Big Books of 2026

Risa Koppelmann > Risa's Quotes

Showing 1-18 of 18
sort by

    like
  • #1
    Max Nowaz
    “Ah! You speak Levitan,” the man smiled. “But you’re not from Levita I think.” Like
most Levitians he was a good looking man, if perhaps a bit effete for Brown’s tastes. 
“No, I lived there for a while.” 
“Did you enjoy your stay?”
“Up to a point. The Levitian women are very beautiful.”
“Yes of course. So are the men in Levita,” the man smiled. “We used to have a
cleansing programme to ensure a healthy population.”
“You mean a culling policy, where you killed all the weakest members of the
population.”
    ― Max Nowaz, The Arbitrator
    tags: dark, dark-humour, drama, fiction, mystery, thriller
    422 likes

    • like
  • #2
    William Kely McClung
    “Her hair fragrant with hints of vanilla and cinnamon, subtle enough to make him wonder if it were the spices or truly the way she smelled.”
    ― William Kely McClung, Black Fire
    tags: action, danger, fantasy, fiction, gripping, horror, mercenaries, novel
    65 likes

    • like
  • #3
    Nicole Morris
    “I knew something was wrong the minute he didn’t come home,’ says Jo. ‘He always rang. Always.
    Jo is adamant he would have found a way to call her and let her know what was happening. ‘He would have found a phone and rung me. He had every intention of coming home.”
    ― Nicole Morris, Vanished: True Stories from Families of Australian Missing Persons
    tags: crime, disappearances, families, impact, investigate, locate, murders, public-awareness, real-life, vanished
    4 likes

    • like
  • #4
    Simone Collins
    “As a society, we assume that humans naturally run from emotions like suffering, helplessness, and hopelessness, but the truth is these emotions are highly addictive and far easier to indulge in (in a perversely satisfying way) than positive emotional subsets. Better yet, when you convince others of your helplessness, some people begin to regard you as a victim—someone to be adored and protected. ”
    ― Simone Collins, The Pragmatist’s Guide to Crafting Religion: A playbook for sculpting cultures that overcome demographic collapse & facilitate long-term human flourishing
    tags: agnosticism, atheism, biology, diverse, enviromental-sustainability, evoking, fertility-decline, pragmatism, society, unique
    46 likes

    • like
  • #5
    James Allen Moseley
    “From Good Friday in AD 33 through the following Sabbath day, the apostles were whimpering, broken fugitives. After Resurrection Sunday, they were lions who revolutionized the world. What caused this astonishing change? After watching Jesus undeniably die, the apostles saw, touched, and ate with the risen Lord, not once, but many times for over forty days. The fact of the Resurrection demonstrated to them (and demonstrates to us) that Jesus is God; and if he is God, his teaching is true. Only the realization of that could have been worth more to the apostles than their lives.”
    ― James Allen Moseley, Biographies of Jesus' Apostles: Ambassadors in Chains
    tags: awareness, biblical-accounts, find-god, god-quotes, historical-data, life, love, self, self-love, wisdom
    15 likes

    • like
  • #6
    Steven Decker
    “Dani didn’t recognize the song, but the unmistakable sound of the band that no one had sounded like before or since was in the air.”
    ― Steven Decker, Time Chain: A Time Travel Novel
    61 likes

    • like
  • #7
    Dale A. Jenkins
    “Yamamoto was considered, both in Japan and the United States, as intelligent, capable, aggressive, and dangerous. Motivated by his skill as a poker player and casino gambler, he was continually calculating odds on an endless variety of options. He played bridge and chess better than most good players. Like most powerful leaders he was articulate and persuasive, and once in a position of power he pushed his agenda relentlessly. Whether he would push his odds successfully in the Pacific remained to be seen.”
    ― Dale A. Jenkins, Diplomats & Admirals: From Failed Negotiations and Tragic Misjudgments to Powerful Leaders and Heroic Deeds, the Untold Story of the Pacific War from Pearl Harbor to Midway
    tags: courageous, death, documents, facts, lies, life, midway, miscommunication, pearl-harbour, war
    69 likes

