Janice Hardy > Quotes

“I mean really if you can't count on your best friend to go to jail with you, what good are they?”
― Janice Hardy, Blue Fire

“Doing whats right is never easy ... You think you're right, but you lose track of what you were trying to do all along and then there's blood and screaming and death.Doing a bad thing for a good end just sours the good.”
― Janice Hardy, Blue Fire

“I would not bend.
They could not make me Pliable.
My mind was strong.
My mind was mine.”
― Janice Hardy, Blue Fire

“Doing what's right is seldom easy.”
― Janice Hardy, The Shifter

“I am worse than they are, I didn't DO anything to stop them”
― Janice Hardy, Blue Fire

“Me a Basseri legend? Saints, how sad must their lives be if I was the best thing they had to talk about?”
― Janice Hardy, Blue Fire

“And no child deserved to die for defending her father, no matter who she was”
― Janice Hardy, Blue Fire

“Grannyma always said the Saints hide your fate in their pockets.”
― Janice Hardy, The Shifter

“Aylin stepped outside before Danello could argue further. What's going on
Nya's declaring war on the Duke he said.
I thought we alredy did that.”
― Janice Hardy

“Go forth and mutilate fish.”
― Janice Hardy, The Shifter

“You take care of family first, friends second, and neighbors when you can.”
― Janice Hardy, The Shifter

“He held the door open for me and I walked past him, leaving my conscience on the porch. It curled up next to my principles.”
― Janice Hardy, The Shifter

“If a plot is a novel's skeleton, and characters are the muscle, then theme is its soul.”
― Janice Hardy, Revising Your Novel: First Draft to Finished Draft

“Yeah,” Danello said, “she’s exhausted—we all are. It’s been a rough few days.”

“I’m fine!”

“No, you’re not,” Danello mumbled just loud enough for me to hear.

“I don’t think there’s anything more to discuss,” Onderaan said. “Jeatar, this isn’t going to work. I want them all out by end of day tomorrow.”

I folded my arms. The sooner I got out of here, the better. “Fine by me.”

“She didn’t mean it,” Jeatar said, shooting me a look of pure disbelief. “She spent the last week in a box.”
― Janice Hardy, Blue Fire

“A good plot is like a well-crafted puzzle. Each piece is vital to the bigger picture, connecting to each other to tell the larger tale.”
― Janice Hardy, Revising Your Novel: First Draft to Finished Draft

“Life is so fast it's a camera flash”
― Janice Hardy

“I don’t know how you do it."

"Don't eat for three days," I mumbled around a mouthful of fish. "You'd be surprised how fast you can shovel it in. You don’t even need to breathe."

"No, I mean holding pain. But your eating is impressive too.”
― Janice Hardy

“she”
― Janice Hardy, Planning Your Novel: Ideas and Structure

“I guess Danello can stab her if he has to."

Danello nodded. "I'm willing to do it even if I don’t have to.”
― Janice Hardy, Darkfall

“Anytime you stop the story to explain why a character is doing what she’s doing, or how something came to be, you’re probably telling.”
― Janice Hardy, Understanding Show, Don't Tell (And Really Getting It)

“soul”
― Janice Hardy, Planning Your Novel: Ideas and Structure