K.D. > K.D.'s Quotes

“Many people lose the small joys in the hope for the big happiness.”
― Pearl S. Buck

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected.”
― Nicholas Sparks

“To err is human, to forgive, divine.”
― Alexander Pope, An Essay On Criticism

“The jungle had inflicted war on them for daring to enter, but they had shown themselves strong. They had confronted the extreme conditions it had to offer, and they were confident they would finish well. Heading toward their final goal,”
― K.D. McNiven, The Monkey Idol

“I heard a shout from behind, garbled voices; they had seen me. Their torch beams began to fan out across the expanse, corridors of light in the darkness. I ran and ran, my legs buckling under the weight of the exertion; they were very close behind........”
― Joseph Mathers, The Silver Prince

“Reading is like thinking, like praying, like talking to a friend, like expressing your ideas, like listening to other people's ideas, like listening to music, like looking at the view, like taking a walk on the beach.”
― Roberto Bolaño, 2666

“Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.”
― Victor Borge

“A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”
― Elbert Hubbard

“Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back.”
― John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

“Hold fast to dreams,
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird,
That cannot fly.”
― Langston Hughes

“A book doesn't come alive until it is being read.”
― Kevin Ansbro

“I don't mind people talking about me behind my back. It means they know me, and I'm out in front.”
― David Lucero, Who's Minding the Store?

“Writing is not always a writer's playtime. It's actually a work in progress. Few understand this and mistakenly believe we're wasting time. But it's never a waste of time when doing what you love.”
― David Lucero, Big Jim

“Yes, I could stop writing... But only after I shoot myself.”
― David Lucero, Big Jim

“Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you.”
― Joseph Heller, Catch-22

“There had been a time when the continents were different, Rincewind understood, and then they'd sort of shuffled more comfortably together like puppies on a basket.”
― Terry Pratchett, Sourcery

“All he had was nothing, but that was something, and now it had been taken away.”
― Terry Pratchett

“My depression surrounds me like an infant suffocating in a plastic bag, each gasp a reminder of a parent’s neglect.  What a joke it is when people say, “talk about it – it will make you feel better” for when I even think about it I lie frozen like the frigid pond outside my window – hard and cold on the outside,”
― J.G. MacLeod, Abalone: One woman's courageous journey through abuse & healing

“I have always had more dread of a pen, a bottle of ink, and a sheet of paper than of a sword or pistol.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

“We never know what will happen next, what we will see, and what important person will come into our life, or what important person we will lose. Life is change, constant change, and unless we are lucky enough to find comedy in it, change is nearly always a drama, if not a tragedy. But after everything, and even when the skies turn scarlet and threatening, I still believe that if we are lucky enough to be alive, we must give thanks for the miracle of every moment of every day, no matter how flawed. And we must have faith in God, and in the Universe, and in a better tomorrow, even if that faith is not always deserved.”
― Mark T. Sullivan, Beneath a Scarlet Sky

“The sharpest image I hold from that day are the shiny nailheads in the wood, where someone overdone the hammering to shut the wood-slat crate they sent my brother home in. A note came attached, stiff with condolences from Mr. Mercer, the Estelle Mining owner. Other scrawled words said the company believed they’d recovered most of my brother from the explosion but warned us not to open the lid and check.”
― Karla M. Jay, It Happened in Silence

“you love someone, they’re never a burden. You take care of them no matter what. That’s what loving someone means.”
― Elissa Grossell Dickey, The Speed of Light

“My devil had been long caged, he came out roaring.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson

“Michael wondered if his father had understood the fanaticism behind Liam’s diatribes. No middle way existed for Liam. He only accepted two options, good or bad. The Greens were English, so they were bad by default.”
― P.J. Skinner, Rebel Green

“Michael set off with Blue, who gambolled at his side, sniffing his pocket with longing. For once the clouds had cleared, and the sky was an azure blue. The slanting morning sunshine threw massive shadows across the lane and butterflies flirted with the jasmine on the tops of the hedgerows. He took a deep breath, enjoying the freedom from studying and exams, and Cadet Corps.”
― P.J. Skinner, Rebel Green

“Tradition is a pretty poor excuse for perpetrating stereotypes.”
― Ramsey Campbell

“The mountain, however, didn’t upset Mohammed overly much, because when I left Tina she was reading a book in addition to smoking her cigar and drinking her one hundred and fifty dollar a bottle madeira.”
― C.W. Hawes, Death Makes A House Call

“His mind calculated, but cold numbness ran the length of his spine. The thought of killing an innocent soldier terrified him and he knew that, whatever happened now, he really had committed a crime.”
― Rik Stone, Birth of an Assassin

“Leo’s shoulders were sloped but looked rigid, and his dark grey pin-striped suit hung loose on a slight frame. A wispy strand of auburn hair hovered like a last sign of autumn over a pinched face; sacs of skin puckered under dark eyes, and his thin moustache appeared permanently atremble. Not a handsome man, but his large brown eyes gave him an indefinable attractiveness that also carried an air of sadness.”
― Rik Stone, Birth of an Assassin