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Don't even listen to No body including your friends who tells you to Move On in life.  They often will have destroyed your Motivation causing an unexpected anxiety, and a severe brain stress until you give up. No matter how dead serious they are in order for you to understand them, reject their Anti-statement with the Power of your Assertion. They will foolishly halter your situation you had been encountering over the past year, when it all started from the beginning.Therefore, you MUST KEEP MOVING FORWARD.DO WHAT YOU NEED TO DO THAT NEEDS TO BE DONE.That is the way of succeeding in life in order to prove to everyone you've overcome the Obstacles and your Anxiety.
— Luis Cosajay
A determined soul can never be defeated in life.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Life is calmness with squabbling, accumulating traditions and self-consciousness. elaborate meals, medicine, law,pretty pictures unspoiled,rocking the cradle and holding the hammer, impressive skies of gray and blue, believing in what we can’t settle, the mystery of iniquity,the absolutely sincere predictions of fools,lighter moods like these.
— Brian D'Ambrosio, Fresh Oil and Loose Gravel: Road Poetry by Brian D'Ambrosio 1998-2008
It’s not so much about the cards you’re dealt; it’s a whole lot more about whether you play them well, or play them at all.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
Transforming Moment" yes I got it. I Committed. I Tried. I Executed. I Failed. I Motivated. I Succeed.
— Sivaprakash Sidhu
This world today makes one by the day a recluse
— Siân Lavinia Anaïs Valeriana, Lavinia - Volume One
An element of wisdom is knowing that life experiences are blood brothers with climate change, whether you have the resources to detect weather changes, it can still surprise you anytime.
— Unarine Ramaru
If you let all the bad thing in life stop you
—  You will never be there to see the good things in life
And you thought there was only one exit door...
— L. M. Fields
We live individual lives with the consciousness of death and awareness of the past. But the most important part of that sentence is the individual part. Let yourself be humbled by the experiences people have been having for thousands of years. And speak of it.
— Michael Winter, Minister Without Portfolio
Careful how you judge others
—  at some point you have been or will be all of them.
Thinking to do or not to do is not the right thing to do,just think the right way and do it
— Hamza Aslam
i'm wiz a girl,i call her name 10 times before you breathe once ,it's not majic,it's not logic ,it's just a love!
— zeru amare
That’s the way life is sometimes: you can fix things up, but you can’t make them all better.
— Amy Joy, The Academie
Learnings from any training you have attended will not make any sense if you are not applying it, make sense .
— Bel Arnesto
time never heals everything in life,but memories do
— Unknow
Life is full of risks.It is matter to take risks than doing nothing.Dare to take risks in life.
— Lailah GiftyAkita
Three, two, one, and f*ck it!
— Tony Le Donne
I'm not going to drown in what I can't change.
— Jessica Park, Flat-Out Celeste
In every moments of life, we're all having up and down.If there are no up or down, it means we didn't have any life.
— Rizky Adam Rifai
The words marriage and divorce were always used together, like they went hand in hand together.
— Jess C. Scott, Playmates
An important memory is like a gravitational field--the mind is compelled to return to it again and again. It is like a moon
—  it lives in light and shadow.
Nothing is worth having if it isn't worth showing off…
— Thabang Gideon Magaola
The world has never favored the experimental life. It despises poets, fanatics, prophets and lovers.
— Randolph Bourne, The Radical Will: Selected Writings 1911-1918
you are only what you are when no one is watching.
— Robert C. Edwards
However far back you go you will find all experiences linked by slender threads.
— Robert Hellenga, Philosophy Made Simple
Life is an experience and this experience is to gain a life
— M. Azeem Pasha
You'll never know what you're capable of if you never take the first step and try.
— Ikish Mullens
Know the adjectives that define you and pay no heed to the verbs that defy you.
— Vidya Kumar
The only true wisdome is knowing you know nothing.
— John Beggers
The cruelest thing you can do tosomeone is force them to hurt alone
— Chris Colfer, The Enchantress Returns
Life is not fair
—  get used to it.
He's getting older," Charles said darkly. "Shall I hit him with my walker or my oxygen tank?
— Suzanne Brockmann, The Unsung Hero
Always Wrong Person Teach The Right Lesson Of Life.
— Dhiren Prajapati
Life and love are not about what you know, but about what you know you don't know.
— Dan Pearce, Single Dad Laughing
How you live does not depend so much on what life brings you as on the attitude that you approach your life with.
— Ivinela Samuilova, Life Can Be a Miracle
In the society of would-be-gods, a humble man is always polite.
— Greg Bear, City at the End of Time
Write your own story, preferably in tattoos.
— Lauren Rachelle
The present is shaped by the past.
— Amine A. Ayad, Leading Through Diversity: Transforming Managers Into Effective Leaders
It's tougher to look than to leap.
