Stephen Dene Quotes & Sayings

Soon the maroon-throated howls would echo back from the other trees, father down the beach, until the whole jungle filled with roaring trees. As it was in the beginning, so it is every morning of the world. — Barbara Kingsolver

Algebra in three years, he takes calculus now. He gets upset that you don't know anything about him, yells something about his "real dad," and storms out of the house. But he never tells you where his calculus books are, so you're back to square one, only worse off because of the glass in your foot and the sadness in your heart. So what I've done for you is included — Ellen DeGeneres

Something in the room had changed. My hand was on the floor, next to Stephen, but he wasn't as close to my hand as he had been. He had moved several inches over, toward the table. Just as I realized this, his arm shot out for the knife. In the next moment, he had rolled up on his knees and had Sadie caught in the crook of his arm. His face was pale, and he looked a bit shaken by the sudden movement. He was alive. — Maureen Johnson

My bad, Z. I shouldn't have gone bitch on you. We cool? — Alexandra Bracken

I do believe you're only as sick as your secrets. — Carrie Fisher

No man wants a woman who dresses like a dishwasher. — Jhumpa Lahiri

At the Super Bowl, when Beyonce was thrusting her hips forward in a very suggestive manner, if someone else had done that, it would've been a national scandal. I thought it was ridiculous. — Donald Trump

the spectator is the true vanishing point — Siri Hustvedt

You ever laughed so hard
nobody in the world could hurt you for a minute,
no matter what they tried to do to you? — Virginia Euwer Wolff

I think it's therapeutic when we play. It's just like therapy. — Sam McCandless

Nine lies on his back, groaning. His chest is shredded from where Eight slashed him, he's got a fresh black eye, and I think I notice a trickle of blood from where I struck him with his staff. Suddenly, his groans turn to laughter. "That was awesome!" Nine hollers. — Pittacus Lore

One of Satan's most deceptive and powerful ways of defeating us is to get us to believe a lie. And the biggest lie is that there are no consequences to our own doing. Satan will give you whatever you ask for if it will lead you where he ultimately wants you. — Charles Stanley

She caught the Magic 8 Ball, — Rick Riordan

(On Dickens) No other writer is quite as good at making marriage vows about remaining together "till death us do part" sound more like a suicide pact. — Robert Douglas-Fairhurst

I've been writing a lot about just the aspects of luck and being picked, and how of course it's always how one perceives themselves in the world, as a bit of a scapegoat or a bit of a hero. Everyone generally has about a 60/40 split that volleys, between those two. — Doseone

Great men do not play stage tricks with the doctrines of life and death: only little men do that. — John Ruskin