Henry Chalfant Quotes & Sayings

What is actually happening inside readers as they read? Each reader has a unique emotional response to a story. It's unpredictable, but it's real. Readers read under the influence of their own temperaments, histories, biases, morality, likes, dislikes, and peeves. They make judgments that don't agree with yours. So how can a writer predict, never mind control, what readers feel? Psychological — Donald Maass

There is a love like no other. A love that requires no conditions. A love that can't be explained or learned. It's a love that gives you a greater purpose. It's a love that can set the rest of your world aside. — Jennifer Lopez

I left the clinic in a daze that had nothing to do with my head injury. Clear up in a week or so? How could Dr. Olendzki speak so lightly about this? I was going to look like a mutant for Christmas and most of the ski trip. I had a black eye. A freaking black eye.
And my mother had given it to me. — Richelle Mead

The press box at Wrigley Field in Chicago is an extended narrow shed, two rows deep, that is precariously bolted to the iron rafters just underneath the park's second deck. To gain access, one must climb a steeply angled ramp and clamber down a little starboard companionway, guarded at its foot by a uniformed minion and then proceed giddily along a catwalk that hangs directly above the tiered, circling rows of seats and spectators behind home plate. — Roger Angell

Then why can't I bully you into procreating? (Wulf)
See! I'm the only human in history to have Viking yenta of his very own. God, how I wish my father had been a fertile man. (Chris) — Sherrilyn Kenyon

wether I ought not to punish him by dismissing him at once after this reconciliation, or by marrying and teazing him for ever. — Jane Austen

In Antarctica you get to know people so well that in comparison you do not seem to know the people in civilization at all. — Apsley Cherry-Garrard

Trixie felt the sting of the skin as it split, the sweet welling rise of blood.
It hurt, though not as much as everything else. — Jodi Picoult

He'd done everything in his power to make damn certain that Daniel never had to fear coming home. At that endeavor, Cameron knew he'd already surpassed his own father. — Jennifer Ashley

The amount of writing that people do online is astonishing, and historically unprecedented. — Clive Thompson

Urging the need for community upon American religionists is a vain enterprise; the experiential encounter with Jesus or God is too overwhelming for memories of community to abide, and the believer returns from the abyss of ecstasy with the self enhanced and otherness devalued. — Harold Bloom

My mother is a proud Brazilian. I love visiting my family in Rio; the city and its people are so vibrant and amazing. — Harley Viera-Newton