Ann > Ann's Quotes

“If you have good friends, no matter how much life is sucking , they can make you laugh.”
― P.C. Cast Kristin Cast

“MS. THOMPSON, it said in heavy block letters, PLEASE KEEP YOUR FELINE OFF MY PROPERTY. IF I SEE IT AGAIN, I WILL EAT IT.”
― Patricia Briggs, Moon Called

“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.”
― Mark Twain

“Strong people don't put others down... They lift them up.”
― Michael P. Watson

“To this generation I would say:
Memorize some bit of verse of truth or beauty.”
― Edgar Lee Masters, Spoon River Anthology

“Now there is a book coming out that says Christ was really a woman who was a lesbian in a relationship with Mary Magdalene.”
Jill started laughing . . . “Come on, people aren’t that gullible.”
“Right,” Allison said. “All you’ve got to do is tell them it’s ‘secret’ or ‘forbidden’ or ‘hidden’ knowledge, then get a movie star to peddle it, and they’ll believe anything.”
― Joseph Max Lewis

“Your greatest enemy looks at you every day from the mirror. If you can conquer this person's passions and desires, you will live a happy and contented life.”
― Michael Dean Haller

“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
― Oscar Wilde

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

“People disappear when they die. Their voice, their laughter, the warmth of their breath. Their flesh. Eventually their bones. All living memory of them ceases. This is both dreadful and natural. Yet for some there is an exception to this annihilation. For in the books they write they continue to exist. We can rediscover them. Their humor, their tone of voice, their moods. Through the written word they can anger you or make you happy. They can comfort you. They can perplex you. They can alter you. All this, even though they are dead. Like flies in amber, like corpses frozen in the ice, that which according to the laws of nature should pass away is, by the miracle of ink on paper, preserved. It is a kind of magic.”
― Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale

“Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.”
― Will Rogers

“Heroes became extinct when saving the world became more important to rescue a damsel in distress.”
― L.A. Serröt, Gris

“NO greater love has a husband for his wife than to watch a 2hr documentary on an elite ballet competition.”
― Mark Venturini

“Falling for him would be like cliff diving. It would be either the most exhilarating thing that ever happened to me or the stupidest mistake I’d ever make.”
― Colleen Houck

“If we didn't have strong feelings, how could we love or fight? When our flesh is cut, we bleed. When our heart is broken, we cry. There's nothing wrong with that. It only becomes a problem when it gets in the way of what you have to do. You can't crumble when others are counting on you.”
― Robert Liparulo, Watcher in the Woods

“Knowledge was like candy: you never turned it down, especially if you didn't have to work too hard to get it.”
― Robert Liparulo, House of Dark Shadows

“Bravery is not the absence of fear but the forging ahead despite being afraid”
― Robert Liparulo, House of Dark Shadows

“As much as I like it when a book I'm writing speeds along, the downside can be that an author becomes too eager to finish and rushes the end. The end is even more important than the first page, and rushing can damage it.”
― David Morrell