Lamonica Todd > Lamonica's Quotes

“When blame and self-judgement are transformed, healed, and cease to be, we have reawakened without the myth, the mythos, of separation. We are One.”
― Wendy E. Slater, Into the Hearth, Poems-Volume 14

“Evil humans were afoot.”
― Marilyn Dalla Valle, Westwind Secrets

“She gripped the wheel and squared her shoulders. She didn’t have to do any of this alone. All she had to do was notify the society and put out an All Points Bulletin on Adam and she’d know everything there was to know about the man within 24 hours.”
― Kirsten Fullmer

“I thought I would give you all a taste of how caring Uhna has been to us. I hope you enjoy it as much as we do.”
― S.G. Blaise, The Last Lumenian

“panache.”
― Steven D. Levitt, Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything

“الإيمان بالله هو انقتاح كامل, تسليم مطلق, ثقه عميقه, فعل حب حر, لكن أحياناً كان من شبه المستحيل أن أشعر بالحب. أحياناً كان قلبي يغرق بسرعة بالغضب, و الإحباط و القلق, كنت أخشى أن يغرق إيماني في قاع المحيط الهادئ فلا يعود بإمكاني انشاله”
― Yann Martel, Life of Pi

“Hard times' is a phrase the English love to use, when speaking of Africa. And it is easy to forget that Africa's 'hard times' were made harder by them.”
― Alice Walker, The Color Purple

“There's nothing wrong with being scared...It happens to all of us. What's wrong is if we don't try things because we're afraid. We can't hide away from the things that scare us.”
― Kristin Hannah, On Mystic Lake

“There was a man named Ingjald who lived on Hefne, an islandin Halgoland in the north. He was a worthy farmer and went raiding by summer but did not stir during the winters.”

(Vatnsdaela Saga)”
― Jane Smiley, The Sagas of Icelanders

“Scat Man Doo and his trusty Shit Stick had gone where no man had ever gone before. And none should ever go again.”
― John Grogan, Marley & Me: Life and Love with the World's Worst Dog

“You shall address me as ‘My Dearest’,’ he repeated in a mocking voice, trying to copy her tone. ‘You will forget all about this conversation when you leave this room.’ It was interesting that tone; it had a sort of hypnotising ring to it.”
― Max Nowaz, The Three Witches and the Master

“Imagine, Dracula a pawn in the hands of the infidel. I wasted no time there – I learned everything I could about them, so that I might surpass them all. That was when I vowed to make history, not to be its victim.”
― Elizabeth Kostova, The Historian

“Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps down new roads armed with nothing but their own vision. Their goals differed, but they all had this in common: that the step was first, the road new, the vision unborrowed, and the response they received — hatred. The great creators — the thinkers, the artists, the scientists, the inventors — stood alone against the men of their time. Every great new thought was opposed. Every great new invention was denounced. The first motor was considered foolish. The airplane was considered impossible. The power loom was considered vicious. Anesthesia was considered sinful. But the men of unborrowed vision went ahead. They fought, they suffered and they paid. But they won.”
― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

“What do I do next?'
'Maybe it's your time to wait too.' She dug the heels of her boots firmly into the ground and set her shoulders more stiffly against the sea breeze. 'Love is an action you must repeat ceaselessly.”
― Andrew Davidson

“If books could have more, give more, be more, show more, they would still need readers who bring to them sound and smell and light and all the rest that can’t be in books.
The book needs you.”
― Gary Paulsen, The Winter Room

“Hogwarts was the first and best home he had known. He and Voldemort and Snape, the abandoned boys, had all found home here. ”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

“At one point, trying to explain her unhappiness, Sanna was to say to Miss Love, "I read some psychology books in college. Everything that's supposed to warp a child happened to me." Miss Love, who had been raped as an adolescent, replies, "Everything that could warp a child happened to me, too. But understanding that doesn't help. It's interesting but it doesn't help. I figure that what you do with your life now is all that counts. I try not to look back.”
― Olive Anne Burns , Leaving Cold Sassy: The Unfinished Sequel to Cold Sassy Tree