Heather W > Heather's Quotes

“...when women have a conversation, they're communicating on five levels. They follow the conversation that they're actually having, the conversation that is specifically being avoided, the tone being applied to the overt conversation, the buried conversation that is being covered only in subtext, and finally the other person's body language.

.......When I, and most other people with a Y chromosome, have a conversion, we're having a conversation. Singular. We're paying attention to what is being said, considering that, and replying to it. All these other conversations have been going on for the last several thousand years? I didn't even know they existed...... I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one.

.....So ladies, if you ever have some conversation with your boyfriend or husband or brother or male friend, and you are telling him something perfectly obvious, and he comes away from it utterly clueless? I know it's tempting fate to think to yourself, "The man can't possibly be that stupid!"

But yes. Yes, he can.”
― Jim Butcher, Cold Days

“Maybe happy now, happy for a moment, is all we really get. Happy forever seems a shitload to ask in a world on fire.”
― Kristin Hannah, The Women

“I will find you," he whispered in my ear. "I promise. If I must endure two hundred years of purgatory, two hundred years without you - then that is my punishment, which I have earned for my crimes. For I have lied, and killed, and stolen; betrayed and broken trust. But there is the one thing that shall lie in the balance. When I shall stand before God, I shall have one thing to say, to weigh against the rest."

His voice dropped, nearly to a whisper, and his arms tightened around me.

Lord, ye gave me a rare woman, and God! I loved her well.”
― Diana Gabaldon, Dragonfly in Amber

“Then let amourous kisses dwell
On our lips, begin and tell
A Thousand and a Hundred score
A Hundred and a Thousand more”
― Diana Gabaldon, Dragonfly in Amber

“Information is abundant; attention is scarce. Information is theoretically infinite, while attention is constrained. This is why information is cheap and attention is expensive.”
― Chris Hayes, The Sirens' Call: How Attention Became the World's Most Endangered Resource

“If you can’t be heard, it doesn’t matter what you say. And right now it’s both easier than ever to shout and harder than ever to be heard.”
― Chris Hayes, The Sirens' Call: How Attention Became the World's Most Endangered Resource

“The promise of the information age was unparalleled access to every single last bit of human knowledge at every moment, and the reality is a collective civic mental life that permanently teeters on the edge of madness.”
― Chris Hayes, The Sirens' Call: How Attention Became the World's Most Endangered Resource

“When we speak of these not as things or natural resources or commodities, but as gifts, our whole relationship to the natural world changes.”
― Robin Wall Kimmerer, The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World

“Recognizing “enoughness” is a radical act in an economy that is always urging us to consume more.”
― Robin Wall Kimmerer, The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World

“Because even the bravest of us can still be afraid sometimes, so long as we don’t let our fear become all we know.”
― T.J. Klune, The House in the Cerulean Sea

“If you go into a situation expecting the worst, it may cloud your ability to see what good can come from it.”
― T.J. Klune, Somewhere Beyond the Sea

“Lucy tilted his head back, staring up at the ceiling. “It’s hard.”
“What is?”
“Being alive.”
“It is,” Arthur agreed. “But perhaps that’s the point: the trials and tribulations of life weigh heavily upon us, but we find people to help lighten the load.”
― T.J. Klune, Somewhere Beyond the Sea

“It unsettled her how the same words could mean such different things to different people. How it might be possible for two sets of eyes to witness the same events and later give accounts at odds with each other.”
― Mark Lawrence, The Book That Wouldn’t Burn

“Many objects are an inherent invitation. A sharp edge invites you to cut. A coin wishes to be spent. A sword begs for violence. A door requires that you try to open it.”
― Mark Lawrence, The Book That Wouldn’t Burn

“There are no useless skills, girl. Only talents that have yet to find an application.”
― Mark Lawrence, The Book That Wouldn’t Burn

“Among the words first found in Shakespeare are abstemious, antipathy, critical, frugal, dwindle, extract, horrid, vast, hereditary, critical, excellent, eventful, barefaced, assassination, lonely, leapfrog, indistinguishable, well-read, zany, and countless others (including countless).”
― Bill Bryson, Shakespeare: The World as Stage

“There is, inside me, an unanswered ache, small but constant, caused by no particular trial or tribulation, simply by the burden of existence, the effort of holding aloft my own sky. Each of us is Atlas and why some are crushed and others effortless is a mystery whose answer will not translate into my tongue. Existential, by Jesper Lodin”
― Mark Lawrence, The Book That Broke the World

“One of the worst things about humans is everything. But I’ll tell you what’s ten times worse than a human . . . two humans. And what’s ten times worse than two humans? You’ve guessed it: one child. A Complete History of Humanity, by Hubert Duck”
― Mark Lawrence, The Book That Broke the World

“The wait for the world to tell you that you’re special can be a long and lonely one. Better to get off your arse and let it know that you are.”
― Mark Lawrence, The Book That Broke the World

“When I stand against the gods at the end of my days,’ he told her fiercely, ‘I will regret nothing. Not the lies I’ve told, nor the lives I’ve claimed or the rivers of blood I’ve spilt. I do not regret a single moment, because every one of them led me to you.”
― Helen Scheuerer, Fate & Furies

“All I want in life is to have a sexy man make passionate love to me, eat a nice meal together, and then I'll leave to go chop up corpses. Is that really so much to ask?”
― T. Kingfisher, Paladin's Hope

“The spirit was willing, but the spongiform erectile tissue was weak.”
― T. Kingfisher, Paladin's Hope

“it’s better to keep your mouth shut and look stupid, rather than open it and remove all doubt.”
― Evie Woods, The Lost Bookshop

“She asked, ‘What is something you create, even if you do nothing?’ The answer was a choice. Choosing not to do something was still a choice. I was choosing not to register for college because I was too scared. What I hadn’t realised was that I was actively choosing to stay stuck where I was, which scared me even more.”
― Evie Woods, The Lost Bookshop

“What you seek is seeking you.”
― Evie Woods, The Lost Bookshop

“You do know back on Earth I'm not special to anyone, right?" "Ah, my Veronica," he murmurs, voice low and just a little bit rumbly with the force of his cootie. "You do not have to be special to everyone. Just to me." It's hard to argue with that.”
― Ruby Dixon, Veronica's Dragon

“In the space of a day or two I've gone from boring Earth job to stranded ex-slave on a wintry planet with a forever mate who wants to give me the heads of my enemies. It's a bit much for any girl to take in.”
― Ruby Dixon, Veronica's Dragon

“What if one trips and falls and lands upon my cock? Can I mate her if she is on me?”
― Ruby Dixon, Veronica's Dragon

“The very meaning of a full existence on this earth is to find out who you are and why you are here. Universal intelligence is the idea that when things don’t turn out your way, it is because the universe is protecting you and steering you in a different direction. We all need to spend less time questioning disappointments or rejections.”
― Chelsea Handler, I'll Have What She's Having

“Freedom is not just an absence of evil but a presence of good.”
― Timothy Snyder, On Freedom