Stabellos Quotes & Sayings

This is wishing with your hands. — Jandy Nelson

It's stylish to have people over. But unstylish to make them bring food. It's so tacky, making everybody appear at the door with a dish. Better to order in, use a caterer or bring prepared food into your kitchen. — Letitia Baldrige

Coupled with the cortexiphan trials, the abuse suffered on the home front created a strong sense of responsibility in Olivia. What might have destroyed other children turned her into a warrior. — Sarah Clarke Stuart

How hideous, that there should be a pecking order in my grief. — Sonali Deraniyagala

Border patrol," a uniformed officer announced as he stepped on the bus. "Anything to declare?"
"I declare that this sucks," Trey said, shuffling past him.
"Hey," Eric said to the office and pointed at Trey. "I saw that guy shove something up his ass. — Olivia Cunning

Since biological change occurs slowly and cultural changes occur in every generation, it is futile to try to explain the fleeting phenomena of culture by a racial constant. We can often explain them-in terms of contact with other peoples, of individual genius, of geography-but not by racial differences. — Robert Lowie

I look at my contemporaries, and we're all at different stages and levels, and all choosing different routes, different ways to do things. — Jamie Bell

She breathes in shallow sips. The smell of the human remains, and of years of enclosed decay, freights the air so heavily it's almost a physical presence. With — M.R. Carey

I tend to stare at people and memorize what they're saying and how they say it. — Cecily Von Ziegesar

Life's not just about being alive, but being well. — Martial

Prayer will make a man cease from sin, or sin will entice a man to cease from prayer. — John Bunyan

Contemporaries appreciate the person rather than their merit, posterity will regard the merit rather than the person. — Charles Caleb Colton

We're not gods, Julia. We're helpers. That's all. People have called us terrible things in the past. But that was only because they didn't understand us. That understanding is for the future, a time not long from now. You may live to see it. Then perhaps you can work openly, but for now, keep your gifts to yourself. Never flaunt your abilities. Never think you hold the power of life and death. Only God has that power. When it's a person's time, nothing can save them. — Christopher Pike

Branches moved and shadows shifted as Lilith dug the poppet's final grave. — Georgina Anne Taylor

Junkies might be easy to knock down, but they're never fragile. They have souls like old leather shoes studded with steel, and they're about as much good as friends. — Scott Westerfeld