Giatras John Quotes & Sayings

Kaleb had no family, hadn't understood the concept of loyalty the first time he'd read about it - but after researching it, he'd realised it meant being connected to someone who would care if he lived or died, someone who would fight for and with him, someone who didn't want to hurt him.
He had never experienced any of those things. — Nalini Singh

Knowing that the gospel is true is the essence of a testimony. Consistently being true to the gospel is the essence of conversion. — David A. Bednar

Between Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Between the Jacob I like and the one who annoys the hell out of me. — Stephenie Meyer

The world sees only the reflection of merit; therefore when you come to know a really great man intimately, you may as often find him above as below his reputation. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Oh, it's mysterious lamplit evenings, here in the galaxy, one after the other. It's one of those nights when I wander from window to window, looking for a sign. But I can't see. Terror and a beauty insoluble are a ribband of blue woven into the fringes of garments of things both great and small. No culture explains, no bivouac offers real haven or rest. But it could be that we are not seeing something. Galileo thought that comets were an optical illusion. This is fertile ground: since we are certain that they're not, we can look at what scientists are saying with fresh hope. What if there are really gleaming castellated cities hung upside-down over the desert sand? What limpid lakes and cool date palms have our caravans passed untried? Until, one by one, by the blindest of leaps, we light on the road to these places, we must stumble in darkness and hunger. — Annie Dillard

Beauty shall rise with the dawn from the east. — Khalil Gibran

It's fun. I sit down every day and tell stories. Some folk would kill to get that chance. — Bernard Cornwell

By the time we reached Virginia City I was considered a remarkable good shot and a fearless rider for a girl of my age. — Calamity Jane

You pretend to be other people to write their stories." He made it sound like a bad thing. "Writing is a craft. Not everyone has the time to learn it in a way that makes it commercially viable." Not everyone knew where to put a semicolon, or in the case of the pop star whose biography I'd just written, that it wasn't a body part. — A.A. Paton

Simple honesty of purpose in a man goes a long way in life, if founded on a just estimate of himself and a steady obedience to the rule he knows and feels to be right. — Samuel Smiles

Bravery's a choice. It's not something you're born with or without. It's something that grows inside you each time you choose to stand up and fight for the right thing. Each time you choose to speak out instead of staying silent. Each time you take on a force greater than yourself for the sake of others. — Melissa Pearl

If she wanted my money, I'd give her every cent. If she wanted another man, I'd make her forget him — Sylvia Day

For me, the family is more important, of course! I don't want to change my family, or situation, for work. But I think it is possible for these things not to fight each other. — Paz Vega

Nothing matters more than the stories we tell ourselves to explain the world. — Mike Carey

The Abandoned Valley
Can you understand being alone so long
you would go out in the middle of the night
and put a bucket into the well
so you could feel something down there
tug at the other end of the rope? — Jack Gilbert