Katherine > Katherine's Quotes

“Elections belong to the people. It's their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they will just have to sit on their blisters.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“If you won't believe in your own worth, Madeline, at least have the sense to allow other people to believe in it.”
― Shana Abe, The Second Mrs. Astor

“Not everybody can dance good, but everybody can dance.”
― Nicola Yoon, Instructions for Dancing

“In every romance book ever written, banter is a gateway drug”
― Nicola Yoon, Instructions for Dancing

“Only women are ever called persnickety," Mary Alice said. "Men get to be 'detail oriented.”
― Deanna Raybourn, Killers of a Certain Age

“We looked like a girl gang that would have the Queen as our leader, all low heels and no-nonsense curls.”
― Deanna Raybourn, Killers of a Certain Age

“Not everything in life needs to have a point, Bridget. Sometimes it's just for the sake of doing something.”
― Audra Wells, An Improper Gentleman

“Maggie thought about numbers. Numbers weren’t evil. Numbers, points, curves, fractions—they all existed independent of human thought and action. She missed math. She loved the order, the cool logic, the joy of solving its inevitable steps.”
― Susan Elia MacNeal, Mr. Churchill's Secretary

“Young fantasies of magic and of mystery
Are over. But they really can't compete
With all we've built together: A long history.
Connections that help render us complete.
Ties that hold and heal us. And the sweet,
Sweet pleasures of an ordinary life.”
― Judith Viorst, Forever Fifty and Other Negotiations

“In that moment, I made peace with my family - by which I mean that I realized I never wanted to see them again, and I was at peace with that.”
― Britney Spears, The Woman in Me

“Spycraft 101: Don’t lie if you don’t have to.”
― Susan Elia MacNeal, The Paris Spy

“In a world crowded with noise and selfishness, you are a brilliant flash of kindness.”
― Julie Clark, The Last Flight

“Eva refused to believe that a person who had made a life from books could have evil in her heart.”
― Kristin Harmel, The Book of Lost Names

“It might also be a trap"
"Set by a priest?"
"There's no rule that all priests must be decent human beings."
"I don't know much about Catholicism, but I am fairly certain that's part of the job description.”
― Kristin Harmel, The Book of Lost Names

“And isn’t that the moral of the story anyhow? You can’t judge a person by their language or their place of origin—though it seems that each new generation insists upon learning that lesson for itself.”
― Kristin Harmel, The Book of Lost Names

“Don't discredit the impossible because you don't believe me...Magic happens despite what we do or don't believe. There's good, and there's evil. In life, some good wins, and some evil is victorious. What you or I believe doesn't change that, it just changes us.”
― Obert Skye, Apprentice Needed

“I'm trying to save the world and someone playing dress up is ruining everything!”
― Obert Skye, Magic Required

“Do you know my friend that each one of us is a dark mystery, a maze of conflicting passions and desire and aptitudes?”
― Agatha Christie, Lord Edgware Dies

“Books grow old faster when they're not being read”
― Anthony Horowitz, Stormbreaker

“... it occurred to me that we are all unreliable narrators of our own lives, crafting stories about ourselves that omit unsavory truths and highlight our invented identities.”
― Marie Benedict, The Mystery of Mrs. Christie

“Niamh had spent all of her life sorry for taking up space, guilty for inconveniencing anyone with her emotions or needs.”
― Allison Saft, A Fragile Enchantment

“Intuition guides us and the wise person listens.”
― Mary Alice Monroe, Beach House Reunion

“Kinda makes you wish you enlisted in the Navy. doesn't it," Coffer quipped.
"I wouldn't go that far." JJ said.”
― Jeff Struecker;Alton Gansky

“One often fails to consider the female can be deadlier than the male.”
― Deanna Raybourn, A Sinister Revenge

“Too young to party, just odd enough to participate in federal investigations of serial murder. Story of my life.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, All In

“Luckily for us, I've never met a bad idea I did not immediately embrace like the dearest of friends.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, All In

“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“You have to take happiness as it comes to you, while accepting that grief will always live with you, too.”
― Uzma Jalaluddin, Three Holidays and a Wedding

“The key is eye contact, but not so much that you look like a serial killer,”
― Uzma Jalaluddin, Three Holidays and a Wedding