Tzachi Samocha Quotes & Sayings

I can't divorce myself from my childhood. I try to write as much fiction as I possibly can, but there are so many things that are touchstones of my childhood like being on the swim team and playing soccer and the particularities of sports season and environments that make their way into my books. — Jeff Kinney

Perhaps I have dwelt too long already on the little story of our parting from home? I can only say, in excuse, that my heart is full of it; and what is not in my heart my pen won't write. — Wilkie Collins

Prayer is a relationship; half the job is mine. If I want transformation, but can't even be bothered to articulate what, exactly, I'm aiming for, how will it ever occur? Half the benefit of prayer is in the asking itself, in the offering of a clearly posed and well-considered intention. If you don't have this, all your pleas and desires are boneless, floppy, inert; they swirl at your feet in a cold fog and never lift. — Elizabeth Gilbert

She was one of those women who clearly hadn't accepted she wasn't nineteen anymore, — Raven St. Pierre

He says he wants more carrots and bread crumbs! — Breehn Burns

Marnie loved her better and more honestly than anyone else in the world, with the possible exception of her mother, who loved her intensely if not honestly. — Ann Brashares

I'm a writer. I write because I don't talk so good. — Lionel Fisher

I can never go to a clairvoyant. I'd be too afraid of what they might tap into. — Shayne Ward

Let the past not be forgotten. Let the lessons not be in vain. — Lora Leigh

To be good you've gotta have a lot of little boy in you. When you see Willie Mays and Ted Williams jumping and hopping around the bases after hitting a home run, and the kissing and hugging that goes on at home plate, you realize they have to be little boys. — Roy Campanella

One thing about intimidation is that people can always think up something worse that you could do to them than you can, if you leave their imagination some room to play. — Jim Butcher

I almost regret having to tell him this. No one should be confronted with the depths of darkness they're capable of all at once. — Cristin Terrill

The quickest way to create a boy or man who lacks compassion is to judge and shame his feelings. — Michael Gurian

A failing state cannot stop a revolution whose time has come. — Ron Paul