“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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“It was as if a blade had shucked his heart like an oyster and stolen the beauty within. He said his heart never started beating again, it just started working and I never understood the difference, not until I was much older anyway, when I learnt that coming back from the dead is not quite the same as coming back to life.”
― Sarah Winman, quote from A Year of Marvellous Ways
“Even the Quran, which Sufis respect as the direct speech of God, lacks the capacity to shed light upon God’s essence. As one Sufi master has argued, why spend time reading a love letter (by which he means the Quran) in the presence of the Beloved who wrote it?”
― Reza Aslan, quote from No god but God: The Origins, Evolution and Future of Islam
“I do not know many people who think they have succeeded as parents. Those who do tend to cite the markers that indicate (their own) status in the world: the Stanford degree....Those of us less inclined to compliment ourselves on our parenting skills, in other words most of us, recite rosaries of our failures, our neglects, our derelictions and delinquencies.”
― Joan Didion, quote from Blue Nights
“Great minds defend values—like justice in the case of Victor Hugo, and equality for Emile Zola.”
― quote from The Only Girl in the World: A Memoir
“Nobody knows he's a writer. It's other people who tell you.”
― Joël Dicker, quote from La verdad sobre el caso Harry Quebert
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