Mckinney Brothers Quotes & Sayings

The whole place is a petri dish of angst, generated by kids whose parents gave up on them, which is the worst kind of angst there is. There are fights and ridiculous posturing on a daily basis. — Neal Shusterman

The appearances of the world are not the problem,
it's clinging to them that causes suffering — Tilopa

You cannot buy loyalty; you cannot buy the devotion of hearts, minds, and souls. You have to earn these things. — Clarence Francis

The trouble with being a priest was that you eventually had to take the advice you gave to others. — Walter M. Miller Jr.

I'm going to be a star some day," she announced as though daring him to contradict her.
"I'm sure you ... "
"It's my life. It's the only thing in the whole world that I want."
"It's good to know what you want. I used to be a bookkeeper in a hotel,
but ... "
"If I'm not, I'll commit suicide. — Nathanael West

I've had horror movies thrown at me and I just don't want to do any because violence isn't really good for society. — Luke Ford

You are young and have the world before you; stoop as you go through it, and you will miss many hard bumps. — Cotton Mather

Music is the soundtrack to the crappy movie that is my life. — Chris Rock

Kestrel listened to the slap of waves against the ship, the cries of struggle and death. She remembered how her heart, so tight, like a scroll, had opened when Arin kissed her. It had unfurled.
If her heart were truly a scroll, she could burn it. It would become a tunnel of flame, a handful of ash. The secrets she had written inside herself would be gone. No one would know.
Her father would choose the water for Kestrel if he knew.
Yet she couldn't. In the end, it wasn't cunning that kept her from jumping, or determination. It was a glassy fear.
She didn't want to die. Arin was right. She played a game until its end. — Marie Rutkoski

you know that a soldier is the most holy of all humans because he is the most tested - most tested of all. I'll try to tell you. Look now - in all of history men have been taught that killing of men is an evil thing not to be countenanced. Any man — John Steinbeck

I think when writers play with dragons, we are simply doing what fantasy writers have always done. — Robin Hobb

I wondered if anyone ever thought as they smiled for a photograph that someday a particular instant caught on film would be all that was left of them. — Marie Force