Mary Ann > Mary's Quotes

“No. I can survive well enough on my own— if given the proper reading material.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Throne of Glass

“Sometimes, books just take us away for a little while, and return us to our place with a new perspective.”
― Sara Nisha Adams, The Reading List

“...sometimes when you really like a book, you need to read it again! To relive what you loved and find out what you missed before. Books always change as the person who reads them changes too.”
― Sara Nisha Adams, The Reading List

“I guess books say different things to different people.”
― Sara Nisha Adams, The Reading List

“Please try to remember that books aren’t always an escape; sometimes books teach us things. They show us the world; they don’t hide it.”
― Sara Nisha Adams, The Reading List

“She didn't remember the story, she was terrible with details, but she remembered the way it made her feel. It had this kind of warm, magical quality about it.”
― Sara Nisha Adams, The Reading List

“Books always change as the person who reads them changes too.”
― Sara Nisha Adams, The Reading List

“There was something magical in that—in sharing a world you have loved; allowing someone to see it through the same pair of spectacles you saw it through yourself.”
― Sara Nisha Adams, The Reading List

“Despite all the books she’d read in her lifetime, finding the words to say I love you, to the person she had spent the happiest years of her life with, seemed to be the hardest thing in the world.”
― Sara Nisha Adams, The Reading List

“It was strange, the idea that this book wasn't just for him, it was for everyone. All these people who had taken it out before him, people who would take it out after him. Every reader, unknowingly connected in some small way.”
― Sara Nisha Adams, The Reading List

“He can feel the story take control of his mind, pulling him away. His own thoughts, his worries, that voice, begin to buzz at the back of his mind, and eventually they become nothing but white noise.”
― Sara Nisha Adams, The Reading List

“It was strange how, once childhood left, your parents became simply human, with fears and worries just like your”
― Sara Nisha Adams, The Reading List

“Because for a moment, he’d forgotten that now he was an old man with aching joints. For a moment, he had felt completely and utterly brand new.”
― Sara Nisha Adams, The Reading List

“I am all in a sea of wonders. I doubt; I fear; I think strange things, which I dare not confess to my own soul.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula

“Things don’t have to stay as what they started out as.”
― Travis Baldree, Legends & Lattes

“WHAT FLAMES COULD NOT CONSUME,
NEVER SHALL BE EXTINGUISHED”
― Travis Baldree, Legends & Lattes

“it was like drinking the feeling of being peaceful. Being peaceful in your mind. Well, not if you have too much, then it’s something else.”
― Travis Baldree, Legends & Lattes

“After twenty-two years of adventuring, Viv had reached her limit of blood and mud and bullshit. An orc’s life was strength and violence and a sudden, sharp end—but she’d be damned if she’d let hers finish that way. It was time for something new.”
― Travis Baldree, Legends & Lattes

“You've found a very peaceful place here. A special place. You've planted something, and now its blossoming. Very nice. A good spot to rest. My thanks to you for letting an old-timer shade under the branches of what you've grown.”
― Travis Baldree, Legends & Lattes

“Failure to act was as much a decision as any other.”
― Travis Baldree, Legends & Lattes

“for. She found it in half-lidded eyes and a slow, deliberate swallow. In cupped hands around the warmth of a mug and the lingering enjoyment of the last taste.”
― Travis Baldree, Legends & Lattes

“This is what I know, what I've always known. I just want to know something else, now. To be something else.”
― Travis Baldree, Legends & Lattes

“I've got respect for people who have to get their hands dirty to get things done. That's just work. No, it takes something special to be a real asshole, and I think she and I are of the same mind.”
― Travis Baldree, Legends & Lattes

“LEGENDS & LATTES ~ MENU ~ Coffee ~ exotic aroma & rich, full-bodied roast—½ bit Latte ~ a sophisticated and creamy variation—1 bit Any drink ICED ~ a refined twist—add ½ bit Cinnamon Roll ~ heavenly frosted cinnamon pastry—4 bits Thimblets ~ crunchy nut & fruit delicacies—2 bits * FINER TASTES FOR THE ~ WORKING GENT & LADY ~”
― Travis Baldree, Legends & Lattes

“… The price of what I meant to do Was higher when the day was through, And when I took a different road, I almost couldn’t feel the load …”
― Travis Baldree, Legends & Lattes

“What flames could not consume, never shall be extinguished.”
― Travis Baldree, El café de las leyendas

“Viv was suddenly awash in an old feeling of fraught potential. A critical instant that hinged on the movement of a blade, the placement of a foot, a moment of trust extended or withheld. Failure to act was as much a decision as any other.”
― Travis Baldree, Legends & Lattes

“I’m just saying that … maybe, if you treated the rest of your life the same way you do the shop—invested in it the same way—then the cost would seem less.” Viv didn’t know what to say to that.”
― Travis Baldree, Legends & Lattes

“They called it a café. People just sat around drinking it from these little ceramic cups, and I had to try it, and...it was like drinking the feeling of being peaceful. Being peaceful in your mind.”
― Travis Baldree, Legends & Lattes

“Failing that, it’s always a good idea to let your enemies soften each other up first. Wait until the dust settles, and poke through the ashes.”
― Travis Baldree, Legends & Lattes