
I'm not going to let you go " He was silent for a moment. "Carly " he said gently. "Remember when we were first engaged
Amanda Stephan
I can still see Boo sitting there on the floor, cross-legged, holding my Ken and watching my face as she tried to make me see that between my mother'sPTA and Boo's strange ways there was a middle ground that began here with my Barbie, Sab-rina,and led right to me."She can be anything," Boo told me, and this is what I remember most, her freckled face so solemn, as if she knew she was the first to tell me. "And so can you.
Sarah Dessen
Do you ever go back?"Ruthann nods, "When I need to remember where I came from, or where I'm headed.
Jodi Picoult
Good times are a reminder and a reward for dealing with the difficult and challenging times we all go through. The trick is to celebrate the good times in advance of the difficult times. Always remember, good times await you after the difficult times pass….
James A. Murphy
i want to remember
Maggie Stiefvater
Lady Maccon stopped suddenly. Her husband got four long strides ahead before he realized she had paused. She was starring thoughtfully up into the aether, twirling the deadly parasol about her head."I have just remembered something," Alexia said when he returned to her side."Oh, that explains everything. How foolish of me to think you could walk and remember at the same time.
Gail Carriger
Because the part of me that remembers what it was like all those lifetimes ago still cares for you .. loves you.
Stacey Jay
We are, largely, who we remember ourselves to be
Holly Black
But lest some unlucky event should happen unfavorable to my reputation, I beg it may be remembered by every gentleman in the room that I this day declare with the utmost sincerity, I do not think myself equal to the command I am honored with.
George Washington
Peace is something tangible. It silences the outgoing energy of the mind and feeds the aspiring heart. Peace is not merely the absence of quarreling and fighting. True peace is not affected by the roaring of the world, outer or inner. This sea of peace is at our command if we practise the spiritual life.
Sri Chinmoy
I woke up!" he replied, eye twinkling in his haggard face, "and that's reason enough to be happy!
Ron Hall
Stay strong. Don't worry about things you cannot change and don't worry about things changing that you cannot stop.
Peace Gypsy
I'm practicing the discipline of not having to have the last word.
Dallas Willard
God doesn't offer his Word as a magic fix-all pill that we can ingest and feel better. Rather, God's Word is the way in which we are invited to encounter the real 'person' of God.
Ken Gire
PRESIDENT BARTLETT: "See how benevolent I can be when everybody just does what I tell them.
Aaron Sorkin
God doesnt give you something, someone else is suppose to have.
Tyrese Gibson
Her stillness defeated his storm.
Chris Gardner
Spaciousness gives rise to clarity. Clarity gives rise to inspired action. Inspired action gives rise to fulfilling manifestation. When watching the motion of the clouds in the sky each day is enough for your delight, the rest just flows in and through your life as effortlessly as those clouds. Just as day follows night, action follows rest. Do not be afraid to lie fallow until inspired action moves you.
Indigo Ocean
Parents who take care of their children will find peace. And children who take care of their parents will also find peace.
Danielle Barone
The nonchalance irritated her more because it was not assumed.
Margaret Landon
In the beginning we seek truth. In the middle we seek reason. In the end we seek peace.
L.M. Browning
Rest and repose are as much a part of life’s journeys as seeing all we came to see.
Gina Greenlee
I tilt my face up and inhale, willing my surroundings to enter me somehow and to remind me how small I am.
Kaui Hart Hemmings
She would only make me take my seat if I didn't act calm and Swiss about it all.
Bill Bryson
We are bombarded on all sides by a vast number of messages we don't want or need. More information is generated in a single day than we can absorb in a lifetime. To fully enjoy life, all of us must find our own breathing space and peace of mind.--James E. Faust
Carolyn J. Rasmus
One—about cigarettes—I was pleased to see that anticigarette ad on the back issue of Hustler. I'm more offended by seeing ads for cigarettes in magazines than pictures of vaginas, because one kills and the other gives life—and I think that's an important difference.
Paul Krassner
Live light. Offload internal and external baggage for peace within and peace without.
Laurie Buchanan
We have only minimal control over the rewards for our work and effort - other people’s validation, recognition, rewards. It’s far better when doing the work itself is sufficient. When fulfilling our own internal standards is what fills us with pride and self-respect. The less attached we are to the outcomes, the better. Our ego wants recognition & compensation. We have expectations. Let the effort, not the results be enough. Maybe your parents/kids/partner/etc won’t be impressed. We can’t let THAT be what motivates us. We can change the definition of success to: ‘peace of mind, which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you made the effort to do your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.’ With this definition we decide not to let externals determine if something is worth doing. It’s on us.
Ryan Holiday
Therefore be at peace with God, whatever you conceive Him to be. And whatever your labors and aspirations, in the noisy confusion of life, keep peace in your soul. With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be cheerful. Strive to be happy.
Max Ehrmann
The most dangerous enemy of truth and freedom among us is the compact majority. Yes, the damned, compact, liberal majority...
Thomas Stockman
Death defines life. I'd rather stay undefined.
Lera Auerbach
A good night's sleep counts healthy sheep.
Brian Spellman
To come up with one great sentence, one needs to serve a life sentence.
Lera Auerbach
The Vine of Life grows a single melon. The color of the heart is unknown until the rind is split.
Jack Vance
An aphorism needn't be true, but it should sound true.
Marty Rubin
Beware of finding what you're lookin
Richard Hamming
I am not the potter, not the potter's wheel, but the potter's clay; is not the value of the shape attained as dependent upon the intrinsic worth of the clay as upon the wheel and the Master's skill?
Stephen King
wash off the journey
Okey Ndibe
There's nothing quite like turning the page.
Casey Carter
Eko brushed a tear from her eye, and Immo jeered at her, but father held up a hand. "Never mock a tender heart," he said.
Orson Scott Card
The shortest distance between two points is always under construction.
Rebecca McClanahan
Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window
Steve Wozniak
That which yields is not always weak.
Jacqueline Carey
Glaring at the Gasman, ter Borcht said, “Your time is coming to an end, youpathetic failure of an experiment. Vhat you say now is how you vill beremembered.”Gazzy’s blue eyes flashed. “Then you can remember me telling you to kissmy-”“Enough!” ter Borcht said.
James Patterson
But if there must be an end, let it be loud. Let it be bloody. Better to burn than to wither away in the dark.
Mike Mignola
In the end, we wear out our worries.
Stephen King
The end has to come from within.
Richard Bowes
The sounds she heard bouncing off the walls around her were those of defeat.
Kimberly Derting
Let us hope...that a kind Providence will put a speedy end to the acts of God under which we have been laboring.
Peter De Vries
After all, why things ended up in a way that you never imagine.
Mary Queen
Someone ought to publish a book about the doomsayers who keep publishing books about the end of publishing.
Evgeny Morozov
And this is where I'll end, before I know what happens next.
Shannon Hale
But instead of the end, I’m pretty sure I found myself at the start of something.
Daniel H. Wilson
The end is everything.
Arthur K. Flam