David Estes > David's Quotes

“Make every misadventure an adventure.”
― Alana Siegel

“Shutup Ralphy!”
― The Old Man in 'A Christmas Story'

“Each day means a new twenty-four hours. Each day means everything's possible again. You live in the moment, you die in the moment, you take it all one day at a time.”
― Marie Lu, Legend

“My dad used to say the definition of stupidity was doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. Or maybe that was the definition of crazy.”
― David Estes, The Moon Dwellers

“He used often to say there was only one Road; that it was like a great river: its springs were at every doorstep, and every path was its tributary. 'It’s a dangerous business, Frodo, going out of your door,' he used to say. 'You step into the Road, and if you don’t keep your feet, there is no knowing where you might be swept off to.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien

“Traaaiiinnn,” Roc repeats slowly, sounding out the word for me like I’m stupid. “T-R-A-I-N. Spell it with me, Tristan.”
― David Estes, The Star Dwellers

“Let go of the fear that holds you to the ground and fly.”
― Brandy Nacole

“I don't particularly like confrontation. Unfortunately, confrontation seems to like me quite a lot.”
― David Estes, The Moon Dwellers

“As writers, we feel things deeper than other people, we hurt more, we love bigger, we cry harder and we smile wider. This is the essence, the fuel, to what we do.”
― H.D. Gordon

“Be kind to one another. Bye, bye.”
― Ellen DeGeneres

“My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.”
― Dalai Lama XIV

“And then his noise falls completely silent-

And he stops struggling-

And looking right into my eyes-

He dies.

My Todd dies.”
― Patrick Ness, Monsters of Men

“I know my heart will never be the same
But I'm telling myself I'll be okay”
― Sara Evans

“Sometimes it's best to hide in plain sight.”
― David Estes, The Moon Dwellers

“I haven't done anything, except be born.”
― David Estes, The Moon Dwellers

“Sometimes, girls, you have to hit your lowest low just before you hit your highest high. It makes you appreciate the good things so much more.”
― David Estes, The Moon Dwellers

“No beast of reality, or creature of imagination, is as terrible as mankind. Or as loving. It’s a contradiction. I’ve always liked contradictions. Today I see both sides of the coin unveiled in gruesome and beautiful imagery, captured by my eyes and filed away in my mind, like still shots taken by a world-renowned photographer.”
― David Estes, The Moon Dwellers

“It's like my mind knows to stay as far away from him as possible... but my bones, my skin quiver in his presence.”
― David Estes, The Moon Dwellers

“The beauty of physical pain is that it wipes out the other forms of pain.”
― David Estes, The Moon Dwellers

“My brain is telling me to stop staring at him, but for some reason I can't. It's almost... instinct... to keep on looking at him.”
― David Estes, The Moon Dwellers

“It's like she was metal and I was a magnet, Roc. But at the same time it felt like someone had shoved an electric wire into my skin and was frying me from the inside. It hurt like hell. No, worse than hell, Roc. And yet, somehow across the distance, through the fence, over the mob of people, I felt a pull to her, even though I knew it would hurt me to be closer to her. I probably would have just let it go, chalked it up to male hormones, but then when she acted so strong, pushed that guy... I don't know, since then I can't get her out of my mind.”
― David Estes, The Moon Dwellers

“There are some things more important than your own life. Like friendship, and love, and trust, and goodness.”
― David Estes, The Moon Dwellers

“You'll learn far more by listening than you ever will by speaking.”
― David Estes, The Moon Dwellers

“Blaming yourself is like a curse eating you from within, a rogue virus, cancerous and poisonous. It will drive you mad if you let it .”
― David Estes

“As they say, with great power comes great responsibility.”
“Are you screwin’ with me, man?” Taylor asked bluntly.”
― David Estes, Angel Evolution

“Do demons even have to brush their teeth?”
Chris chuckled. “I brush my teeth and even floss sometimes. I also eat, shower and sleep, too.”
― David Estes, Angel Evolution

“He who leaps for the sky may fall, it's true. But he may also fly.”
― Lauren Oliver, Delirium

“I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“Courage is found in unlikely places.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien

“You made friends with a prickler?" Hawk says, standing just inside the secret opening, apparently having come inside during my story, "I'm confused," Adele says. "At first I thought pricklers were some kind of plant, but are they an animal? Or some weird kind of person?"

"We ate your friend" Tristan says, his handsome face screwed up even more.”
― David Estes, The Earth Dwellers