Diane > Diane's Quotes

“I grasp reality, but sometimes I like to choke it into submission.”
― Lisa Kleypas Emma from Dream Lake

“The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.”
― Tom Clancy

“People used to say obvious things ironically or as a form of understatement, but in the last few decades they seem to say it with a sense of discovery, and it worries me.”
― Kevin Hearne, Clan Rathskeller

“She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit.”
― W. Somerset Maugham

“Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.”
― Frederick Douglass

“[Dean] “My dear fellow, who will let you?”

[Roark] “That’s not the point. The point is, who will stop me?”
― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

“Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.”
― Evelyn Waugh

“We are all born mad. Some remain so.”
― Samuel Beckett

“If you don't remove your hands immediately, I will render you unable to biologically maintain life.”
― Kaede Kouchi, Love So Life 1

“How glorious it is – and also how painful – to be an exception. ”
― Alfred de Musset

“Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.”
― E.L. Doctorow

“People are stupid; given proper motivation, almost anyone will believe almost anything. Because people are stupid, they will believe a lie because they want to believe it's true, or because they are afraid it might be true. People’s heads are full of knowledge, facts, and beliefs, and most of it is false, yet they think it all true. People are stupid; they can only rarely tell the difference between a lie and the truth, and yet they are confident they can, and so are all the easier to fool.”
― Terry Goodkind, Wizard's First Rule

“Wizard's First Rule: People are stupid”
― Terry Goodkind, Wizard's First Rule

“I am who I am; no more, no less.”
― Terry Goodkind, Wizard's First Rule

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“But to me it sounded like someone throwing a roll of paper towels and a can of frosting into an oven and saying, "You know, I think there's a good chance of this turning into a cake.”
― Lisa Kleypas, Rainshadow Road

“I no longer believed in the idea of soul mates, or love at first sight. But I was beginning to believe that a very few times in your life, if you were lucky, you might meet someone who was exactly right for you. Not because he was perfect, or because you were, but because your combined flaws were arranged in a way that allowed two separate beings to hinge together.”
― Lisa Kleypas, Blue-Eyed Devil

“I want morning and noon and nightfall with you. I want your tears, your smiles, your kisses...the smell of your hair, the taste of your skin, the touch of your breath on my face. I want to see you in the final hour of my life...to lie in your arms as I take my last breath.”
― Lisa Kleypas, Again the Magic

“Sometimes life has a cruel sense of humor, giving you the thing you always wanted at the worst time possible.”
― Lisa Kleypas, Sugar Daddy

“Most men don't seem to get that telling a pissed-off woman to calm down is like throwing gunpowder on a fire.”

~ Liberty Jones”
― Lisa Kleypas, Sugar Daddy

“why did you tell me to look on the 'other' table instead of 'that' table?”
― jill barnett

“The Dean stared at me as if I had just sprouted purple horns with yellow polka dots.  ‘You mean you don’t even...’ His voice trailed off, and he rolled his eyes.  ‘Kinesis, Divination, Protection, Evocation and Illusion.’
‘Ah, I see.’  I nodded sagely.
‘You have no idea what any of those actually are, do you?’
‘Kinesis is moving things around, I guess.  Protection will be warding, I imagine, and learning how to kick the shit out of nasty things.’
The Dean winced.  ‘Language, please.’
‘Oh, sorry.  Learning how to utilise one’s alchemical hocus-pocus in order to suppress and extirpate the existence of any objectionable entity that threatens either to subjugate or generally cause botheration.’  I crossed my legs and leaned back again.”

Excerpt From: Helen Harper. “The Blood Destiny series.” iBooks.”
― Helen Harper

“yep" Eloquence 'R' Us. When in trouble, keep it monosyllabic-safer that way.”
― Ilona Andrews, Magic Strikes

“Probably look like fucking Captain Hook.”
― Helen Harper

“soft and sweet to look at with a prickly personality and a streak of defiant personality. I smirked. Kitten. It suited her.”
― Helen Harper

“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

“Libraries were full of ideas—perhaps the most dangerous and powerful of all weapons.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Throne of Glass

“We all bear scars,... Mine just happen to be more visible than most.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Throne of Glass

“You cannot pick and choose what parts of her to love.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Heir of Fire