Arnetta Taylor > Arnetta's Quotes

“Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.”
― Pablo Picasso

“Our lives are not our own. We are bound to others, past and present, and by each crime and every kindness, we birth our future.”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
― Leo Tolstoy

“What good is an edge if you can’t push someone over it?”
― Dannika Dark, Ravenheart

“We all have secrets, Raven. Dark ones. Each and every one of us. It doesn’t mean they’re ones you have to share, but sooner or later you’ll have to deal with them, or they’ll hold you back. The only way to move forward is to face your past.”
― Dannika Dark, Ravenheart

“Mortals are always in a hurry to do things, but they never understand that the most important thing they can do in life is change.”
― Dannika Dark, Blackout

“Deception plays with your heart, not your mind or desire and your heart is a very precious thing.”
― Dannika Dark, Blackout

“woman should never do anything a man wants her to do.”
― Dannika Dark, Blackout

“Never trust the quiet ones.”
― Dannika Dark, Blackout

“Home is not a place—it’s the people you love and the time that you inhabit.”
― Dannika Dark, Blackout

“I’m jealous of the armor that holds you when I can’t, the sheets on your bed that caress your skin every night, and the blades that feel your hands.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Onyx Storm

“She is warmth and light and air and love.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Onyx Storm

“Then the man fucking winks at me, and I almost fall off my damned horse.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Onyx Storm

“By Malek, I fucking love you,” Xaden says.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Onyx Storm

“Remember, the past need not become our future as well.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Elantris

“In the beginning was the word. Before all else, the word. So we speak as if words matter, because they do.”
― Dean Koontz, The City

“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke

“You can’t throw a brick without hitting a heroin addict these days.” She sighed. “If only we had more bricks.”
― Karin Slaughter, Fallen

“You can’t fool someone who doesn’t want to be fooled.”
― Karin Slaughter, Fallen

“To all the librarians in the world on behalf of all the kids y’all helped grow up to be writers”
― Karin Slaughter, Fallen

“It’s always sad when someone dies of a cliché.”
― Karin Slaughter, Fallen

“Remember—the Devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.”
― Karin Slaughter, Fallen

“Until this chapter, the story has been intended to be highly amusing—and is likewise structured for that purpose in what follows—but for this one interlude, deep melancholy could not be avoided. It just is what it is.”
― Dean Koontz, Going Home in the Dark

“However, the author and his editor and his publisher and the perpetually nervous folks in the marketing department are well aware that studies conducted by major universities (them again) indicate that between 39 and 57 percent of modern readers, who lead busy lives even if to no sensible point, have markedly less patience for character details than did readers in the time of Charles Dickens or, for that matter, in the time of Herman Wouk. Consequently, strategies have been developed to keep all readers, the patient and the impatient, engaged. One strategy is to divide long chapters into two shorter ones, wherever possible, to distract the reader from the amount of character detail and to contribute to the illusion of headlong suspense. That is why the material in this chapter was moved from Chapter Three, where it appeared in the first draft.”
― Dean Koontz, Going Home in the Dark

“Intuition is seeing with the soul.”
― Dean Koontz

“Now take my hand and hold it tight.
I will not fail you here tonight,
For failing you, I fail myself
And place my soul upon a shelf
In Hell's library without light.
I will not fail you here tonight.”
― Dean Koontz, The Book of Counted Sorrows

“No one can grant you happiness. Happiness is a choice we all have the power to make.”
― Dean Koontz, Life Expectancy

“Change isn't easy. Changing the way you live means changing the way you think, means changing what you believe about life. That's hard.”
― Dean Koontz, One Door Away from Heaven

“Darkness dwells within even the best of us. In the worst of us, darkness not only dwells but reins.”
― Dean Koontz, Strange Highways

“Everyone is a murdered... All it takes is a good reason and a bad day.”
― Steven Moffat: Stanley Tucci