Debra Johnson > Debra's Quotes

“Reader's Bill of Rights

1. The right to not read

2. The right to skip pages

3. The right to not finish

4. The right to reread

5. The right to read anything

6. The right to escapism

7. The right to read anywhere

8. The right to browse

9. The right to read out loud

10. The right to not defend your tastes”
― Daniel Pennac

“Here’s what I know to be true. We can bury the past all we like. We can use a hundred thousand distractions, some of which are healthy, some of which are not, to keep it under the ground—but when something isn’t processed, it will absolutely, positively come back and bite us on the ass. You had a hard life before you and Butch fell in love, and it was no doubt a huge relief to leave all of it behind and start fresh. But you can’t outrun what came before. Remember, Marissa, we are every age we have ever been at each moment in our lives. We carry it all with us like luggage. Sooner or later, the stuff with your brother was going to come up again. That’s just life.”"
― from "Blood Kiss: Black Dagger Legacy”
― JR Ward

“I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here.”
― Arthur C. Clarke

“I like the night. Without the dark, we'd never see the stars.”
― Stephenie Meyer, Twilight

“My goodness, no one gives a gift to Santa Claus!”
― Michael Brown

“If you can make a woman laugh, you can make her do anything.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.”
― Timothy Leary

“I already explained this. I don’t like you. True, I don’t like most people, but I especially dislike you. I could start my own religion based on how much I dislike you.”
― G.A. Aiken, What a Dragon Should Know

“One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.”
― Simone de Beauvoir

“The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.”
― Thomas Paine, A Letter Addressed to the Abbe Raynal on the Affairs of North America

“Try not to sing too many sad songs for yourself. The universe already hates you. Self-pity isn't going to help.”
― Richard Kadrey, Sandman Slim

“My imagination functions much better when I don't have to speak to people.”
― Patricia Highsmith

“We never know the quality of someone else's life, though we seldom resist the temptation to assume and pass judgement.”
― Tami Hoag, Dark Horse

“You're something between a dream and a miracle.”
― Elizabeth Barrett Browning

“A good book is an event in my life.”
― Stendhal, The Red and the Black

“There are shortcuts to happiness and dancing is one of them!”
― Vicki Baum, Ballerina

“Did I hurt your feelings again? Sorry. When this is all over I'll send some flowers to your inner child.”
― Richard Kadrey, Sandman Slim

“We must always look after our friends, even when they are foolish. Especially when they are foolish.”
― Richard Kadrey, Sandman Slim

“Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion.”
― Edward Abbey

“I’ve got more faith in my shotgun than any man, that’s for sure.”
― Kerrelyn Sparks, The Undead Next Door

“I’m already saved. Hallelujah, praise the Lord. Now unlock that door and set me free, brother.”
― Kerrelyn Sparks, The Undead Next Door

“Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby.”
― Langston Hughes

“Life's most obvious truths are the hardest to see but once you've burned everything to the ground they are the only things left standing.
André Chevalier”
― Nikki Sex, Elizabeth's Bondage Boxed Set

“Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant filled with odd little waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don't always like.”
― Lemony Snicket

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

“It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime...”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally. ”
― W.C. Fields

“Take pride in your pain; you are stronger than those who have none”
― Lois Lowry, Gathering Blue

“Basically, I have two speeds.... Hostile or smart-aleck. Your choice.”
― James Patterson, Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports

“Humans, not places, make memories.”
― Ama Ata Aidoo