Nancy Van Pelt Quotes & Sayings

Our tears are trying to serve a purpose, but we rarely let them. I don't know how we got started with subverting that purpose. — Hugh Howey

Fate would never permit happiness to a man of such talent-
a content poet is a mediocre one, a happy poet is insufferable. — Rabih Alameddine

Did she watch Newsies? Tell me she watched Newsies.
Twice. — Chloe Neill

Every crime will bring remorse to the man who committed it — Juvenal

Never underestimate the lingering effects of a dash of spontaneous comfort. — Gina Greenlee

What does it mean when the monsters are so afraid of you that you make them cry? That maybe monster depends on which end of the gun your on, or that I was just that good at my job. — Laurell K. Hamilton

Don't feel sad. The only certain thing in life ... is death itself. She's free from her body and her soul is ready to take on another new life, so she can continue on until she becomes light, just like the stars. — Grace Fiorre

If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead. — Erma Bombeck

When I pair food and wine, I start with the food. If I have a beautiful roasted bird, I might choose a Cabernet or Pinot Noir, or maybe a Syrah, depending on the sauce and what is in my cellar. — Jacques Pepin

Split your skull - a hatchet works well enough. Take a more delicate instrument - a scalpel, perhaps - and make a hand-sized slit; it doesn't matter where. Reach in (no glove needed), plunge down to the very bottom, pinch the inside layer of membrane and yank, hard.
If it feels like you've just turned your brain inside out, you have. Writing is brain surgery, pure and simple. — Chila Woychik

When I was 12, I snapped my arm in two. My wrist still has a funny bump because they didn't join it back together so great. — Jessica De Gouw

Control is an unavoidable feature of human relationships; all that actually varies is the subtlety of the system of reinforcement. — Alfie Kohn

I was given the name Prospect because people have high hopes for me. — Dwight Okita

He had found it hard to equate the priest's God with the one who had left his mother to die slowly and painfully. — John Connolly