Doe Quotes - Page 22

• The dividing line forms-fashioned from: Dragon's tears Missed years Overcome fears The fire and ice paradox Seen with True Sight Darkness does not always equate to evil Light does not always bring good

  P. C. Cast

  Fire, Light, Sight

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• Knowing that the battle will not end the way he wishes does not make it any less worthwhile the fight.

  Susanna Kearsley

  Fighting, Knowing, Wish

  Susanna Kearsley (2011). “The Rose Garden”, p.193, Allison & Busby

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• Lying in bed, half-covered by the blankets, I would drowsily ask why he had come to my door that night long ago. It had become a ritual for us, as it does for all lovers: where, when, why? remember...I understand even old people rehearse their private religion of how they first loved, most guarded of secrets. And he would answer, sleep blurring his words, "Because I had to." The question and the answer were always the same. Why? Because I had to.

  Margaret George

  Lying, Sleep, Night

  Margaret George (2010). “The Memoirs of Cleopatra: A Novel”, p.751, Macmillan

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• Overslept and had to race to get a life to Jas’s with my dad. No time for yoga or makeup. Oh well, I’ll start tomorrow. God alone knows how the Dalai Lama copes on a daily basis. He must get up at dawn. Actually, I read somewhere that he does get up at dawn.

  Louise Rennison

  Dad, Yoga, Makeup

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• William: What do you think of the fact that your home has been invaded by women? Maddox: I couldn’t be more pleased, as long as none of them does something to hurt Ashlyn. And I take full credit for starting the trend.

  Gena Showalter

  Hurt, Home, Thinking

  Gena Showalter (2010). “The Darkest Facts: A Lords of the Underworld Companion”, p.301, HQN Books

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• This Medal of Honor does not belong to me. This medal belongs to every man and woman who has ever served their country. We were doing what we were trained to do. We were doing our job.

  Michael E. Thornton

  Country, Jobs, Men

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• What is a child?" he asks her. The diamond gaze does not flinch. "Creatures that are sold on the street by their parents, to get the coin to make more children." She paused. "Adults sell themselves.

  C.S. Friedman

  Children, Parent, Adults

  C.S. Friedman (2008). “Feast of Souls: Book One of the Magister Trilogy”, p.28, Penguin

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• The first right on earth is the right of the ego. Man's first duty is to himself. His moral law is never to place his prime goal within the persons of others. His moral obligation is to do what he wishes, provided his wish does not depend primarily upon other men.

  Ayn Rand

  Independent, Men, Rights

  Ayn Rand (1999). “Ayn Rand Reader”, p.76, Penguin

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• If Shakespeare had never existed, he asked, would the world have differed much from what it is today? Does the progress of civilization depend upon great men? Is the lot of the average human being better now that in the time of the Pharaohs?

  Virginia Woolf

  Men, Average, Civilization

  Virginia Woolf (2015). “To the Lighthouse”, p.33, Virginia Woolf

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• She stands and moves within the invisible pentacle of her own virginity. She is an unbroken egg: she is a sealed vessel; she has inside her a magic space the entrance to which is shut tight with a plug of membrane; she is a closed system; she does not know how to shiver.

  Angela Carter

  Moving, Eggs, Space

  Angela Carter (1997). “Burning your boats: the collected short stories”, Penguin Group USA

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• Now I know there are ways to belong to someone that don’t take anything away. A relationship shouldn’t impose limits—and if it does, then it’s wrong. A lover should help you exceed your potential, not clip your wings.

  Ann Aguirre

  Wings, Way, Limits

  Ann Aguirre (2010). “Killbox”, p.50, Penguin

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• A nation,” he heard himself say, “consists of its laws. A nation does not consist of its situation at a given time. If an individual’s morals are situational, that individual is without morals. If a nation’s laws are situational, that nation has no laws, and soon isn’t a nation.

