Stephen Stricklen > Stephen's Quotes

“Merlin stood up. For once, late as it was, he was pleased to see the Assistant Commissioner because he had been trying unsuccessfully to get hold of him all day. “May I introduce Detective Bernard Goldberg of the New York Police Department.”
Merlin held out a hand to the stocky young man now standing on the AC’s right. Detective Goldberg was an inch or two shorter than Merlin, with a closely cropped head of dark-brown hair and the crumpled face of a man who might have walked into a wall.”
― Mark Ellis, The French Spy

“Leo sighed and went back to her work, but by the time she reached her little apartment on the houseboat moored to Gezira Island she was weary and on edge. She could not get the thought of Alix caught up in a battle out of her head. Sasha’s informant had described how she had been honoured by Tito for her role as a bombasi, hurling grenades into enemy bunkers. It wasn’t hard to imagine how dangerous that would be. She longed to confide in someone, to share her anxiety, but there was no one she could tell without divulging her source. She considered trying to get a phone call through to Sasha in London but dismissed the idea. It was unfair to burden him with the same worry when he was as helpless as she was. Apart from that, she was not sure how he would react. He hated the idea of women anywhere near the front line, as she knew from her own experience. In addition, Alix was fighting on the wrong side as far as he was concerned.”
― Holly Green, A Call to Home

“He is half vampire. He would eat you.” Gatuika splashes her sister.”
― Tricia Copeland, To be a Fae Guardian

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

“Love was the quiet hum of a lullaby slipping past sleeping ears on a late November evening.”
― J. Rose Black, Chasing Headlines

“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

“On Friday night, I was reading my new book, but my brain got tired, so I decided to watch some television instead.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“LARRY comes to the door and opens it a trifle—then, with a puzzled expression, pulls it wide. ANNA CHRISTOPHERSON enters. She is a tall, blond, fully-developed girl of twenty, handsome after a large, Viking-daughter fashion but now run down in health and plainly showing all the outward evidences of belonging to the world's oldest profession. Her youthful face is already hard and cynical beneath its layer of make-up. Her clothes are the tawdry finery of peasant stock turned prostitute. She comes and sinks wearily in a chair by the table, left front.”
― Eugene O'Neill, Anna Christie

“Ho imparato da piccola che darsi da fare porta al successo. Che lo studio è ricompensato dalla conoscenza. Che vedere dona la vista. Che se non alimenti la rabbia non ne proverai. La tristezza e la frustrazione, perfino la tragedia, sono inevitabili; ma questo non vuol dire che la felicità non sia alla portata di ciascuno di noi. Il mio segreto è che scelgo di essere la persona che voglio essere. Non credo nel fato o nella predestinazione, ma nella scelta, e credo che ciascuno di noi scelga di essere la persona che è. Qualsiasi cosa vogliate essere, potete esserla; qualsiasi cosa vogliate fare, potete farla; potete andare ovunque desideriate. Il mondo e la vita aspettano solo che ci facciamo avanti per conquistarli. Il futuro non è scritto, e potete costruirlo come volete.”
― James Frey

“considerable amount in consideration of his services in”
― Solomon Northup, Twelve Years a Slave

“What about you? Are you happiest and saddest right now that you've ever been?" "Of course I am." "Why?" "Because nothing makes me happier and nothing makes me sadder than you.”
― Nicole Krauss, The History of Love

“He is very careful and loving, and hardly lets me stir without special direction.”
― Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wall-Paper