Conklin Quotes & Sayings

Mister hit Josephine with the palm of his hand across her left cheek and it was then she knew she would run. — Tara Conklin

It struck Linda suddenly that this was the middle of the night. Even here, in the city that never slept, most people now were sleeping. Law firm time was like casino time, only instead of an endless cocktail hour it was always a neon-bright afternoon. The dead center of the workday, all night long. — Tara Conklin

Just to sit for a moment, herself, no one claiming her time or her thoughts or the product of her mind and hands. What other word to call that if not freedom? — Tara Conklin

Over the years she had learned to fold down rising emotion just as she would fold the clean bedsheets, the sheet growing smaller and tighter with each pass until all that remained of that wide wrinkled expanse of cotton was a hard closed-in square. — Tara Conklin

Let your heart lead you, do not be afraid, for there will be much to regret if reason and sense and fear are your only markers — Tara Conklin

The things you can control and the things you cannot. — Tara Conklin

The harder road. Because she was a woman? Because she was short? Because her law school ranked top-ten but not top-five? "Hey. — Tara Conklin

Is it too much to wish for such a life? Is it too little? — Tara Conklin

He didn't give me flowers or candy. He gave me the moon and the stars. Infinity
-Belly Conklin- — Jenny Han

Lying here and looking up at the stars like this, it makes me feel like I'm lying on a planet. It's so wide. So infinite
-Belly Conklin — Jenny Han

Heredity is to-day the central problem of biology. This problem may be approached from many sides-that of the breeder, the experimenter, the statistician, the physiologist, the embryologist, the cytologist-but the mechanism of heredity can be studied best by the investigation of the germ cells and their development. — Edwin Conklin

There is nothing like wine for conjuring up feelings of contentment and goodwill. It is less of a drink than an experience, an evocation, a spirit. It produces sensations that defy description. — Thomas Conklin

I knew that now - that love wasn't something you could do away with, no matter how hard you tried. — Jenny Han

Dreams get you into the future and add excitement to the present. — Robert Conklin

Savich carefully steered the Porsche around an eighteen-wheeler, accelerated, and seamed back between two cars. Traffic would lighten later as they approached Quantico. It was a day you were happy to be alive. The sky was a clear blue, no summer heat yet to blanket Washington, but it would come. He wished Sherlock were with him, especially this morning, but she'd been pulled back to New York to interview Conklin. He'd promised her he'd take another agent with him to Quantico for Brakey's hypnosis, and she'd known it would be Griffin for the simple reason that Griffin would believe what had happened to Savich the previous night, without question. She'd known he'd take the leap of faith. He himself was gifted. — Catherine Coulter

There is a certain kind of man who is forever searching. He wanders from place to place, he looks hard into the eyes of women and men in every town, maybe he scratches the earth or wields a gun, remedies illnesses or writes books, and there is always a vague emptiness within him. It is the emptiness that drives him and he does not know even how to name that thing that might fill it. No idea of home or love or peace comes to him. He does not know, so he cannot stop. On and on he moves. and the emptiness blinds him and pulls at him and he is like a newborn baby searching for the teat, knowing it is there, but where?
And sometimes such a man is handed a gift. A gift of direction. A path that is marked for him and there, yes, this will ease your suffering, it is sure. This will cure you, it will fill you up, at least for a time. There will be a home, and love, there will no longer be the sorrow when you look at a cold night sky, the sorrow as the sun rises and the mist burns away. — Tara Conklin

If you make the unconditional commitment to reach your most important goals, if the strength of your decision is sufficient, you will find the way and the power to achieve your goals. — Robert Conklin

Two hundred and fifty years of nameless, faceless, forgotten individuals. Yes, they were America's founding fathers and mothers as much as the bewigged white men who laid the whips upon their backs. Why didn't Lina know their names? Why hadn't she studied their histories? Where was the monument? Where was the museum? What had they wished for and worked for and loved? — Tara Conklin

Freedom is one of the principal goals of human endeavor, but the best use man can make of his freedom is to place limitations upon it. — Edwin Conklin

It's not the situation ... It's your reaction to the situation. — Robert Conklin

Truth was multilayered, shifting; it was different for everyone, each personal history carved unique from the same weighty block of time and flesh. — Tara Conklin

Resistance is thought transformed into feeling. Change the thought that creates the resistance, and there is no more resistance. — Robert Conklin

I had been lying to myself, thinking I was free, thinking I had let him go. It didn't matter what he said or did, I'd never let him go. - Belly Conklin — Jenny Han

I hope that wherever else I have failed, whatever harm I have caused to strangers and friends, that you may speak for me. Not before a pulpit or upon a stage. Not with words great or loud. But only to be, to persist, to live a life with pride and worth. In twenty years' time, thirty, or forty I hope that you may sit upon the porch of your home, look out upon a greening field that you have tilled, see your children surrounding you with love, and think for a moment upon me. That is all now that I truly wish for. To be for a moment in your thoughts, when I have long passed from this earth, and perhaps in a way I may find my redemption, an earthly redemption, not everlasting, but scared nonetheless. — Tara Conklin

He's doing it again, sir," said Conklin. — Dan Walsh

Life is not found in atoms or molecules or genes as such, but in organization; not in symbiosis but in synthesis. — Edwin Grant Conklin

I have found that most of the things I want from living I must get from people. — Robert Conklin

People want riches; they need fulfillment. — Robert Conklin

Did the color of his skin matter? No, Lina decided, wouldn't his racial ambiguity be a strength? Wasn't this a history from which they had all emerged, every American, black and white and every shade in between? — Tara Conklin

...Lina longed suddenly for a sliver of that must have been her mother's allure, and talent, and passion, and willingness to embrace her own complicated life. — Tara Conklin

When I fall in love, it will be for always. Nothing will change that. No one will walk out. We will stay together forever, and when death finally separates us we will have the memories that we shared. He will be that kind of person. I will know him instantly when I finally meet him. And he will love me forever. — Barbara Conklin

There are moments in every girls life that are bigger than we know at the time. when you look back, you say that was one of those life-changing fork in the road moments and I didn't see it coming and then there are the moments that you know are big that whatever you do next there will be an impact. Your life could go one of two directions, DO or DIE
- Belly Conklin — Jenny Han