O.R. Melling Quotes & Sayings

It's a booley village," Ian told her. "The islanders used to take their animals into the hills for the summ. They'd camp out in these stone huts: men, women, and children. Everyone stayed up all night, sang, told stories, watched the stars. It must have been great craic."
"How do you know this stuff?" she asked, admiringly.
"I' a bloody genius." When she threw him a look, he grinned. " I also read it in the guidebook. — O.R. Melling

Life is a journey through a foreign land. — O.R. Melling

Love is patient. Love is kind. It bears all things. Love never fails. Love is as strong as death. — O.R. Melling

I'm omnivorous in my tastes, fiction and non-fiction, always several books on the go, though I'll read a novel in a day or two. — O.R. Melling

If I have not love, I am Nothing. — O.R. Melling

You shouldn't read so much, you'll get a brain tumor. — O.R. Melling

When you come to the edge of all that you know, you must believe one of two things: either there will be ground to stand on, or you will be given wings to fly. — O.R. Melling

Whatever will happen will happen. You either face it as a coward or you face it as a hero. — O.R. Melling

All my books reflect travel adventures of some kind, and all have a soul: a spiritual or mystical underpinning. — O.R. Melling

We considered behaving, but it's against our nature. — O.R. Melling

For every pleasure, there must be a sacrifice. — O.R. Melling

By that which you kill are you bound. — O.R. Melling

Hope burns eternal in the human heart. — O.R. Melling

To run with the wolf was to run in the shadows, the dark ray of life, survival and instinct. A fierceness that was both proud and lonely, a tearing, a howling, a hunger and thirst. Blessed are they who hunger and thirst. A strength that would die fighting, kicking, screaming, that wouldn't stop until the last breath had been wrung from its body. The will to take one's place in the world. To say 'I am here.' To say 'I am. — O.R. Melling

Where there is no respect for life, there you will find evil. — O.R. Melling

If you're betwixt and between, trust the one with red hair. — O.R. Melling

I was fortunate in that I attended university in Canada in the early 1970s when you could take a true liberal arts degree with no programmes, majors or minors. — O.R. Melling

When you write for children and young adults, you have much more affect and influence on them than when you write for adults. The books that get us through our childhood stay with us for life. — O.R. Melling

Things get really dangerous when we start saying I'm the good one and you're the bad one. What happens in our world is that everyone is the good fighting the good because one side thinks they're the good and the other side's sure they're the good and they're both calling the other the evil. As far as I'm concerned, the only evil is what happens when that happens. — O.R. Melling

Where do we record the passing of wildlife? Who mourns the silent deaths of the small? — O.R. Melling

Tread softly for you tread on my dreams.
-Honor,from the Summer King. — O.R. Melling

Those who rise first are morally superior. It's a universal law. — O.R. Melling

You can't really know what you are made of until you are tested. — O.R. Melling

Life isn't as magical here, and you're not the only one who feels like you don't belong, or that it's better somewhere else. But there ARE things worth living for. And the best part is you never know what's going to happen next. — O.R. Melling