Novelists Quotes - Page 15

• I'm at the point where going forward is easier than going back.

  Alice Hoffman

  Moving On, Moving Forward, Easier

  Alice Hoffman (2012). “Green Heart”, p.93, Scholastic Inc.

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• People always say that, when you love someone, nothing in the world matters. But that's not true, is it? You know, and I know, that when you love someone, everything in the world matters a little bit more.

  Jodi Picoult

  Love, Life, People

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.446, Simon and Schuster

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• Some people see scars, and it is wounding they remember. To me they are proof of the fact that there is healing.

  Linda Hogan

  Inspirational, Encouraging, Pain

  Linda Hogan (1997). “Solar Storms”, p.126, Simon and Schuster

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• Everything in the world began with a yes. One molecule said yes to another molecule and life was born.

  Clarice Lispector

  Life, Saying Yes, Molecules

  Clarice Lispector (1986). “The Hour of the Star”, p.11, New Directions Publishing

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• You seek escape from pain. We seek the achievement of happiness. You exist for the sake of avoiding punishment. We exist for the sake of earning rewards. Threats will not make us function; fear is not our incentive. It is not death that we wish to avoid, but life that we wish to live

  Ayn Rand

  Life, Happiness, Death

  Ayn Rand (1963). “For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)”, p.109, Penguin

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• I loathe your ideals because I know no worse injustice than the giving of the undeserved.

  Ayn Rand

  Giving, Philosopher, Injustice

  Ayn Rand (2009). “We the Living”, p.81, Penguin

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• Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Character, Imperfection, Hocus Pocus

  Kurt Vonnegut (1997). “Hocus Pocus”, p.167, Penguin

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• Shyness is a curious thing, because, like quicksand, it can strike people at any time, and also, like quicksand, it usually makes its victims look down.

  Daniel Handler

  People, Musician, Shy

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• My faith in Christ is central to my life. My conversion from a pessimistic atheist lost in a world I didn't understand, to an optimistic believer in a universe created and sustained by a loving God is crucial to me. But following Christ does not mean following His followers. Christ is infinitely more important than Christianity and always will be, no matter what Christianity is, has been, or might become.

  Anne Rice

  God, Faith, Christian

  FaceBook post by Anne Rice from Jul 29, 2010

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• Men are like shoes. Some fit better than others. And sometimes you go out shopping and there's nothing you like. And then, as luck would have it, the next week you find two that are perfect, but you don't have the money to buy both."-

  Janet Evanovich

  Funny, Men, Next Week

  FaceBook post by Janet Evanovich from Feb 13, 2014

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• It always takes two. For relationships to work, for them to break apart, for them to be fixed.

  Emily Giffin

  Relationship, Break Up, Two

  Emily Giffin (2010). “Heart of the Matter: A Novel”, p.364, Macmillan

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• I can get my head turned by a good-looking guy as much as the next girl. But sexy doesn't impress me. Smart impresses me, strength of character impresses me. But most of all, I am impressed by kindness. Kindness, I think, comes from learning hard lessons well, from falling and picking yourself up. It comes from surviving failure and loss. It implies an understanding of the human condition, forgives its many flaws and quirks. When I see that in someone, it fills me with admiration.

  Lisa Unger

  Strength, Girl, Sexy

  Lisa Unger (2010). “Four Thrillers by Lisa Unger: Beautiful Lies, Sliver of Truth, Black Out, Die for You”, p.69, Crown

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• Marriage is like a well-built porch. If one of the two posts leans too much, the porch collapses. So each must be strong enough to stand on its own.

  Deb Caletti

  Family, Marriage, Being Strong

  Deb Caletti (2010). “The Secret Life of Prince Charming”, p.272, Simon and Schuster

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• you can always tell employees of the government by the total vacancy which occupies the space where most other people have faces.

  John Kennedy Toole

  Government, Space, People

  A Confederacy of Dunces (published 1980), ch.9, pt.1.

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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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• When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.

  C. S. Lewis

  Growing Up, Fear, Healing

  C. S. Lewis (2002). “On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature”, p.56, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Things which do not grow and change are dead things.

  Louise Erdrich

  Change, Native American, Growing

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• Enjoy your life. No curse hangs over you, nor did it ever. No devil chases after your soul. Sing and dance and be merry.

  Christopher Pike

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• Things end. People leave. And you know what? Life goes on. Besides, if bad things didn't happen, how would you be able to feel the good ones?

  Elizabeth Scott

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  Elizabeth Scott (2010). “Perfect You”, p.276, Simon and Schuster

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• you're not a bad person because you want to be yourself.

  Jodi Picoult

  Being Yourself, Want, Good Person

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper: A Novel”, p.421, Simon and Schuster

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• Self-sacrifice? But it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed.

  Ayn Rand

  Sacrifice, Self, Philosopher

  Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.804, Penguin

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• Memories do not always soften with time; some grow edges like knives.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Memories, Knives, Grows

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• At first people refuse to believe that a strange new thing can be done, then they begin to hope it can be done, then they see it can be done--then it is done and all the world wonders why it was not done centuries ago.

  Frances Hodgson Burnett

  Inspirational, Hope, Believe

  Frances Hodgson Burnett (2016). “The Secret Garden”, p.297, Frances Hodgson Burnett

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• Those that go searching for love only make manifest their own lovelessness, and the loveless never find love, only the loving find love, and they never have to seek for it.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Love, Life, Breakup

  D.H. Lawrence (1961). “Selected Poems”

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• I am. I think. I will.

  Ayn Rand

  Thinking, Philosopher, Anthem

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Anthem”, p.46, Xist Publishing

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