Louisa Black > Louisa's Quotes

“You want proof there's a God? Look outside, watch a sunset.”
― Frank Peretti

“Staying alive is nice, but you can’t do that forever. It’s how you live the life you have while you have it.”
― Frank Peretti, Monster

“let's be honest: ignoring is acting, and nothing more - acting as though the words, or actions of your oppresors don't hurt. you hear the words, you feel the insults, and you bear the blows. you can act deaf and impervious to pain, but the stabs and the arrows pierce you anyway.”
― frank peretti

“A faith that does not result in activity of any kind is a dead faith; it is empty, worthless, insincere.”
― Derek Prince

“The provision is in the promises.”
― Derek Prince

“Don't get it right - get it WRITTEN!”
― Lee Child

“Reacher said, "So here's the thing Brett. Either you take your hand off my chest, or I'll take it off your wrist.”
― Lee Child, Worth Dying For

“Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”
― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

“Wicked people never have time for reading. It's one of the reasons for their wickedness.”
― Lemony Snicket

“Friendship- my definition- is built on two things. Respect and trust. Both elements have to be there. And it has to be mutual. You can have respect for someone, but if you don't have trust, the friendship will crumble.”
― Stieg Larsson, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

“What she had realized was that love was that moment when your heart was about to burst.”
― Stieg Larsson, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

“There is no trap so deadly as the trap you set for yourself.”
― Raymond Chandler, Long Goodbye

“To say goodbye is to die a little.”
― Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye

“All suffering has an end.”
― Kay Arthur

“A half-read book is a half-finished love affair.”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

“A writer never forgets the first time he accepted a few coins or a word of praise in exchange for a story. He will never forget the sweet poison of vanity in his blood and the belief that, if he succeeds in not letting anyone discover his lack of talent, the dream of literature will provide him with a roof over his head, a hot meal at the end of the day, and what he covets the most: his name printed on a miserable piece of paper that surely will outlive him. A writer is condemned to remember that moment, because from then on he is doomed and his soul has a price.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafon, The Angel's Game

“Trust No One.”
― CHRIS CARTER

“The Truth is out there”
― Chris Carter, X-File Film Scrapbook

“I had rather be shut up in a very modest cottage with my books, my family and a few old friends, dining on simple bacon, and letting the world roll on as it liked, than to occupy the most splendid post, which any human power can give.”
― Thomas Jefferson, Letters of Thomas Jefferson

“Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“Be kind for everyone is fighting some kind of battle”
― Claudette Melanson

“The devil can't make me do anything when I'm calling on Jesus Christ.”
― Sara Groves

“A man who is intimate with God is not intimidated by man.”
― Leonard Ravenhill

“Here’s to books, the cheapest vacation you can buy.”
― Charlaine Harris

“Helen Keller was blind and deaf when she graduated from college with honors. So what's your problem?”
― Charles Stanley

“Your soul needs peace, and I can't give you that. Only God can.”
― Marianne Evans, Hearts Crossing

“You is kind. You is smart. You is important.”
― Kathryn Stockett, The Help

“God will not be used as a convenience. Men or nations who think they can revive the Faith in order to make a good society might just as well think they can use the stairs of heaven as a shortcut to the nearest chemist's shop.”
― C.S. Lewis

“I feel free and strong. If I were not a reader of books I could not feel this way.”
― Walter Tevis