Slonaker Quotes & Sayings

I won't be able to see heaven if I don't die first, right? — Jessamine Verzosa

The line between creative and crazy is mighty thin. — T.C. Slonaker

If you are too occupied listening to the voice within you screaming how inadequate or unlovable you are, you won't be able to hear God whispering how much He loves you. — T.C. Slonaker

If I had a disability, I wouldn't cringe at the sight of those who used what I didn't have, but rather at those who had it and didn't use it. — T.C. Slonaker

It is a thorough process, this war with the wilderness - breaking nature, taming the soil. feeding it on oats. The civilized man regards the pine tree as his enemy. He will fell it and let in the light, grub it up and raise wheat or rye there. It is no better than a fungus to him. — Henry David Thoreau

Then he jumped..
I owe him so much. I needed him. I still do.
But he's gone.
He told me once that I shouldn't make people into heroes. He said that heroes didn't exist and that even if they did he wouldn't be one of them.
which goes to show. he wasn't right about everything.. — Guy Adams

What Machine is it that bears us along so relentlessly? We go rattling thro' another Day,- another Year,- as thro' an empty Town without a Name, in the Midnight ... we have but Memories of some Pause at the Pleasure-Spas of our younger Day, the Maidens, the Cards, the Claret,- we seek to extend our stay, but now a silent Functionary in dark Livery indicates it is time to re-board the Coach, and resume the Journey. Long before the Destination, moreover, shall this Machine come abruptly to a Stop ... gather'd dense with Fear, shall we open the Door to confer with the Driver, to discover that there is no Driver ... no Horses, ... only the Machine, fading as we stand, and a Prairie of desperate Immensity ... — Thomas Pynchon

To succeed in any undertaking, any art or any trade or any profession, simply keep it ever persistently fixed in mind as an aim, and then study to make all effort toward it play or recreation. The moment it becomes hard work, we are not advancing. — Prentice Mulford

It wasn't like a date, she reasoned. Not like some weird double date with her and the brother of the dead guy and her best friend and her best friend's ex-husband who didn't really count. It was just eating. — Nora Roberts

The only thing more boring than watching golf, is listening to people talk about the golf they are watching. — T.C. Slonaker

I don't have a fear and urgency feeling inside myself about the state of the world affairs and everything collapsing. — Ram Dass

Lift Not The Painted Veil
Lift not the painted veil which those who live
Call Life: though unreal shapes be pictured there,
And it but mimic all we would believe
With colours idly spread,
behind, lurk Fear
And Hope, twin Destinies; who ever weave
Their shadows, o'er the chasm, sightless and drear.
I knew one who had lifted it
he sought,
For his lost heart was tender, things to love,
But found them not, alas! nor was there aught
The world contains, the which he could approve.
Through the unheeding many he did move,
A splendour among shadows, a bright blot
Upon this gloomy scene, a Spirit that strove
For truth, and like the Preacher found it not. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

I want the loved person to grow and unfold for his own sake, and in his own ways, and not for the purpose of serving me. If — Erich Fromm

An author is just someone who remembers their dreams a little better than some others. — T.C. Slonaker

A dream is only a dream.. until you decide to make it real — Harry Styles

You can see the rider serving the elephant when people are morally dumbfounded. They have strong gut feelings about what is right and wrong, and they struggle to construct post hoc justifications for those feelings. Even when the servant (reasoning) comes back empty-handed, the master (intuition) doesn't change his judgment. — Jonathan Haidt

Don't be an author when you write. Be a character. — T.C. Slonaker

If you like a football team, you watch their games.
If you like football, you watch all the games.
If you love football, you watch the draft.
If you can't get enough football, you watch the combine. — T.C. Slonaker

What's the matter with you?" I hissed at her as we followed Kieran and Solange inside.
'She's royalty!'
"And a vampire, remember?"
'Oh yeah,' Chloe paused. 'Nope, princess trumps vampire. — Alyxandra Harvey

In death as in life, we stand together, always a family, always a team. The brotherhood never dies. — Marcus Luttrell