Shihrix Quotes & Sayings

This time Elizabeth Ann didn't answer, because she herself didn't know what the matter was. But I do, and I'll tell you. The matter was that never before had she known what she was doing in school. She had always thought she was there to pass from one grade to another, and she was ever so startled to get a little glimpse of the fact that she was there to learn how to read and write and cipher and generally use her mind, so she could take care of herself when she came to be grown up. Of course, she didn't really know that till she did come to be grown up, but she had her first dim notion of it in that moment, and it made her feel the way you do when you're learning to skate and somebody pulls away the chair you've been leaning on and says, "Now, go it alone! — Dorothy Canfield Fisher

The inhibitor of creativity isn't potential it's fear. We worry about saying the wrong thing or looking foolish so we govern our imagination. — Josh Linkner

When I went to high school, an all-boys' school, a Catholic school, I tried out for football, and I didn't make it. It was the first time, athletically, that I was knocked down. — Mike Krzyzewski

Alafair Burke is one of the finest young crime writers working today. — Lisa Unger

Where is the rest of you?" -Angela Atagi- — S.B. Jones

Let the wilds temper you, and if you weather it, in time the prodigal will return, a viper to his father's bosom. Pawn takes king. — Mark Lawrence

I'm not one of those authors who claims to hear voices in my head or 'let the characters speak through me,' whatever that might mean. — Robin Wasserman

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

I'm tired of being ruled by the Skull and Bones. The only place they belong are on punk-rock albums! — Jello Biafra

I take it this means that you had good news from the doctor?"
"She says I shall live to be a hundred."
"And what's the good news? — Claire Cross