Quotes by New Zealander Authors - Page 4

When the brain’s potential is fully unleashed, there can be few if any limitations. Anyone who tells you otherwise isn’t up-to-date with the latest scientific findings on the brain and is exhibiting their ignorance. For the brain’s potential is the human potential…
James Morcan
The latest scientific studies have revealed extraordinary findings. The brain is much more flexible and adaptable than previously thought. It can evolve and creatively work around limitations and nullify them.
James Morcan
That night, when SanJuanna had cleared the main course and brought dessert in, my mother called for quiet and said, "Boys, I have an announcement to make. Your sister made the apple pies tonight. I'm sure we will all enjoy them very much.""Can I learn how, ma'am?" said Jim Bowie."No, J.B. Boys don't bake pies," Mother said."Why not?" he said."They have wives who make pies for them.""But I don't have a wife.""Darling, I'm sure you will have a very nice one someday when you're older, and she'll make you many pies. Calpurnia, would you care to s
Jacqueline Kelly
Lula," I said, "do you ever think about getting married?"I guess I do. Doesn't everybody?"You have to let your husband kiss you once you're married. And you have to kiss him
Jacqueline Kelly
Breathing is medicine. I forgot how to breathe, but I’m learning all over again.
Mandi Lynn
Dmitri clearly gives good . . . blood.
Nalini Singh
Flirt with him if you want, Honor, but you're mine.
Nalini Singh
You refused to fall in love with anyone else, Dmitri.” A whisper with the impact of a gun-shot. “So I had to come back for you . . . husband.
Nalini Singh
Fine. But remember, little rabbit, not a word to anyone." He moved close enough that the dark heat of him lapped against her in a quiet threat that made her glad for the blade. "I'm not a nice man when I'm angry." She held her position, a ragged attempt to erase the humiliation of the panic attack. "I'm fairly certain you're not a nice man at all." His answer was a slow smile that whispered of silk sheets, erotic whispers, and sweat-damp skin. The unhidden intent of it had her heart slamming hard against her ribs. "No" she said. Voice raw. "A challenge.” He wasn't touching her and yet she felt caressed by a thousand ropes of fur, soft and lush and unmistakably sexual. "I accept
Nalini Singh
Our house has its back to the sea,' writes Hester in her journal. 'Below us, the ocean spreads to the sky, twitching wide and blue and hungry. One would think it to be infinite. But we, of course, know better.
Tanya Moir
The mind I love must have wild places, a tangled orchard where dark damsons drop in the heavy grass, an overgrown little wood, the chance of a snake or two, a pool that nobody's fathomed the depth of, and paths threaded with flowers planted by the mind.
Katherine Mansfield
I saw myself driving through Eternity in a timeless taxi.
Katherine Mansfield
She gave a shiver, and suddenly clutched her arms about her body. She spoke, Gascoigne thought, with an exhilarated fatigue, the kind that comes after the first blush of love, when the self has lost its mooring, and, half-drowning, succumbs to a fearful tide. But addiction was not love; it could not be love. Gascoigne could not romanticize the purple shadows underneath her eyes, her wasted limbs, the dreamy disorientation with which she spoke; but even so, he thought, it was uncanny that opium's ruin could mirror love's raptures with such fidelity.
Eleanor Catton
Is it the smoke?' the boy said, shivering slightly. 'I've never touched the stuff, myself, but how it claws at one...like a thorn in every one of your fingers, and a string around your heart...and one fees it always. Nagging. Nagging.
Eleanor Catton
Life is full of bullshit; reject or deal with it, but move on.
Sue Fitzmaurice
You can't move forward if you're still hanging on.
Sue Fitzmaurice
You can't fight the whole world, and you can't keep fighting everyone in your own world. It's not about giving up, it's about letting go.
Sue Fitzmaurice
Sometimes you have to stop trying to control everything and let life happen the way it's supposed to, Tess. Even if it's not exactly the way you wanted.But what if it's not even a little like you wanted?Then you deal with it and keep going.
Lord
Maybe that would be a good thing to do. He wasn't entirely sure, and that bothered him more than anything. How was he meant to judge right from wrong when he had never really striven to do right before? The only good thing he had known was his time with Drin, and Drin had died because o
Emily Veinglory
Customer Service' is a random collection of words used to fill a void
Paul W. Feenstra
Writer's a lovers quarrel - encounters breathe the quill...
Neisha Alana Haora
They all seemed hungry, happy, and healthy enough in their buzzing—oh the days were hot, and the noise of bees filled the air that was dusty with pollen and sun haze, and there were tiny black flies stuck to one another crowded by the creek and a creek stink rising from the deep pool under the willow tree where a wheat sack of new kittens had been drowned, and their tiny terrible struggling had shot like an electric current through the confusion of muddy water and up the arm of the person who had tied the stone around the mouth of the sack and thrust it into the water; and the culprit had not been able to brush away the current; it penetrated her body and made her heart beat with fear and pity. I was the culprit.
Janet Frame
If you are different from the rest of the flock, they bite you
Vincent O'Sullivan
Always at the heart of my life there has been fire.
