Julie > Julie's Quotes

“Do you remember me telling you we are practicing non-verbal spells, Potter?"
"Yes," said Harry stiffly.
"Yes, sir."
"There's no need to call me "sir" Professor."
The words had escaped him before he knew what he was saying.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

“Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.”
― Robert A. Heinlein

“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land

“I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“I try not to think. It interferes with being nuts -Leo Valdez”
― Rick Riordan, The Mark of Athena

“once”
― Nora Roberts, Dark Witch

“I don't really like you, but I'm so good at acting as if I do that it's basically the same thing.”
― Lisa Scottoline, Every Fifteen Minutes

“You should be more paranoid”
― Lisa Scottoline, Every Fifteen Minutes

“Your typical suburban mom worries all the time, but she worries about the wrong things”
― Lisa Scottoline, Every Fifteen Minutes

“advanced rivals. Nor was it a satisfactory solution to keep the masses in”
― George Orwell, 1984

“needed comforting after discovering my boyfriend of two years, Todd, had stuck his salami in someone else’s sandwich. I referred to him now as my ex-boyfriend ‘The Toad.”
― Nancy Warren, The Vampire Knitting Club

“Let’s get one thing straight--I definitely think you’re bonkers,” I giggled. “But you’re my bonkers, and I love you.”
― Melinda Chase, Forty, Fabulous & Fae?

“This is something people will always buy. No matter how the humans manage to fuck up their economy, they’ll always buy cannabis in some form. Either because they’re sick, or in pain, or can’t sleep. Whatever.”
― Victoria Danann, Stalk

“This is such a cozy shop, it makes me want to take up knitting.” “You should. It’s a very relaxing hobby.” I don’t know how I kept a straight face, saying things like that. Knitting was a diabolical exercise in frustration.”
― Nancy Warren, Stitches and Witches

“You meet in the shop? But what do you do here?” They looked at me as though I’d said something very stupid. Rafe and Sylvia answered together, “We knit.”
― Nancy Warren, The Vampire Knitting Club

“By now he understood that his location had nothing to do with him being content. By using his books he traveled faster, more comfortably, and ultimately spent less money. What use was it to suffer the heat of summer in India or be bothered by the flies in the Australian outback? His books could take him anywhere. “Robert!”
― Brandon Q. Morris, The Titan Probe

“Criminals don’t obey gun laws or any other laws, hence why we call them criminals. When you disarm decent folks, you embolden violent criminals who now know they can act as viciously as they want with complete impunity.”
― Mark Goodwin, Reign of the Locusts

“Peace is such hard work. Harder than war. It takes way more effort to forgive than to kill.”
― Rae Carson, The Bitter Kingdom

“I’m good at multitasking. I can worry about a lot of things all at once. Something I was always good at.”
― Kellee L. Greene, Swamp

“A dog is a loyal, loving companion and protector, but a house without a cat is like a body without a heart.”
― Mike Bond, Saving Paradise

“I don’t understand how I can be more sore after traveling in something with a bed and a kitchen,”
― Dennis E. Taylor, Outland

“Think about it, we’ve been stopping migrants and refugees from crossing our southern border for years, and now we’re going in the other direction.”
― Bobby Akart, Yellowstone Fallout

“You set a code on your alarm?” Grigory mutters when he realizes I’m awake. I roll over and tap the six digits into the phone and it silences. “Yeah, it ensures it actually wakes me.” “No, it only ensures that it wakes me.”
― A.G. Riddle, The Solar War

“You know, when people say ‘long story short,’ they’re usually trying to be polite. They don’t actually mean ‘I’ll leave out all the pertinent details about how I kidnapped a dude and tied him to a chair.”
― Ian Loome, Code Red

“Whenever I pick up a book, it’s like an escape. For an hour or two, I get to be part of the book world instead of my own much more boring world.”
― Freida McFadden, Ward D

“But she’s not married. So she gets to do whatever she wants without another person criticizing her every move.”
― Freida McFadden, One by One

“Life is too short to read boring books.”
― Freida McFadden, Want to Know a Secret?

“She took a small bite, and little bursts of happiness exploded in her mouth.”
― Hugh Howey, The Silo Saga Omnibus

“We are under the watchful gaze of powerful and pious men who think themselves the eyes of the Lord. Of course, that bit stays between us, yes?”
― Andrea Catalano, The First Witch of Boston