Laanan Quotes & Sayings

I doubt he'll come all this way for an orange," she said as she tapped her spatula against the side of the bowl. That was what I loved most about Nina: she'd heard it all, and nothing any of us threw at her ever surprised her. "You know, once upon a time, everyone could walk into a marked and buy anything they wanted."
I snorted. "Fairy takes start with 'once upon a time' Nina."
"It was a fairy take of sorts, but that didn't make it any less real," she said lowering the bowl to focus on me. "It's frightening how much things change in seventy-one years. — Aimee Carter

What is revenge but courage to call in our honor's debts, and wisdom to convert others' self-love into our own protection? — Edward Young

There are two ways to increase your wealth. Increase your means or decrease your wants. The best is to do both at the same time. — Benjamin Franklin

I am not ready to think of him as either insane or evil, to consider in full how I could love and have a child with such a person. I am not ready to think about anything, except ways in which this may still be averted. — Suzanne Finnamore

I was, in my own eyes, a veritable James Bond - only younger, darker, and possibly better paid. — Mohsin Hamid

When everything around us may seem to challenge who we are, we need to know how to find certainty within ourselves about what we want and what we believe. — Sue Knight

Success is beautiful and dangerous. — Robin Sharma

Oh, I'll tell you about 'Anyone Can Whistle' - the lesson I learned with doing that record is that the simplest songs are the hardest to do. — Jane Krakowski

Powerful people do not try to control other people. They know it doesn't work, and that it's not their job. Their job is to control themselves. — Danny Silk

Our Lord never taught against the urge to high achievement, but He did expose and condemn unworthy motivation. — J. Oswald Sanders

When Mary Shelley took a local legend based on truth and crafted fiction from it, she'd made Victor a tragic figure and killed him off. He understood her dramatic purpose for giving him a death scene, but he loathed her for portraying him as tragic and as a failure. — Dean Koontz

Live so fully and so brilliantly that your pain diminishes in your aliveness. — Bryant McGill