Louise White > Louise's Quotes

“If not you, then who? If not now, when?”
― Hillel first- century Jewish scholar

“The wind was a torrent of darkness among the gusty trees,
The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas,
The road was a ribbon of moonlight, over the purple moor,
And the highwayman came riding--
Riding--riding--
The highwayman came riding, up to the old inn-door.”
― Alfred Noyes, The Highwayman

“Theirs not to make reply,
Theirs not to reason why,
Theirs but to do and die.
Into the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.”
― Alfred Tennyson, The Charge of the Light Brigade

“Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.”
― Norman Vincent Peale

“I don't know. I don't actually remember anything from before the surgery."

His eyebrows rose, his blue eyes sucking in all the light of the room. "The cybernetic opetation?"

"No, the sex change."

The doctor's smile faltered.

"I'm joking.”
― Marissa Meyer, Cinder

“I believe providing every little smidge of information, while a testament to the author, does not allow the reader to experience the story in a personal way. In light of that, I tried to leave slivers of “white space” that the reader has the opportunity to fill with their own ideas, concepts, and memories. In that way, I invite the reader to become an active part of the journey.”
― Mark E. Lein

“Obey, obey, obey, then do what you want.”
― Lisa See, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

“How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Sign of Four

“Living in that childish wonder is a most beautiful feeling - I can so well remember it. There was always something more - behind and beyond everything - to me, the golden spectacles were very, very big.”
― Kate Greenaway

“He isn’t a dog, but the same rules apply. Looking away is submissive. Looking him in the eye is a challenge. It’s my choice.”
― Veronica Roth, Divergent

“They’d never scared him, really.  When he was younger, he hadn’t known that there was anything different about them.  By the time he was old enough to figure out that no one else could see them, he was also old enough to realize that being dead didn’t turn people into monsters.  It just meant that most of them were lonely. ”
― Jacqueline E. Smith, Cemetery Tours

“Michael had learned the hard way that nothing good came from interfering in the affairs of the afterlife.”
― Jacqueline E. Smith, Cemetery Tours

“Dedeth , I reach across the many miles and gently touch your cheek and ask the wind to kiss you softly for me until we can be together.”
― Michael Patrick Ford

“If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”
― Stephen King

“He wanted her mind, her soul, her heart. He would not take pieces. Not when it came to her!”
― Dorina Stanciu, Broken Serenade

“In order to have faith in his own path, he does not need to prove that someone else's path is wrong.”
― Paulo Coelho, Warrior of the Light

“Silence—people are afraid of it—they feel the need to make small talk, anything, just to break the stillness. I don’t feel any such need. To me, silence brings about peace and certitude.”
― Henry Martin, Escaping Barcelona

“Having answered the call, the relief far outweighed the discomfort as the heat and the thin dry air of the new word enveloped her...The demon before her - and she hadn't been told for sure that's what they were, she was taking an educated guess- had a figure pressed against him, one scaly limb securing its prey.”
― Louise G. White, The Calling

“The destroyer is...'" Ethan wondered at the next word, expecting 'horrific, 'mad', or even 'a bitch'... Not forgetting that she did try to kill him, of course.
"Glorious," he concluded to Ethan's surprise.”
― Louise G. White, The Calling

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away.”
― Barbara Kingsolver

“The room melts away around her and the air stands still as she sails silently towards the table. I have to lick my lips suddenly aware how dry they have become and I’m almost unable to process her beauty.”
― Stephen Cost, The Fall

“Being a Reaper does have certain perks after all and it isn’t all about death and feeding.”
― Stephen Cost, The Fall

“I know evil. And yes, I suppose it does take evil to know it. But what is evil? Is it the monster who kills? Or the monster who kills the killer?”
― Stephen Cost, The Fall

“The only thing that can last longer than the scars we all carry, is the love that makes it bearable. Beautiful and broken, we are beloved.”
― Perci T. Brooks, My Beloved Demon

“And that's the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say.”
― Martin Luther

“If absence makes the heart grow stronger, it also wounds in the process.”
― Claudette Melanson, Rising Tide: Dark Innocence

“Lead from the back — and let others believe they are in front.”
― Nelson Mandela