James Qualls > Quotes

“The sun was directly overhead, bright against the flower’s exterior. Warm blueish-purple silhouettes pirouetted and danced along interior walls.”
― James Qualls, A Gathering of Dreams

“Ignorance will often fade given time, you have to work hard to remain stupid…”
― James Qualls, A Gathering of Dreams

“It will never be all that I want it to be…
But it is always twice what I expected.”
― James Qualls, A Gathering of Dreams

“I hope that I am a good man … it would be enough.”
― James Qualls, A Gathering of Dreams

“Life was never all that I wanted it to be, but it was always twice what I expected.”
― James Qualls, A Gathering of Dreams

“Patience is born to all cats or was it patience is born because of cats? I can never remember.”
― James Qualls

“I hope that I’m a good man ... it would be enough.”
― James Qualls, A Gathering of Dreams

“What I know definitively about life at this age … is absolutely nothing.”
― James Qualls, A Gathering of Dreams

“All that I am, and all that I will be, comes from all that I was.”
― James Qualls, A Gathering of Dreams

“A wish was not truly a wish, until it was wished.”
― James Qualls, A Gathering of Dreams

“That which we are meant to be, we are.”
― James Qualls, A Gathering of Dreams

“I remember my father telling me that – A wish was not a wish until it was wished,” Carya says with a grin.

Kahu nods, "Your father understood the power of intent.”
― James Qualls, A Gathering of Dreams

“A wish is not a wish until wished.”
― James Qualls, A Gathering of Dreams

“Sometimes, insatiable curiosity and compassion are all that life requires of us.”
― James Qualls, A Gathering of Dreams

“Sometimes, it requires a significant number of Chess moves to make the universe align.”
― James Qualls, A Gathering of Dreams

“A wish is not a proper wish, until it is wished.'-A Gathering of Dreams”
― James Qualls, A Gathering of Dreams: A Fable

“Patience is born to all cats. They just don't care to deploy it where others are concerned.”
― James Qualls, A Gathering of Dreams

“If you doubt your sanity, is that proof?”
― James Qualls, A Gathering of Dreams

“A wish was not truly a wish, until it was properly wished.”
― James Qualls, A Gathering of Dreams