Ward Quotes

“Sometimes in life, from out of a myriad of prosaic decisions like what to eat and where to sleep and how to dress, a true crossroads is revealed. In these moments, when the fog of relative irrelevancy lifts and fate rolls out a demand for free will, there is only left or right – no option of four-by-fouring into the underbrush between two paths, no negotiating with the choice that has been presented. You must answer the call and pick your way. And there is no reverse. ”
― J.R. Ward, Lover Avenged

“Books are the windows through
which the soul looks out.”
― Henry Ward Beecher

“Destiny was a machine built over time, each choice that you made in life adding another gear, another conveyor belt, another assemblyman. Where you ended up was the product that was spit out at the end—and there was no going back for a redo. You couldn‟t take a peek at what you‟d manufactured and decide, Oh, wait, I wanted to make sewing machines instead of machine guns; let me go back to the beginning and start again. One shot. That was all you got.”
― J.R. Ward, Crave

“And bottom line, without John by her side, everything seemed to be just a big, resounding meh.”
― J.R. Ward, Lover Reborn

“Okay, okay, okay … go to your corners, boys. This is a nice Aubusson carpet you’re standing on. You get blood on it and I’ll have Fritz so far up my ass I’ll be coughing on his hankie.”
― J.R. Ward, Lover Mine

“You have to acknowledge evil, or you give it too much power over you.”
― Patricia Briggs, Dragon Bones

“Man, some open doors were not welcoming, and that was so the case here—less hi-how’re-ya, more come-in-so-your-skin-can-be-used-to-make-a-super-hero-cape-for-one-of-Hannibal-Lecter’s-patients.”
― J.R. Ward, Lover Avenged

“You can not escape death: the end always reach you.”
― Rachel Ward

“We all know that everything will end some day, but we can not let that slow us. We must not let that stop us from living. ”
― Rachel Ward

“I was taught that the most hardworking nurse is found at the dirtiest part of the clinical ward.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Frontpage: Leadership Insights from 21 Martin Luther King Jr. Thoughts

“Working on the summit of Mauna Kea was comparable to working on the hospital pulmonary ward with sick people sucking on oxygen cylinders.”
― Steven Magee, Health Forensics