— Hugh Cornwell
An experience which seeks not to change you, is one not worth having.
— Xela Ffonrims
Always strive to achieve and eve if you don't reach your goal in life, you will be amongst the stars.
— Angela Khristin Brown, Love
Why do I wish for anything? I just end up wanting what I had before.
— Lola Lola
If none of us ever fell short, or put a foot astray, everything would be good in this great world, but we stumble and fall, every one. We must deal with what we have." - Cadfael, Pg. 245-6
— Ellis Peters, Dead Man's Ransom
I'm proud of you. You could have run away, but you didn't. That's what most of us do when we have to face a giant.
— Chris Coppernoll, A Beautiful Fall
She must face the forest of her mother’s past in order to save herself and the one she loves.
— Carrie Ryan, The Dead-Tossed Waves
Oh, once you’ve been initiated into the Elderly, the world doesn’t want you back.” Veronica settled herself in a rattan chair and adjusted her hat just so. “We—by whom I mean anyone over sixty—commit two offenses just by existing. One is Lack of Velocity. We drive too slowly, walk too slowly, talk too slowly. The world will do business with dictators, perverts, and drug barons of all stripes, but being slowed down it cannot abide. Our second offence is being Everyman’s memento mori. The world can only get comfy in shiny-eyed denial if we are out of sight.
— David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas
Thus it is with proud silly people, who think themselves above everyone else, and are too proud to ask or take advice.
— Wilhelm Grimm, Grimm's Fairy Tales
I was like a turd that drew flies instead of like a flower that butterflies and bees desired. I wanted to live alone,I felt best being alone, cleaner,,,
— Charles Bukowski, Ham on Rye
In any case, suffice it to say I enjoyed hearing about faraway places. I had stocked up a whole store of these places, like a bear getting ready for hibernation. I’d close my eyes, and streets would materialize, rows of houses take shape. I could hear people’s voices, feel the gentle, steady rhythm of their lives, those people so distant, whom I’d probably never know.
— Haruki Murakami, Pinball, 1973
Jim. If you have any other outside events, don’t confess them. That’s my advice, okay?”“What am I going to do, Bob? I have no family.”“You have family,” Bob said. “You have a wife who hates you. Kids who are furious with you. A brother and sister who make you insane. And a nephew who used to be kind of a drip but apparently is not so much of a drip now. That’s called family.”Jim fell asleep, his head leaning forward almost to his chest
— Elizabeth Strout, The Burgess Boys
The way I tell it, he says to Fitzwilliam, you would think that the blow on the head had improved him. That he actually set out to get it. That every monarch needs a blow on the head, from time to time.
— Hilary Mantel, Bring Up the Bodies
Trust your instinct in areas you have some background because your instinct is informed and not blind. - L. R. W. Lee
— L.R.W. Lee, Blast of the Dragon's Fury
Normal...is relative.
— Pamela F Owen
I learned about lifefrom life itself,love I learned in a single kissand could teach no one anythingexcept that I have livedwith something in common among men.
— Pablo Neruda
There is now, in my mouth, this sharp chain. And it never comes out.
— Peter Shaffer, Equus
Life is absolutely, mysteriously beautiful.
— Tom Spanbauer, In the City of Shy Hunters
Things are continually beginning again; they’re never really resolved, you know. They are only resolved temporarily. We live in a society that peddles solutions, whether it’s solutions to those extra pounds you’re carrying, or to your thinning hair, or to your loss of appetite, loss of love. We are always looking for solutions, but actually what we are engaged in is a process throughout life during which you never get it right. You have to keep being open, you have to keep moving forward. You have to keep finding out who you are and how you are changing, and only that makes life tolerable.
— Jeanette Winterson
…I came to understand that while many of us might default to measuring our lives by summary statistics, such as number of people presided over, number of awards, or dollars accumulated in a bank, and so on, the only metrics that will truly matter to my life are the individuals whom I have been able to help, one by one, to become better people.
— Clayton M. Christensen
Let the desire to be understood become someone else's elusive dream. Accept we are all evolving & can be relatable mainly for reasons associated to self.
— Truth Devour, Wantin
Being giving is a big quality. Being too giving is a big mistake!
— Rossana Condoleo
Life says: " Write down your experiences in a notebook, not on a blackboard. Don't start with a clean slate, but with a new page, so you can look back.
— Naveed Nawab Ali, Life Says
How I feel is inconsequential to all that I have stopped feeling for.
— Nikhil Sharda
Creatively Outspoken and Dramatically Quiet
— Sabrina Childress, Those Necessary Thorns: Desiree Elizabeth Taylor
Your true intentions is a reflection of your character.
— Okisha Jackson
The great thing about life-the most magnificent thing about being these sentient human beings-is that we have been given the power of choice.
