Amos Muresan > Amos's Quotes

“God did not create man. Man created god.
He did this to help him deal with death, the unknown, and all the other bo**ocks that he couldn't quite get his head around.”
― MJ Santley, Lost in the Crowd

“Evil does not alter easily.....”
― Olivia Hardy Ray, Annabel Horton, Lost Witch of Salem

“He felt empty and lost like he didn't belong anywhere.”
― James Dashner, The Scorch Trials

“The Holy Spirit comes to dwell within us when we believe in Christ and are redeemed. It is through the Spirit that God reveals mysteries to us, for the Spirit searches all things, even the depths of God.”
― Francine Rivers, Mark of the Lion Collection

“We’re little people in big times, yeah?”
― James S.A. Corey, Nemesis Games

“There are good days and hard days for me—even now. Don’t let the hard days win.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury

“I put the Fifth of November and the Fourth of July to shame. Who needs Roman candles when you’ve got me?”
― Joe Hill, The Fireman

“The mere suggestion of fame and fortune casts a glamour all its own. It is rather alarming how quickly people will turn someone else's fiction into fact in order to support their own fictions of themselves.”
― Libba Bray, Rebel Angels

“If Hunter hadn't been there, I would've picked up the phone to call Eric. I would've asked him to bring a shovel and come to help me dig a body up. That was what a boyfriend should do, right? But I couldn't leave Hunter alone in the house, and I would've felt terrible if I'd ask Eric to go out in the woods by himself, even though I knew he wouldn't think anything about it. In fact, probably he'd have sent Pam.”
― Charlaine Harris, Dead in the Family

“I do not consider myself a religious person, because I don't adhere to a particular religion or faith or prescribed beliefs, as did my father, who was a Baptist minister. And I am not an atheist, one who thinks that belief in anything beyond the here and now and the rational is delusion. I love science, but I allow for mystery, things that can never be proven by a rational mind. I am a person who thinks about the nature of the spirit when I write. I think about what can't be known and only imagined. I often sense a spirit or force or meaning beyond myself. I leave it open as to what the spirit is, but I continue to make guesses -- that it could be the universal binding of the emotion of love, or a joyful quality of humanity, or a collective unconscious that turns out to be a unified conscience. The spirit could be all those worshiped by all the religions, even those that deny the validity of others. It could be that we all exist in all ten dimensions of a string-theory universe and are seeding memories in all of them and occupy them simultaneously as memory. Or we exist only as thought and out perception that it is a physical world is a delusion. The nature of spirit could also be my mother and my grandmother and that they really do serve as my muses as I fondly imagine them doing at times. Or maybe the nature of the spirit is a freer imagination. I've often thought that imagination was the conduit to compassion, and compassion is a true spiritual nature. Whatever the spirit might be, I am not basing what I do in this life on any expected reward or punishment in the hereafter or thereafter. It is enough that I feel blessed -- and by whom or what I don't know -- but I receive it with gratitude that I am a writer and my work is to imagine all the possibilities.”
― Amy Tan

“I'd rather be wrong to set you free than be right to do you harm (162).”
― Claudia Gray, Hourglass

“But why allow someone to make a bad choice when a little information might engender a better one? It's hard to wake up and see the sun if the blinds are pulled.”
― Kim Harrison, Early to Death, Early to Rise

“If you think you’re a success, you will be a success; if you think you deserve nothing but crap, you’ll get nothing but crap. Your inner reality shapes your outer one, every day of your life.”
― Tana French, Broken Harbor

“Are people drawn to each other because of the stories they carry inside?”
― Alice Hoffman, The Ice Queen

“It’s easy to be yourself in the dark.”
― Marisha Pessl, Night Film

“No forgiveness for lies.”
― Ryū Murakami, Audition

“I want to marry a [guy], so i can rest my soul with [him] till we both get old. This can't go on all the time-- all this franticness and jumping around. We've got to go someplace, find something.”
― Jack Kerouac, On the Road

“They want us scared and stupid. They want us to believe that their way is the only way.”
― Koushun Takami, Battle Royale, Vol. 01

“Kerosene," he said, because the silence had lengthened, "is nothing but perfume to me.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451