Arra Quotes & Sayings

Better to Die in Honour than to live in Shame. -Arra Sails — Darren Shan

Who was Vardan Mamikonian, and how did he come to play this most crucial role in Armenian history? It may justifiably be said that without his committed leadership, the term "Armenian" today might have referred to no more than an obscure, one-time, Christian people of long past. — Arra Avakian

Art, to me, is the interpretation of the impression which nature makes upon the eye and brain. — Childe Hassam

Arra made me promise, on her deathbed, that I would not let Darren die. I beg you
do not force me to choose between loyalty to you and my vow to her. — Darren Shan

Lovely Arra Sails,
nectar to all males,
how I'd like to spear you like a whaler spears a whale! — Darren Shan

George Bush has become something of an embarrassment. — Tony Snow

I've found in my own life that if my writing isn't going well, not much else will. It is the one constant, the key to everything else. — Sarah Dessen

I'm in this forever. — Jaci Burton

I have my own identity as a player. — Carmelo Anthony

I think the novel is not so much a literary genre, but a literary space, like a sea that is filled by many rivers. The novel receives streams of science, philosophy, poetry and contains all of these; it's not simply telling a story. — Jose Saramago

I can do anything if i want it enough. — Cherise Sinclair

Power always acts destructively, for its possessors are ever striving to lace all phenomena of social life into a corset of their laws to give them a definite shape. Its mental expression is dead dogma; its physical manifestation of life, brute force. This lack of intelligence in its endeavours leaves its imprint likewise on the persons of its representatives, gradually making them mentally inferior and brutal, even though they were originally excellently endowed. Nothing dulls the mind and soul of man as does the eternal monotony of routine, and power is essentially routine. — Rudolf Rocker

He was looking up at the stars, but not, I think, because they were so close they seemed suspended between earth and space. He was still, not blinking, because his eyes were filling up like that dammed pool and he was trying to hold back his tears. But the water always finds a way through, even when you pile those stones high and deep - eventually it finds a way. — Vikki Wakefield

All women are princesses , it is our right. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

G.I. humor is similar to cop humor. — Nelson DeMille

Later that day, shortly before the sun sank in the wintry sky, despite the best efforts of the medics, Arra Sails closed her eyes, made peace with the gods of the vampires, breathed her last ... and died. — Darren Shan

Yes?" she asked, eyeing me guardedly.
I struck out a hand and said "Shake."
Arra stared at the hand, then into my unfocused eyes. "One good fight doesn't make you a warrior," she said.
"Shake!" I repeated angrily.
"And if I don't?" she asked.
"I'll get back up on the bars and fight you till you do," I growled.
Arra studied me at length, then nodded and took my hand. "Power to you, Darren Shan," she said gruffly.
"Power," I repeated weakly, then fainted into her arms and knew no more till I came to in my hammock the next night. — Darren Shan

Let the right one in Let the old dreams die Let the wrong ones go They cannot do What you want them to do - Morrissey, Let the Right One Slip In — John Ajvide Lindqvist