Marie (IfCatsCouldRead) > Marie (IfCatsCouldRead)'s Quotes

“Censorship is telling a man he can't have a steak just because a baby can't chew it.”
― Mark Twain

“The point is, sometimes when the rabbit gets too fat, too comfortable, he makes mistakes. But the gardener, she ain’t got nothing but time. Because even the hungriest rabbit can’t eat the entire garden. At some point the good sheriff will make a mistake, some gross miscalculation, reveal some weakness, and that’s when we’ll find our freedom.”
― Justina Ireland, Dread Nation

“...I'd be much obliged if you would keep my name out of your mouth. The last thing I want is you sullying it with your sillines.”
― Justina Ireland, Dread Nation

“What was that education? Question everything, but keep your word. Doubt everything, but never give others a reason to doubt you.”
― Orson Scott Card, Duplex

“All this time I'd thought we were strangers, and it turned out we knew each other intuitively, in our bones, in our blood. It was kind of romantic. Catastrophically romantic.”
― Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

“The most beautiful woman in any room is the woman with the most joy in her heart”
― Melanie Hudson, The Last Letter from Juliet

“We are people of the land, we are artists and craftsmen, storytellers, but we are also a world of laws. Most are not unlike the laws you know. To take a life, to take what is not yours or not given freely, to force another to lie with you, to neglect a child or animal. All of these acts cause harm, and our first law is to cause no harm.”
― Nora Roberts, The Awakening

“If the worlds were as we wish, the light would be only for joy and beauty, for healing and help. But the worlds are not what we wish. So we use the light to protect and shield, to fight the dark, even kill.”
― Nora Roberts, The Awakening

“You have a chance and a choice to be what you are. To build on all that came before, reach for what comes next. To fail, well, greatness rises from first failures.”
― Nora Roberts, The Awakening