Lockd Quotes & Sayings

I believe the first draft of a book - even a long one - should take no more than three months ... Any longer and - for me, at least - the story begins to take on an odd foreign feel, like a dispatch from the Romanian Department of Public Affairs, or something broadcast on high-band shortwave duiring a period of severe sunspot activity. — Stephen King

She read him better than he realized and eyed him warily. "Do you want to know?"
He thought for a moment, then shook his head. "Nay." It was in the past. "Then I would have to kill him."
Her eyes widened, his blunt statement surprising her. "You would do that for me?"
The woman was daft. "I will kill anyone who harms you." He cocked a brow. "I hope that doesn't offend your delicate sensibilities?"
"No," she said hesitantly. "Though I'm not used to having such a fierce protector."
He kissed her forehead. "Get used to it. — Monica McCarty

Our eventual aim is simply stated - that there should be no safe haven for terrorists anywhere in the world. We say to the people of Afghanistan: 'You have been ill served by those who have made your country a centre for terrorism across the world. As soon as this stops, the world will work with you to build a better future for you and for your children. — Jack Straw

My mom said once that education was a privilege not afforded to everyone, but she was wrong
it wasn't a privilege. It was our right. We had the right to a future. — Alexandra Bracken

I learned more at The Second City than I did at Yale for all that high tuition. — Robert Klein

I was what you are, you will be what I am. — Ika Natassa

Art is constitutive-the artist determines beauty. He does not take it over. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

History is a grim reminder of what happens to those who think they have no law but themselves. — Ravi Zacharias

Expecting the two equerries to immediately take off after me, I braced for a run. Why had I babbled so much? I thought, annoyed with myself. Why didn't I just say "No" and leave?
But the equerries both turned and walked swiftly back in the direction they'd come, and the old man continued on his way.
What does that mean?
And the answer was not long in coming: They were going back to report.
Which meant a whole lot of them searching. And soon.
Yes, I'd really widened my perimeter, I thought furiously, cursing the Baron, music, inns, resorts, food, and the Baron again, throwing in Galdran Merindar and the Marquis of Shevraeth for good measure. — Sherwood Smith

Life is neither a party nor pain. But a prayer. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The heart is the key conduit to everything. — Steven Redhead

People who have no life always have to stick their nose in the life of others. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

If I had a staff of even one person, or could tolerate a small amphetamine habit, or entertain the possibility of weekly blood transfusions, or had been married to Vera Nabokov, or had a housespouse of even minimal abilities, a literary life would be easier to bring about. (In my mind I see all your male readers rolling their eyes. But your female ones - what is that? Are they nodding in agreement? Are their fists in the air?) — Lorrie Moore

Days turn to night. The ocean tide drifts in and out. And I want you, Tara. Damn you, but I do. I always have. — Jill Shalvis