Paganos Bradley Quotes & Sayings

I started reading Dickens when I was about 12, and I particularly liked all of the orphan books. I always liked books about young people who are left on their own with the world, and the four children's books I've written feature that very thing: children that are abandoned by their families or running away from their families or ignored by their families and having to grow up quicker than they should, like David Copperfield - having to be the hero of their own story. — John Boyne

The truth of these days is not that which really is, but what every man persuades another man to believe. — Michel De Montaigne

Drawing is rather like playing chess: your mind races ahead of the moves that you eventually make. — David Hockney

When he smiled his teeth looked like a picket fence that a tornado had wrecked. — Carolyn Brown

For friends ... do but look upon good Books: they are true friends, that will neither flatter nor dissemble. — Francis Bacon

Shane's dad stopped the van," Claire said. "He took Monica as a hostage."
For a second, neither one of them moved, and then Eve whooped and held up her hand for a high five. Claire just stared at her, and Eve compensated by clapping both hands over her head. "Yesssss!" she said, and did a totally geeky victory dance. "Couldn't have happened to a nicer psycho!"
"Hey!" Claire yelled, and Eve froze in midcelebration. It was stupid, but Claire was angry; she knew Eve was right, knew she had no reason at all to think Monica was ever going to be anything but a gigantic pain in the ass, but ... "Shane's dad's going to burn her if they go through with the execution. He has a blowtorch."
The glee dropped out of Eve's expression. "Oh," she said. "Well ... still. Not like she didn't ask for it. Karma's a bitch, and so am I. — Rachel Caine

We forget: In life, it doesn't matter what happens to you or where you came from. It matters what you do with what happens and what you've been given. — Ryan Holiday