Heather Blair > Heather's Quotes

“I believe in me. I'm a little screwed up but I'm beautiful.”
― Steve McQueen

“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“I write to give myself strength. I write to be the characters that I am not. I write to explore all the things I'm afraid of. ”
― Joss Whedon

“Oh, you're good."

Akil narrowed his eyes. "You must have me confused with another sociopathic demon.”
― Pippa DaCosta, Darkest Before Dawn

“A boy may be as disagreeable as he pleases, but when a girl refuses to crap sunshine on command, the world mutters darkly about her moods.”
― Scott Lynch, The Republic of Thieves

“Life itself is a quotation.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“You can't wait for the perfect moment. You need to make it. Take the happiness you can have now and fuck everything else.”
― Veronica Del Rosa, Sylvia's Torment

“So please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookshelf on the wall.”
― Roald Dahl

“You lie through your teeth. You wouldn’t know the truth if it crawled up your ass and bit you on the balls.”
― Pippa DaCosta, Darkest Before Dawn

“My experience of life is that it is not divided up into genres; it’s a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of pornography if you're lucky.”
― Alan Moore

“All of a sudden, it comes to me. The epic love I've always wanted was with me all along, and it's nothing like what I imagined. It's better, because it's real. It's not perfect or pretty. It's full of mistakes and sacrifices, and sometimes even ugliness.”
― LH Cosway

“....because of all the things in this world that can hurt you and knock you down, I will never be one of them.”
― Sawyer Belle, Silver Nights With You

“Alas; they had been friends in youth
but whispering tongues can poison truth”
― Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Christabel: Kubla Khan, a Vison; The Pains of Sleep

“Mistakes can be very beautiful. Mistakes lead to surprises. Even joy. And joy makes life worth living.”
― Ryan Winfield, The Park Service

“Simi? What was it you told me once about families?
We have three kinds of family. Those we are born to, those who are born to us, and those we let into our hearts.”
― Sherrilyn Kenyon, Bad Moon Rising

“Karma was giving every evidence of being just a bit pissed with him already. No need to egg the bitch on.”
― Heather R. Blair, Shivers: 9 Dark & Twisted Tales

“It is thanks to my evening reading alone that I am still more or less sane.”
― W.G. Sebald, Vertigo

“Courage is when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.”
― Terry Pratchett, Diggers

“Those arms make me feel safe. He’s always made me feel safe. And it’s still a goddamn lie. There is nothing about Jack Frost that is safe.”
― Heather R. Blair, Sixpence & Whiskey

“My feet took an involuntary step backward as I suddenly envisioned a world where I wasn't a hot tempered smartass. It was a pretty world.”
― Jennifer R. McDonald, Into the Veil

“These woods are lovely, dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.”
― Robert Frost, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

“You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.”
― Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

“People are afraid of themselves, of their own reality; their feelings most of all. People talk about how great love is, but that’s bullshit. Love hurts. Feelings are disturbing. People are taught that pain is evil and dangerous. How can they deal with love if they’re afraid to feel? Pain is meant to wake us up. People try to hide their pain. But they’re wrong. Pain is something to carry, like a radio. You feel your strength in the experience of pain. It’s all in how you carry it. That’s what matters. Pain is a feeling. Your feelings are a part of you. Your own reality. If you feel ashamed of them, and hide them, you’re letting society destroy your reality. You should stand up for your right to feel your pain.”
― Jim Morrison

“It was like being told that there was a Santa Clause and that he was every bit as awesome as you’d always thought he would be…but that he had terminal cancer and would be gone by the end of the month. My inner child just got raped by reality.”
― Adrianne Brooks, The Dragon King and I

“You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
― Dr. Seuss

“Fat’ is usually the first insult a girl throws at another girl when she wants to hurt her.

I mean, is ‘fat’ really the worst thing a human being can be? Is ‘fat’ worse than ‘vindictive’, ‘jealous’, ‘shallow’, ‘vain’, ‘boring’ or ‘cruel’? Not to me; but then, you might retort, what do I know about the pressure to be skinny? I’m not in the business of being judged on my looks, what with being a writer and earning my living by using my brain…

I went to the British Book Awards that evening. After the award ceremony I bumped into a woman I hadn’t seen for nearly three years. The first thing she said to me? ‘You’ve lost a lot of weight since the last time I saw you!’

‘Well,’ I said, slightly nonplussed, ‘the last time you saw me I’d just had a baby.’

What I felt like saying was, ‘I’ve produced my third child and my sixth novel since I last saw you. Aren’t either of those things more important, more interesting, than my size?’ But no – my waist looked smaller! Forget the kid and the book: finally, something to celebrate!

I’ve got two daughters who will have to make their way in this skinny-obsessed world, and it worries me, because I don’t want them to be empty-headed, self-obsessed, emaciated clones; I’d rather they were independent, interesting, idealistic, kind, opinionated, original, funny – a thousand things, before ‘thin’. And frankly, I’d rather they didn’t give a gust of stinking chihuahua flatulence whether the woman standing next to them has fleshier knees than they do. Let my girls be Hermiones, rather than Pansy Parkinsons.”
― J.K. Rowling

“It is the absence of facts that frightens people: the gap you open, into which they pour their fears, fantasies, desires.”
― Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall

“Sir Christopher Wren
Said, "I am going to dine with some men.
If anyone calls
Say I am designing St. Paul's.”
― E. C. Bentley

“Caterpillar dun' become butterfly-caterpillar die so butterfly can be. A new thing. We all must let ourselves die to be what we will be. But we cling to what we know.”
― Ryan Winfield, The Park Service