Selena > Selena's Quotes

“The person that loves the least, controls the relationship”
― Zane, Total Eclipse of the Heart

“They always say that people should give relationships time to develop. That sooner or later a person's real traits will be exposed. I should have listened to "they".”
― Zane, Total Eclipse of the Heart

“When you're hurt, you feel stupid because you think you should have seen it coming. But if we knew everything that was going to happen to us we wouldn't get out of bed in the morning. All I'm saying is, open your mind and your heart to the possibilities.”
― Zane, Total Eclipse of the Heart

“Never judge a book by its cover, especially when the book is a person, was the lesson.”
― Mary Higgins Clark, The Cinderella Murder

“one person’s idea of live-and-let-live is another person’s definition of betrayal,”
― Mary Higgins Clark, The Cinderella Murder

“better to ask for forgiveness than permission.”
― Mary Higgins Clark, The Cinderella Murder

“I was at his house.”
― Mary Higgins Clark, The Cinderella Murder

“as every office worker knows, it’s not the hope that kills you. It’s knowing it’s the hope that kills you that kills you.”
― Mick Herron, Real Tigers

“Lamb said, ‘If you had issues with him, I could have spoken to HR. Arranged an intervention.’ He tapped Moody’s shoulder with his foot. ‘Breaking his neck without going through your line manager, that shit stays on your record.”
― Mick Herron, Slow Horses

“Death rarely changes how we feel about someone. Heightens it, more often than not.”
― Jane Harper, The Dry

“His own naivety taunted him like a flicker of madness.”
― Jane Harper

“He passed a takeaway that seemed to offer cuisine from any corner of the world as long as it was fried or could be displayed in a pie warmer.”
― Jane Harper, The Dry

“Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.”
― Margaret Fuller

“I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end.”
― Gilda Radner

“Books may well be the only true magic.”
― Alice Hoffman

“Keep a diary, but don't just list all the things you did during the day. Pick one incident and write it up as a brief vignette. Give it color, include quotes and dialogue, shape it like a story with a beginning, middle and end—as if it were a short story or an episode in a novel. It's great practice. Do this while figuring out what you want to write a book about. The book may even emerge from within this running diary.”
― John Berendt

“Rule number one: Always stick around for one more drink. That's when things happen. That's when you find out everything you want to know.”
― John Berendt, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

“You don’t have to dumb it down, but you do have to sum it up.”
― Charles M. Blow

“What good is power when you're too wise to use it?”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea

“Go to bed; tired is stupid.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea

“Have you ever seen a little girl run so fast she falls down? There's an instant, a fraction of a second before the world catches hold of her again... A moment when she's outrun every doubt and fear she's ever had about herself and she flies. In that one moment, every little girl flies. I need to find that again. Like taking a car out into the desert to see how fast it can go, I need to find the edge of me... And maybe, if I fly far enough, I'll be able to turn around and look at the world... And see where I belong.”
― Kelly Sue DeConnick

“Knew you the second you set foot on my property, kid. Even as young as you were, how could I not? Folks want to blame someone for gals like us. “Her daddy was unkind” or “some fella broke her heart” … Hogwash. You and me’ve always been like this. Always a little removed. Always… dreaming.
Of higher, further, faster… more. Always more. We came into this world spittin’ mad, runnin’ full bore… To or from what, I ain’t never been able to tell. Over the years, I’ve come to think of these particular traits as the shared attributes of a chosen people… the Lord put us here to punch holes in the sky.
And when the soul is born with that kind of purpose… It’ll damn sure find a way. We’re gonna get where we’re going, you and me. Death and indignity be damned… we’ll get there…
…And we will be the stars we were always meant to be.”
― Kelly Sue DeConnick, Captain Marvel, Vol. 1: In Pursuit of Flight

“read somewhere that victory goes to the man who is most prepared to win. Well, I’m prepared to win. But I can’t speak for these other guys. You know what I mean? Let each man speak for himself.”
― Omar Tyree, The Last Street Novel

“sometime hate is just confused love!”
― omar tyree

“It took me a lifetime to understand that, all too often, people are just plain nasty. They can't see beyond their own stuff. They're scarred forever, and they want to take you down too.”
― Claire Seeber, The Stepmother

“Still, the thing lurks in the corners of my mind, that squat little beast called memory, its sticky fingers covering everything with a thin layer of slime.”
― Claire Seeber, The Stepmother

“They tell so many lies, they can’t keep them straight, and then they get caught.  The truth is easy to remember, so don’t forget that.”
― Kate O'Reilly, It's Nothing Personal

“But he was going to wake in the cold on the porch, with the same dying heart he’d had all his life. And with his son’s severed head on his chest, staring at him. He was going to learn exactly what he’d bought for himself, for his family.”
― Jonathan Moore, Close Reach

“It was so easy to cross over. To twitch her finger or bend her wrist and in an instant do something that could never be undone.”
― Jonathan Moore, Close Reach

“She knew that if she tied this man up in a quiet room, gagged him so his screams wouldn’t block the other noises, and held a laser like this one to his eyes, she’d hear a low pop as the surface of his retinas flash-boiled and seared onto the face of his optic nerves. Ever afterward, his would be a world of pain and darkness and weird flashes in the shadows.”
― Jonathan Moore, Close Reach