Canonizing The Books Quotes & Sayings

I remember my mother telling me earlier that we are nothing more than our stories. I look at the masses of dead flesh, at all the stories that are now forever silenced. — Carrie Ryan

You can awaken each day to obligations you never chose - or you can decide now to choose them. — Robert Breault

In fact, since the accident, Mom doesn't love anyone. She is marble. Beautiful. Frigid. Easily stained by her family. What's left of us anyway. We are corpses.
At first, we sought rebirth. But resurrection devoid of her love has made us zombies. We get up every morning, skip breakfast, hurry off to work or school. For in those other places, we are more at home.
And sometimes we stagger beneath the weight of grief, the immensity of aloneness. — Ellen Hopkins

Jane: Focus is important.
V: Only if you're a microscope. — J.R. Ward

When I think of a lot of the players I admire, they could always play their parts without hiding behind distortion and sustain. Put the time in. Hear your mistakes. Yeah, it sucks, it's humbling, it makes you want to throw the guitar out the window. But if you work on your mistakes, they'll eventually go away, and you'll become a strong player. — John Petrucci

If I get work done early, I can do some interacting with fans online, or see my friends. If I don't get that work done, you may not see much of me! — Cassandra Clare

I just think religion is something ... It could be a beautiful thing for the individual, but when it becomes organized, that's when religion starts taking a kind of ugly turn to me. — Daron Malakian

I don't really have special rituals, but I don't try to write fiction unless I have a minimum of a few hours. For me, it takes a while to settle into a mode where I'm truly concentrating. — Curtis Sittenfeld

I had consumed a lot of American culture, but I was not quite prepared for the reality of American poverty. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

She is dead, that is the way of mortals. But you are alive. So live — Neil Gaiman

Careers don't seem to be built up in the same way as they were in the 80s. — Kim Wilde

Survival prospects are poor for an animal that is not suspicious of novelty. — Daniel Kahneman

One cannot spend one's time in being modern when there are so many more important things to be. — Wallace Stevens

In creating the strange milieu in which your story takes place, you must first understand as well as you possibly can the familiar milieu in which your own life is taking place. Until you have examined and comprehended the world around you, you can't possibly create a complex and believable imaginary world. — Orson Scott Card

There is only one way in which you can "change your luck" and that is by altering your thoughts. — Eric Butterworth