Belinda > Belinda's Quotes

“The first draft is your “vomit onto the keyboard” draft, wherein your task is to simply keep moving and outrun your doubts.”
― Sean Platt, Write. Publish. Repeat. The No-Luck-Required Guide to Self-Publishing Success

“All my life, everyone has used my 'ilness' as an excuse to take my choices away. I've been locked up, told what to eat, who I can be friends with, where I can go to school. They even forced those damn meds down my throat." She paused, breathing hard. "It's my life. Even if I'm sick, I'm the only one who should get to choose what I do and how I do it.”
― Belinda Crawford, Hero

“Why do I feel like this is a ploy?"
"You're paranoid?"
"Or," she said as she walked back around her desk and sat, "maybe I just know my daughter too well.”
― Belinda Crawford, Hero

“They'd all been crackpots back then, those first-gen colonists, but Woolsey had topped them all. No one else would have thought to mix a little bit of rat with a little bit of leopard and a whole lot of alien to create something big and strong and scary enough to walk the surface with impunity.”
― Belinda Crawford, Hero

“Just because they say it, doesn't mean you have to believe it.”
― Belinda Crawford, Hero

“You are too arrogant for your own good. I officially de-mate you. Go away. I never want to see you again. Except maybe tonight. Naked. Your place. But after that, no more.”
― Katie MacAlister, You Slay Me

“If you've ever taken a sub, you'll know they have available every luxury item the weary traveller could ever wish to purchase. Drinks, food, perfumes, clothes, blankets, anything. These compartments weren't empty, but I doubt the weary traveller was really in the market for a selection of low and high powered pistols, assault rifles, armour piercing rounds and the variety of explosive devices on offer. Unless they were on the way to a Christmas family get-together.”
― G.R. Matthews, Nothing Is Ever Simple

“In this job, you handpick your people. You need the best. You need the most loyal. You need the most ruthless.”
― Karen Traviss, Halo: The Thursday War

“Drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it is the axis on which the world earth revolves - slowly, evenly, without rushing toward the future.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh