Michele Harper > Michele's Quotes

“Don't tell me the moon is shining, show me the glint of light on broken glass.”
― Bernard Cornwall

“Just as there is a destination far beyond this one, there will be a time far beyond this one when there won’t be any pain, just the memory of it.”
― Tricia Levenseller, Daughter of the Pirate King

“I am me because I choose to be me. I am what I want. Some people say you have to find yourself. Not I. I believe we create ourselves to be what we want. Any aspect of ourselves that we do not like can be altered if we make an effort.”
― Tricia Levenseller, Daughter of the Pirate King

“A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

“Write the kind of story you would like to read. People will give you all sorts of advice about writing, but if you are not writing something you like, no one else will like it either.”
― Meg Cabot

“People love a happy ending. So every episode, I will explain once again that I don't like people. And then Mal will shoot someone. Someone we like. And their puppy.”
― Joss Whedon

“I haven't any right to criticize books, and I don't do it except when I hate them. I often want to criticize Jane Austen, but her books madden me so that I can't conceal my frenzy from the reader; and therefore I have to stop every time I begin. Every time I read Pride and Prejudice I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone.”
― Mark Twain

“Amazing, how doubt could creep in if a person was left alone in a dark place for long enough.”
― Delilah S. Dawson, Black Spire

“What would they do with their one, rare life, now that they were free?”
― Delilah S. Dawson, Black Spire

“It’s up to you to believe that you are God’s beloved child, with whom God is well pleased.”
― Suzanne Stabile, The Journey Toward Wholeness: Enneagram Wisdom for Stress, Balance, and Transformation