Elizbeth Leverich > Elizbeth's Quotes

“Dad, I need to talk to you about something that’s been bothering me for a long time. Remember when you and mom used to have fights and she would leave? I wanted her to stay and when I knew she wasn’t, I wanted to go with her. But, she would say, ‘stay with your father, you’re a boy.’ It’s a feeling of abandonment that I’ve never been able to shake. I had the same feeling when Sarah left me.”
― Behcet Kaya, Treacherous Estate

“No one knows the origins of the universe. Gone was the knowledge of creation; lost to faded memories and the advance of time. History became legend, legend became myth. It is said the gods, flawless emperors of all, opened their hearts and gave life to hundreds of worlds. That love nurtured and evolved into utopian grandeur. Humanity prospered, every day reaching new heights. But all was not well. The gods were unhappy. War loomed ever on the near horizon. Realizing their plight, the king of the gods gave birth to three sons; would be kings to rule.”
― Christian Warren Freed

“Seek and embrace peace. We all deserve a tranquil existence.”
― C. Toni Graham

“Haven’t I always said that no amount of beating, ridicule, or degradation could change your beauty, inside or out?”
― Maria Nhambu, America's Daughter

“The scent of blood in the wind drew him like a poultice.”
― Diane L. Kowalyshyn, Crossbones

“It is an historical fact that you and I have a problem doing the right thing, for others and for ourselves. Yet, we deny it fiercely or wallow in shame, neither of which God wants for us.”
― Randy Loubier, Slow Brewing Tea

“Crooked politicians stood in the way of our President until the Hitman doled out justice for them.”
― RB Le `Deach, My Graphic Bipolar Fantasies: & Other Short Stories

“Edgar, do you actually think that how long a person grieves is a measure of how much they loved someone? There's no rule book that says how to do this." She laughed, bitterly. "Wouldn't that be great? No decisions to make. Everything laid right out for us. But there's no such thing. You want facts, don't you? Rules. Proof. You're like your father that way. Just because a thing can't be logged, charted, and summarized doesn't mean it isn't real. Half the time we walk around in love with the idea of a thing instead of the reality of it. But sometimes things don't turn out that way. You have to pay attentin to what's real, what's in the world. Not some imaginary alternative, as if it's a choice we could make.”
― David Wroblewski, The Story of Edgar Sawtelle

“There are times when I’d like to thrash the man till he begged for mercy!”
― Carolyn Keene, The Hidden Staircase

“Here they go cruising for a fortnight up in parts where everyone is dead of radiation, and all that they can catch is measles!”
― Nevil Shute, On the Beach

“I saw Nyx in the pages, and wrote until I set her free ;)”
― John Patrick Kennedy

“It's just incredible. It just does not explain. Or perhaps that's it: they don't explain and we are not supposed to know. We have a few old mouth-to-mouth tales, we exhume from old trunks and boxes and drawers letters without salutation or signature, in which men and women who once lived and breathed are now merely initials or nicknames out of some now incomprehensible affection which sound to us like Sanskrit or Chocktaw; we see dimly people, the people in whose living blood and seed we ourselves lay dormant and waiting, in this shadowy attenuation of time possessing now heroic proportions, performing their acts of simple passion and simple violence, impervious to time and inexplicable - Yes, Judith, Bon, Henry, Sutpen: all of them. They are there, yet something is missing; they are like a chemical formula exhumed along with the letters from that forgotten chest, carefully, the paper old and faded and falling to pieces, the writing faded, almost indecipherable, yet meaningful, familiar in shape and sense, the name and presence of volatile and sentient forces; you bring them together in the proportions called for, but nothing happens; you re-read, tedious and intent, poring, making sure that you have forgotten nothing, made no miscalculation; you bring them together again and again nothing happens: just the words, the symbols, the shapes themselves, shadowy inscrutable and serene, against that turgid background of a horrible and bloody mischancing of human affairs.”
― William Faulkner, Absalom, Absalom!

“Avoid exaggerations.”
― Edwin A. Abbott, How to Write Clearly Rules and Exercises on English Composition

“Evil is the chronic malady of the universe, and checked in one place, breaks forth in another. ”
― Herman Melville, Mardi and a Voyage Thither

“People who love work, love life.”
― Louise Fitzhugh, Harriet the Spy

“And yet had not a pagan the right to be a pagan?”
― Alex Haley, Roots: The Saga of an American Family

“It is quite possible to leave your home for a walk in the early morning air and return a different person – beguiled, enchanted.”
― Rhonda Byrne, The Magic

“What is your suggestion for someone who wants to start writing? Be a reader. It’s the only real way to learn how to tell a story.”
― Natalie Babbitt, Tuck Everlasting

“Because it is dangerous to ignore the existence of the irrational. The more cultivated a person is, the more intelligent, the more repressed, then the more he needs some method of channeling the primitive impulses he's worked so hard to subdue. Otherwise those powerful old forces will mass and strengthen until they are violent enough to break free, more violent for the delay, often strong enough to sweep the will away entirely.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“Geistig begabte Menschen, die auf einem Thron oder in seiner Nähe geboren sind, verlieren häufig das Feingefühl. Um sie herum ist freimütige Unterhaltung verpönt; sie erscheint ihnen grob. Sie wollen nur Masken sehen und maßen sich doch ein Urteil über die Schönheit der Gesichtsfarbe an.”
― Stendhal, The Charterhouse of Parma

“Watch and pray, dear, never get tired of trying, and never think it is impossible to conquer your fault.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

“Over and over. They be making me remember everythings. Me old songs, they just be natural. But now they be stuffing new things into me and this poor head hurts horrid.”
― Lois Lowry, Gathering Blue

“- (Viljoen) Voy a decirle una cosa, señor ingles: es usted un jagdhond muy bueno.

- Gracias -- replico Preston.
-¿Sabe usted que es un jagdhond?
- Tengo entendido, que el perro de caza de Ciudad del Cabo es lento pero muy tenaz.

Fue la primera vez en aquella semana, que el capitán Viljoen echó atrás la cabeza y soltó una carcajada.”
― Frederick Forsyth, The Fourth Protocol

“It is better just to get on with the business of living and minding your own business and maybe, if God likes the way you do things, he may just let you flower for a day or a night. But don't go pestering and begging and telling him all your stupid little sins, that way you will spoil his day.”
― Bryce Courtenay, The Power of One: Young Readers' Condensed Edit

“the domestic enemy’s inner sanctum, the National Press Club.”
― Mark Bowden, Hue 1968: A Turning Point of the American War in Vietnam

“Though those different plans were, perhaps, first introduced by the private interests and prejudices of particular orders of men, without any regard to, or foresight of, their consequences upon the general welfare of the society;”
― Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations

“There is no real ending. It’s just the place where you stop the story.”
― Frank Herbert

“He already knows what I look like," Cath said. "There's no point in being tricky about it now."
"How is doing your hair--and maybe putting on some lip gloss--being tricky?"
"It's like I'm trying to distract him with something shiny.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl

“It was necessary to keep our religious masters at St. Michael's unacquainted with the fact, that, instead of spending the Sabbath in wrestling, boxing, and drinking whisky, we were trying to learn how to read the will of God; for they had much rather see us engaged in those degrading sports, than to see us behaving like intellectual, moral, and accountable beings.”
― Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass