Famous Fallen Hero Quotes & Sayings

The injured runner is like a recent amputee victim, continually forgetting that the limb isn't there, crestfallen at each realization. What we need more than anything is a suitable prosthetic and an attitude adjustment. — Lauren Fleshman

A tightness in my chest came out of nowhere. As I listened to Amanda reassure my brother, I wanted to pull her into my arms and cry. How damn crazy was that? This girl was making me a nutcase. — Abbi Glines

I'll use mascara because I need a little help with my blonde eyelashes. I like They're Real! by Benefit. — Rose McIver

I am rather like a travelling salesman. I deal in ideas. I do much more for people than just paint them pictures. — Martin Kippenberger

Back in those early days when I began my apprenticeship as a poet, I also tried to voice our anger, spirit of defiance and resistance in a Jamaican poetic idiom. — Linton Kwesi Johnson

As the most social apes, we inhabit a mirror-world in which every important relationship, whether with spouse, friend or child, shapes the brain, which in turn shapes our relationships. — Diane Ackerman

Every man's the same, he wants the sunshine in his name. — Robert Palmer

My tiny scary friend is coming — Laini Taylor

The real world is where the monsters are. That's where you learn whether you're any good or not. — Rick Riordan

The real problem with his type of OCD
chronic fear of hurting other people
was that you thought so much about not running over children, not sideswiping pedestrians, not poisoning strangers with germs on your hands
essentially not killing a world full of strangers
that you ended up hurting the people you loved most. He saw that now. — Cammie McGovern

She'd read a lot of discussions about 9/11, obviously, but contributions from structural engineers had been conspicuous by their absence. And — Mick Herron

Monstrous shiny black beetles the size of goats unfurled their wings, writhed and festered at the very top of the sharp rock formation. — Paul Ikin

I love and adore all of my family, except when I'm with them. — Chuck Palahniuk

I'm on VH1 now, will be working on ITV's This Morning again from September. — Lisa Snowdon