Marylee Deaton > Marylee's Quotes

“In many ways fast cruise is tougher than being out to sea. When you're out, you just do your job, and take in stride what comes along. During fast cruise you deliberately push everything to the limit. If it's going to break, better alongside the pier than 2,000 miles away from nowhere, or on the bottom in the Soviets' back yard.”
― Robert G. Williscroft, Operation Ivy Bells

“Be patient with him. If the same quality did not exist in you, you wouldn’t notice it in him.”
― Robyn Mundell, Brainwalker

“Toni's Talk: When you invest in yourself, you have instant credibility with your biggest critic...you! As soon as you let doubt creep in---you lose that investment. Make a daily commitment to assess your worth with positive affirmations and watch your investment grow.”
― C.Toni Graham

“But you have to learn to enjoy the moments you’re in, to treasure the things around you. It’s the fleetingness of life that gives it its value,”
― Amanda Hocking, Wisdom

“Beautiful, see the cloud, the cloud appear. Beautiful, see the rain, the rain draw near...”
― Kristin Cast, Marked

“I think the sea’s just rain and salt.”
“Ever taste a tear?” asks Grandma.
“Yeah.”
“Well, that’s the same as the sea.”
I still don’t want to walk in it if it’s tears.”
― Emma Donoghue, Room

“She gripped the wheel and squared her shoulders. She didn’t have to do any of this alone. All she had to do was notify the society and put out an All Points Bulletin on Adam and she’d know everything there was to know about the man within 24 hours.”
― Kirsten Fullmer

“When the golden rabbit had safely emerged out of the forbidden passage, he pondered the direction back to his lair. “How can it be I don’t live where I used to live anymore? How can that be? Alright then….alright. What a strange dream…I feel as though I’ve been eaves dropping in tempo…but not in time!” The hare hopped off, humming passages from Miles Davis’ “Kind of Blue”.”
― Kevin Moccia, The Beagle and the Hare

“It wouldn't pay to get fresh with a missionary.”
― John Grisham, The Testament

“Which of our unnoticed isms will the hindsight of future generations condemn?”
― Richard Dawkins, Science in the Soul: Selected Writings of a Passionate Rationalist

“She is always Married too soon, who gets a bad Husband, and she is never Married too late, who gets a good one.”
― Daniel Defoe, Moll Flanders

“as soon as you know you are in prison, you have a possibility to escape.”
― William S. Burroughs, My Education: A Book of Dreams

“Thoughtful white people know they are inferior to black people. Anyone who has studied the genetic phase of biology knows that white is considered recessive and black is considered dominant. When you want strong coffee, you ask for black coffee. If you want it light, you want it weak, integrated with white milk. Just like these Negroes who weaken themselves and their race by this integrating and intermixing with whites. If you want bread with no nutritional value, you ask for white bread. All the good that was in it has been bleached out of it, and it will constipate you. If you want pure flour, you ask for dark flour, whole-wheat flour. If you want pure sugar, you want dark sugar.”
― Malcolm X

“Well … things are beginning to stack up a little,” said Gordo. It was the same old sod-hut drawl. He sounded like the airline pilot who, having just slipped two seemingly certain mid-air collisions and finding himself in the midst of a radar fuse-out and control-tower dysarthria, says over the intercom: “Well, ladies and gentlemen, we’ll be busy up here in the cockpit making our final approach into Pittsburgh, and so we want to take this opportunity to thank you for flying American and we hope we’ll see you again real soon.” It was second-generation Yeager, now coming from earth orbit. Cooper was having a good time. He knew everybody was in a sweat down below. But this was what he and the boys had wanted all along, wasn’t it?”
― Tom Wolfe, The Right Stuff

“The concept of unity, in which positive and negative are attributes of the same force, in which good and evil are relative, ever-changing, and always joined to the same phenomenon—such a concept is still reserved to the physical sciences and to the few who have grasped the history of ideas.”
― Arthur Miller, The Crucible

“Yes, frosting. The final defense of the dying.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

“الأسفار تطوف بك حول العالم أما الأحلام فتأخذك داخل العالم”
― جوستاين غاردر

“What's in a name? That is what we ask ourselves in childhood when we write the name that we are told is ours.”
― James Joyce, Ulysses

“On any given day in the United States about one-quarter of the adult population visits a fast food restaurant.”
― Eric Schlosser, Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal

“He makes me feel like that. Like flying.”
― Scott Westerfeld, Goliath

“Being a reader is sort of like being president, except reading involves fewer state dinners, usually. You have this agenda you want to get through, but you get distracted by life events, e.g., books arriving in the mail/World War III, and you are temporarily deflected from your chosen path.”
― Nick Hornby, The Polysyllabic Spree

“There are some things we do because we convince ourselves it would be better for everyone involved. We tell ourselves that it's the right thing to do, the altruistic thing to do. It's far easier than telling ourselves the truth.”
― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

“So close to the powers of evil she must have lived that she still breathed more freely in their air.”
― Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

“You have entered an abnormal, lonely, and unwelcome new world where you are nothing but an island of sadness.”
― Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, On Grief and Grieving: Finding the Meaning of Grief Through the Five Stages of Loss

“Benny was awake again. Happened every morning.”
― Eoin Colfer, Benny and Omar

“And he only talks about his dreams with me. And I only talk about my dreams with him.”
― Sherman Alexie, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

“Yo confío en su capacidad para caer siempre de pie. Puede que viva en la escasez, pero es una superviviente nata.”
― Stieg Larsson, The Girl Who Played with Fire

“They were both lean and blond and weather-beaten, and one evening, as they were portaging gear from their respective Zodiacs, Libby unzipped her survival suit and tied the sleeves around her waist so she could move more freely. Nate said, "You look good in that."

No one, absolutely no one, looks good in a survival suit (unless a Day-Glo orange marshmallow man is your idea of a hot date), but Libby didn't even make the effort to roll her eyes. "I have vodka and a shower in my cabin," she said.

"I have a shower in my cabin, too," Nate said.

Libby just shook her head and trudged up the path to the lodge. Over her shoulder she called, "In five minutes, there's going to be a naked woman in my shower. You got one of those?"

"Oh," said Nate.”
― Christopher Moore, Fluke: Or, I Know Why the Winged Whale Sings

“So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their endings.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again

“his throat, but his voice remained”
― Victoria Dougherty, The Bone Church