  William Gibson

  Law, Moral, Individual

  William Gibson (2007). “Spook Country”, p.166, Penguin

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• Another response to racism has been the establishment of unlearning racism workshops, which are often led by white women. These workshops are important, yet they tend to focus primarily on cathartic individual psychological personal prejudice without stressing the need for corresponding change in political commitment and action. A woman who attends an unlearning racism workshop and learns to acknowledge that she is racist is no less a threat than one who does not. Acknowledgment of racism is significant when it leads to transformation.

  Bell Hooks

  Stress, Commitment, White

  "Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center". Book by Bell Hooks, 1984.

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• How could you miss it? Just the sound of her voice makes my chest feel tight, my face gets hot and my mouth goes dry whenever she's near. It's getting so bad, all I have to do is see her and I'm already thinking, 'What does she want? What can I do for her?' She's got some power over me, there's no question, and what else could it be? ~Razo

  Shannon Hale

  Thinking, Voice, Missing

  Shannon Hale (2010). “River Secrets”, p.74, A&C Black

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• Can a man who lies, cheats, steals, and sometimes does violence to other people be a man of honor? Kolabati looked into his eyes. "He can if he lies to liars, cheats cheaters, steals from thieves, and limits his violence to those who are violent.

  F. Paul Wilson

  Liars, Lying, Eye

  F. Paul Wilson (2011). “The Tomb”, p.125, Macmillan

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• Our great mistake is to try to exact from each person virtues which he does not possess, and to neglect the cultivation of those which he has.

  Marguerite Yourcenar

  Mistake, Trying, Virtue

  Marguerite Yourcenar (1954). “Memoirs of Hadrian”

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• fire is beautiful and we know that if we get too close it will kill us but what does that matter it is better to be happy for a moment and be burned up with beauty than to live a long time and be bored all the while

  Don Marquis

  Beautiful, Fire, Long

  Don Marquis (2006). “The Annotated Archy and Mehitabel”, p.253, Penguin

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• If I murmur in the least at affliction, if I am in any way uncharitable, if I revenge my own case, if I do anything purely to please myself or omit anything because it is a great denial, if I trust myself, if I take any praise for any good which Christ does by me, or if I am in any way proud, I shall act as my own and not God’s.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Revenge, Denial, Affliction

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• I am jealous of everything whose beauty does not die.

  Oscar Wilde

  Jealous, I Am Jealous, Dies

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Picture of Dorian Gray (Diversion Classics)”, p.32, Diversion Books

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• I'm sure you have heard it said that appearance does not matter so much, and that it is what's on the inside that counts. This is, of course, utter nonsense, because if it were true then people who were good on this inside would would never have to comb their hair or take a bath, and the whole world would smell even worse than it already does.

  Daniel Handler

  Hair, Smell, People

  "The Miserable Mill (A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book 4)". Book by Lemony Snicket (pen name of Daniel Handler), April 15, 2000.

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• Tell me, is he always really rude, or does he save that for mundanes?

  Cassandra Clare

  Rude

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.65, Simon and Schuster

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• The singer alone does not make a song, there has to be someone who hears. -Broken Song

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Song, Broken, Singers

  Rabindranath Tagore (1986). “Selected poems”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• I like my human experience served up with a little silence and restraint. Silence makes experience go further and, when it does die, gives it that dignity common to a thing one had touched and not ravished

  Djuna Barnes

  Giving, Silence, Littles

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• What more ghastly image can be called up than that of a man betrayed by his body who, simply because he did not die in time, lives out the comedy while awaiting the end, face to face with that God he does not adore, serving him as he served life, kneeling before a void and arms outstretched toward a heaven without eloquence that he knows to be also without depth?

  Albert Camus

  Men, Heaven, Body

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• Oooh, that was fun." "That does it," said Jace. "I'm going to get you a dictionary for Christmas this year." "Why?" Isabelle said. "So you can look up 'fun.' I'm not sure you know what it means." Isabelle pulled the long heavy mass of her wet hair forward and wrung it out as if it were wet washing. "You're raining on my parade." "It's a pretty wet parade already, if you hadn't noticed." Jace glanced around.

  Cassandra Clare

  Fun, Rain, Mean

  Cassandra Clare (2009). “City of Ashes”, p.164, Simon and Schuster

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