Alisha Torres > Alisha's Quotes

“One day you will kiss a man you can't breathe without, and find that breath is of little consequence.”
― Karen Marie Moning, Bloodfever

“We be light, we be life, we be fire! We sing electric flame, we rumble underground wind, we dance heaven! Come be we and be free!”
― Kate Griffin, A Madness of Angels

“The constant happiness is curiosity.”
― Alice Munro

“Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it.
Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.”
― William Faulkner

“You have to have a soul to have a soulmate.”
― Rachel DeFriez, Grey Matters

“Editing is a kind of creative activity where, in a perfect world, an author and an editor find that elusive oneness to understand each other intuitively.”
― Sahara Sanders

“Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.”
― Aldous Huxley, Complete Essays, Vol. II: 1926-1929

“Life is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal.”
― Neil Gaiman

“Intuition will tell the thinking mind where to look next.”
― Jonas Salk

“There is no friend as loyal as a book.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

“What a pitiable thing it is that our civilization can do no better for us than to make us slaves to indoor life, so that we have to go and take artificial exercise in order to preserve our health.”
― George Wharton James

“There is nothing that defangs a woman quite like being called beautiful,”
― Laura Thalassa, A Strange Hymn

“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
― Mark Twain

“There's no such thing as writer's block. That was invented by people in California who couldn't write.”
― Terry Pratchett

“When I told my teachers I wanted to be a writer, alot of them encouraged me to lower my expectations and to be more realistic. So I rode away on my magical, winged horse, spraying faerie dust behind me, and laughing manically as I went.”
― M.E. Vaughan

“Tomorrow's life is too late. Live today.”
― Marcus Valerius Martialis

“My dear,
Find what you love and let it kill you.
Let it drain you of your all. Let it cling onto your back and weigh you down into eventual nothingness.
Let it kill you and let it devour your remains.
For all things will kill you, both slowly and fastly, but it’s much better to be killed by a lover.
~ Falsely yours”
― Kinky Friedman

“Change isn’t made by mobs that envy, but by men who dare.”
― Pierce Brown, Iron Gold

“When he read, he forgot that he was waiting.”
― Louise Yates, Dog Loves Books

“nor do you have to personally light the world on fire to be the reason it burns.”
― Laura Thalassa, Pestilence