Debra > Debra's Quotes

“If only. Those must be the two saddest words in the world.”
― Mercedes Lackey

“If it is stupid but it works, it isn't stupid.
(a Shin'a'in saying)”
― Mercedes Lackey, Owlknight

“Adventure, yeah. I guess that's what you call it when everybody comes back alive.”
― Mercedes Lackey, Spirits White as Lightning

“It isn't wise to be rude to one's mother. She knows everything about your childhood that is potentially embarassing.”
― Mercedes Lackey, Elvenborn

“1969 Pontiac Trans Am. It was painted flat black with green metal flake flames up the hood, over the roof, and down the trunk, factory Pontiac rally wheels cut and made 8” deep in the front and 10 ½ inches on the back.”
― Tate Jackson, The Undead Heart

“once in awhile you get shown the light, in the strangest of places if you look it right”
― Jerry Garcia

“Nothing left to do but smile.”
― Jerry Garcia, The Wisdom of Jerry Garcia: As Collected from Interviews

“Sometimes the lights all shining on me, other times I can barely see. Lately it occurs to me what a long strange trip it's been.”
― Jerry Garcia

“The harder she fights the fall, the faster she tumbles out of reason and into love’s madness. ”
― Amy Miles, Forbidden

“Roseline has a thing for leather.” “It’s not a thing,” she counters, grabbing Gabriel’s arm to steer him toward the door. “It’s a way of life.”
― Amy Miles, Evermore

“The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.--Mark Twain”
― Lola StVil, Blue Rose

“On the far side of the human graves. Pink wings in the lowering moon as the earth slipped ’round her silver light. They reached our wall. Our lines were strung. We held our land. What’s said is done.”
― Kim Harrison, Dead Witch Walking

“Sorrow looks back, worry looks around, and faith looks up.”
― Debbie Macomber, Mrs. Miracle

“A successful marriage isn’t finding the right person, it’s being the right person.”
― Debbie Macomber, Mrs. Miracle

“In every society on earth the child is regarded as a member of his parents' groups.”
― Douglas C. Baynton, Forbidden Signs: American Culture and the Campaign against Sign Language

“Deaf people occupy a unique position. They make up the only cultural group where cultural information and language has been predominantly passed down from child to child rather than from adult to child, and the only one in which the native language of the children is different from the language spoken by the parents.”
― Douglas C. Baynton, Forbidden Signs: American Culture and the Campaign against Sign Language

“Revenge comes in all shapes and sizes. It hides behind many masks. It waxes and it wanes through its many stages. For me, I’d soon come to realize that my revenge was more of an idea, really. It was a fantasy, a mere whisper of what revenge should be. It was a seed. But it was time for it to sprout.”
― Carmen Caine, Spellfinder

“The pleasure we obtain from music comes from counting, but counting unconsciously. Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.” - Liebniz”
― Aubrey Rose, Me, Cinderella?

“(For behold the Lord will come with fire, and his chariots are like a whirlwind, to render his wrath in indignation, and his rebuke with flames of fire.) – Isaiah 66:15”
― Valmore Daniels, Angel Fire

“I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times. —Bruce Lee”
― Chelsea Cain, One Kick

“Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.” — Albert Einstein”
― D.W. Moneypenny, Broken Realms

“I was mistaken about Eve in the beginning;  It is better to live outside the Garden with her   than inside, without her….”                                                                                       —Mark Twain”
― Lola St.Vil, The Girl

“American Cancer Society estimates that in 2015 1,658,370 new cancer cases will be diagnosed and that in the same year about 1,600 people will die from cancer-related conditions daily.”
― Tom Brokaw, A Lucky Life Interrupted: A Memoir of Hope

“book. Myeloma as a description has its origins with the Greek medical genius Hippocrates, who did the earliest known work on cancer, which he called karkinoma (carcinoma) because the tumors often resembled a crab, karkinos in ancient Greek. In modern descriptions, the condition is complex and treacherous: Plasma cells in the bone marrow become malignant and produce tumors, causing destruction of the bone and resulting in pathologic fracture and pain. A secretory form of the disease is characterized by the presence of Bence-Jones protein, a monoclonal immunoglobulin, which can cause anemia and kidney disease”
― Tom Brokaw, A Lucky Life Interrupted: A Memoir of Hope

“What was that World War I saying, “Trust the Lord and pass the ammo”? For me, trust the doctors and the Lord and pass the Velcade, Revlimid, dexamethasone.”
― Tom Brokaw, A Lucky Life Interrupted: A Memoir of Hope

“If we are willing to attempt the impossible, God is willing to perform the miraculous.”
― Kelly Cozy, Ashes

“Hoping that you and life treat each other well,”
― Kelly Cozy, Ashes

“I couldn’t see the point of getting up. I had nothing to look forward to.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“Dying
Is an art, like everything else.
I do it exceptionally well.
I do it so it feels like hell.
I do it so it feels real.
I guess you could say I have a call.”
― Sylvia Plath, Ariel

“The world is a strange place—people divided amongst themselves—Amish, Indians, white men and so on. When will people realize that we are all just humans and stop assigning labels and creating divisions?” Esther nodded, that would truly be peace on earth.”
― Misty Griffin, Forbidden Heritage