Beth Overmyer > Beth's Quotes

“Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.”
― Benjamin Franklin

“When my father would yell at me, I told myself someday I'd use it in a book.”
― Paula Danziger

“My life has a superb cast, but I cannot figure out the plot.”
― Ashleigh Brilliant

“It is better to arm and strengthen your hero, than to disarm and enfeeble your foe.”
― Anne Brontë

“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
― Toni Morrison

“A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.”
― Franz Kafka

“I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.”
― Walt Whitman

“Sitting on top of Mr. Weasley’s overflowing in-tray was an old toaster that was hiccuping in a disconsolate way and a pair of empty leather gloves that were twiddling their thumbs. A photograph of the Weasley family stood beside the in-tray. Harry noticed that Percy appeared to have walked out of it.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

“I'm sorry."
About what?"
He shrugged, made uncomfortable by the question."I'm not sure. It's a Canadian thing.”
― Tanya Huff, Smoke and Shadows

“It took him forever to get to downtown Vancouver although Tony had to admit that saving the world by public transportation was a particularly Canadian way to do things.”
― Tanya Huff, Smoke and Shadows

“Hang on a moment!” said Ron sharply. “We’ve forgotten someone!” “Who?” asked Hermione. “The house-elves, they’ll all be down in the kitchen, won’t they?” “You mean we ought to get them fighting?” asked Harry. “No,” said Ron seriously, “I mean we should tell them to get out. We don’t want any more Dobbies, do we? We can’t order them to die for us —” There was a clatter as the basilisk fangs cascaded out of Hermione’s arms. Running at Ron, she flung them around his neck and kissed him full on the mouth. Ron threw away the fangs and broomstick he was holding and responded with such enthusiasm that he lifted Hermione off her feet. “Is this the moment?” Harry asked weakly, and when nothing happened except that Ron and Hermione gripped each other still more firmly and swayed on the spot, he raised his voice. “OI! There’s a war going on here!”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

“Be like the bird that, passing on her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing that she hath wings.”
― Victor Hugo

“I am not worried, Harry," said Dumbledore, his voice a little stronger despite the freezing water. "I am with you.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

“Ideas are easy. It's the execution of ideas that really separates the sheep from the goats.”
― Sue Grafton

“My behavior is nonetheless, deplorable. Unfortunately, I'm quite prone to such bouts of deplorability--take for instance, my fondness for reading books at the dinner table.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Mistborn: The Final Empire

“Well, don't expect us to be too impressed. We just saw Finnick Odair in his underwear.”
― Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

“What greater gift than the love of a cat.”
― Charles Dickens

“He turned slowly like a fridge door opening.”
― Douglas Adams, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

“There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey