Inspirational April Quotes & Sayings

April 11, 2004
Does anyone know where I can find a copy of the rules of thought, feeling, and behavior in these circumstances? It seems like there should be a rule book somewhere that lays out everything exactly the way one should respond to a loss like this. I'd surely like to know if I'm doing it right. Am I whining enough or too much? Am I unseemly in my occasional moments of lightheartedness? At what date and I supposed to turn off the emotion and jump back on the treadmill of normalcy? Is there a specific number of days or decades that must pass before I can do something I enjoy without feeling I've betrayed my dearest love? And when, oh when, am I ever really going to believe this has happened? Next time you're in a bookstore, as if there's a rule book.
11:54 p.m.
Jim — Jim Beaver

This is what I had always dreamed marriage would be... Everything was absolutely perfect... for three short days. — April Cassidy

We may not have made our grand statement, but we will still have our battle. We are armed with tak and we will triumph. Your efforts have been in vain. The battle is about to begin. — D.J. MacHale

Nikki, darling, light of my life. Can I have my driver take you to work? — J. Kenner

He couldn't help but wonder what Hannah might have looked like if ... he'd answered that question April had asked him years ago. — Sandi Layne

Where ever you go, you have to take yourself with you. — April Hochstrasser

If people-young and old-can get one thing from my book I hope it is this: that there dream do count, no matter how big or small. — April E. Brucker

...the ugliest things in human nature are perversions of good and innocent things. — C.S. Lewis

We may have done what the devil said we did, but we are NOT who the devil says we are! — April Cofield Essix

My life might not turn out to be easy I thought. I just hoped I'd turn out to be strong. — April Sinclair

I was a stupid, self-assuming girl. Sitting at that table? Smug in my confidence of my ownership? — Alessandra Torre

There's no excuse for a dull book, a dull museum, or a dull speech. Especially when dealing with history - the most fascinating subject I know. — Richard Norton Smith

All I know about grammar is its infinite power. — Joan Didion

A girl's reaction to an offer for her first kiss should not be vomit. — April Erwin

Her head said no but her heart couldn't resist. — Karen Power

I never had any doubts about my abilities. I knew I could write. I just had to figure out how to eat while doing this.
[Cormac McCarthy's Venomous Fiction, New York Times, April 19, 1992] — Cormac McCarthy

Perfectionism is a delusion that can rob one of a very successful, enriching life if not careful. — April Bryan

Prayer isn't just a noun, it's a verb too. It's an action. As long as you exercise your prayer muscles, you'll have the strength you need to do the deed. — April Erwin

A curiosity prompt heightens the senses and hones compositional ability ... — Robert Genn

Triumphant hours are the Lark's
Who circles skywards from his home each day:
World's early riser, with bubbling golden song,
Towards the firmament, guardian of April's gate. — Dafydd Ap Gwilym

Surrender. Because life may not always go the way we expect it to, but there's hope. With God, there's always hope. — April Geremia

There's something deeply satisfying when it succeeds, but I'm not going to do another book just to put my name on something and make some money if it's not something I deeply care about. — John McEnroe

How could you miss it? Just the sound of her voice makes my chest feel tight, my face gets hot and my mouth goes dry whenever she's near. It's getting so bad, all I have to do is see her and I'm already thinking, 'What does she want? What can I do for her?' She's got some power over me, there's no question, and what else could it be?
~Razo — Shannon Hale

Diesel rocked back on his heels and grinned at the monkey. "Carl?"
"Eep!" The monkey stood, squinted at Diesel, and gave him the finger.
"Looks like you know each other," I said.
"Our paths crossed in Trenton," Diesel said. "How did he get here?"
"Monkey Rescue," Glo told him. "He was abandoned."
"Figures," Diesel said.
The monkey gave him the finger again.
"Does he do that all the time?" I asked Diesel.
"Not all the time."
"I got him by mistake," Glo said. "And now we don't know what to do with him."
"You could turn him loose and let him go play in traffic." Diesel said.
- Lizzy, Shirley, Diesel, and Carl, pages 132-134. — Janet Evanovich