“Humans were the weakest species. Maybe that was why they could be the meanest animals.”
― James Patterson, quote from When the Wind Blows
“Happiness is seeing Bear Bluff in your rearview mirror, but you better look damn quick.”
― James Patterson, quote from When the Wind Blows
“Then right before my eyes, she flew. She actually flew like a bird. No, she flew as a young girl might fly, or a woman or a man, if people were meant to fly. She soared through the air. And that changed the course of my life forever.”
― James Patterson, quote from When the Wind Blows
“Kit in the bough of the tree.”
― James Patterson, quote from When the Wind Blows
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“Where there is reverence, there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear has a wider scope than reverence. We fear what we cannot see. We fear what we do see. We fear what we cannot know. We fear what we do know. We fear what may not happen. We fear what does happen. Death may be the greatest of all human blessings. If only because it finally puts an end to fear.”
― Jeff Wheeler, quote from The Hollow Crown
“Maybe… they are stocking high schools across the country with hot young librarians as part of a massive literacy initiative.”
― Michelle Knudsen, quote from Evil Librarian
“I’m going to explain this to you in terms you can understand: shut up.”
― Brent Weeks, quote from The Blood Mirror
“I’ll tell you something, something important. Write this down. You ready?’ ‘Yes, yes, I’m ready.’ ‘Love is a decision.’ ‘Love is a decision?’ ‘That’s right. A decision. Not a feeling. That’s what you young people don’t realise.”
― Liane Moriarty, quote from The Last Anniversary
“There are no heroes, Tian Haoli. Grand Secretary Shi was both courageous and cowardly, capable and foolish. Wang Xiuchu was both an opportunistic survivor and a man of greatness of spirit. I’m mostly selfish and vain, but sometimes even I surprise myself. We’re all just ordinary men—well, I’m an ordinary demon—faced with extraordinary choices. In those moments, sometimes heroic ideals demand that we become their avatars.”
― Ken Liu, quote from The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories
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