Amber Millie > Amber's Quotes

“When you realize that emotions aren't truth and they are simply reactions to life circumstances, they can no longer hold you captive.”
― Diamante Lavendar

“It’s in English,” I call out as it comes into focus. “It says ‘Made in China.’” At first Sister Loretta thinks I must be wrong, but when she sees the words for herself, she explains to us that God anticipated that the Communists in China would create technology that makes medals, rosaries, and plastic figurines really cheaply, and He was ready to temporarily forgive them for not being a democracy and for being pagans if they were willing to sell these holy goods to us at a fantastic discount, which shows us that God, like everyone else, goes out of His way to get a good deal on something He really needs. Who doesn’t like a bargain?”
― Kathleen Zamboni McCormick, Dodging Satan: My Irish/Italian, Sometimes Awesome, But Mostly Creepy, Childhood

“Darkness had threatened to destroy her true essence at many points throughout her life, particularly at her weakest moments when she was most vulnerable. It would creep into her life in different forms, using various vessels to bare its gnawing teeth of devastation.”
― Lali A. Love, Heart of a Warrior Angel

“I’m just keeping the faith. I continue to eat well, take turmeric, cayenne pepper, milk and honey, and exercise my eye muscles frequently.”
― Traci Medford-Rosow, Unblinded: One Man's Courageous Journey Through Darkness to Sight

“Everything that comes together falls apart. When you stopped wishing things wouldn't fall apart, you stopped suffering when they did.”
― John Green

“Atticus:"I found it difficult not to grin like a geek at a Trekkie convention.”
― Kevin Hearne, Trapped

“You are wearing no panties with another male in the room? Raphael ran his hand down Elena's spine and over her lower curves, searching for lines and finding nothing but firm feminine flesh. You truly aren't.

Elena's shoulders shook, deep creases in her cheeks. Oh, my God, you're scandalized! Eyes tearing up in the effort to fight her laughter, she pressed her hands to his chest and stared down at the floor. Should I tell you I did find a way to wear a knife? In a thigh sheath.

Of course you did. What do panties matter so long as you have your steel.”
― Nalini Singh, Archangel's Legion

“A whore's truth has too many sharp edges.”
― Brent Weeks, Beyond the Shadows

“Wouldn’t be very fair to the rest of them, would it?” Harper asked. “They’re not bad people, most of them. All they want is to be safe.”
“Isn’t that always a permission slip for ugliness and cruelty? All they want is to be safe, and they don’t care who they have to destroy to stay that way. And the people who want to kill us, the Cremation Crews, all they want is safety, too!”
― Joe Hill, The Fireman

“Stubborn, hardheaded woman.”
― Maya Banks, Sweet Persuasion

“Don’t you understand?” he would say, “You imagine the story better than I remember it.”
― John Irving, The Hotel New Hampshire

“If you don't open up, we're going to lose each other down the road”
― Sylvia Day, Bared to You

“Gray imagined Kat scolding her husband in an operatic duet that has been going on between husbands and wives for ages, that eternal mix of exasperation and love." -- James Rollins”
― James Rollins

“Some men are too dull to feel what might happen. Others torture themselves with maybes and populate their dreams with horrors more terrible than their worst enemy could inflict upon them.”
― Mark Lawrence, Prince of Thorns

“Should I get more butter?"
"Shut up, Eadlyn,”
― Kiera Cass, The Heir

“All my life, up until that moment, I'd had a warm, protective blanket wrapped around me, knitted of aunts and uncles, purled of first and second and third cousins, knot-tied with grandmas and grandpas and greats. That blanket had just dropped from my shoulders. I felt cold, lost and alone.”
― Karen Marie Moning, Darkfever

“المدينة تصير عالمًا عندما تحبُ أحد سكانها
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والقاهرة مدينة باهتة الألوان
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مليئة بالتناقضات والمصاعب والعيوب”
― محمد فرحات

“Not since the original Mac had a clarity of product vision so propelled a company into the future. " If anybody was ever wondering why Apple is on the earth, I would hold up this as a good example”
― Walter Isaacson, Steve Jobs

“One thing I’ve learned over the years is that nobody really wants my good advice. They just pretend to listen to it.” “Probably because most people just want to whine about their problems. They don’t want to actually take the hard actions that will fix those problems.”
― Jayne Ann Krentz, Secret Sisters

“Right now, a kiss is the going rate for near-death experiences. It's kind of a point system.”
― Marissa Meyer, Winter

“I do so like all-encompassing words. Verb, adjective, noun. Yes, you are shitted.”
― Kim Harrison, Pale Demon

“Mayhem now, please.”
― Seanan McGuire, Discount Armageddon

“whatever you love, that is your weakness”
― Holly Black, Ironside

“All I'm saying is that sooner of later, you'll have to come to terms with yourself. You can't wish away the vampire in you, and you shouldn't keep atoning for it. You should figure out who you are and what you need, and then don't apologize for it. Not to me, to your mum, or to anyone.”
― Jeaniene Frost, Halfway to the Grave

“We have an hour before we have to leave," Cray said. "So I thought I might tell you a little about myself. I thought it might pass the time."

"I'm not really all that interested," Alex said.”
― Anthony Horowitz, Eagle Strike

“I realized there was a piece of me that had been waiting for this to happen ever since we'd become friends - the moment when Sloane would realize I wasn't cool enough, or daring enough, to be her best friend.”
― Morgan Matson, Since You've Been Gone