— Bryant McGill, Voice of Reason
People from the past belong to the past not to the place which you're heading
— Michelle S.
Of course. I am well aware that the streets of New York are not safe, but then there is no longer any place in the world which is safe. One cannot live in perpetual fear, one has to be as prudent as possible, and get on with life. - A Severed Wasp
— Madeleine L'Engle
The good men of every age are those who go to the roots of the old thoughts and bear fruit with them.
— Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science
Hanging on in Quiet Desperation is the English Way
— Roger Waters
Being alive hurts. I have found it best not to rush for the aspirin bottle. - A Severed Wasp
— Madeleine L'Engle
I made a tentative conclusion. It seemed from all of this that uppermost among human joys is the negative one of restoration: not going to the stars, but learning that one may stay where one is.
— Peter De Vries, The Blood of the Lamb
Because I have loved life, I shall have no sorrow to die.I have sent up my gladness on wings, to be lost in the blue of the sky.I have run and leaped with the rain, I have taken the wind to my breast.My cheek like a drowsy child to the face of the earth I have pressed.Because I have loved life, I shall have no sorrow to die.I have kissed young love on the lips, I have heard his song to the end.I have struck my hand like a seal in the loyal hand of a friend.I have known the peace of heaven, the comfort of work done well.I have longed for death in the darkness and risen alive out of hell.Because I have loved life, I shall have no sorrow to die.I give a share of my soul to the world where my course is run.I know that another shall finish the task I must leave undone.I know that no flower, nor flint was in vain on the path I trod.As one looks on a face through a window, through life I have looked on God.Because I have loved life, I shall have no sorrow to die.
— Amelia Josephine Burr
Once you taste a little of the sweetness that life can be, there really is no going back.
— Liza Palmer, Conversations With the Fat Girl
Love what you do and your heart will lead the rest of the way.
— Jill Telford
We can never fully impact others to change if there is no evidence of change in our lives.
— E'yen A. Gardner, Humbly Submitting to Change - The Wilderness Experience
Situation & experience both are different thing, they do not have a mutual relationship. Because the experiencce depends on how we look to tackle or handle the situation. Situation may be the same but experience may not be the same regularly".
— Vaibhav Soni
Being myself is the one thing that people would want to see out of me, they don't want to see me being the fake person that the world wants me to be, all they want to see is the real me, the real person that is inside of me.
— erica maples
Pain is pain, babe. Just because one person's problem is less traumatic than another's doesn't mean they're required to hurt less.
— J.A. Redmerski
One should never regret one's excesses, only one's failures of nerve.
— Iain M. Banks, The Hydrogen Sonata
Because life is not fair, Albert. And the world is conspiring against you.
— Veronica Roth, Divergent
Time moves forward don’t live backwards
— E'yen A. Gardner
To be sure, the Road of Excess leads to the Palace of Wisdom, even when it takes you through the Valley of the Nest of Spiders. Just watch out for parasites.
— Samuel R. Delany, Through the Valley of the Nest of Spiders
In sum, one of the primary things I learned was how to kill time. I learned also to wish away my life. I learned to give myself away.
— Derrick Jensen, Walking on Water: Reading, Writing, and Revolution
To defend my fear of sudden change, I chose to believe that life was incremental, that the tiny decisions you make every day determine your fate, that your job is to captain an enormous ship subtly into ever-clearer waters. But that’s not how it works at all. Life occurs in moments. You get into college. You propose. You get the job. You get cancer. You get fired. She leaves you...Because I was born in a stable country at a stable time, I falsely extrapolated that change is incremental. But if you zoom out just a little bit, you see that life is soccer, not basketball. It’s revolution, invention, war. It’s big bangs, exploding stars, asteroids killing the dinosaurs. Which means that all the action is in the risk taking, whether I want it to be or not.
— Joel Stein, Man Made: A Stupid Quest for Masculinity
Loneliness is something that finds us all when we think about it and when we're by ourselves when we don't want to be. It creeps up when we desperately feel like we need someone special but can't seem to find anything more than a friend that wishes they could help. Sometimes a friend cannot be found when your willing to settle for one. Sometimes it passes quickly, and sometimes it sticks around to try to drive us to insanity. Its like a creature lying in wait to take us at our weakest moment, but only toying with us when we give up to it. In the end it always passes. There is always something to appreciate and someone to cheer us up. We adapt and overcome. Life is a gift with much more to it than a passing emotion. All around us are beautiful things to console us. Life is much more than one feeling. It is as great as we let it be.
— Joshua Hartzell
Life is not a one act play
— Alex M. Smith
The Universe operates on a basic principle of economics: everything has its cost. We pay to create our future, we pay for the mistakes of the past. We pay for every change we make . . . and we pay just as dearly if we refuse to change.
