Lissette > Lissette's Quotes

“Never live what you see. Never follow what you know.”
― Lissette E. Manning

“Writers fish for the right words like fishermen fish for, um, whatever those aquatic creatures with fins and gills are called. 
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― Jarod Kintz, This is the best book I've ever written, and it still sucks

“Turning the corner, she saw the dark figure of a man, John, pushed up against the side of his bed cast in the light of another stained glass lamp. She fought the simultaneous instinct to jump away and move closer.

“You shouldn’t have come,” he said through gritted teeth.

“I had to,” she insisted, taking a step forward. “It sounded like you were in trouble.”

He laughed without humor. “Damn right I’m in trouble.”
― Shawn Kirsten Maravel, Know Thy Neighbor

“What is it about guys named Adam?”
― Faith Sullivan, Come What May

“Comb his Facebook page. See if he has a Twitter account. Follow up on every Google lead. I want to know what makes him tick, what makes him the man he is.”
― Faith Sullivan, Take Me Now

“Chemistry's a tricky thing, and if I'm not feeling it, I'm not gonna pretend.”
― Faith Sullivan, Heartbeat

“Well if it isn't little miss 'Call Me Maybe' back from the dead.”
― Faith Sullivan, Heartbeat

“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
― Toni Morrison

“To know and have it all is about individuality because each one has the right not to live under the mercy of anyone with more power. So, for freedom and protection, one desires to know and have it all, but the questions remain.”
― Zaman Ali, EVIDENCE To Know and Have It All?