Kellie Elmore > Kellie's Quotes

“Some of the best memories are made in flip flops.”
― Kellie Elmore

“Life is like a steering wheel, it only takes one small move to change your entire direction.”
― Kellie Elmore

“Don't just follow your dreams; chase them down, grab hold and don't let go.”
― Kellie Elmore

“Sacrifices made for love are fine, unless the sacrifice is you.”
― Kellie Elmore

“I don't want someone to believe my lies, I need someone to accept my truths.”
― Kellie Elmore

“Poetry will die when love and pain cease to exist.”
― Kellie Elmore

“Sometimes the only way to ever find yourself is to get completely lost.”
― Kellie Elmore

“If we change our thoughts from 'it's too late' to, 'there's still hope', we might see some change in the world.”
― Kellie Elmore

“That dip in the road- that sends your belly to your throat... that's how it feels when you kiss me.”
― Kellie Elmore

“I am but a firefly caught in his jar and when he looks at me, I can’t help but glow.”
― Kellie Elmore

“I have yet to be completely submerged in reality, for drowning in the sky.”
― Kellie Elmore, Magic in the Backyard

“What a more beautiful world this would be if we didn't wait til people were dead before we honored their spirit.”
― Kellie Elmore

“Maybe Heaven will be a library. Then I will be able to finish my to-read list.”
― Kellie Elmore

“Hold love like a butterfly, with gentle preservation. Hold life like the reigns of a wild stallion, with fierce assertion. Encompass that, and you find the nectar of the immortal spirit.”
― Kellie Elmore

“Oh, we're playing nice now? Shall we have tea first? Brew up a nice pot of kiss-my-ass?”
― Julie Kagawa, The Iron King

“I think Heaven will be like a first kiss.”
― Sarah Addison Allen, The Sugar Queen

“I'm homesick all the time," she said, still not looking at him "I just don't know where home is. There's this promise of happiness out there. I know it. I even feel it sometimes. But it's like chasing the moon - just when I think I have it, it disappears into the horizon. I grieve and try to move on, but then the damn thing comes back the next night, giving me hope of catching it all over again.”
― Sarah Addison Allen, The Girl Who Chased the Moon

“Her grandmother used to tell her that a pink sky meant someone in the distance had just fallen in love . . . .”
― Sarah Addison Allen, The Peach Keeper

“I love you. I am who I am because of you. You are every reason, every hope, and every dream I've ever had, and no matter what happens to us in the future, everyday we are together is the greatest day of my life. I will always be yours. ”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook

“Nothing that’s worthwhile is ever easy. Remember that.”
― Nicholas Sparks, Message in a Bottle

“Love is always patient and kind. It is never jealous. Love is never boastful or conceited. It is never rude or selfish. It does not take offense and is not resentful. Love takes no pleasure in other people’s sins, but delights in the truth. It is always ready to excuse, to trust, to hope, and to endure whatever comes.”
― Anonymous, Holy Bible: New International Version

“My daddy said, that the first time you fall in love, it changes you forever and no matter how hard you try, that feeling just never goes away.”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook

“No matter what a person does to cover up and conceal themselves, when we write and lose control, I can spot a person from Alabama, Florida, South Carolina a mile away even if they make no exact reference to location. Their words are lush like the land they come from, filled with nine aunties, people named Bubba. There is something extravagant and wild about what they have to say — snakes on the roof of a car, swamps, a delta, sweat, the smell of sea, buzz of an air conditioner, Coca-Cola — something fertile, with a hidden danger or shame, thick like the humidity, unspoken yet ever-present.

Often when a southerner reads, the members of the class look at each other, and you can hear them thinking, gee, I can't write like that. The power and force of the land is heard in the piece. These southerners know the names of what shrubs hang over what creek, what dogwood flowers bloom what color, what kind of soil is under their feet.

I tease the class, "Pay no mind. It's the southern writing gene. The rest of us have to toil away.”
― Natalie Goldberg

“Being Southern isn't talking with an accent...or rocking on a porch while drinking sweet tea, or knowing how to tell a good story. It's how you're brought up -- with Southerners, family (blood kin or not) is sacred; you respect others and are polite nearly to a fault; you always know your place but are fierce about your beliefs. And food along with college football -- is darn near a religion.”
― Jan Norris

“Well, Southerners like to eat well. You see, it's an event when it's done right.”
― Stan Shaw

“The food in the South is as important as food anywhere because it defines a person's culture.”
― Fannie Flagg

“Don't over edit. Don't second-guess yourself, or your ideas. Just write. Write every day, and keep at it. Don't get discouraged with the rejections. Tape them up on your office wall, to remind you of all the hard work you put in when you finally start getting published! It's all about persistence and passion. And have fun with it. Don't forget to have fun.”
― Heather Grace Stewart

“Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth.”
― William Faulkner

“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
― Oscar Wilde

“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
― Ernest Hemingway