Amy Neftzger > Quotes

“It's 4:58 on Friday afternoon. Do you know where your margarita is?”
― Amy Neftzger

“I'm pretty sure that eating chocolate keeps wrinkles away because I have never seen a 10 year old with a Hershey bar and crows feet.”
― Amy Neftzger

“The worst kind of brokenness is the kind that you don’t know you have.”
― Amy Neftzger, The Orphanage of Miracles

“Those pizzas I ate were for medicinal purposes.”
― Amy Neftzger

“When Death laughs, no one else does”
― Amy Neftzger, The Orchard of Hope

“Words and magic are two powerful forces that can change the world.”
― Amy Neftzger, The War of Words

“Time is the wave upon the shore. It takes some things away, but it brings other things.”
― Amy Neftzger, War of Words

“There are no miracles on Mondays.”
― Amy Neftzger, The Orphanage of Miracles

“Miracles need people as much as people need miracles.”
― Amy Neftzger, The Orphanage of Miracles

“All great roads are paved with uncomfortable memories.”
― Amy Neftzger, The Orphanage of Miracles

“Imperfections don’t make something ugly.”
― Amy Neftzger, The Orchard of Hope

“They don’t see what they’re doing. The only thing they see are their intentions.”
― Amy Neftzger, The Orchard of Hope

“Failure to shed tears is a failure to live life fully. And the one thing that life requires of us all is to live it. Never be embarrassed by your ability to be alive.”
― Amy Neftzger, The Orphanage of Miracles

“The problem with Fate is that no matter how many times you call out to her, she has her own timing that’s irrelevant to whatever anyone else happens to be doing”
― Amy Neftzger, The Ferryman

“When I look over my past, I see that the stages in my life are like the phases of the moon. I've had periods where I was the waxing gibbous: fat with wealth and success. There have been other seasons when my happiness was like the waning crescent and I watched my joy fade away slowly, merging with the atmosphere around me as if it never existed. Then I felt as if I was left with nothing more than an illusion, but happiness returns in time and glows once more in corpulent fullness. It's time that makes the difference.”
― Amy Neftzger, Conversations with the Moon

“How is destruction beautiful?" He asked in a challenging tone.

"You may think that a broken egg is ugly and messy," she answered, "but the cake it goes into is beautiful and won't hold together without it."

"Eggs don't get blown up. They get broken."

"You've never seen me bake," she replied with a smirk.”
― Amy Neftzger, The Orphanage of Miracles

“The things that truly define me can’t be lost.”
― Amy Neftzger, The War of Words

“Quests are a huge inconvenience. Don't let anyone tell you differently, even if that person has experience. The problem is that people forget the pain and aggravation as soon as the quest ends successfully, and then they remember only the glorious parts. In this way quests are a bit like childbirth, even to the point of saying that quests often give birth to glory. Maybe.”
― Amy Neftzger, The Orphanage of Miracles

“I love the optimism on the shores of youth, where time hasn't yet eroded faith.”
― Amy Neftzger, The War of Words

“Without stories, we’d have even more trouble recognizing what’s real.”
― Amy Neftzger, The Orphanage of Miracles

“Reality can be very boring.”
― Amy Neftzger, The Orchard of Hope

“That’s the first step to learning: admitting what you don’t know.”
― Amy Neftzger, The Orchard of Hope

“If miracles were easy, the would be everywhere.”
― Amy Neftzger, The Orphanage of Miracles

“Scars can mark you for greatness.”
― Amy Neftzger, The War of Words

“Choices are powerful things. In fact, they’re more powerful than most things.”
― Amy Neftzger, The Orphanage of Miracles

“It takes darkness inside of a person to see it in others.”
― Amy Neftzger, The War of Words

“It doesn’t take objectivity to know what you want, and you’re not objective enough to know what you need.”
― Amy Neftzger, The Orphanage of Miracles

“I don’t have to be logical. I’m a leopard. We’re considered wild animals, you know. (Spoken by Megan.)”
― Amy Neftzger, The Orphanage of Miracles

“Death is only as strong as you believe it to be.”
― Amy Neftzger, The Orphanage of Miracles

“Things spoken in love always become reality.”
― Amy Neftzger