Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Being a leader is making the people you love hate you a little more each day.
Here is the boy, drowning.
We are the choices we make.
if one of us falls, we all fall
Don't deceive me. Never leave me.
Know yourself and go in swinging.
Faith with proof is no faith at all.
Things change, but they stay the same.
No one wants to read an apologetic book.
A man is capable of thought. A crowd is not.
Without a filter, a man is just chaos walking.
A thing worth learning is worth learning well.
Now that I've seen her, I can't stop seeing her.
Librarians are tour-guides for all of knowledge.
... a good idea always attracts other good ideas.
Worst is the one who knows better and does nothing.
It's not how we fall. It's how we get back up again.
This is how we are protecting you, by getting you out.
I like writing for teenagers because they're not snobs.
It's not the mistakes I made but how I responded to them
The sound when we crash is so loud it's almost impossible.
We can save the world," I say, trying to smile. "You and me.
We have to lie to ourselves to live. Otherwise, we'd go crazy.
Shout for libraries. Shout for the young readers who use them.
To say you have no choice is to relieve yourself of responsibility.
We are the choices we make. And have to make. We aren’t anything else.
Stories are the wildest things of all. Stories chase and bite and hunt.
There's so much wonder in the world. Don't let no one tell you otherwise.
So the good prince was a murderer and the evil queen wasn't a witch after all.
No,' Ben says, 'but I believe it. I believe it for you. And that's why it's hope.
Conor held tightly onto his mother. And by doing so, he could finally let her go.
We all fall but that's not what matters. What matters is picking yourself up again.
Schooling ain't life." "Ain't it?" she says, her eyebrows raising in mock surprise.
I think maybe everyone falls... I think the asking is whether we get back up again.
You are keeping the possibility [of peace] open. No wise leader would do anything less
Knowledge is dangerous and men lie and the world changes, whether I want it to or not.
That's what I want as a reader - I want to be confident that the book will do its job.
It's always nice when two people who don't got no one else find each other as friends.
The world is cynical and sarcastic, but that doesn't mean that that's always the truth.
How you leave the reader is so important - not the climax; I call it the 'exit feeling'.
And it hurts her, but it's an okay hurt, but it hurts still, but it's good, but it hurts.
Stories are important...They can be more important than anything. If they carry the truth.
A book… it’s a world all on its own too. A world made of words, where you live for a while.
...That it's making a dare to the world and when has the world ever let us win a dare?" ~pg 423
I write 1,000-1,500 words. The next day, I rewrite it and add 1,000-1,500 words to the end of it.
Life equals running and when we stop running maybe that's how we'll know life is finally finished.
Why can't we learn to live with how we are? And whatever anybody chooses is okay by the rest of us?
In this world of numbness and information overload, the ability to feel, my boy, is a rare gift indeed.
And too much informayshun can drive a man mad. Too much informayshun becomes just Noise. And it never, never stops.
Everything that's happened has brought me here, to this place, with this knife in my hand, and something worth saving.
