Nancy Nickeson > Nancy's Quotes

“Red will be made white
Darkness shall become light
Faith will be made sight
Squire shall become knight”
― Bryan Davis

“Every adventure undertaken, every prophecy spoken or sung, every dangerous road pointed to this simple truth - a battle between good and evil rages every day.”
― Bryan Davis, Tears of a Dragon

“Love needs no chains.”
― Bryan Davis, Starlighter

“You've won the evolutionary lottery: You're a vampire. Let's go to Disneyland!”
― J.R. Ward, Dark Lover

“Some bridges you crossed on your own, no matter who drove you to the edge”
― J.R. Ward, Dark Lover

“The trouble is not really in being alone, it's being lonely. One can be lonely in the midst of a crowd, don't you think?”
― Christine Feehan, Dark Prince

“Life gives us choices. You either grab on with both hands and just go for it, or you sit on the sidelines.”
― Christine Feehan, Night Game

“I claim you as my life mate. I belong to you. I offer my life for you. I give to you my protection, my allegiance, my heart, my soul, and my body. I take into my keeping the same that is yours. Your life, happiness, and welfare will be cherished and placed above my own for all time. You are my life mate, bound to me for all eternity and always in my care.”
― Christine Feehan

“I’m quite capable of walking,” she pointed out.
It is faster this way. Your legs are short.”
They are not!”
― Christine Feehan, Dark Guardian

“When she absently worried her bottom lip with one of her adorable little fangs, he sighed.
The Enemy of Old fucking sighed.
Dear gods, it’d finally happened to him.
Happiness.
Then his own fangs sharpened.I will kill anyone who tries to take this feeling away from me.”
― Kresley Cole, Lothaire

“A soul is the very essence of being. It's what goes on in your head and in your heart, that knows the difference between right and wrong, that has wants and needs and desires. It is the soul that reflects, the soul that perceives the beauty of the world, that loves and feels. The soul is who you are.”
― Elsie V. Aidinoff

“Use your eyes: observe all things as they are. Don't place a twig in the path of an ant or whistle with the bird. Instead hear the voice of that bird, watch the walk of that ant. If you do, you'll truly know its nature.”
― Elsie V. Aidinoff, The Garden

“If you eat the apple, in certain respects you'll resemble God. You will no longer be innocent: you'll know good and you'll know evil, and be able to choose between them. You'll be responsible for your actions. And you'll be free to choose the course of your lives. .... You and all people, for all time.”
― Elsie V. Aidinoff

“It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all—in which case, you fail by default.”
― J.K. Rowling

“The biggest mistake you can ever make it to compare yourself to others. - Gideon”
― Jacquelyn Frank, Adam

“Wicked people never have time for reading. It's one of the reasons for their wickedness.”
― Lemony Snicket

“Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”
― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

“Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant filled with odd little waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don't always like.”
― Lemony Snicket

“Reading is one form of escape. Running for your life is another.”
― Lemony Snicket

“It is a curious thing, the death of a loved one. We all know that our time in this world is limited, and that eventually all of us will end up underneath some sheet, never to wake up. And yet it is always a surprise when it happens to someone we know. It is like walking up the stairs to your bedroom in the dark, and thinking there is one more stair than there is. Your foot falls down, through the air, and there is a sickly moment of dark surprise as you try and readjust the way you thought of things.”
― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

“All the secrets of the world are contained in books. Read at your own risk.”
― Lemony Snicket

“The sad truth is the truth is sad.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Hostile Hospital

“I don't know if you've ever noticed this, but first impressions are often entirely wrong.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Bad Beginning

“The moral of Snow White is never eat apples.”
― Lemony Snicket

“It is likely I will die next to a pile of things I was meaning to read.”
― Lemony Snicket

“Taking one’s chances is like taking a bath, because sometimes you end up feeling comfortable and warm, and sometimes there is something terrible lurking around that you cannot see until it is too late and you can do nothing else but scream and cling to a plastic duck.”
― Lemony Snicket

“I think it's a shame that something as creative and vital to the nature of the human species as story-telling is largely controlled by the soulless cretins known as publishers.”
― Piers Anthony

“No proper princess would come out looking for dragons," Woraug objected.

"Well I'm not a proper princess then!" Cimorene snapped. "I make cherries jubillee and I volunteer for dragons, and I conjugate Latin verbs-- or at least I would if anyone would let me. So there!”
― Patricia C. Wrede, Dealing with Dragons

“But he isn't my lover, or my fiancé, or my boyfriend or anything, and I refuse to be killed with him.”
― Patricia C. Wrede, Dealing with Dragons

“I keep forgetting that you're not as empty headed as most princesses.”
― Patricia C. Wrede, Dealing with Dragons