Sarah Pottenger > Sarah's Quotes

“I believe entertainment can aspire to be art, and can become art, but if you set out to make art you're an idiot.”
― steve martin

“I understood that as much as I had resisted the outside, as much as I had constricted my life, as much as I had closed and narrowed the channels into me, there were still many takers for the quiet heart.”
― Steve Martin, The Pleasure of My Company

“Some people have a way with words, and other people...oh, uh, not have way.”
― Steve Martin

“A short story is a different thing altogether – a short story is like a quick kiss in the dark from a stranger.”
― Stephen King, Skeleton Crew

“If you liked being a teenager, there's something really wrong with you.”
― Stephen King

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

“You don’t have a soul, Doctor. You are a soul. You have a body, temporarily.”
― Walter M. Miller Jr., A Canticle for Leibowitz

“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

“Already up to his waist in the quaking bog, Pendergast stopped struggling and stared up at his assassin. The icy glitter in the pale gray eyes spoke more eloquently of his hatred and despair than any words he might have spoken, and it shook Esterhazy to the core.”
― Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child, Cold Vengeance

“He breathed once more, holding the air in his chest, as if it were not air but something more--a sweet taste of freedom, of all cares lifted, everything over and done.”
― Justin Cronin, The Passage

“She couldn't see him, but his voice was like light through a stained-glass window in a cathedral.”
― Graham Joyce, The Silent Land

“They were an end-of-days couple, not naked in a garden but wrapped in layers in a snow-covered landscape where there were no more apples on the trees and women would no longer have to take the blame because the old lie had been covered over by snow.”
― Graham Joyce, The Silent Land

“The awesome silence of the place crept up on her. The spruce and pines, all still laden with snow, spread their limbs in a frozen ballet, breathing a ghostly incense from dark, arid chapels sheltered by their branches.”
― Graham Joyce, The Silent Land

“The blood in my veins is frozen but it sings of love.”
― Graham Joyce, The Silent Land

“Sometimes superheroes are born, sometimes they are made. Sometimes they make themselves. Sometimes all it takes is will.”
― Anne Ursu, The Disapparation of James

“We hit the sidewalk, and dropped hands. How I wished, right then, that the whole world was a street.”
― Aimee Bender, The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake

“I admired that stride; it was like he folded space in two with it.”
― Aimee Bender, The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake

“Mom flipped through the magazines like the pages needed to be slapped.”
― Aimee Bender, The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake

“A line only gets grace when it curves, you know.”
― Leif Enger, So Brave, Young, and Handsome

“...for his life seemed a curving line, capricious, moment by moment inviting grace.”
― Leif Enger, So Brave, Young, and Handsome

“I felt laden. Air itself has weight and mass, and Kansas had the most air of anywhere I'd ever been.”
― Leif Enger, So Brave, Young, and Handsome

“Charisma is a mysterious and powerful thing. I have it in limited supply, and that which I do have functions under highly specialized conditions.”
― Jesse Kellerman, The Executor

“...in seduction, as in all forms of marketing, form superseds content.”
― Jesse Kellerman, The Executor

“Faith was a choice. So, it followed, was wonder.”
― Glen David Gold, Carter Beats the Devil

“Show God what yer made of, man. Pucker up and kiss the cross.”
― Mary Doria Russell, Children of God

“She was held in the tension just before movement, about to walk back toward the house. Later she would think, If I had turned away, I'd have missed the moment he fell in love.
He would not remember it that way. What he experienced was not so much the beginning of love as a cessation of pain.”
― Mary Doria Russell, Children of God

“He found Pendergast's cool gaze on him, and he fidgeted. He'd forgotten about those eyes. They made you feel like you had just been stripped of your secrets.”
― Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child, Brimstone

“It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

“Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

“Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant filled with odd little waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don't always like.”
― Lemony Snicket