Bruising After Blood Quotes & Sayings

Ian pretended that not knowing what to do was the hard part when, somewhere inside, I think he knew that making a choice about something is when the real uncertainty begins. The more terrifying uncertainty is wanting something and not knowing how to get it. It is working toward something even though there is no sure thing. When we make choices, we open ourselves up to hard work and failure and heartbreak, so sometimes it feels easier not to know, not to choose, and not to do. — Meg Jay

My second book, Follow Me Down had some success, got good critical notices, went into a second printing and things like that, but Shiloh was by far the most successful of those first five novels. — Shelby Foote

Those who will play with cats must expect to be scratched. — Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

You get food from Costco. Those big muffins, maybe? My sister says they've got a thousand calories a piece. — Gabrielle Zevin

I have all the defects of other people and yet everything they do seems to me inconceivable. — Emil Cioran

I'm never sure who I'm writing for, or who's reading me, but I definitely see myself in conspiracy with my readers. — Carol Anshaw

Since then, she had wondered if it were strength or a sort of madness that let her pretend she was normal. — Robin Hobb

Charles' conversation was as flat as a street pavement, on which everybody's ideas trudged past, in their workaday dress, provoking no emotion, no laughter, no dreams. — Gustave Flaubert

When man can "wish away worrying," every desire will be instantly fulfilled. — Florence Scovel Shinn

I like the idea of people who've had some success in one form secretly wanting to be something else; I have some of that myself. I look for it in other people who've established themselves in some particular art form, and then you find out that they really would like to design running shoes, or edit literary magazines or something. — William Gibson

Uncalled for excuses are practical confessions. — Charles Simmons

You get caught up in your chaos, you don't realize just how much you're dragging everyone along with you. — Kristen Ashley

Until Eleanor Roosevelt, there was only one or two First Ladies in all of American history who made an impact, who people could even have recognized or identified. And it's really only been since Jackie Kennedy that there's been this idea that the family life of the president is such a central thing. — Gail Collins