S.A. Tawks Quotes & Sayings

Emily wondered whether Artie would be so carefree if he knew The Book Club was performing grand theft imagination. — S.A. Tawks

I'd developed an apology-is-much-better-than-asking-for-permission mentality. — S.A. Tawks

Lighting a cigarette with a sense of achievement for company made the journey worth it. — S.A. Tawks

If I hadn't worked up the courage to talk to Christy, she most likely would have been a pretty face that disappeared back into the crowd. — S.A. Tawks

The best experiences can't be forced and they come when you least expect it. You don't find misadventure, it finds you. — S.A. Tawks

What does a guy say to that? What does an inexperienced guy say to a beautiful, smart, proper girl who's not supposed to say things like that? — S.A. Tawks

My sense of misadventure took over and I began looking at my problems as challenges. — S.A. Tawks

Be warned, reader. Once seen, something cannot be unseen and once read, something cannot be unread. What lies ahead can be the future of spirit but the future of spirit can also be what lies inside your head. — S.A. Tawks

Being determined delinquents, Peyton and I jumped the barricades and wandered around the dilapidated interior. — S.A. Tawks

It's easy to give up at the beginning of something, but after gaining a bit of momentum it's not as tempting or easy to just give up. — S.A. Tawks

Her intention was to make the crowd aware, if they weren't already, that John was the giant whose shoulders Emily stood on. — S.A. Tawks

What could a person like Emily do? Could she possibly satisfy both sides? Or would that only end badly? — S.A. Tawks

Reading for enjoyment won't die altogether, but this Ereader device has the potential to repel those less imaginative from fiction. And that could have an undesirable domino effect. — S.A. Tawks

Misadventure will always cause someone to be pissed off at you, because they don't know what degree you're willing to go to to satisfy your need for misadventure. — S.A. Tawks

Living the rest of my life in Kerobokan, waiting to die, was what I had in front of me. — S.A. Tawks

What if I were seeking a hardcopy? A book I can bury my nose in metaphorically and literally if I'm a self-confessed book-sniffer and proud to say so. — S.A. Tawks

Time is wasted on the young and experience is wasted on the old. — S.A. Tawks

Looking back really does make you wonder, but the truth is it doesn't change a thing. — S.A. Tawks

My old ways were much more appealing than my new ways. — S.A. Tawks

An adventurer has a purpose. Such as finding new lands and valuable treasures. A misadventurer, besides doing it for the hell of it and for a good time, doesn't really have a good purpose. — S.A. Tawks

By the first mouthful I knew that I was going to get drunk that night. The drink tasted too good not to. — S.A. Tawks

My biggest problem is that my flight is to depart from Denpasar International Airport in Indonesia, where the penalty for drug trafficking is death by firing squad. — S.A. Tawks

A donation to the police officer's back pocket should have you on your way without a problem. — S.A. Tawks

The truth, Ms Rainn, is that advice and inspirational quotes and sayings may give you a kick start, but it's up to you to keep that motivation alive. — S.A. Tawks

It's in my head now. It's a memory. No camera could have captured what I saw and felt. — S.A. Tawks

I found that disturbing the night's calm ambience was almost as gratifying as the ambience itself. — S.A. Tawks

Perhaps this new kind of reading will appeal to us after we give it a try. — S.A. Tawks

There were tough thoughts battling one another inside his head for the right to become reality. — S.A. Tawks

I was far too nervous to be concerned about contributing to the conversations. — S.A. Tawks

It is important to take the seriousness out of things that do not deserve it. Take the seriousness out of it, and the thing loses its power. — S.A. Tawks

In my defence, I did like my ex until she cheated on me. I just thought the feeling was love. — S.A. Tawks

The job description, like most, used complicated words that made job-hopefuls hesitant to apply because it may be out of their range of capability. — S.A. Tawks

Harry and I are misadventurous misadventurers that like to partake in misadventure. — S.A. Tawks

He was the organised traveller type. The type that has to know the top ten tourist spots in a country and the five best ways to get to them. — S.A. Tawks

All you young Aussies just want to fuck and get fucked up, no? — S.A. Tawks

Fear doesn't gain respect. It just makes people do what you want to shut you up and get you away from them. — S.A. Tawks

It's okay, Ms Rainn, you were simply lost in your imagination. — S.A. Tawks

She suggested I buy her a drink. I shouldn't have, but I was quite drunk and she was quite pretty. — S.A. Tawks

You know what's the worst? Having realistic, ordinary expectations taken out of your reach by seemingly unrealistic, extraordinary circumstances. — S.A. Tawks

Manufactured spirit is much more reliable than organic spirit. — S.A. Tawks

I have two moods when I get drunk. The common mood is the lazy, happy-go-lucky guy. The uncommon mood is the frustrated, self-deprecating guy. That night was the latter. — S.A. Tawks

Patience, persistence and hard work lead to success and happiness. Or you can do whatever the hell you want and with a bit or a whole lot of luck you'll stumble onto success and happiness. — S.A. Tawks

Everyones' worst problems weigh the same, and it's up to you how heavy that weight is and how much you let it drag you down. — S.A. Tawks

Misadventure asked what the harm was partaking in one more and I decided not to argue with her. — S.A. Tawks

They were queen bitches and it seemed everyone and everything they knew and everyone and everything they didn't know deserved some kind of criticism. — S.A. Tawks

