Stacia Leigh > Stacia's Quotes

“By the way, isn't zest a wonderful word? In our careful world, 'feeling just OK' seems to be the new normal. I want zest, dammit. Zest, joy, and ferocious awareness.”
― Elizabeth Sims, You've Got a Book in You: A Stress-Free Guide to Writing the Book of Your Dreams

“My bad!" She giggled. "Sugar makes me chatty.”
― Rachel Renée Russell, Tales from a Not-So-Glam TV Star

“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“Inej cast a meaningful glance at his cane. "Have a long trip down," she said, then leapt onto the banister, sliding from one flight to the next, slick as butter in a pan.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

“I'm a business man," he'd told her. "No more, no less."
"You're a thief, Kaz."
"Isn't that what I just said?”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

“Kaz leaned back. "What's the easiest way to steal a man's wallet?"
"Knife to the throat?" asked Inej.
"Gun to the back?" said Jesper.
"Poison in his cup?" suggested Nina.
"You're all horrible," said Matthias.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

“Food commonly eaten for more than 150 years should be innocent until proven guilty, and food invented in the last 150 years is guilty until proven innocent.”
― Miles Hassell MD

“To cheer us up on our first day on the road I made jam sandwiches for breakfast and they tasted hopeful.”
― Meg Rosoff, How I Live Now

“I do," Ellie said, then groaned inwardly. Those were the words that had put her in this position in the first place.”
― Gerri Russell, Married at Midnight

“Never give up... No one knows what's going to happen next.”
― L. Frank Baum

“And it was an important truth he taught me--that love is not the same as dependability or stability or even safety. The only thing to expect from love is love.”
― Tina Ontiveros, rough house: a memoir

“Your true worth is determined by how much more you give in value than you take in payment.”
― Bob Burg, The Go-Giver: A Little Story About a Powerful Business Idea

“open it up, write deeper, write long, write relaxed, write loose. And never ever worry about your finished product in the midst of all this messy glory.”
― Elizabeth Sims, You've Got a Book in You: A Stress-Free Guide to Writing the Book of Your Dreams

“Life was good back then, in the crappy, oppressive way life is good for fourteen year olds, which is to say, it completely sucked but seems pretty good in the obscuring glare of nostalgia.”
― Al Burian, Burn Collector: Collected Stories from One Through Nine

“I like Fall, tending to prefer the transitional seasons, because they don’t have weather, just foreshadowing. It’s not cold yet, but it’s getting colder. You look hippest in this weather, dressed in your faux-proletariat thrift store jacket and long pants to hide your dorky knees. Fall seems pregnant with the possibility of simpler things, a straight-forward future.”
― Al Burian, Burn Collector: Collected Stories from One through Nine

“My father clearly felt a great weight of guilt and remorse over the failure of his marriage, but being a man of the mind, a man who had rejected whatever religious upbringing he had received as a child, he was unable to assuage his guilt through penance or the clutching of rosary beads, and something compelled him to replace the religious sacrament of the rosary with fish stick consumption.”
― Al Burian, Burn Collector: Collected Stories from One Through Nine