    • like
  • #8
    Pablo Neruda
    “Here I came to the very edge
    where nothing at all needs saying,
    everything is absorbed through weather and the sea,
    and the moon swam back,
    its rays all silvered,
    and time and again the darkness would be broken
    by the crash of a wave,
    and every day on the balcony of the sea,
    wings open, fire is born,
    and everything is blue again like morning. ”
    ― Pablo Neruda
    tags: amazing-ocean, painted-a-picture, sun
    296 likes

    • like
  • #9
    Samuel Beckett
    “: هذا النوع من الأغراء لا أريده الآن . إن حاجتي لجمال الحياة قد انتهت . واستطيع أن أموت اليوم إذا رغبت بمجرد مجهود صغير .”
    ― Samuel Beckett, Malone Dies
    tags: صامويل-بيكيت
    25 likes

    • like
  • #10
    Tracy Chevalier
    “I do not respect you, and I will never let you have any of my fossil fish”
    ― Tracy Chevalier, Remarkable Creatures
    tags: feminism, fish, fossils
    7 likes

    • like
  • #11
    Rhonda Byrne
    “The law of attraction simply gives you whatever it is you are thinking about”
    ― Rhonda Byrne, The Secret
    8 likes

    • like
  • #12
    Bev Stout
    “He glared at her. "Aye, and you shall be the best cabin boy I have ever had or I will feed you to the sharks. Savvy?" He turned and stomped back to the
    ship”
    ― Bev Stout, Secrets of the Realm
    619 likes

    • like
  • #13
    Louisa May Alcott
    “Love will make you show your heart someday...”
    ― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
    tags: little-women, love, love-quotes
    37 likes

    • like
  • #14
    Traci Medford-Rosow
    “As I lay in bed, I experienced continual, yet gentle, throbbing throughout my face, but most pronounced directly under my eyes. At one point, around 1 a.m., I felt a build-up of pressure in my left eye, then a release. It was followed by quite a bit of crusty discharge. Suddenly, my eyes feel living—rooted.”
    ― Traci Medford-Rosow, Unblinded: One Man's Courageous Journey Through Darkness to Sight
    89 likes

    • like
  • #15
    Olive Ann Burns
    “She's as dead as she'll every be, ain't she? Well, ain't she?”
    ― Olive Ann Burns, Cold Sassy Tree
    tags: grief, humor, marriage
    20 likes

    • like
  • #16
    Ovid
    “Everything comes gradually and at its appointed hour.”
    ― Ovid
    tags: timing
    3 likes

    • like
  • #17
    James Redfield
    “In a world where the people are numbed and distracted, the only thing that sells is the unbelievable.”
    ― James Redfield, The Tenth Insight: Holding the Vision
    5 likes

    • like
  • #18
    Sarah J. Maas
    “Her scent hit him. For a second, he could only breathe it deep into his lungs,his Fae instincts roaring that this was his family, this was his queen, this was Aelin. He would have known her even if he were blind. Even if there was another scent entwined with hers. Staggeringly powerful and ancient and—male. Interesting.”
    ― Sarah J. Maas, Queen of Shadows
    tags: aedion-ashryver, aelin-galathynius, queen-of-shadows, rowan-whitethorn
    336 likes



Rss
All Quotes



Tags From Risa’s Quotes

dark
dark-humour
drama
fiction
mystery
thriller
action
danger
fantasy
gripping
horror
mercenaries
novel
crime
disappearances
families
impact
investigate
locate
murders
public-awareness
real-life
vanished
agnosticism
atheism
biology
diverse
enviromental-sustainability
evoking
fertility-decline
pragmatism
society
unique
awareness
biblical-accounts
find-god
god-quotes
historical-data
life
love
self
self-love
wisdom
courageous
death
documents
facts
lies
midway
miscommunication
pearl-harbour
war
amazing-ocean
painted-a-picture
sun
صامويل-بيكيت
feminism
fish
fossils
little-women
love-quotes
grief
humor
marriage
timing
aedion-ashryver
aelin-galathynius
queen-of-shadows
rowan-whitethorn