Kemberly Conklin > Kemberly's Quotes

“Take it from me, kid, sometimes it’s okay to run. You run as fast as you damn well can.”
― Barry Kirwan, The Eden Paradox

“I licked my lips where I could still taste their glove's fabric. Bitter leather and sweat. The taste of being alive.”
― Lee Matthew Goldberg, Stalker Stalked

“The enormous amount of financial resources and creative energy that nations have spent on wars and weapons could have been redirected to curing deadly diseases, feeding the hungry, eliminating poverty, promoting art and culture, investing in renewable clean energy, and solving a host of other important challenges facing humanity.”
― Newton Lee, Counterterrorism and Cybersecurity: Total Information Awareness

“Imagination is not bound by possibilities. The creative mind will always break the shackles—making the impossible, possible.”
― C. Toni Graham

“There is no fool, like an old fool. However, to not allow yourself to see your errors is not foolishness, but stupidity. I can assume to be a fool, not an idiot.”
Island of Serenity book 7, Le Morte D'Arthur.”
― Gary Edward Gedall

“He knew he had a lot to learn—that was why he was asking questions.”
― James Dashner, The Maze Runner

“Scrubbing the floor when no one else wanted to was something that my mother would have done. If I can't be with her, the least I can do is act like her sometimes.”
― Veronica Roth, Divergent

“Thus I liv’d mighty comfortably, my Mind being entirely composed by resigning to the Will of God, and throwing my self wholly upon the Disposal of his Providence. This made my Life better than sociable, for when I began to regret the want of Conversation, I would ask my self whether thus conversing mutually with my own Thoughts, and, as I hope I may say, with even God himself by Ejaculations, was not better than the utmost Enjoyment of humane Society in the World.”
― Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe

“People think what they want. That's what I've had to accept," he says. "I can fight it, but that's exhausting. I can feel hurt about it, but that's torture. Or I can decide it's their loss.”
― Jay Asher, What Light

“I wish I knew then what I know now - and still had those thighs!”
― Rebecca Wells, Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood

“All I am is literature, and I am not able or willing to be anything else.”
― Franz Kafka