Oddur Benediktsson Quotes & Sayings

I really hate the term 'historical novel' - it reminds me of bodice-rippers. But I'm hooked on research, and I really, really enjoy it. — Hannah Kent

If you think all this is going on, all these gigantic fields of gravity and light with you in mind, then you really do have a self-centredness problem. — Christopher Hitchens

Our success in Singapore was a Herculean effort by the whole team. Now I am determined to deliver on all we promised. I will be watching like a hawk. — Sebastian Coe

May power of the Holy Spirit, renew your thoughts and attitudes. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Together, joined in effort by the burden, they staggered up the last steep of the mountain. Together, they chanted One! Two! Three! and crashed the log on to the great pile. Then they stepped back, laughing with triumphant pleasure ... — William Golding

He was a sleaze, a nobody, a former graduate student of English studies. — Jonathan Franzen

Dawson, she knew, had saved Alan's life- but in the end, he'd saved Jared's as well. And for her that meant ... everything. 'I gave you the best of me,' he'd told her once, and with every beat of her son's heart, she knew he'd done exactly that. — Nicholas Sparks

The principal: You're a smart girl, so I'm going to be blunt. I think you'd be a lot happier if you stopped acting so weird.
Me: Who says I'm not happy? — Laura Ruby