Elaine Stock > Elaine's Quotes

“My #1 rule is write like no one is ever going to read it. Why? Because it gives you permission to be as audacious as you want.”
― Tosca Lee

“Everything's a story - You are a story -I am a story.”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, A Little Princess

“There will be a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning.”
― Louis L'Amour

“Things can be cleaned and replaced. Great moments cannot afford to be lost.”
― Cindy Woodsmall, The Bridge of Peace

“All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“If that's what you believe the Lord is calling you to do, then you can be confident He'll go ahead of you.”
― Cynthia Ruchti, They Almost Always Come Home

“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Do no harm and leave the world a better place than you found it.”
― Patricia Cornwell

“You are here on purpose and for a purpose." ~ Dr. MaryAnn Diorio”
― Dr. MaryAnn Diorio

“We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson

“No one ever told me I was pretty when I was a little girl. All little girls should be told they're pretty, even if they aren't.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“The real lover is the man who can thrill you by kissing your forehead or smiling into your eyes or just staring into space.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“It was a slow fade from belief to disbelief, one that was so gradual she hardly realized it was happening.”
― Christy Barritt, Disillusioned

“For me, literacy means freedom. For the individual and for society.”
― LeVar Burton

“No one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed.”
― Erma Bombeck

“If Plan A didn't work, the alphabet has 25 more letters.”
― Anonymous

“Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.”
― Corrie ten Boom

“What is in your blood matters, but not as much as what is in your heart.”
― Sonja Yoerg, All the Best People

“God gives us only so many days to touch somebody’s life in a special way, so we need to make them count.”
― JoAnn Durgin, Daydreams

“God makes us with the exact ingredients we need for life. Unfortunately we spoil the mix by throwing in extras that damage the final outcome. God takes the rest of our lives trying to heal and restore us back to His perfect cake mix.”
― Margaret Kazmierczak

“I opened a book and in I strode. Now nobody can find me.”
― Julia Donaldson

“That was what made friendship special, nearly sacred, and worth nurturing - understanding the other and accompanying them through good times and bad”
― Elaine Stock, We Shall Not Shatter

“Why people turn against each other and cause unnecessary chaos, I'll never understand. It takes more effort to hate than it does to love”
― Elaine Stock, We Shall Not Shatter

“Uncertain times brought out the best and worst in people. This was not the first time she'd behaved boldly. That was a positive aspect of being a deaf person in a hearing world - you had to have confidence, or at least, act in a fashion that led others to believe you were courageous. And she'd perfected her acting abilities a long time ago for the sake of survival”
― Elaine Stock, We Shall Not Shatter

“Zofia's heart remained splintered over how people weren't treated equally, depending on their finances. If the world functioned on love rather than on monetary value, all would benefit”
― Elaine Stock, We Shall Not Shatter

“The guilt is blazing within me like a fever. I hate lying about who I am and who I'm supposed to be. I'm torn up with guilt for denying my heritage and my native country while well aware of how so many people have suffered illness, torture, or death, or all three, because, like me, they failed to live up to Aryan standards”
― Elaine Stock, We Shall Not Shatter

“Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“A wave of irritation washed over her. These privileged men had no idea how easy it was for them, drifting into education knowing their father's money would bail them out - when Stella was saving every penny she had, desperate to get a chance to read for a PhD. Stella was three times as smart as most of them too”
― Rachel Burton, The Secrets of Summer House

“Nevertheless, if she was pushed, you're going to be a suspect, I guess. Why are you always in the wrong place at the wrong time, Kate?”
― Dee MacDonald, A Body on the Beach

“Bruno wished he was more capable of lying, but when he was keeping such a deep secret about himself hidden, the truth almost rose out of him by itself, like a counterweight”
― Drew Davies, The Locked-Away Life