“You can't live by other's expectations of you.”
― Laury Falter, quote from Fallen
“Love can't begin to describe how I feel about you.”
― Laury Falter, quote from Fallen
“a hero was only a hero if the person being saved wasn’t strong enough to save themselves.”
― Laury Falter, quote from Fallen
“When all else fails…everyone is gagging…and the stove is on fire…I read the recipe.”
― Laury Falter, quote from Fallen
“I don’t think any less of you for asking me to come here.” He exuded a tenderness that made his words unquestionably sincere. I gave him an awkward smile, intended to be an unspoken thanks for pacifying my ego. He really could be chivalrous, when he put forth the effort. But then, he dropped his hand and stepped back against the dresser again, adding playfully, “It’s really not your fault. You can’t help yourself when it comes to me.”
― Laury Falter, quote from Fallen
“his typical white apron emblazoned with the words, “When all else fails…everyone is gagging…and the stove is on fire…I read the recipe.”
― Laury Falter, quote from Fallen
“Hmm. If it’s ‘bout classes rememba that ya won’t care in ten years if ya miss a question or two; if it’s ‘bout friends ya got plenty of ‘em in this house; and if it’s ‘bout a boy…give him a shot. Take pity on us wankers.”
― Laury Falter, quote from Fallen
“You can’t live by others’ expectations of you.” “That sounds like a belief developed over time,”
― Laury Falter, quote from Fallen
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“I am here because of a certain man. I came to retrace his steps. Perhaps to see if there were not some alternate course. What was here to be found was not a thing. Things separate from their stories have no meaning. They are only shapes. Of a certain size and color. A certain weight. When their meaning has become lost to us they no longer have even a name. The story on the other hand can never be lost from its place in the world for it is that place. And that is what was to be found here. The corrido. That tale. And like all corridos it ultimately told one story only, for there is only one to tell.
The cats shifted and stirred, the fire creaked in the stove. Outside in the abandoned village the profoundest silence.
What is the story? the boy said.
In the town of Caborca on the Altar River there was a man who lived there who was an old man. He was born in Caborca and in Caborca he died. Yet he lived once in this town, in Huisiachepic.
What does Caborca know of Huisiachepic, Huisiachepic of Caborca? They are different worlds, you must agree. Yet even so there is but one world and everything that is imaginable is necessary to it. For this world also which seems to us a thing of stone and flower and blood is not a thing at all but a tale. And all in it is a tale and each tale the sum of all lesser tales and yet they are the selfsame tale and contain as well all else within them. So everything is necessary. Every least thing. This is a hard lesson. Nothing can be dispensed with. Nothing despised. Because the seems are hid from us, you see. The joinery. The way in which the world is made. We have no way to tell what might stand and what might fall. And those seams that are hid from us are of course in the tale itself and the tale had no abode or place of being except in the telling only and there it lives and makes its home and therefore we can never be done with the telling. Of the telling there is no end. And whether in Caborca or Huisiachepic or in whatever other place by whatever other name or by no name at all I say again all tales are one. Rightly heard all tales are one.”
― Cormac McCarthy, quote from The Crossing
“Why, I’m just as true and honest as dirt. And I’m even more charming than dirt.”
― Tamora Pierce, quote from Trickster's Choice
“You guys think if I don't hear bad things, then they won't exist anymore. But you know what? They still do exist, and I do end up hearing them. And I wish to God that I could have heard them from the people I love first”
― Richelle Mead, quote from Storm Born
“So swift, silent and furtive were his movements like those of a trained bloodhound picking out a scent, that I could not but think what a terrible criminal he would have made had he turned his energy and sagacity against the law instead of exerting them in its defense.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, quote from The Sign of Four
“Dwelling on the past only defeated her chances for changing the future.”
― Francine Rivers, quote from An Echo in the Darkness
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