Desert Luna > Desert's Quotes

“Never fight fair-- that's not how you win. Use every dirty trick you can, Expect pain. Expect to get hurt. If you're surprised by the pain, you just lost.”
― James Patterson

“Life doesn't suck. Really it's just the moment in time in which you, your mind and your thoughts are in.”
― Anonymous

“Real friends don't care if you're gay, bisexual, pansexual or just plain weird. They stand by you always and help you up if you fall...”
― Anonymous

“That's the problem with picking sides, Terra. You end up fighting for someone else. But who is to say that someone else has ever been fighting for you?”
― Phoebe North, Starglass

“That the battles are usually in her head does not lessen the bravery of it. The hardest ones always are.”
― William Ritter, Jackaby

“I have ceased concerning myself with how things look to others, Abigail Rook. I suggest you do the same. In my experience, others are generally wrong.”
― William Ritter, Jackaby

“This world is full of dragon-slayers. What we need are a few more people who aren't too proud to listen to a few fish.”
― William Ritter, Jackaby

“I excused myself to go see a duck about a dress.”
― William Ritter, Jackaby

“illusions, so many masks and facades. All the world’s a stage, as they say, and I seem to have the only seat in the house with a view behind the curtain.”
― William Ritter, Jackaby

“Does this smell like paprika or gunpowder to you?”
― William Ritter, Jackaby

“Failure is not the opposite of success—it’s a part of it. And as failures go,” he added with a lopsided grin, “this one was really spectacular, wasn’t it?”
― William Ritter, Beastly Bones

“DO NOT STARE AT THE FROG.”
― William Ritter, Jackaby

“Charlie helped with the dig as well?"Jackaby said.
Charlie nodded.
"Surprising-I should think that unburying bones would go against generations of instinct to do just the opposite, wouldn't it? Ouch! Watch your step in the dark, Miss Rook-you just kicked my shin. Where was I? Right-I was saying that coming from a family of dogs-ouch! You've done it again, rather hard that time. Really, the path isn't even bumpy here.”
― William Ritter, Beastly Bones

“dogs”
― Lois Lowry, Number the Stars

“Saints, Kaz, you actually look happy."
"Don't be ridiculous," he snapped. But there was no mistaking it. Kaz Brekker was grinning like an idiot.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

“One wants to tell a story, like Scheherezade, in order not to die. It's one of the oldest urges in mankind. It's a way of stalling death.”
― Carlos Fuentes

“You start by writing to live. You end by writing so as not to die.”
― Carlos Fuentes

“Don't classify me, read me. I'm a writer, not a genre.”
― Carlos Fuentes

“Memory is satisfied desire.”
― Carlos Fuentes

“Culture consists of connections, not of separations: to specialize is to isolate.”
― Carlos Fuentes, Myself with Others: Selected Essays

“I cannot forget the follies and vices of others so soon as I ought, nor their offences against myself...My good opinion once lost is lost forever. - Fitzwilliam Darcy”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice