Megan > Megan's Quotes

“I address you all tonight for who you truly are: wizards, mermaids, travelers, adventurers, and magicians. You are the true dreamers.”
― Brian Selznick, The Invention of Hugo Cabret

“My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from it.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin

“Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”
― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

“It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all—in which case, you fail by default.”
― J.K. Rowling

“I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.”
― C.S. Lewis

“But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough can you see the stars.”
― Martin Luther King, Jr.

“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

“Morpheus is not his true name. He is glory and deprecation—sunlight and shadows—the scuttle of a scorpion and the melody of a nightingale. The breath of the sea and the cannonade of a storm. Can you relay birdsong, or the sound of wind, or the scurry of a creature across the sand? For the proper names of netherlings are made up of the life forces defining them. Can you speak these things with your tongue?”
― A.G. Howard, Splintered

“No one really knows why they are alive until they know what they'd die for.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

“Lightning makes no sound until it strikes.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., Why We Can't Wait

“He's a contradiction: taut magic coiled to strike, gentleness at war with severity, a tongue as sharp as a whip's edge, yet skin so soft he could be swathed in clouds.”
― A.G. Howard, Splintered

“Evangeline could remember her father telling her as a child not to discredit legends, for their content was based on some truth, and learning the tales of old could only benefit the future. Knowledge was everything.”
― Megan Dent Nagle, Azurite

“Milo looked into Sariel’s expressionless face and sighed. “I’m not misleading
her,” he objected. “When I said that I would never leave her side, I meant it.”
“But you know that’s not possible,” Sariel contradicted gently. “You envy those
who are going to take your place. Envy leads to strife and strife leads to death, Warden.
It’s not a good place to be. Perhaps you should learn to be truthful to yourself?”
― Megan Dent Nagle, Azurite

“Flee all that’s evil, do all that’s good, seek what is true, purse only peace, love
unconditionally.’
Warden’s Oath”
― Megan Dent Nagle, Azurite

“We all have our time machines, don't we. Those that take us back are memories...And those that carry us forward, are dreams.”
― H.G. Wells

“Jeremiah 29:11
"For I know the plans I have for you," declares the LORD, " Plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you a HOPE and a FUTURE.”
― Jesus

“Very fair was her face, and her long hair was like a river of gold. Slender and tall she was in her white robe girt with silver; but strong she seemed and stern as steel, a daughter of kings. Thus Aragon for the first time in the full light of day beheld Eowyn, lady of Rohan, and thought her fair, fair and cold, like a morning of pale spring that is not yet come to womanhood.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution.”
― Kahlil Gibran

“Pride is a wonderful terrible thing a seed that bears two vines life and death.”
― James Hurst, The Scarlet Ibis

“I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”
― Groucho Marx

“None of us really changes over time. We only become more fully what we are.”
― Anne Rice, The Vampire Lestat

“All heroes are shadows of Christ”
― John Piper, Don't Waste Your Life