Glenna > Glenna's Quotes

“We like to build on the edge, don’t we? Right on the edge of disaster. Because if we don’t, it leaves room for someone else to build between us and whatever it is we desire. We’re all like Icarus in that way.” Ness points toward the natural jetty to the south. “Let’s walk the shell line this way.”
― Hugh Howey, The Shell Collector

“you think you know what you want, but once you have it, the hole you thought it would fill is that much bigger. The want is what exists, not the thing we lust after.”
― Hugh Howey, The Shell Collector

“And it’s hard to say who moves first. There is a lightning bolt of awareness, an electrical shock as my mind rewires itself to cope with this looming fact: We are about to kiss. And then I’m pulling him into me, and I swear I feel him pulling me as well, and lips that I have damned crash into the lips that damned them. Holding his face, like one might cup a chalice, I realize how thirsty I was for this. How badly I want him right then, in that moment. I don’t care who he is, who I am, or about any story.”
― Hugh Howey, The Shell Collector

“But I can’t say the words. This is how relationships are most like the things I collect: We build these hard exteriors. We pull ourselves inside, block off the only way in, don’t let anyone see our true selves.”
― Hugh Howey, The Shell Collector

“Today I like my first ladies with a little bite.”
― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects

“The Sherpa of Changli had a saying: A man can count on two hands all the climbs he conquers, and that man conquers nothing. I always took this to mean the more we summit the more we lose.”
― Hugh Howey, The Walk Up Nameless Ridge

“At the time, I simply accepted the change for what it was—a welcome relief—but looking back, it represents as clear an indication as anything about just how much sway Uncle Dave and Aunt Shelly had over people. For months, I’d been tormented and insulted. I’d been embarrassed and harassed. I’d been put in my place and told that I was the lowest of the low. Yet, in spite of all that, it took just one conversation with Aunt Shelly to put things on a path to improvement.”
― Jenna Miscavige Hill, Beyond Belief: My Secret Life Inside Scientology and My Harrowing Escape

“We were keeping a tally of who is to blame and how much. Shawn was at the top and Sarah wasn’t far behind.”
― Karen Spears Zacharias, A Silence of Mockingbirds : True Crime Behind Karly's Law

“I don’t know why the water and the sky scare me. I wonder if it is because here at the ocean there is no place to hide.”
― Gregg Olsen, A Wicked Snow

“I didn’t pack him a lunch to take for his trip. I was glad he was gone. That night I asked God to help me deal with my feelings, or lack of them, for my oldest son and to help me fight hating George for making me feel so helpless. It was as if I had no say over what went on in my own house.”
― Donna Mabry, Maude

“I think now God gives each one of us a measure of happiness for our lives, and some are allowed more than others. It’s like the ration stamps that were handed out during the war, so much butter, so much sugar, and then no more.”
― Donna Mabry, Maude

“He sees me based on what I can do for him, not who I am. He has an image of me and he doesn’t want to see beneath the image. You can’t be with a man who is unwilling or unable to see the real you.”
― Cathy Lamb, What I Remember Most

“We laughed the type of laugh you laugh when you want to cry and fear has its claws in you and is pulling you down but you’re keeping your chin up and holding it together because if you don’t, you’ll be flat wiped-out.”
― Cathy Lamb, What I Remember Most

“Don’t part with your illusions; when they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.”
― Susan Wittig Albert, A Wilder Rose

“I was longing, instead, for the feelings I’d had when I first met him, wishing I could love with that sweetly giddy, self-forgetting exhilaration just once more in my life and knowing, somehow, that I wouldn’t. I was, I think, longing for my younger self, full of optimism and joy and impatient for life, for adventure, for risk.”
― Susan Wittig Albert, A Wilder Rose

“Behavioral contagion, Harry. Remember the mantra: this is not my stress.”
― Barbara Claypole White, The Perfect Son

“It is where the balance quivers, and the proportions are veiled in mist, that the opportunity for world-saving decisions presents itself.”
― Winston S. Churchill, The Gathering Storm: The Second World War, Volume 1

“the unconscious mind writes poetry if it’s left alone.”
― Stephen King, Duma Key

“Well, I suppose men can make all the laws they like,” he said, “but God made hope. The stars willna burn out.”
― Diana Gabaldon, Written in My Own Heart's Blood

“There are prisons of all kinds, Zoey, they take every shape imaginable. They aren’t just concrete, and steel, and stone. They’re everywhere. And even when you’ve escaped one, there’s always another waiting. But you must remember that the first step to freedom doesn’t always start with picking a lock.”
― Joe Hart, The Last Girl

“Some stories don’t have happy endings. Even love stories. Maybe especially love stories.” The”
― Kristin Hannah, The Nightingale

“And those unwilling to look beyond their own little world will be left in the dark.”
― Paul Pen, The Light of the Fireflies

“I feel the wind in my face as I ride in the bed of an old pickup truck down a country road at night, dust swirling red in the taillights and the entire span of my life yawning out ahead of me. It’s the beautiful thing about youth. There’s a weightlessness that permeates everything because no damning choices have been made, no paths committed to, and the road forking out ahead is pure, unlimited potential.”
― Blake Crouch, Dark Matter

“It’s like we get so set in our ways, so entrenched in those grooves, we stop seeing our loved ones for who they are. But tonight, right now, I see you again, like the first time we met, when the sound of your voice and your smell was this new country.”
― Blake Crouch, Dark Matter

“he’d thought the past was dead. How long did it take for a past to die? She”
― Richard Matheson, I Am Legend

“I don’t think we did go blind, I think we are blind, Blind but seeing, Blind people who can see, but do not see. The”
― José Saramago, Blindness

“Ethan wondered if it was the first time any of his emotions had ever felt free.”
― Catherine Ryan Hyde, Leaving Blythe River

“For readers, one of life’s most electrifying discoveries is that they are readers – not just capable of doing it, but in love with it. Hopelessly. Head over heels.”
― Stephen King, Finders Keepers

“He would give anything to just sleep, and sleep, and sleep. But he opens them again and forces himself to look at Brady, because you play the game to the end. That’s how it works; play to the end. “I”
― Stephen King, End of Watch

“Because things can get better, and if you give them a chance, they usually do.”
― Stephen King, End of Watch