Karen Bainbridge > Karen's Quotes

“Men and women who had worn suits for decades traded punches powerful enough to crush elephant skulls, dodged and deflected attacks too fast for the eye to follow, and died suddenly, often before the crowd registered the killing blow.
Victors and dead men were separated by a blink of the eye.”
― Zachary Jernigan, No Return

“If souls existed, they resided in flesh.”
― Zachary Jernigan, No Return

“You are a manipulator.
I like to think of myself more as an outcome engineer.”
― J.R. Ward, Lover Eternal

“Oh, man there's a marathon of Beaches running tomorrow night. Can we go after ten so I can see it once all the way through?"

Everyone in the room turned to the blond-and-black haired guy, who was propped in the corner, massive arms over his chest.

What," he said. "Look, it's not Mary Tyler Moore, 'kay? So you can 't give me shit."

Vishous, the one with the black glove on his hand, glared across the room. "It's worse than Mary Tyler Moore. And to call you and idiot would be an insult to half-wits around the world."

Are you kidding me? Bette Midler rocks. And I love the ocean. Sue me."

Vishous glanced at the king. "You told me I could beat him. You promised."

As soon as you come home," Wrath said as he got to his feet, "we'll hang him up by his armpits in the gym and you can use him as a punching bag."

Thank you, baby Jesus."

Blond-and-Black shook his head. "I swear, one of these days I'm going to leave."

As one, the Brothers all pointed to the open door and let silence speak for itself.

You guys suck.”
― J.R. Ward, Lover Avenged

“This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

“Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, but only saps today of its strength.”
― A.J. Cronin

“and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant
and whatever a sun will always sing is you”
― E.E. Cummings

“It's a dangerous mission. You could die out there. You could go on forever.”
― Tess Gallagher

“Adventure is worthwhile in itself.”
― Amelia Earhart

“I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.”
― Jack London

“The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.”
― Carl Gustav Jung

“...you can hate a place with all your heart and soul and still be homesick for it.”
― Joseph Mitchell

“It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

“Once upon a time there were four little Rabbits, and their names were--Flopsy, Mopsy, Cottontail, and Peter. ”
― Beatrix Potter

“I wish I were a girl again, half-savage and hardy, and free.”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

“It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

“It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.”
― Herman Melville

“In the world I am
Always a stranger
I do not understand its language
It does not understand my silence”
― Bei Dao

“No book can be appreciated until it has been slept with and dreamed over.”
― Eugene Field

“For my part, I prefer my heart to be broken. It is so lovely, dawn-kaleidoscopic within the crack.”
― D.H. Lawrence

“One day might be different from another, but there ain't much difference when they're put together.”
― William H. Armstrong

“History, like love, is so apt to surround her heroes with an atmosphere of imaginary brightness.”
― James Fenimore Cooper, The Last of the Mohicans

“Sweet words are like honey, a little may refresh, but too much gluts the stomach.”
― Anne Bradstreet

“Remember that your fans are your lifeblood. See that you know who they are, and give them a reason to follow you. Be sure to thank them, often, for caring enough to support you. They’re responsible for your success just as much as you are.”
― Simon Zingerman, We All Need Heroes: Stories of the Brave and Foolish

“Once there was a tree, and she loved a little boy.”
― Shel Silverstein, The Giving Tree

“Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.”
― Jane Smiley, Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel

“Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.”
― Confucius

“None of us really changes over time. We only become more fully what we are.”
― Anne Rice, The Vampire Lestat

“You can't get a suit of armour and a rubber chicken just like that. You have to plan ahead.”
― Michael Palin

“A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any other way.”
― Caroline Gordon