“It's the way we deal with what Fate hands us that defines who we are.”
― Lisa Graff, quote from A Tangle of Knots
“Life is the grandest adventure one can go on, isn't it?' said the giant kindly (he seemed to be a very friendly giant). 'What else could a person ask for than just to be alive?'
Will knew exactly what else a person could ask for. 'Monsters,' he said. 'And cake.”
― Lisa Graff, quote from A Tangle of Knots
“There's no controlling what Fate hands you...and in my experience, it rarely seem to give you exactly what you need at the exact moment you need it. ...Just remember this, it's the way we deal with what Fate hands us that defines who we are”
― Lisa Graff, quote from A Tangle of Knots
“And every one of these days, from dawn to dusk, has been more or less the same. Far from grand but not too horrible, either, like a pebble underneath your sock that’s not quite large enough to bother removing.”
― Lisa Graff, quote from A Tangle of Knots
“Just remember this. It’s the way we deal with what Fate hands us that defines who we are.”
― Lisa Graff, quote from A Tangle of Knots
“Trying hard and being a good person didn't always mean good things would happen to you. But it did mean that others might try on your behalf.”
― Lisa Graff, quote from A Tangle of Knots
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“I was a good dog. I had fulfilled my purpose. Lessons I had learned from being feral had taught me how to escape and how to hide from people when it was necessary, scavenging for food from trash containers. Being with Ethan had taught me love and had taught me my most important purpose, which was taking care of my boy. Jakob and Maya had taught me Find, Show, and, most important of all, how to save people, and it was all of these things, everything I had learned as a dog, that had led me to find Ethan and Hannah and to bring them both together.”
― W. Bruce Cameron, quote from A Dog's Purpose
“Hey Chris, bet you don't know the Latin name of the red-headed woodpecker."
That was a hard one. Chris had to say Melanerpes erythrocephalus very slowly.”
― Ellen Raskin, quote from The Westing Game
“You missed a lot of heartache, sure. But David, you missed a lot of joy.”
― Kim Edwards, quote from The Memory Keeper's Daughter
“All the time you spend tryin to get back what's been took from you there's more goin out the door. After a while you just try and get a tourniquet on it.”
― Cormac McCarthy, quote from No Country for Old Men
“The pain was her whole world now. Pain and fear.”
― Michael Grant, quote from Gone
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