Linda (Book Sniffer) > Linda's Quotes

“Those who write are writers. Those who wait are waiters.”
― A. Lee Martinez

“Some people like drama so much that they have to start inventing things because real life isn't interesting enough for them.”
― Lisa Ballantyne, The Guilty One

“She couldn’t imagine a father hurting his child. Or a mother failing to protect her child.”
― Ellen Marie Wiseman, What She Left Behind

“This is what happens when you repudiate who you are. Once you do that, life works against you, and your fate is no longer your own.”
― Alice Hoffman, The Rules of Magic

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

“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

“If you don’t like to read, you haven’t found the right book.”
― J.K Rowling

“There’s no way out, she reminded herself. There’s only what you do before you die.”
― Holly Black, The Coldest Girl in Coldtown

“When you’re given an opportunity to change your life, be ready to do whatever it takes to make it happen. The world doesn’t give things, you take things. If you learn one thing from me, it should probably be that.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“Don’t let the loss of your loved ones destroy the rest of your life. Mourn them, grieve for them, remember them with love and then gradually, gently, ease them into a secret”
― Diney Costeloe, The Girl With No Name

“Books smell, they creak, they talk. You hold in your hand now a living, breathing, whispering thing, a book.”
― Louise Walters, Mrs. Sinclair's Suitcase

“an ordinary life is not a guarantee of happiness.”
― Matt Haig, How to Stop Time

“...of course, every cat is really the most beautiful woman in the room.”
― Edward V. Lucas

“Sometimes the most courageous thing a man can do is run back across the battlefield and rescue the wounded.”
― Charles Martin, Thunder and Rain

“So, a little morphine, a good sweat, and a bowel movement—the cure for everything that ails you.”
― Charles Frazier, Varina

“You see, a conflict always begins with an issue - a difference of opinion, an argument. But by the time it turns into a war, the issue doesn't matter anymore, because now it's about one thing and one thing only: how much each side hates the other.”
― Neal Shusterman, Unwind

“I like the peace, you see. If there is disorder, it is hard for the spirit to be peaceful.”
― Beatriz Williams, Along the Infinite Sea

“I need a gun. I need a gun to protect us, I need two or three. And do you think the civilized Matthias has a single gun in his civilized house? Of course not. We are left to defend ourselves with our bare hands. Because right is on our side. We can put that on our tombstones, eh? Right was on our side.”
― Beatriz Williams, Along the Infinite Sea

“Sooner or later she will learn time changes everything, takes everything: sometimes in a blink, and sometimes so slowly you can’t even see it happening.”
― Susan Meissner, As Bright as Heaven

“The person who completes your life is not so much the person who shares all the years of your existence, but rather the person who made your life worth living, no matter how long or short a time you were given to spend with them.”
― Susan Meissner, A Fall of Marigolds

“but it was easier to be brave when you had nothing to lose.”
― Christina Henry, The Mermaid

“People want to believe in mermaids.”
― Christina Henry, The Mermaid

“Sometimes we do not realise how much we have been suffering until that suffering is removed.”
― Imogen Robertson, The Paris Winter

“the saddest thing about being the only one left to tell a story is everybody who cares to listen is gone.”
― Jonathan Odell, The Healing

“Million-to-one chances,” she said, “crop up nine times out of ten.”
― Terry Pratchett, Equal Rites

“It is this day you are living right now, this very day, that is yours to make of it what you will. So make it beautiful, if you can.”
― Susan Meissner, The Last Year of the War

“This is what it means to age, I think. The days are long, but the years are short.”
― Ariel Lawhon, The Frozen River