Rysa Walker > Quotes

“History is sacred—like a nature hike. ‘Leave only footprints, take only memories.”
― Rysa Walker, Timebound

“Some things, however, should happen in the correct order. Shoes go on after socks. Peanut butter is applied after the bread comes out of the toaster, not before. And grandchildren are born after their grandparents.”
― Rysa Walker, Timebound

“I was young and in love, and that rarely leads to wise decisions.”
― Rysa Walker, Timebound

“It’s a hard lesson in life, but you have to accept that some things are out of your hands. Otherwise, you’ll never know a single minute of peace. You mend what you can, and you let the rest go. You just let it go.”
― Rysa Walker, Time's Edge

“You cannot hide from your heart, Kate. It always finds you. And, sadly, I cannot hide from mine.”
― Rysa Walker, Timebound

“Storytelling requires two minds. The writer draws the basic outlines and adds some detail. It’s never complete, however, until the reader fills in that outline with the colors and experiences of his or her own life.”
― Rysa Walker, Time's Divide

“Golden Rule—whoever has the gold makes the rules.”
― Rysa Walker, Time's Echo

“And one day, if I see your smile on her face, maybe that'll keep me from feeling I've left a piece of my heart behind.”
― Rysa Walker, Time's Divide

“All major religions have rules against murder. If they didn’t, there would be few converts. Well, at least few converts that you’d want to be in the same room with. But that doesn’t mean that there aren’t plenty of people willing to kill in the name of their faith—that’s true of most religions.”
― Rysa Walker, Timebound

“...religions that believe they have a lock on divine wisdom and a reserved seat in the VIP section of the hereafter.”
― Rysa Walker, Time's Twisted Arrow

“like Niemöller said, if you ignore it when they’re taking rights from everyone else, pretty soon they’ll come after yours, and there’s no one left to protest.”
― Rysa Walker, Time's Edge

“So I sat at the kitchen table chopping the “holy trinity” of Creole cuisine—bell peppers, celery, and onions—”
― Rysa Walker, Timebound

“Try not to think too badly of me as you read it. I was young and in love, and that rarely leads to wise decisions.”
― Rysa Walker, Timebound

“It’s like saving up that perfect comeback you read in a book or heard on TV—it always sounds good in your head, but it never quite fits in real life.”
― Rysa Walker, The Delphi Effect

“Waiting politely won’t get you across the street in Boston,” he informs me, “at least not in 1905. There aren’t any of those blinking idiot signs that show a hand and count down the seconds for you.”
― Rysa Walker, Time's Edge

“I know they’re doing their jobs. In many cases, they even go above and beyond. But a lot of them don’t seem to understand that the system they’re enforcing isn’t always fair and what looks safe may be just a convenient illusion.”
― Rysa Walker, The Delphi Effect

“But what if it can’t be fixed?” I ask before I even realize I’m going to speak. “Or if I can’t fix it without hurting even more people?” Sister Elba pauses to close the armonica case and then walks toward the steps, stopping a few short feet away from the bench where she will die. “People faced those kinds of decisions every day during the War and after. It’s a hard lesson in life, but you have to accept that some things are out of your hands. Otherwise, you’ll never know a single minute of peace. You mend what you can, and you let the rest go. You just let it go.”
― Rysa Walker, Time's Edge

“7Do not attempt to conquer the world with force. Force yields only resistance.”
― Rysa Walker, Red, White, and the Blues

“Having your existence completely erased has to qualify as a life-changing event, by anyone’s definition.”
― Rysa Walker, Timebound

“Things settled into a lazy pattern. School, chores, and long hours down by the river. Kiernan talked about the books he read sometimes, even loaned me a few. But I liked it better when he read to me or just told me the stories. The words were more real that way, more exciting. Huck Finn, Tom Sawyer, Ragged Dick, and all the others seemed flat and dull on the page, but Kiernan was good at making them come alive.”
― Rysa Walker, Simon Says: Tips for the Intrepid Time Traveler

“Prudence Katherine Pierce-Keller, time-traveling ninja.” “Oh, ho… funny.” I laughed and then faked an angry look. “Lawrence Alma Coleman the Third clearly likes to live dangerously.”
― Rysa Walker, Timebound

“Pru shrugs. “I wasn’t sure how long they’d hold our reservation.” A sly grin spreads over her face. “I thought maybe you and Kiernan were just catching up on old times. Although I guess that might have been awkward with your new guy around.” Mom chokes on her tea and gives me a questioning look. I start to respond, but Trey beats me to it. “Perhaps,” he says in a level voice, staring directly at Pru. “But no more awkward than sitting across the table from the aunt who sneaked into her boyfriend’s bedroom.” Pru’s eyebrows rise gradually, and she does a slow clap, her grin widening. “Ooh, touché! After your rather”
― Rysa Walker, Time's Divide

“If your faith is so shaky that it can be undermined by books that challenge it, then something is rotten at the core.”
― Rysa Walker, Time's Divide

“Maybe Eve should never have plucked the damn apple from the tree…or maybe Adam should have had the balls to pluck it first. Maybe we should never have split the atom…or maybe we should have wiped out all our enemies when we were the only ones who had the bomb. You can go round and round, but none of this matters once the genie is out of the bottle.”
― Rysa Walker, Time's Mirror

“Slán go fóill, a stór mo chroí.”
― Rysa Walker, Timebound

“How much time is wasted today training children to perform a variety of skills that they not only will never use but would never even consider using?”
― Rysa Walker, Timebound

“It’s like Niemöller said, if you ignore it when they’re taking rights from everyone else, pretty soon they’ll come after yours, and there’s no one left to protest.”
― Rysa Walker, Time's Edge

“You’re saying you have spidey sense? Can you also shoot webs out of your wrist to swing from building to building?” He raises an eyebrow. “No, Anna. I cannot. And I really can’t believe I’m taking crap from the girl who speaks to dead people.”
― Rysa Walker, The Delphi Effect

“As I’m reading Katherine’s historical diaries, every now and then I’ll see a question that Katherine asked, like, ‘Who is the Infanta?’ or ‘What is a simoleon?’” “In SimCity, a simoleon is money,” Trey interjected.”
― Rysa Walker, Timebound

“Amelia hides a soft heart behind a shrew's tongue.”
― Rysa Walker, Time's Echo