Sally Kilpatrick > Sally's Quotes

“I'm going to do what any self-respecting English major would do: pull something out of my ass.”
― Beth Kendrick, Second Time Around

“I don't teach writing. I teach patience. Toughness. Stubbornness. The willingness to fail. I teach the life. The odd thing is most of the things that stop an inexperienced writer are so far from the truth as to be nearly beside the point. When you feel glosbal doubt about your talent, that is your talent. People who have no talent don't have any doubt.”
― Richard Bausch

“Maybe the midnight disease was like that, too. After a while you lost the ability to distinguish between your fictional and actual words; you confused yourself with your characters, and the random happenings of your life with the machinations of a plot.”
― Michael Chabon, Wonder Boys

“Everyone deserves something lovely, she said. It was something that she truly believed.”
― Nicki Salcedo, All Beautiful Things

“A single shoe. Only someone under a spell would lose a shoe and not turn back for it.”
― Nicki Salcedo, All Beautiful Things

“Only in art was cheerful condemned.”
― Nicki Salcedo, All Beautiful Things

“It is easy to pride yourself on brains when you had both brains and beauty. Beauty was fleeting, and here was the proof. It was gone.”
― Nicki Salcedo, All Beautiful Things

“Ava knew the incidental betrayals of life.”
― Nicki Salcedo, All Beautiful Things

“Quiet was another kind of warning.”
― Nicki Salcedo, All Beautiful Things

“He appreciated all beautiful things. As she stood before him poised, scrutinizing every inch of his face, liable to strike him, he thought she was the most incredible thing he had seen in his life. She didn't step away from fear, she walked up to it.”
― Nicki Salcedo, All Beautiful Things

“We are all made of glass. Snow floats around us. We are delicately made, meant to be smashed.”
― Nicki Salcedo, All Beautiful Things

“He might be worried, but at least he's not upset with me. My family gets up set easily, and he got stuck helping me out. Wrong place. Wrong time. --She tried to turn her face to hide marks.

The nurse told her no. --Everything is right. Right place. Right time for both of you.

Are you from Jamaica? Ava asked, but she knew the answer. The woman had that terrible peace about her that some people were born with. There was no wrong. Everything could be made right.”
― Nicki Salcedo, All Beautiful Things

“He preferred the bitterness of coffee. It was the one thing he got from his father that Graham wasn't ashamed of.”
― Nicki Salcedo, All Beautiful Things

“Maybe there was healing in running when nothing chased you.”
― Nicki Salcedo, All Beautiful Things

“What if the most courageous thing you do is hold a dying person's hand? That would be enough.”
― Nicki Salcedo, All Beautiful Things

“If everyone could be brought low, then everyone could rise up.”
― Nicki Salcedo, All Beautiful Things

“Wherever she sought solitude, she was never alone. Suddenly that wasn't a bad thing. There was safety in numbers greater than one and sanity in knowing that everyone healed. If everyone has scars, there are two choices. Bleed to death slowly or stitch yourself together.”
― Nicki Salcedo, All Beautiful Things

“This loving, generous, captivating woman had probably lived through hell and emerged like a butterfly with scorched wings.”
― Kennedy Ryan, When You Are Mine

“I always thought Walsh would fall in love with some girl no one saw coming. He's a closet romantic.”
― Kennedy Ryan, When You Are Mine

“Wealth doesn't give you superpowers.”
― Kennedy Ryan, When You Are Mine

“They understood that the meaning of life is connected, inextricably, to the meaning of death; that mourning is a romance in reverse, and if you love, you grieve and there are no exceptions-- only those who do it well and those who don't. And if death is regarded as an embarrassment or an inconvenience, if the dead are regarded as a nuisance from whom we seek a hurried riddance, then life and the living are in for like treatment.”
― Thomas Lynch, The Undertaking: Life Studies from the Dismal Trade

“I think maybe Gladstone had it right. I think my father did. They understood that the meaning of life is connected, inextricably, to the meaning of death; that mourning is a romance in reverse, and if you love, you grieve and there are no exceptions---only those who do it well and those who don't.”
― Thomas Lynch, The Undertaking: Life Studies from the Dismal Trade

“The sad truths I've been taught by the families of the dead are these: seeing is believing; knowing is better than not knowing; to name the hurt returns a kind of comfort; the grief ignored will never go away. For those whose sons and daughters, husbands, wives, mothers, fathers and friends went off alive and never did return, the worst that can happen has already happened. The light and air of what is known, however difficult, is better than the dark. The facts of death, like the facts of life, are required learning.”
― Thomas Lynch, Bodies in Motion and at Rest: On Metaphor and Mortality

“Everything I do is going to contain the message that men who are going to be comfortable with powerful women are going to be more powerful men”
― Joss Whedon

“It was only when I got to college that I realized that the rest of the world didn't run the way my world was run, and that there was a need for feminism. I'd thought it was all solved. There are people like my mom, clearly everyone is equal and it's all fine. Then I get into the world and I hear the things people are saying. Then I get to Hollywood and hear the very casual, almost insidious misogyny that just runs through so much of the fiction. It was just staggering to me.”
― Joss Whedon

“When people say to me, 'Why are you so good at writing at women?' I say, 'Why isn't everybody?' Obviously there are differences between men and women - that's what makes it all fun. But we're all people. There's a lot of good writers who are very humanist, but still manage to kind of skip fifty-five per cent of the race. And I just don't get that. Not to be able to write an entire gender? To me, the question isn't how do you do it? It's how can you possibly avoid doing it?”
― Joss Whedon

“Dead men told no tales, according to the generally held view.”
― Raymond L. Atkins, Sweetwater Blues

“I'm a poet, and I like my lies the way my mother used to make them.”
― Aleister Crowley, Moonchild

“To the English majors. We may not always be practical, but we have infinite potential.”
― Beth Kendrick, Second Time Around

“Love all, trust a few,
Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemy
Rather in power than use; and keep thy friend
Under thy own life's key: be check'd for silence,
But never tax'd for speech.”
― William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well