Maybe I am just an old fool with foolish thoughts, but those foolish thoughts allow this old fool to sleep quite comfortably at night. — S.A. Tawks

I figured this guy was a fair dinkum Australian. The type of guy that worked the land all day, cracked open a beer or two at night and called girls 'sheilas'. — S.A. Tawks

One thing a girl loves more than a bad boy is a self-aware bad boy. — S.A. Tawks

Maybe if you allowed me to blow off some steam, I wouldn't have been so frustrated when I had to find higher order fucking derivatives. — S.A. Tawks

The day, like all good days, passed far too quickly. — S.A. Tawks

I tried to kill myself when I was thirteen but failed. That was the greatest failure of my life. — S.A. Tawks

If you're not happy with yourself, how can you even begin to figure out if another person makes you happy, annoyed, angry, sad and so on. — S.A. Tawks

But, you must remember, whatever you eat, make sure you have at least one bowl of salad with it. — S.A. Tawks

Embrace what works and discard what doesn't. — S.A. Tawks

I realised I got anxious because my true aspiration wasn't to become the chief of a multi-billion dollar, multi-national company that created widgets or some shit. — S.A. Tawks

It was odd but I couldn't jump the chasm of missing evidence to the conclusion Todd was making. — S.A. Tawks

I'm not a hero, though. I'm just a man. — S.A. Tawks

Besides, if it was the wrong choice, what difference was one more bad decision going to make? — S.A. Tawks

As much as I respect him, he is somewhat of an ignorant fool. — S.A. Tawks

I let my initial stance on her prettiness stand and didn't let any superficial thoughts hobble it. — S.A. Tawks

Even freedom needs some rules to keep it from being complete chaos. — S.A. Tawks

When you're in the safety of the future, the past doesn't seem so relevant. — S.A. Tawks

Could crushed spirit be destroyed if it encountered too much spirit? — S.A. Tawks

It means they engineered the spirit to have a negative effect on the imagination. — S.A. Tawks

The spirit of imagination smells exactly how the person inhaling it imagines it to smell. — S.A. Tawks

When the imagination takes over, the second hand could be the hour hand to a creator of stories. — S.A. Tawks

You must learn not to rely so heavily on others. Only then will help come when you truly need it. — S.A. Tawks

The imagination is a wild and dangerous forest that is impossible to know the full might of. — S.A. Tawks

Where's your sense of misadventure? — S.A. Tawks

Besides the pain in my gut, why shouldn't I laugh? I've almost escaped death in a foreign country. — S.A. Tawks

I'd be somewhat of a lousy writer if I didn't know what to say. — S.A. Tawks

It was as if my rationale had a stupid friend that was always getting up to no good. — S.A. Tawks

You can't lose sleep over should-of's and could-of's. — S.A. Tawks

My anger tempted the act of delinquency and it felt good to dabble. — S.A. Tawks

I think that Richard was more of a one-girl-for-the-rest-of-your-life-marry-and-make-a-family kind of guy. — S.A. Tawks

Misadventure was my primary compass and I followed it without caring if I pissed off one person or a whole bunch of people. — S.A. Tawks

Too much thought can find fault in anything, even if there is no fault to be found. — S.A. Tawks

There's no need to blame fate or destiny for a stupid decision. — S.A. Tawks

After spending the previous night the way I had, I felt I could afford to lose some of the daytime to sleep. — S.A. Tawks

My job had been to get the package from point A to point B and what happened after that did not need to concern me. I was just the mule. — S.A. Tawks

Tales of triumph are my favourite. — S.A. Tawks

The false hope I filled myself with is fleeing and I'm beginning to feel scared again. — S.A. Tawks

The sisterhood of librarians is a non-profit organisation and our goal is to keep imagination alive, not make money. — S.A. Tawks

I figured, what harm could come from a little bit of fun? Crabs. The Canadian girl gave me crabs. — S.A. Tawks

Can't get myself down by thinking about what could have been, right? — S.A. Tawks

The power of fiction is a great thing. But, after all, reality is just a little more important. — S.A. Tawks

You've got to have high expectations to achieve top results. — S.A. Tawks

A misadventurer's greatest fear is their mother. — S.A. Tawks

It is neither poor handling nor the weather that turns the pages of a book a fine sepia. It is the reader's imagination. — S.A. Tawks

The spirit of pessimism inside of her was purely organic. — S.A. Tawks

Crying will achieve nothing. Only action will. — S.A. Tawks

We each have a little imagination in all of us, and a book is the best absorbent there is. — S.A. Tawks

I figured that maybe he was only hanging around for the tea and tobacco and when one ran out, so would he. — S.A. Tawks

She's happy to be home but being home means that it's an end to her adventure and escape. — S.A. Tawks

You can't draw lines in the sand like that. Humour's a tsunami that doesn't care about your little lines. — S.A. Tawks

If you work hard all day and all night, something may come of it. You never know, it just might. — S.A. Tawks

This is your chance. Are you going to cower and make excuses or are you going to do what you really want to do? — S.A. Tawks

Band together with the brothers and sisters of misery and never stray. You are the integral part of the deeply depressed. We found you. Hooray. — S.A. Tawks

If you aren't polite when giving criticism you will come off as an awful person and if you aren't polite when receiving criticism you will come off as an awful person. — S.A. Tawks

We must stop this unimaginable atrocity before it becomes a reality. — S.A. Tawks