Katie O'Connor > Katie's Quotes

“Darling, a true lady takes off her dignity with her clothes and does her whorish best. At other times you can be as modest and dignified as your persona requires.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, The Notebooks of Lazarus Long

“Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.”
― robert heinlein

“Sex, whatever else it is, is an athletic skill. The more you practice, the more you can, the more you want to, the more you enjoy it, the less it tires you.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, The Cat Who Walks Through Walls

“How you behave toward cats here below determines your status in Heaven.”
― Robert A. Heinlein

“The America of my time line is a laboratory example of what can happen to democracies, what has eventually happened to all perfect democracies throughout all histories. A perfect democracy, a ‘warm body’ democracy in which every adult may vote and all votes count equally, has no internal feedback for self-correction. It depends solely on the wisdom and self-restraint of citizens… which is opposed by the folly and lack of self-restraint of other citizens. What is supposed to happen in a democracy is that each sovereign citizen will always vote in the public interest for the safety and welfare of all. But what does happen is that he votes his own self-interest as he sees it… which for the majority translates as ‘Bread and Circuses.’

‘Bread and Circuses’ is the cancer of democracy, the fatal disease for which there is no cure. Democracy often works beautifully at first. But once a state extends the franchise to every warm body, be he producer or parasite, that day marks the beginning of the end of the state. For when the plebs discover that they can vote themselves bread and circuses without limit and that the productive members of the body politic cannot stop them, they will do so, until the state bleeds to death, or in its weakened condition the state succumbs to an invader—the barbarians enter Rome.”
― Robert A. Heinlein

“I can take two people, throw a world of obstacles at them, defy the odds, and still give them a happily-ever-after. Together. I am a romance author. What's your superpower?”
― Kelly Moran

“I think only when you are truly alone can you see you never were.”
― Kelly Moran, Summer's Road

“I only know two things in life for certain: I know I love her and I know when her memory of our time together fades, I’ll still feel exactly the same as I do today. Time is irrelevant, as I once said to her. And I’m happy wasting every second of it on her.”
― Kelly Moran, Return to Me

“The truth is I do love you. Admitting that means opening myself up to all that pain when you leave. After you realize this wasn’t love, but gratitude.”
― Kelly Moran, The Drake House

“We are all the same and we are all different. What great friends we will be.”
― Kelly Moran, The Tiny Caterpillar and the Great Big Tree

“The first sign that Karma was now in cahoots with the Devil Incarnate to ruin her existance should've been before sunrise and pre-coffee.”
― Kelly Moran, The Dysfunctional Test

“Life Lessons According to Camryn:
One must handle stress like a dog; if you can't eat it or play with it, pee on it and walk away”
― Kelly Moran, The Dysfunctional Test

“The day I died was just like any other idle Thursday.”
― Kelly Moran, Idle Thursday

“When the leaves stop falling wasn't her time to die, it was your time to live.”
― Kelly Moran, When the Leaves Stop Falling

“Before she knew it, she was just another set of eyes in a dusty attic, waiting for the stairs to creak.”
― Kelly Moran, An Insomniac's Dream: A Collection of Poems And Short Stories

“Life Lessons According to Camryn:
One must handle stress like a dog; if you can't eat is or play with it, pee on it and walk away”
― Kelly Moran, The Dysfunctional Test

“Most of the time, life doesn't pass me by, it tries to run me over.”
― Kelly Moran, The Dysfunctional Test

“I’ve seen this movie, you know. It always ends with them falling in love.”
― Kelly Moran, The Dysfunctional Test

“New hair and clothes don't change ugly.”
― Kelly Moran, The Dysfunctional Test

“Maybe he was going to hell. Except, he could’ve sworn that was where he’d been the past ten years.”
― Kelly Moran, Return to Me

“Considering I'm a writer, you leave me strangely bereft of words.”
― Kelly Moran, All of Me

“Calm down. Ghosts don’t ring the doorbell.”
― Kelly Moran, Ghost of a Promise

“It took a pair of ghosts to open my eyes.”
― Kelly Moran, Ghost of a Promise

“He slid the photo out and raised it. The sun washed out any distinguishable characteristics. All except her eyes. He didn’t need a picture to remember those. As turquoise as the waters near Cozumel, and just as warm.”
― Kelly Moran, Return to Me