Samella Glenna > Samella's Quotes

“He desperately tried to think of a story to explain his involvement in her sudden appearance, without mentioning the book of magic in his possession.
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― Max Nowaz, The Three Witches and the Master

“When you don’t have much, having less isn’t so bad.”
― Lisa See, Shanghai Girls

“Luck is a curious companion, it comes to those who believe they hold it, and is an elusive servant to those who doubt they possess it.”
― Bryce Courtenay, The Potato Factory

“The more honest one is, the easier it is to continue being honest, just as the more lies one has told, the more necessary it is to lie again. By their openness, people dedicated to the truth live in the open, and through the exercise of their courage to live in the open, they become free from fear.”
― M. Scott Peck, The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth

“I would prefer even to fail with honor than to win by cheating.”
― Sophocles

“Oh, it was delicious to have someone to keep secrets with...It was having someone look at you after your mother has nearly fretted herself to death because you are freakishly tall and frizzy and odd. Someone whose eyes simply said, without words, "You are fine with me.”
― Kathryn Stockett, The Help

“Starting from this point of view, it will always remain my private persuasion that Nature was absorbed in making cabbages when Mrs. Vesey was born, and that the good lady suffered the consequences of a vegetable preoccupation in the mind of the Mother of us all.”
― Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White

“Whither be the heart of Justice?
            Lo, in stone, child. Lo, in stone.
            Whither be the heart of Justice?
            Lo, tis fast in stone.”
― K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master

“I know the next year will be trying, but you must keep faith." His eyes bore into mine, and I fear he can see into my very soul.”
― Tricia Copeland, To be a Fae Guardian

“Maybe you should be the one to get naked for me. 'Breslin Cooper's Revealing Interview. Take a peek at the real ass inside those hot baseball pants.”
― J. Rose Black, Chasing Headlines

“Time was being stripped from her one second at a time.”
― D.L. Maddox, The Dog Walker: The Prequel

“No, Rhodes. Everything is not okay. You know the lake just north of the university?”
“Yeah, it’s all dried up now. Does that every summer.”
“Well, there’s a dead body in the middle of it. You need to call the police and tell them to get out here, now.”
― Behcet Kaya, Uncanny Alliance

“Love is an intangible thing.”
“That’s where you’re wrong,” Arthur said. If I can prove I’m in love with your daughter, will you give us your blessing?”
― Diane L. Kowalyshyn, Crossbones

“The foursome rode up the slope and ground-hitched their horses. Cautiously they made their way toward”
― Carolyn Keene, The Secret of Shadow Ranch

“Unfortunately I am afraid, as always, of going on. For to go on means going from here, means finding me, losing me, vanishing and beginning again, a stranger first, then little by little the same as always, in another place, where I shall say I have always been, of which I shall know nothing, being incapable of seeing, moving, thinking, speaking, but of which little by little, in spite of these handicaps, I shall begin to know something, just enough for it to turn out to be the same place as always, the same which seems made for me and does not want me, which I seem to want and do not want, take your choice, which spews me out or swallows me up, I’ll never know, which is perhaps merely the inside of my distant skull where once I wandered, now am fixed, lost for tininess, or straining against the walls, with my head, my hands, my feet, my back, and ever murmuring my old stories, my old story, as if it were the first time.”
― Samuel Beckett, The Unnamable

“The important thing is moral choice. Evil has to exist along with good, in order that moral choice may operate. Life is sustained by the grinding opposition of moral entities.”
― Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange

“It was the in-between time, before day leaves and night comes, a time I’ve never been partial to because of the sadness that lingers in the space between going and coming.”
― Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees

“You know, I'm the only one in this family who has no problems, . . . And you know why? Because any time I'm feeling blue, or puzzled, what I do, I just invite a few people to come visit me in the bathroom, and—well, we iron things out together, that's all.”
― J.D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey

“«الموت!» وقال في ذات نفسه: «عجيب» أن يكون ثمة مثل هذه الكلمة ومثل هذا الشيء ثم ننساهما بالكلية. وأن يكون المرء حياً، دافئاً، وجميلاً، تعمر قلبه الآمال والرغبات والحاجات يوماً، ثم لا تشرق عليه شمس اليوم التالي حتى يكون قد فارق هذه الأرض إلى الأبد.»”
― Harriet Beecher Stowe, ‫كوخ العم توم‬