Rollan Quotes & Sayings

The sons of the masters were roaming the world, looking for arms to hold them. And the arms that might have held them
could not forgive. — James Baldwin

He always found it a miracle that anyone wanted his company. Women especially - men will cuddle a rock. When he first started getting laid he couldn't quite believe that the women in his bed weren't there by mistake. Sometimes he'd leave the room and then peer back in, and then peer in again, incredulous that a woman was actually lying there naked, waiting for him. As if. In time he found his thing: fly in like a fool to start, then turn on the silver tongue. Talk and cock, talk and cock, yessir. One time a girl confessed that Vicky, his friend the nurse, had given her a warning before she introduced them. Take one look and if you don't like what you see don't even say hi or you'll end up wanting to fuck. Best thing anyone ever said about him. It didn't matter that they never came back, or rarely. He didn't mind being disposable. — Yuri Herrera

Guilt and true courage are incompatible... — Matthew Lewis

I'm the worst kind of criminal."
"And what kind is that?"
"The kind that got caught. — Brandon Mull

One doesn't have to understand in order to look. One has to look, in order to understand. — Robert Charles Wilson

I should be suspicious of what I want. — Rumi

Considering the circumstances, Rollan figured being alive was the same thing as being okay. — Brandon Mull

Grow up, asshole,' Declan told Ronan. He slapped the mask on Matthew's face.
That was the nightmare...
The primitive mask was an effortless part of Matthew's face...
'It'll be okay,' Ronan told his brother. 'You can live like that. You can just never take it off.'...
Declan tore the mask off...
Matthew's face was lines and dashes. It was not bloody; it was not horrific; it was simply not a face, and so it was terrible. He was not a person, he was just a drawn thing. — Maggie Stiefvater

Men and women would be even more unhappy if they really understood one another. — Mason Cooley

He arched a brow. "Miss Lahey, are you flirting with me?"
"Well, hot stuff, if you have to ask, I'm not doing it right."
His laughter rumbled low, slithering heat underneath my skin. I pulled him to me, backing him against the table, risking a literal firestorm as his lips laid upon mine with a burning promise of
"That's how babies are made!"
I reeled back and knocked over a chair. "Aunt M!"
"Sex kills!"
"M, seriously." Mom walked into the kitchen and rolled her eyes.
My aunt patted her belly. "It killed my waistline." Then she cackled.
Who was the banshee now?
"Ayden and Rory sitting in a tree," Selena sing-songed, "making b-a-b-b-y-n-g."
"Mom!"
"Selena," Mom admonished. "That's not the right spelling. — A&E Kirk

Conor had volunteered to carry it, perhaps hoping it would make the others think better of him. Rollan — Garth Nix

All would wish to be saved and to enjoy the glory of paradise; but to gain heaven, it is necessary to walk in the straight road that leads to eternal bliss. This road is the observance of the divine commandments. Hence, in his preaching, the Baptist exclaimed: Make straight the way of the Lord. — Alphonsus Liguori

If you don't pay attention to the past, you'll never understand the future. It's all linked together. You see what I'm saying? At — Sarah Dessen

And then Rollan reached out and took her hand. His fingers were warm. Meilin had never been so aware of the beating of her heart. — Shannon Hale

Luckily Rollan was more unflappable. He stepped forward, bravely brandishing his long dagger, however pathetic it looked compared to the teeth of Cabaro. — Eliot Schrefer

When you want to put something into your part that is not in the play, you must ask the author-or some other author-to lead up to the interpolation for you. Never forget that the effect of a line may depend not on its delivery, but on something said earlier in the play, either by somebody else or by yourself, and that if you change it, it may be necessary to change the whole first act as well. — George Bernard Shaw

We're meant to stay connected to our hearts, you see. Feeling our feelings, present in the moments we're given. But we don't do that. And that's when we get in trouble ...
We mature and take responsibility for ourselves and others, and that's a good thing. But we're never meant to lose that alive quality, to get cut off from our true hearts. Growing up isn't the same thing as shutting down ...
We can fight it. We have to fight it. Because when our hearts shut down, we become mere shells of who we once were. We don't laugh - not honestly, not from the heart. We don't dream. We don't feel our feelings or use our gifts. We end up trying to just survive instead of live. It's like we've handed our hearts over to the enemy of our souls and said, 'Here you can have it. I'm giving up. — Denise Hildreth Jones

The Gothic tradition was begun by Ann Radcliffe, a rare example of a woman creating an artistic style. — Camille Paglia

Yeah, we could strap a small car to Lassiter's back and make him run around by the pool - — J.R. Ward