Sera Collins > Sera's Quotes

“Write the kind of story you would like to read. People will give you all sorts of advice about writing, but if you are not writing something you like, no one else will like it either.”
― Meg Cabot

“I have a gaping hole where my life used to be.”
― Trish Doller, Float Plan

“Have a care, Anna. I tend to fall for girls who say complimentary things about my mother.”
― Trish Doller, Float Plan

“But I'm starting to understand how sadness and happiness can live side by side within a heart. And how that heart can keep on beating”
― Trish Doller, Float Plan

“Thousands of years from now, a different woman might sail past alone; another people might settle there and make it a home. And, once more, Mother Nature puts my small life into perspective.”
― Trish Doller, Float Plan

“He pulls out a bottle of Irish whiskey and Keane inhales with reverence. "I take back every evil thought I've ever had about you, Eamon. You're the best brother in the world.”
― Trish Doller, Float Plan

“Alexander the Great found the philosopher looking attentively at a pile of human bones. Diogenes explained, "I am searching for the bones of your father but cannot distinguish them from those of a slave.”
― Diogenes

“In a rich man's house there is no place to spit but his face.”
― Diogenes of Sinope

“It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little.”
― Diogenes of Sinope

“I am a citizen of the world.”
― Diogenes of Sinope, The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers

“A philosopher named Aristippus, who had quite willingly sucked up to Dionysus and won himself a spot at his court, saw Diogenes cooking lentils for a meal. "If you would only learn to compliment Dionysus, you wouldn't have to live on lentils."

Diogenes replied, "But if you would only learn to live on lentils, you wouldn't have to flatter Dionysus.”
― Diogenes of Sinope

“Once he saw the officials of a temple leading away some one who had stolen a bowl belonging to the treasurers, and said, "The great thieves are leading away the little thief.”
― Diogenes

“No man is hurt but by himself”
― Diogenes of Sinope

“What I like to drink most is wine that belongs to others.”
― Diogenes

“I am Diogenes the Dog. I nuzzle the kind, bark at the greedy and bite scoundrels.”
― Diogenes of Sinope

“The insult dishonors the one who infers it, not the one who receives it.”
― Diogenes of Sinope

“It is sufficient abuse for him that he insulted me but I did not.”
― Diogenes of Sinope

“Here is what you do, friends. Forget country. Forget king. Forget wife and children and freedom. Forget every concept, however noble, that you imagine you fight for here today. Act for this alone: for the man who stands at your shoulder. He is everything, and everything is contained within him. That is all I know. That is all I can tell you.

--Dienekes at Thermopylae”
― Steven Pressfield, Gates of Fire

“It was natural for [Spartan women] to think and speak as Gorgo, the wife of Leonidas, is said to have done, when some foreign lady, as it would seem, told her that the women of Lacedaemon were the only women of the world who could rule men; 'With good reason,' she said, 'for we are the only women who bring forth men'.”
― Plutarch, Plutarch's Lives: Volume I

“You just can't kill people and be pretty. It's confusing.”
― Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Assistant to the Villain

“She wasn’t light; she was color. Every single one…”
― Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Assistant to the Villain

“I feel like my life keeps happening to me, rather than me living it.”
― Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Assistant to the Villain

“It was a hard lesson to learn that sometimes it was better to remain lonely than to waste companionship and energy on someone undeserving.”
― Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Assistant to the Villain

“Are we changing the subject because you're embarrassed that you were an Evil Overlord in Distress?”
― Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Assistant to the Villain

“She wasn’t light; she was color. Every single one, dancing otherworldly and bright over his unworthy eyes. She was the explosion of the vivid gleams and glows of the world around him, like a constant rainbow, shining not after the rain but during.”
― Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Assistant to the Villain

“She’d been called many disparaging things in her life. Alarmingly all beginning with the letter F. Flighty, foolish, forgetful, and, by a strange turn of events, she was finally able to add the final F. Fucked.”
― Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Assistant to the Villain

“Granted, she didn't want to become evil, but when you spend most of your life trying to see the sun, you begin to wish for rain.”
― Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Assistant to the Villain

“Was that your first?" Evie interrupted...
The boss's head knocked back in surprise. "My first what, you little tornado?"
"Your first joke.”
― Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Assistant to the Villain

“Of all the foolish, horrific things he'd ever accomplished, falling in love with a woman he so completely didn't deserve made the top of the list.”
― Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Assistant to the Villain

“I don’t run from my demons. I welcome them. I let them envelop me until I grow stronger.”
― Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Assistant to the Villain