Elise > Elise's Quotes

“For you, a thousand times over”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“I wouldn't want to assume that all men are like you. If I did, I know I would give them up entirely”
― Patricia Cornwell, The Body Farm

“Nothing builds confidence like live ammo.”
― Tim Dorsey, Atomic Lobster

“When everything is at risk, good judgment, not haste, makes the difference between life and death. Panic is the enemy.”
― Greg Iles, The Devil's Punchbowl

“At least you know that you're crazy. That means you have the potential to recover.”
― Mira Grant, Deadline

“Doubt is faith's shadow.”
― Jo Nesbo, The Redeemer

“A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.”
― Shania Twain, From This Moment On

“I solemnly swear that I am up to no good.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

“Where there is cake, there is hope. And there is always cake.”
― Dean Koontz, Life Expectancy

“The past is never where you think you left it.”
― Katherine Anne Porter

“Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.”
― Walter Cronkite

“I always thought insanity would be a dark, bitter feeling, but it is drenching and delicious if you really roll around in it.”
― Kathryn Stockett, The Help

“Children aren't coloring books. You don't get to fill them with your favorite colors.”
― Khaled Hosseini

“Armageddon was yesterday, today we have a serious problem.”
― Stieg Larsson, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

“The way I see it, being dead is not terribly far off from being on a cruise ship. Most of your time is spent lying on your back. The brain has shut down. The flesh begins to soften. Nothing much new happens, and nothing is expected of you.”
― Mary Roach, Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

“I guess in the end, it doesn’t matter what we wanted. What matters is what we chose to do with the things we had.”
― Mira Grant, Deadline

“I am going to have coffee with Christian Grey... and I hate coffee.”
― E.L. James, Fifty Shades of Grey

“A martyr's just a casualty with really good PR.”
― Mira Grant, Deadline

“Harry looked at Bellman. He could not help but admire him. The way you admire a cockroach you flush down the toilet and it comes creeping back again and again and in the end it inherits the world.”
― Jo Nesbo

“Morality, it could be argued, represents the way that people would like the world to work, wheareas economics represents how it actually does work.”
― Steven D. Levitt, Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything

“From time to time, I do consider that I might be mad. Like any self-respecting lunatic, however, I am always quick to dismiss any doubts about my sanity.”
― Dean Koontz, Odd Thomas

“Sometimes the bitch wins.”
― Charlaine Harris, Club Dead

“And that's the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“Human beings can always be relied upon to exert, with vigor, their God-given right to be stupid. ”
― Dean Koontz

“Murder is such a charged word. You know how some people fixate and won't let things go? They're called cops. ”
― Tim Dorsey, Nuclear Jellyfish

“This is what I do know: A lie, however well-intended, can't prepare you for reality or change the world... To tell the truth is to provide armament against a world too full of cruelties to be defeated with simple falsehoods... It seems to me we owe the world--more, we owe ourselves--the exchange of comfort for the chance that maybe the truth can do what people always say it can. The truth may, given the opportunity, set us free.”
― Mira Grant, Deadline

“Hearts become attached as easily as they become broken and our minds are left sifting through the pieces, which I fear take a lifetime to put back together to achieve any form of acceptance.”
― Jaycee Dugard, A Stolen Life

“Write about what disturbs you, particularly if it bothers no one else.”
― Kathryn Stockett, The Help

“You’ve got about as much charm as a dead slug.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

“The dead have never bothered me. It's the living that I fear.”
― Patricia Cornwell, Postmortem