Elisha > Elisha's Quotes

“I didn’t bother to ask what people would think. I’d given up trying to guess the answer to that particular puzzle long ago”
― Sarah J. Harris, The Colour of Bee Larkham’s Murder

“People say silence is golden. They're wrong. It's no colour at all,”
― Sarah J. Harris, The Colour of Bee Larkham’s Murder

“Poor people all think they deserve to be rich,” he continued. “Rich people live every day with the uneasy knowledge that we do not.”
― Graham Moore, The Last Days of Night

“I believe it is worthwhile trying to discover more about the world, even if this only teaches us how little we know.”
― Graham Moore, The Last Days of Night

“Unfortunately we have to remember we’re scientists, not writers of popular semifictional archaeological claptrap.”
― Clive Cussler, Serpent

“Never mind the bullet with your name on it. Beware of the bullet that says “To Whom it May Concern”.”
― Joe Kenda

“Friendship is like boogie boarding. You have to learn when to hold on and when to let go.”
― Lynda Mullaly Hunt, Shouting at the Rain

“the sun is always in the sky but sometimes you just can't see it”
― Lynda Mullaly Hunt, Shouting at the Rain

“A wild-goose chase! I’d heard that expression so many times but never been on one. It sounded like the most exciting thing in the whole world. Yes, I wanted to go on a wild-goose chase, and if that meant Vegas, so be it.”
― Spencer Quinn, Dog on It

“Love wasn’t an outfit you slipped in and out of when it suited you; it was your skin, your bones, your blood.”
― Valerie Valdes, Chilling Effect

“Few people were willing to tolerate a critter that would climb up your ass and wear you like a Halloween costume, so most of them were extinct.”
― Valerie Valdes, Chilling Effect

“That was war for you, like a game of musical chairs where seats kept disappearing until only one was left, and people rarely stopped to ask who the hell was in charge of the music.”
― Valerie Valdes, Chilling Effect

“But when I make a good [taxidermy] mount I feel like I beat God in a small way. As though the Almighty said, Let such critter be dead, and I said, 'Fuck You, he can still play the banjo.”
― Christopher Buehlman, Those Across the River

“That was a mean thought, and not funny at all. I let it turn to sand and blow out of my head.”
― Christopher Buehlman, Those Across the River

“Unlike the internet, information on paper wasn’t forever. It could be burned, consumed, never seen again. Love letters could be forgotten. Secrets could be destroyed. Stains could be scrubbed away. Ink was not forever.”
― Tori Bovalino, The Devil Makes Three

“But it’s not fair. You shouldn’t be the only one —” “Fair?” Kai asks, raising one eyebrow. “Of course it’s not fair. We’re in one of the richest cities in the world, and there are people starving in the streets, businessmen spending thousands of yuan to cheat on their wives and feeling generous for giving a few coins to a beggar. You think anyone cares about fair?” “You do,” Eli points out. “I do.” “Oh, good,” Kai says, “two people in a city of millions. Truly encouraging, I look forward to seeing how we single-handedly turn years of corruption and systemic injustice around.”
― Cynthia Zhang, After the Dragons

“I've heard believers speak of the coldness of science and the warmth of their faith. But my life has been warm too, and I have faith. Faith in love, and faith in the inherent beauty of a world that formed itself.”
― Alexandra Oliva, The Last One

“It’s okay to be afraid, but we don’t have to let it rule us. We’re all afraid; it’s what we do when we’re afraid that matters.”
― Sarah Pinsker, A Song for a New Day

“Heroes were more likely to bleed to death than throw victory parties.”
― Charles Brokaw, The Atlantis Code

“She looked nothing like she had been—and everything like it. I would have known her anywhere, even across the divide of life and death, the divide that she and I had been able to travel, that we now traveled together. She was in the shadows, but still I knew. My mind was sure, and my heart—all of me was certain.”
― Simone St. James, The Other Side of Midnight

“I didn’t care what humans were doing to each other as long as I didn’t have to a) stop it or b) clean up after it.”
― Martha Wells, Artificial Condition

“Have you ever tried to vent your frustration by writing down swear words? Try it, it’s just not the same.”
― Frank Tayell, London

“One day, and it may be long off, but one day there will be bacon again. It might be mouse bacon, but that will do for me.”
― Frank Tayell, London

“There needs to be an error code that means “I received your request but decided to ignore you.”
― Martha Wells, Rogue Protocol

“I said, "Sometimes people do things to you that you can't do anything about. You just have to survive it and go on.”
― Martha Wells, Artificial Condition

“This was Skywalker and Kenobi as they should be: a team built on emotion and intellect, bravado and control, fire and ice.
And despite no longer having the formal bond of Master and apprentice, they would always be connected. In fact, they were better this way.”
― Mike Chen, Brotherhood

“Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker, brothers-in-arms of the Jedi Order. Together, they were unstoppable.”
― Mike Chen, Brotherhood

“I was having an emotion, and I hate that.”
― Martha Wells, Exit Strategy

“You can’t finish a puzzle without all of the pieces. So”
― Paul Holes, Unmasked: My Life Solving America's Cold Cases

“You don’t think everyone actually lives, do you? Most people just exist and roam around. It’s a choice, to actually live.”
― T.J. Newman, Falling