Karinna Kopf Quotes & Sayings

When I first met Cara, she was twelve and angry at the world. Her parents had split up, her brother was gone, and her mom was infatuated with some guy who was missing vowels in his unpronounceable last name. So I did what any other man in that situation would do: I came armed with gifts. I bought her things that I thought a twelve-year-old would love: a poster of Taylor Lautner, a Miley Cyrus CD, nail polish that glowed in the dark. "I can't wait for the next Twilight movie," I babbled, when I presented her with the gifts in front of Georgie. "My favorite song on the CD is 'If We Were a Movie.' And I almost went with glitter nail polish, but the salesperson said this is much cooler, especially with Halloween coming up."
Cara looked at her mother and said, without any judgment, "I think your boyfriend is gay. — Jodi Picoult

When a slave begins to take pride in his fetters and hugs them like precious ornaments, the triumph of the slave-owner is complete. — Mahatma Gandhi

Knowing about the neurobiological and evolutionary basis for social behavior can soften the arrogance and self-righteousness that often attends discussions of morality. It may help us all to think a little more carefully and rationally. — Patricia Churchland

Coitus is random, children are definite. — Thomas Keneally

Before you're a writer, you're a citizen, a human being, and therefore the weapons of the citizen are at your disposal to use or not use. — Wole Soyinka

All mortals tend to turn into the thing they are pretending to be. This is elementary — C.S. Lewis

Was this a bad thing for a Christian to be doing? Probably. On the other hand, it had never occurred to me to ask the Methodist minister if he had a ritual in place to sever a blood bond between a woman and a vampire. — Charlaine Harris

Everything in everybody's life is ... significant. And everybody is alert, watching for the meanings. — Tom Wolfe

I am Jewish, but Beethoven is my religion. — Alice Herz-Sommer

It's well done if you can do a part and not have the acting show. — Jimmy Stewart

I think romance is friendship and attraction sort of meeting together and that does influence what I'm writing a lot. I try to establish the attraction, obviously, but I also think it's important to show the characters having actual conversations about things other than their feelings for each other - and to develop their friendship on the page. — Veronica Roth

Damn him. I could love. I had it all inside of me. If he knew so much about me, why couldn't he see that? If I didn't love him, how could it hurt so badly? — Tarryn Fisher

Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course. — William Shakespeare

To become historically-minded is to be grown-up. — James Harvey Robinson

Gentle reader, I was born upon the water - not upon the salt and angry ocean, but upon the fresh and rapid-flowing river. — Frederick Marryat