Debbie Lum Quotes & Sayings

She knew her nature. She would recognize it if she came face-to-face with it. It would be a blue-eyed green-eyed monster, wolflike and snarling. A vicious beast that struck out at friends in uncontrollable anger, a killer that offered itself as a vessel of the king's fury.
But then it was a strange monster, for beneath its exterior it was frightened and sickened by its own violence. It chastised itself for its savagery. And sometimes it had no heart for violence and rebelled against it utterly.
A monster that refused, sometimes, to behave like a monster. When a monster stopped behaving like a monster , did it stop being a monster? Did it become something else?
Perhaps she wouldn't recognize her own nature after all. — Kristin Cashore

If you don't know history, then you don't know anything. You are a leaf that doesn't know it is part of a tree. — Michael Crichton

It is absolutely necessary, for the peace and safety of mankind, that some of earth's dark, dead corners and unplumbed depths be let alone; lest sleeping abnormalities wake to resurgent life, and blasphemously surviving nightmares squirm and splash out of their black lairs to newer and wider conquests. — H.P. Lovecraft

I had 500 kids at camp this past summer for example. We do nine weeks for kids and nine days for grown ups every summer. The adult camp is a lot of fun. — Wavy Gravy

Speech is silver, but silence is golden when hearers are inattentive. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

A real friend would have given you a drink by now."
"Looks like an old friend just did. — Debbie K. Lum

Focus helps you do something. Distraction makes you avoid doing anything. — Mani S. Sivasubramanian