Anne Patkau > Anne's Quotes

“Muddling along ... is the great secret to life... You take the good and the bad and cope as they happen" - Gallen in Intrigues”
― Mercedes Lackey, Intrigues

“The world was a terrible place, cruel, pitiless, dark as a bad dream. Not a good place to live. Only in books could you find pity, comfort, happiness - and love. Books loved anyone who opened them, they gave you security and friendship and didn't ask anything in return; they never went away, never, not even when you treated them badly.”
― Cornelia Funke, Inkheart / Inkspell / Inkdeath

“If I'd been listening closely, I'd have caught the sound of the gods having a great big old tee-hee at my expense.”
― Sue Grafton, U is for Undertow

“There will always be bad times... It's the getting back up again that counts." - Gallen in "Intrigues”
― Mercedes Lackey, Intrigues

“Choose an author as you choose a friend.”
― Wentworth Dillon

“After this, anything might happen. Anything at all. - The End”
― Patricia C. Wrede , Mairelon the Magician

“the use of profanity for effect to be a practice of the weak-minded”
― Terry Fallis, The Best Laid Plans

“I love being single. It's almost like being rich.”
― Sue Grafton

“one of the most famous split infinitives ... To boldly go”
― Terry Fallis, The Best Laid Plans

“When all else fails, give up and go to the library.”
― Stephen King, 11/22/63

“A life without challenge, a life without hardship, a life without purpose, seems pale and pointless. With challenge come perseverance and gumption. With hardship come resilience and resolve. With purpose come strength and understanding.”
― Terry Fallis, The High Road

“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
― Mark Twain

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
― H. Jackson Brown Jr., P.S. I Love You

“Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.”
― Mark Twain

“Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining.”
― Anne Lamott

“Sometimes I really hate being right.”
― R.L. LaFevers, Theodosia and the Serpents of Chaos

“What is the job of a parent, but to teach a child she has worth so that one day she can transform herself into whatever she wants.”
― Stacey Lee, The Downstairs Girl

“The tricky thing about giving opinions is that sometimes they cost you more than you wanted to spend.”
― Stacey Lee, The Downstairs Girl

“Laughter is the antidote to existential pain”
― S. Spencer Baker, Slabscape: Reset

“If you think fate is fickle, try tempting it”
― S. Spencer Baker, Slabscape: Reset

“Smart people learn from their mistakes. But the real sharp ones learn from the mistakes of others.”
― Brandon Mull, Fablehaven

“Prince Ronald said, Elizabeth, your hair is all dirty. You are wearing an ugly paper bag. You don't have any shoes on and you smell like a dragon's ear. Come back and rescue me when you're dressed like a real princess.

Elizabeth said, Ronald, your hair is all nice. Your clothes are all pretty. You look like a nice guy, but guess what? You are a bum.

They didn't get married after all.”
― Robert Munsch

“I'll love you forever,
I'll like you for always,
As long as I'm living,
my baby you'll be.”
― Robert N. Munsch, Love You Forever

“You cannot argue stupidity, you just have to accept it patiently as one of those things.”
― Nevil Shute, Round the Bend

“It's not the end of the world at all," he said. "It's only the end for us. The world will go on just the same, only we shan't be in it. I dare say it will get along all right without us.”
― Nevil Shute, On the Beach

“She looked at him in wonder. "Do people think of me like that? I only did what anybody could have done."
"That's as it may be," he replied. "The fact is, that you did it.”
― Nevil Shute, A Town Like Alice

“Some games are fun even when you lose. Even when you know you're going to lose before you start. It's fun just playing them.”
― Nevil Shute, On the Beach

“Maybe we've been too silly to deserve a world like this.”
― Nevil Shute, On the Beach

“You know," he said, "now that I've got used to the idea, I think I'd rather have it this way. We've all got to die one day, some sooner and some later. The trouble always has been that you're never ready, because you don't know when it's coming. Well, now we do know, and there's nothing to be done about it. I kind of like that. I kind of like the thought that I'll be fit and well up till the end of August and then - home. I'd rather have it that way than go on as a sick man from when I'm seventy to when I'm ninety.”
― Nevil Shute, On the Beach

“Intrigue, surrounded by mystery, wrapped in an enigma…”
― J.C. Allen, Chronicles of Time: Book 1