Mischelle > Mischelle's Quotes

“A man begins dying at the moment of his birth. Most People live in denial of Death's patient courtship until, late in life and deep in sickness, they become aware of him sitting bedside.”
― Dean Koontz, The Husband

“Twas said better to light a candle than curse the dark...”
― Robert McCammon, The Queen of Bedlam

“...that in this town prostitutes may give sewing lessons to ladies of the church, pirates my be consulted for their opinions on seaworth by shipbuilders, Christians and Jews may stroll together on a Sunday, and Indians my play dice games with leatherstockings, but let one silver piece fall in a crack between two members of the same profession and it's bloody war.”
― Robert McCammon, The Queen of Bedlam

“Many times you will fail. That is the nature of the world, and the truth of life. But when you find your horse again, will go back or will you go forward?”
― Robert McCammon

“Ask them about their sex lives or their drinking habits or the times they beat up on Granny and they may dodge around a little but eventually they'll tell you all about it - they're dying to tell. Get to the money question, though, and they start acting like you just tore off all their clothes in public. In some way, money is the cover we use for the most intimate parts of ourselves.”
― Elizabeth Gunn, Crazy Eights

“When I read a novel I am not here. I am transported to far-off places, my eyes unseeing of the words on the page, busy with a scene being played out in my mind's eye, with my ears engaged, hearing the voices carry from the pen to the present. What a lovely place to be-not here
- Just Jane (Chapter Four Page 35)”
― Nancy Moser, Just Jane

“For who would I be if I tried to be someone besides Jane? The poser of the world try so hard to be what they are not, and yet... how fatigued they must be Perhaps I am not smart enough to be one of them. Nor strong enough in constitution.”
― Nancy Moser, Just Jane

“...people only hear what they are able to, so it's pointless to tell them anything else”
― Randy Davila, Gnostic Mystery

“...but I guess it's better for people to shut up rather than rather than say something nasty.
-ONE NIGHT @ THE CALL CENTER Chapter 1 page 22”
― Chetan Bhagat

“Love? I need a lot of love."
Of course you do. Everyone does. It's funny that we never say it. It's OK to scream, 'I'm starving' in public if you are hungry; it's OK to make a fuss and say, 'I'm so sleepy', if you are tired; but somehow we cannot say, 'I need some more love.' Why can't we say it? It's just as basic a need.”
― Chetan Bhagat, One Night at the Call Center

“They say that not matter how old you become, when you are with your siblings, you revert back to childhood.”
― Karen White, The Memory of Water

“It is a peculiar thing to believe that you know someone intimately only to find that you really do not. It is like finishing a book only to discover that you have missed several key chapters.
THE LETTER Chapter 9 page 104”
― Richard Paul Evans

“A man's worth isn't measured by a bank register or diploma... It's about integrity”
― Richard Paul Evans, The Letter

“It takes far less courage to cling to the past than it does to face the future".”
― Sandra Brown, Envy

“People existed, however, who believed that closet racist were everywhere around them. They needed to believe this in order to have prupose and meaning in their lives, and to have someone to hate.”
― Dean Koontz, The Face of Fear

“People adjust their behavior to fit the society they live in. They integrate because they have to. But what they are on the inside doesn't change.”
― Sandra Brown, Tough Customer

“But I think happiness springs from another source, a far deeper one that doesn't depend on will because it comes from love.”
― Henryk Sienkiewicz, Quo Vadis

“...what makes humanity beautiful is our free will, our individuality, our endless striving in spite of our imperfection.

BY THE LIGHT OF THE MOON
Chapter 27 Page 214”
― Dean Koontz, By the Light of the Moon

“On an individual level, the human condition changed day by day, even hour by hour, and while you were soaking in self-pity over a misfortune, you might miss an opportunity for a redeeming triumph. And for every act of inhumanity, the species managed to committ a hundred acts of kindness; so if you were the type to brood, you would be more sensible if you dwelt on the remarkable goodwill with which most people treated others even in a society where the cultural elites routinely mocked virtue and celebrated brutality.

BY THE LIGHT OF THE MOON
Chapter 5”
― Dean Koontz, By the Light of the Moon

“It is in the dark times that the light of friendship shines brightest.
(The Walk - Chapter 19, Page 122”
― Richard Paul Evans

“We can spend our days bemoaning our losses, or we can grow from them. Ultimately the choice is ours. We can be victims of circumstance or masters of our own fate, but make no mistake, we cannot be both.
The Walk - Epilogue Page 288”
― Richard Paul Evans, The Walk

“Be nice to nerds. You may end up working for them. We all could.”
― Charles J. Sykes, Dumbing Down Our Kids: Why American Children Feel Good About Themselves But Can't Read, Write or Add

“If a man is to lose his fortune, it is a good thing if he were poor before he acquired it, for poverty requires aptitude.”
― Geraldine Brooks, March

“Are there any two words in all of the English language more closely twinned than courage and cowardice? I do not think there is a man alive who will not yearn to possess the former and dread to be accused of the latter. One is held to be the apogee of man's character, the other its nadir. An yet, to me the two sit side by side on the circle of life, removed from each other by the merest degree of arc. (MARCH - Chapter 11 - page 168)”
― Geraldine Brooks, March