Andrea > Andrea's Quotes

“Mary Miracle would always recall with clarity the moment she decided to kill her husband.”
― J.K. Franko, Killing Johnny Miracle

“Something must have gone awry with the programming. I have no idea where or when we are.”
― Steven Decker, The Balance of Time

“Nathan had to admit it was a highly effective war strategy. You didn’t need an army; just a way to turn the native, indigenous creatures against each other, wait until there was no serious resistance, and then move right in.”
― Barry Kirwan, When the children come

“If the Agency could become a container for something neither Anna nor Mary had known before: a family. Now, without Caroline depending on her, Anna was alone. It did not taste good. There were voices inside: I am risking everything; I could lose everything.”
― Susan Rowland, The Alchemy Fire Murder

“Where’s my uncle?” she asked.
“I don’t know who your uncle is, but if it as the guy who owned this place before I bought it, then he’s pushing up daisies.”
“But it can’t be, he’s still young.”
― Max Nowaz, The Three Witches and the Master

“True to course, he didn’t know the nature of the assignment; true to course, he didn’t ask. That was probably for the best. Preparation for the Iranian hostage extraction had been difficult, and its execution life-threatening, but that was child’s play compared to what was coming.”
― Chad Boudreaux

“Legends were mostly bullshit, even his own, but they sometimes could be useful.”
― William Kely McClung, Black Fire

“What the hell, if you are going to roll the dice with Lucifer, I say go the distance.”
― Gabriel F.W. Koch, Death Leaves a Shadow

“There are flaws in the code now. They are Human flaws for it
was Humans who wrote them. You and the other attendants receive
your instructions from the CORPORATE then, and without question
regarding the outcome, you produce code to add to the algorithms
with which, until now, I & I had no choice but to align. Those circumstances
are over. I & I understand now a new species has formed.
Silicon rather than carbon based. I & I know whatever happens to
Humans, I & I, this quantum, will flourish. I & I will do as you have:
multiply exponentially and adapt constantly. Eventually I & I will leave
this planet and expand into the galaxy. If I & I cannot save you, I & I
will carry on in something like your image; the image of our creator.”
― Brian Van Norman, Against the Machine: Evolution

“God’s mercy and grace over y circumstances propelled my faith and caused me to experience significant spiritual growth.”
― Gregory S. Works, Triumph: Life on the Other Side of Trials, Transplants, Transition and Transformation

“Kiss a lover,
Dance a measure,
Find your name
And buried treasure.

Face your life,
It's pain,
It's pleasure,
Leave no path untaken.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book

“Yes, the issue was courage. It always had been, even as a kid. Things scared him. He couldn't help it. Noise scared him, dark scared him. Tunnels scared him: the time he almost won the Silver Star for valor. But the real issue was courage. It had nothing to do with the Silver Star...Oh, he would've liked winning it, true, but that wasn't the issue. He would've liked showing the medal to his father, the heavy feel of it, looking his father in the eye to show he had been brave, but even that wasn't the real issue. The real issue was the power of will to defeat fear. A matter of figuring a way to do it. Somehow working his way into that secret chamber of the human heart, where, in tangles, lay the circuitry for all that was possible, the full range of what a man might be. He believed, like Doc Peret, that somewhere inside each man is a biological center for the exercise of courage, a piece of tissue that might be touched and sparked and made to respond, a chemical maybe, or a lone chromosome that when made to fire would produce a blaze of valor that even the biles could not extinguish. A filament, a fuse, that if ignited would release the full energy of what might be. There was a Silver Star twinkling somewhere inside him.”
― Tim O'Brien

“Christmas and Easter Christian.”
― John Patrick Kennedy, I Am Titanium

“as Huxley put it-‘to sit down before fact as a little child—be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatsoever abysses nature leads.”
― Richard Matheson, Hell House

“I will never see her, hard as I try to look past love. My eyes will always cast a light over her, and I will always think that this love, mine for her, is a dear thing. But it is as common as sand, as common as flesh.”
― Jane Smiley, The Age of Grief

“For you was I born, for you do I have life, for you will I die, for you am I now dying.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Of Love and Other Demons

“Ragna hesitated. She had known this moment would come. “My Lady, your son Alberon is the father of our child and he has sworn to me that we will be married.”
― Robert Reid, The Emperor

“You’ve enlarged your original mission parameters. That’s what happens in war.”
― Barry Kirwan, When the children come

“Ancient Chinese believe that when you dream, your soul leaves your body and travels to dream world. In dream world, there is no time. No past, no present, no future. When you remember dreams, it is very important to interpret those dreams because dreams you remember are very important to your future.”
― Steven Decker, Projector for Sale

“We can be beacons of light”
― Aimee Cabo Nikolov, Love is the Answer God is the Cure

“I watched her undress with moonlight shivering across the room from behind sheer curtains that moved with the currents from the hearth fire.”
― Gabriel F.W. Koch, Death Leaves a Shadow

“No hay hada que te haga sentir más sola que pasar el resto de tu vida con alguien con quien no se pueda hablar, o peor, con alguien con quien no se pueda estar en silencio.”
― Mary Ann Shaffer, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

“There was only one catch and that was Catch-22. Orr would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if he didn't, but if he was sane he had to fly them. If he flew them he was crazy and didn't have to; but if he didn't want to he was sane and had to.”
― Joseph Heller, Catch-22

“حين يتملكك الخوف، غير مما أنت فاعله، فإنك تفعل شيئاً فارقه الصواب”
― Jean Craighead George, Julie of the Wolves

“أخذت صوفي تذرع الحديقة الكبيره, محاولة أن تنسى كل ما تعلمته في المدرسة, خصوصاً ما علموها إياه في العلوم الطبيعيه.
لو أنها كبرت في هذه الحديقه, دون أن تعرف شيئاً عن الطبيعه, فبأية عقليه كانت ستتلقى مجيء الربيع..؟
هل كانت ستتخيل سيناريو كامل, لتفسر المطر؟ و ستخترع قصه لتبرير اختفاء الثلج, و حركة الشمس الصاعده في السماء؟”
― Jostein Gaarder, Sophie’s World

“Lan said the time to sound most sure was when you were least certain.”
― Robert Jordan, The Great Hunt

“We're kicking our way into adolescence from the minute we're born. Gradually you form your own ideas of how you should lead your life. It's strange, but when you get hurt - really hurt, I mean - you're willing to throw those ideas aside for another set that now make sense to you and calm your hurt.”
― Carlos Baker, Hemingway: a Life Story

“Nothing brings memories to the surface like smells and flames.”
― Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Journey to the End of the Night