“Courage is not the absence of fear, but the decision that something is more important than fear.”
― Lisa Tawn Bergren, quote from Waterfall
“Sometimes the heart tells us to venture where the mind fears to tread.”
― Lisa Tawn Bergren, quote from Waterfall
“I nodded, pretending to be a hundred times more courageous than I felt.
But that was the thing about courage. Sometimes you had to fake it to feel it.”
― Lisa Tawn Bergren, quote from Waterfall
“Fantasizing about an Italian hottie was far better than my normal dreams.”
― Lisa Tawn Bergren, quote from Waterfall
“I finally meet a guy who's interesting and who seems to have a half-interest in me and it is TOTALLY the wrong time and place.”
― Lisa Tawn Bergren, quote from Waterfall
“Don't you agree? Swordplay is a dance of sorts, an understanding of the logical, most sophisticated next step. Except that in a fight, one must take the unexpected step. In dance it is all about taking the right, expected step.”
― Lisa Tawn Bergren, quote from Waterfall
“I am here for a reason. This is no haphazard mistake. What good can I do with what I have?”
― Lisa Tawn Bergren, quote from Waterfall
“How good it felt, to do some good, here and there. Perhaps this was what it meant to be an adult. To grab the opportunity at hand, make the most of the day, regardless of what it looked like.”
― Lisa Tawn Bergren, quote from Waterfall
“We all have freedom of choice. Over and over again, minute by minute. How will you live your life? For yourself Or for others? For something good? For love? Love.”
― Lisa Tawn Bergren, quote from Waterfall
“My kingdom for a flush toilet.”
― Lisa Tawn Bergren, quote from Waterfall
“What could I do, to make the most of this day, whether I was in my own day, or this one? What amazing history was I seeing firsthand? Would I embrace it, instead of crying and whining? Was it in me to be grateful for my situation? Truly in me?”
― Lisa Tawn Bergren, quote from Waterfall
“We froze. Neither of us moving, simply staring at each other, wondering if the other was going to move first. "You are," he whispered, "uncommonly stirring." He closed his eyes then, as if he had to in order to break the bond between us, then lifted me to the saddle and stared at the ground as he guided my feet into the stirrups.”
― Lisa Tawn Bergren, quote from Waterfall
“I read once that courage is not the absence of fear, but the decision that something is more important than that fear.”
― Lisa Tawn Bergren, quote from Waterfall
“She glanced left and right, all wide-eyed and innocent. Innocent as a streetwalker.”
― Lisa Tawn Bergren, quote from Waterfall
“fortes fortuna adiuvat," Marcello had said to his men. Fortune favors the brave, the bold.”
― Lisa Tawn Bergren, quote from Waterfall
“We all have freedom of choice. Over and over again, minute by minute. How will you live your life? For yourself Or for others? For something good? For love?”
― Lisa Tawn Bergren, quote from Waterfall
“An armed woman will be more of a target knights on the prowl.
and unarmed women can find themselves without defines”
― Lisa Tawn Bergren, quote from Waterfall
“Perhaps this was what it meant to be an adult. To grab the opportunity at hand, make the most of the day, regardless of what it looked like.”
― Lisa Tawn Bergren, quote from Waterfall
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“THE SPLIT-BRAIN PARADOX One way in which this picture, based on the corporate hierarchy of a company, deviates from the actual structure of the brain can be seen in the curious case of split-brain patients. One unusual feature of the brain is that it has two nearly identical halves, or hemispheres, the left and right. Scientists have long wondered why the brain has this unnecessary redundancy, since the brain can operate even if one entire hemisphere is completely removed. No normal corporate hierarchy has this strange feature. Furthermore, if each hemisphere has consciousness, does this mean that we have two separate centers of consciousness inside one skull?”
― Michio Kaku, quote from The Future of the Mind: The Scientific Quest to Understand, Enhance, and Empower the Mind
“Anger was a waste of time and energy. Anger was useless."Anger" was the label given to the emotion that accomplished nothing.”
― Barry Lyga, quote from Game
“Nobody can be so beautiful from the outside and so hollow from inside. Not even in a third-rate novel.”
― Marlene van Niekerk, quote from Agaat
“EVERYONE SAYS THAT GETTING over somebody ‘just takes time’ and that one day it will stop hurting and the door will open for you to move on. We are also told that love is eternal; something extraordinary that will stay with you forever.”
― Natasha Preston, quote from Broken Silence
“Well, I’m sorry you might possibly be out a bit of money, Jack,” Isabel said. “Jesus, Isabel,” Holloway said. He opened the door. “A bit of money? Try at least a couple billion credits. That’s billion, with a b. Saying that’s a bit of money is like saying a forest fire is a nice way to roast some marshmallows.”
― John Scalzi, quote from Fuzzy Nation
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