Merril Anil > Merril's Quotes

“Look after my heart - I've left it with you.”
― Stephenie Meyer, Eclipse

“I do a good job of blocking painful, unnecessary things from my memory.”
― Stephenie Meyer

“people change as they get older....grow wiser, make better decisions...i am very old,Laurel. Anyone who lives as long as I have can't help but collect regrets along the way....things they did in the past...things they wish they'd done differently.”
― Kate Morton, The Secret Keeper

“Laurel wondered whether perhaps a person reached an age when so much was kept from them, so many details of life discussed and decided elsewhere,misheard or misunderstood, that to be surprised was no longer disconcerting.”
― Kate Morton, The Secret Keeper

“Don’t be offended, but you seem to be one of those people who just attract accidents like a magnet. So… try not to fall into the ocean or get run over or anything, all right?”
― Stephenie Meyer, Twilight

“He's like a drug for you, Bella.”
― Stephenie Meyer, Eclipse

“And so the lion fell in love with the lamb…" he murmured. I looked away, hiding my eyes as I thrilled to the word.
"What a stupid lamb," I sighed.
"What a sick, masochistic lion.”
― Stephenie Meyer, Twilight

“It's not the face, but the expressions on it. It's not the voice, but what you say. It's not how you look in that body, but the thing you do with it. You are beautiful.”
― Stephenie Meyer, The Host

“Forbidden to remember, terrified to forget; it was a hard line to walk.”
― Stephenie Meyer, New Moon

“I decided as long as I'm going to hell, I might as well do it thoroughly.”
― Stephenie Meyer, Twilight

“The decisions of our past are the architects of our present.”
― Dan Brown, Inferno

“The human mind has a primitive ego defense mechanism that negates all realities that produce too much stress for the brain to handle. It’s called Denial.”
― Dan Brown, Inferno

“Nothing is more creative... nor destructive... than a brilliant mind with a purpose.”
― Dan Brown, Inferno

“The truth can be glimpsed only through the eyes of death.”
― Dan Brown, Inferno

“Remember tonight...for it's the beginning of forever. - Dante Alighieri”
― Dan Brown, Inferno

“Madness breeds madness.”
― Dan Brown, Inferno

“Nothing activates adrenaline production like pain. - Dr. Sienna Brooks”
― Dan Brown, Inferno

“Until man is nothing, God can make nothing of him. - Martin Luther”
― Dan Brown, Inferno

“Oftentimes, those special brains, the ones that are capable of focusing more intently than others, do so at the expense of emotional maturity”
― Dan Brown, Inferno

“Madness is the WHO staring into the abyss and denying it is there. Madness is an ostrich who sticks her head in the sand while a pack of hyenas closes around her. - Lanky Man with green eyes”
― Dan Brown, Inferno

“Food for thought....

It took the earths population thousands of years (from early dawn of mankind to early 1800) to reach 1 billion people.
Then astoundingly, it took only 100 years to double it to 2 billion in 1920.
After that, it merely took 50 years for the population to double again to 4 billion in 1970's.
Today, we are on track to reach 8 billion.

Just today, the human race added a quarter million people (250,000) to the human race. And this happens every day- rain or shine.”
― Dan Brown

“It has always been this way. Death is followed by birth. To reach paradise, man must pass through inferno. - Bertrand Zobrist”
― Dan Brown, Inferno

“The human mind has a primitive ego defince mechanism that negates all realities that produce too much stress for the brain to handle. It's called denial.”
― Dan Brown, Inferno

“Only one form of contagion travels faster than a virus. And that's fear.”
― Dan Brown, Inferno

“Outside, in the newly fallen darkness, the world had been transformed. The sky had become a glistening tapestry of stars.”
― Dan Brown, Inferno

“There comes a moment in history when ignorance is no longer a forgivable offense....a moment when only wisdom has the power to absolve”
― Dan Brown, Inferno

“When swimming into a dark tunnel,there arrives a point of no return when you no longer have enough breath to double back.your choice is to swim forward into the unknown....and pray for an exit”
― Dan Brown, Inferno

“My friends call me Wrath,” says Raffe. “My enemies call me Please Have Mercy. What’s your name, soldier boy?”
― Susan Ee, Angelfall

“Why were the other angels attacking you?"

"It's impolite to ask the victim of violence what they did to be attacked.”
― Susan Ee, Angelfall

“I wonder which will get you killed faster—your loyalty or your stubbornness?”
― Susan Ee, Angelfall