Tardif Quotes & Sayings

I once feared death. It is said that death begins with the absence of life. And life begins when death is no longer feared. I have stared death in the eye and survived. — Cheryl Kaye Tardif

And if I'm guilty of having gratuitous sex, then I'm also guilty of having gratuitous violence, and gratuitous feasting, and gratuitous description of clothes, and gratuitous heraldry, because very little of this is necessary to advance the plot. But my philosophy is that plot advancement is not what the experience of reading fiction is about. If all we care about is advancing the plot, why read novels? We can just read Cliffs Notes.
A novel for me is an immersive experience where I feel as if I have lived it and that I've tasted the food and experienced the sex and experienced the terror of battle. So I want all of the detail, all of the sensory things - whether it's a good experience, or a bad experience, I want to put the reader through it. To that mind, detail is necessary, showing not telling is necessary, and nothing is gratuitous. — George R R Martin

I used to have a list of people I was going to kill one day. It was against my rules now, but sometimes I really missed that list. — Dan Wells

She did not suspect that the Abbess was even there hovering about the house, herself estimating the stresses and watching for the moment when a burden harms and not strengthens. — Thornton Wilder

You grow up a lot in terms of your understanding of the industry and how to deal with the corporate things. — Dougray Scott

They frequently find the truth who do not seek it, they who do, frequently lose it. — Fanny Kemble

The vampire had humiliated her and her oldest friend, but she still missed him to an aching degree. — Kresley Cole

I must do something, Elentiya," Nehemia said, using the name she'd given her on the night Celaena admitted that she was an assassin. "I must find a way to help my people. When does gathering information become a stalemate? When do we act?" Celaena — Sarah J. Maas

I have always liked what the Scarecrow said to Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz.
"Some people without brains do an awful lot of talking, don't they? — Paul Howard

The medieval courtly love tradition holds that love is impossible in marriage because it is coerced, I said. — Robert B. Parker

Life's too short to not forgive those who hurt us. I trust you to do what's right. Right by your own heart. ... Forgiveness sets you free. — Cheryl Kaye Tardif

What does it mean to say that government might have a responsibility? Government can't have a responsibility any more than the business can. The only entities which can have responsibilities are people. — Milton Friedman

Once again I glimpsed the way in which departure ripped the veil from ordinary life, revealing things that were normally kept hidden. — Margot Livesey

If I hear a lie in my life with my children, with my wife, my work, my audiences, I want to annihilate myself, vaporize myself and wipe myself off the face of the earth. — Mandy Patinkin