Laurie Green > Laurie's Quotes

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
― H. Jackson Brown Jr., P.S. I Love You

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

“Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.”
― Allen Saunders

“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
― Toni Morrison

“When you're in jail, a good friend will be trying to bail you out. A best friend will be in the cell next to you saying, 'Damn, that was fun'.”
― Groucho Marx

“If I couldn't be a good example, I'd just have to be a horrible warning.”
― Darynda Jones, First Grave on the Right

“…and suddenly I love you beyond all measure is not just words but a heart, a soul bursting open, a stripping raw of all pretense. It is Sully, it is Gabriel, it is his tears on my face, his body in mine, our minds seamless. It is hopes and dreams and failures. It is apologies and a prayer for redemption. It is heaven and damnation.
All that I am is yours pales beside it.
It is everything.
It is love.”
― Linnea Sinclair, Shades of Dark

“Something cascaded lightly through me—a gentling, a suffused glow. If love could be morphed into a physical element, this would be it. It was strength and yet it was vulnerability. It was all-encompassing and yet it was freedom. It was a wall of protection. It was wings of trust and faith.

It was Gabriel Ross Sullivan, answering the questions I couldn’t ask. Not that everything would be okay, but that everything in his power would be done, and we’d face whatever outcomes there were together.”
― Linnea Sinclair, Shades of Dark

“Science Fiction and Romance share the same DNA. At their very heart, they are about exploration and discovery.”
― Laurie A. Green

“Don't just follow your dreams...chase them down.”
― Laurie A. Green

“Most girls get flowers or candy. I get a declaration of martial law.”
― Lisa Shearin, Armed & Magical

“Whoever said ignorance is bliss must have died a horrible death with a really surprised look on his face.”
― Lisa Shearin, Armed & Magical

“Graig looks at me and bares his teeth — a smile. His happy look. Sometimes he gives me a treat when I smile back, so I’m good at that now.”
― Lea Kirk, Pets in Space

“Man is an artifact designed for space travel. He is not designed to remain in his present biologic state any more than a tadpole is designed to remain a tadpole.”
― William S. Burroughs

“He who controls the spice controls the universe.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“A good science fiction story should be able to predict not the automobile but the traffic jam.”
― Frederik Pohl