Sherryl Jordan
Ah, what happiness it is to be with people who are all happy, to press hands, press cheeks, smile into eyes.
Katherine Mansfield
His eyes reflected the open grey of the autumnal sky.
Juliet Marillier
There were all her feelings for him, sharp and defined, one as true as the other. And there was the other, this hatred, just as real as the rest. She could have done her feelings up in little packets and given them to Stanley. She longed to hand him that last one, for a surprise. She could see his eyes as he opened that...
Katherine Mansfield
I will put warm woolen socks on the feet of the people in the other world; but I dream and cannot wake, and I am cast over the cliff and hang there by two fingers that are danced and trampled on by the giant unreality.
Janet Frame
I'm not here to be small, to compare, to judge (myself or you), to fit in or to be perfect. I'm here to grow, to learn, to love, to be human.
Sue Fitzmaurice
Death, of course, should not be feared, but awaited with certain wonder. To die was to step across a threshold into a new world, unknown, unimaginable.
Juliet Marillier
You can become what you want. You have an army of angels behind you.
Sue Fitzmaurice
You fainted and I caught you. It was the first time I'd supported a human. You had such heavy bones. I put myself between you and gravity. Impossible.
Elizabeth Knox
You do realize this makes your wings even more unique.""Are you saying you shot me as a cosmetic procedure?
Nalini Singh
Option 1: Attempt to back out.Probable result: Death after painful torture.Option 2: Do the job and hope.Probable result: Death but probably no torture (good)
Nalini Singh
Do what you love...
Lise Cartwright
I got together with Sylvère because I saw how I could help him get his life together. I'm drawn to you cause I see how you can help me take my life apart...
Chris Kraus
Why? is the boy's motto, why does, why is, why not? Food, weather, time, fires, sea and season, clothes and cars and people; it's all grist to the mill of why.
Keri Hulme
I think I've proved that I'm not to be trusted," he said."Then why do I feel safer now that I have in my entire life?""Because you're just as screwed up as me.
Brynn Kelly
She owed him nothing - less than nothing.
Brynn Kelly
You were a kidnapping waiting to happen - you're lucky it was me.""Luckiest day of my life.
Brynn Kelly
You're not what I expected in a pirate."He laughed, curtly. "You're not what I expected in a princess.
Brynn Kelly
She turned her head, and the skin of her cheek caught the moonlight, smooth as satin. Tough and beautiful. He grimaced. Tu agis sans passion et sans haine. You act without passion and without hatred. He'd recited the line every day of his nineteen years in the Legion, but it'd never resonated as strongly as it did now.
Brynn Kelly
I'll shower, then we can go. I smell like a zombie."Hell, if the undead looked like that, bring on the zombie apocalypse.
Brynn Kelly
How do I say 'kiss me' in French?" she whispered."Embrasse moi."Oh yes, even that sounded better in French.
Brynn Kelly
Pretending to him that she felt something would be easy. Pretending to herself that she didn't? That was a whole other story.
Brynn Kelly
Gunfire cracked around them.t“Just warning shots,” he yelled.t“How do you know?”t“We’re not dead.
Brynn Kelly
I’m quite capable of taking responsibility for my own death.
Brynn Kelly
Look.” He stepped closer, his voice lowered to a gruff murmur, and lifted her chin with his finger, forcing her to meet his gaze – which just made her want to stretch up and kiss him.
Brynn Kelly
Utu--Maori revenge. 'Do everything well, boy. Do it better than them. Be a better rugby player, better at your job. Outshine them everywhere. Tramp on their pride. Go far, and leave them sniveling in your dust.
Kris Pearson
They want your sons.”“My–? But I don’t… ew!
Deb E. Howell
I imagine God creating humans was much like cavemen creating fire… First it sparkles brightly, full of life and beauty. But then it grows, stronger and fiercer until it becomes dangerous and uncontrollable… Then its creator can only stand on the hill and wait for his creation to die.
Ben Mitchell
Every letterthat she types;every keystrokethat she strikes-To spell your nameagain and again,is all she everwants to write.
Lang Leav
If consultants followed their own advice, they wouldn't tell anyone.
Grant McLachlan
The book didn't want to be copied?I should introduce it to the house that doesn't want any occupants.
A.W. Exley
I had never seen a real live dead person.
Jacqueline Kelly
Tighten your grip, make me bleed, it's a hunger I need to feed. Strip me bare, pull my hair, I don't care just take me there.
Pepper Winters
I love you with all the shadows in the world for eternity.
Pepper Winters
You're unpredictable and dangerous and protect those you love fiercely. You should be proud. To me you're more than a knight in some stupid shiny armour. You're the monster who no one can tame but the woman he loves. - Tess Snow
Pepper Winters
But you understand the relationship between pi and Gaussian curvature, right? pg 264
Danyl McLauchlan
Steve needed to be careful here. He'd read mid-twentieth-century science fiction so he knew that once you started switching realities you ran into problems with nested levels of existence.
Danyl McLauchlan