Sally > Sally's Quotes

“Not that I lack confidence in the outcome," Ferrin said, "but would you consider entrusting the piece of my neck to somebody who is not about to confront one of the most deadly beings in the world?”
― Brandon Mull, Seeds of Rebellion

“You and I move through time like a flame on a string. The ashes behind are the past, consumed, unreachable. The string ahead is the future. But the only moment we inhabit, the only moment where we can act, is the present, the point where the flame burns, the point where time touches eternity.”
― Brandon Mull, Seeds of Rebellion

“A common enemy is not necessarily a reliable basis for friendship.”
― Brandon Mull, Seeds of Rebellion

“It doesn’t take a genius to plan a perfect assault,” Galloran said. “The trouble tends to show up during the execution.”
― Brandon Mull, Seeds of Rebellion

“You cannot “out-exercise” poor food choices and the resulting hormonal disruption.”
― Melissa Hartwig, It Starts with Food: Discover the Whole30 and Change Your Life in Unexpected Ways

“The food you eat either makes you more healthy or less healthy. Those are your options.”
― Melissa Hartwig, It Starts with Food: Discover the Whole30 and Change Your Life in Unexpected Ways

“I know all those words, but that sentence makes no sense to me.”
― Matt Groening

“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

“A true friend is a light in the dark. Viven”
― Kate Morton, The Secret Keeper

“Life could be cruel enough these days without the truth making it worse.”
― Kate Morton, The Secret Keeper

“I don't want to put the world to rights... I just don't like people who put the world to wrongs.”
― Lee Child, 61 Hours

“Like I said earlier, it sounds like I’ll need a plan B, said Porter. Because I can’t see them going for any of that bollocks. They’ve had more peace plans than I’ve had bottles of vodka, and if they wanted money, they would have asked for it by now.”
― Chris Ryan, Strike Back

“.'If things get on top of you', my mum always used to say, 'have a good cry.'.”
― Chris Ryan, The One That Got Away: My SAS Mission Behind Enemy Lines

“Tell me what you pay attention to and I will tell you who you are.”
― José Ortega y Gasset

“It is thanks to my evening reading alone that I am still more or less sane.”
― W.G. Sebald, Vertigo

“When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.”
― Mark Twain