Candlewick Press Quotes & Sayings

I don't want to turn any of this into poetry / but / you're so beautiful / flowers turn their heads to smell you — Shane Koyczan

FAIL UP. If something doesn't go how you planned it, learn from it, do something differently next time. And, by the way, effort deserves credit. Pat yourself on the back! — Beth Ramsay

Good rom-coms have some reflection of the way things are, the sign of the times. — Rashida Jones

I played small forward on the basketball team. I also ran the 300 hurdles. — Gabriel Luna

Focus on the process (the way you spend your time) instead of the product (what you want to accomplish). — Barbara Oakley

You will come to agree with me. — Blue Balliett

I did gymnastics when I was a kid. I wasn't very good at it. — Lindsey Vonn

Aw, I'm not going to give up that easily," he smiled. "You're the one who started it. You shouldn't have kissed me like that if you wanted to be left alone. — Audrey Bell

If you have work to do, don't wait to feel like it; set to work and you will feel like it. — Henry James

I saved my soul, replied my father
For this, firstly, you should have one, old man — Yasmina Khadra

She didn't immediately answer, and he didn't press her. Heart wounds, he knew, made one think more slowly. — Maggie Stiefvater

At times many of us let that enemy of achievement
even the culprit 'self-defeat'
dwarf our aspirations, smother our dreams, cloud our vision, and impair our lives. The enemy's voice whispers in our ears, 'You can't do it.' 'You're too young.' 'You're too old.' 'You're nobody.' This is when we remember that we are created in the image of God. Reflection on this truth provides a profound sense of strength and power. — Thomas S. Monson