— Brian Herbert, House Harkonnen
All the GOOD things doesn't comes in a single package.
— Nikhil Anubhav Minz
I experience the age I am now as an age at which I must ensure that I already am what I insist or believe I am going to be.
— Justin Smith
I have never been a violent man. Just a little creepy, it seems.
— Tim Winton, Breath
and dreaming is very pleasant as long as you are not forced to put your dreams into practice. That way, we avoid all the risks, frustrations and difficulties, and when we are old, we can always blame other people-preferably our parents, our spouses or our children-for our failure to realize our dreams.
— Paulo Coelho
in the ONLY 1 life we live, we have thousands of tears, millions of smiles, you take some...you give some...
— Umesh
Let the tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil fall, soundless in the moldering woods.
— Rudy Rucker, Turing & Burroughs
You'll go far. How do I know? Because life is goosing you so hard you'll never stop climbing.
— Robertson Davies, World of Wonders
When perception and reality collide, we grow".
— Keylee Dawn Austin
We seek to forget ourselves, to be surprised and to do something without knowing how or why. The way of life is wonderful. It is my abandonment.
— Rock Peter
I just want to be enough for you, but I never can be. This can never be enough for you. But this is all you get. You get me, and your family, and this world. This is your life. I'm sorry if it sucks. But you're not going to be the first man on Mars and you're not going to be an NBA star, and you're not going to hunt Nazis.
— John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
My dear, I'm seldom sure of anything. Life at best is a precarious business...
— Madeleine L'Engle, An Acceptable Time
You can't force feed a fool. They are blind to their need.
— E'yen A. Gardner
I don't blame anyone for my failures i blame myself for not seeing what's really ahead of me...
— Dj-trippin
Demoralize the enemy from within by surprise, terror, sabotage, assassination. This is the war of the future.
— Hermann Rauschning, The Voice of Destruction
There is no law that gods must be fair, Achilles,” Chiron said. “And perhaps it is the greater grief, after all, to be left on earth when another is gone. Do you think?
— Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles
The best way to take control over a people and control them utterly is to take a little of their freedom at a time, to erode rights by a thousand tiny and almost imperceptible reductions. In this way, the people will not see those rights and freedoms being removed until past the point at which these changes cannot be reversed.
— Pat Miller, Willfully Ignorant
Like every other creature on the face of the earth, Godfrey was, by birthright, a stupendous badass, albeit in the somewhat narrow technical sense that he could trace his ancestry back up a long line of slightly less highly evolved stupendous badasses to that first self-replicating gizmo---which, given the number and variety of its descendants, might justifiably be described as the most stupendous badass of all time. Everyone and everything that wasn't a stupendous badass was dead.
— Neal Stephenson, Cryptonomicon
He threw his burning cigarette onto our clean living room floor and ground it into the wood with his boot.We were about to become cigarettes.
— Ruta Sepetys, Between Shades of Gray
True, I have raped history, but it has produced some beautiful offspring.
— Alexandre Dumas
Roger speaking to Brianna: It's too important. You don't forget having a dad."You do remember your father?"No. I remember yours.
— Diana Gabaldon, An Echo in the Bone
Fairy tales only happen in movies." -George Meliesfrom The Invention of Hugo Cabret
— Brian Selznick, The Invention of Hugo Cabret
I was born to be your rival,' she [Anne] said simply. 'And you mine. We're sisters, aren't we?
— Philippa Gregory, The Other Boleyn Girl
Before anything else I was a woman who was capable of passion and who had a great need and a great desire for love.
— Philippa Gregory, The Other Boleyn Girl
Harsh words live in the dungeon of the heart
— Norman Mailer, The Gospel According to the Son
I'm learning not to hope for what I can't control...
— Leila Meacham, Roses
Never bet your money on another man's game.
— Laura Ingalls Wilder, Farmer Boy
lightning thief was good but the sea of monsters is better and has more action!
— Rick Riordan, The Sea of Monsters
I decided to write the book I wanted to read
— David A. Lottes, Ouabache
You’re a lady. It’s written all over you, but the West doesn’t forgive any woman-unless she’s got a man.
— Liliana Shelbrook, Lantern in the Mist
Our fathers fought bravely. But do you know the biggest weapon unleashed by the enemy against them? It was not the Maxim gun. It was division among them. Why? Because a people united in faith are stronger than the bomb
— Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, A Grain of Wheat
The reader may ask how to tell fact from fiction. A rough guide: anything that seems particularly unlikely is probably true.
— Hilary Mantel, A Place of Greater Safety
But the tale or narrative set in the past may have its particular time-free value; and the candid reader will not misunderstand me, will not suppose that I intend any preposterous comparison, when I observe that Homer was farther removed in time from Troy than I am from the Napoleonic wars; yet he spoke to the Greeks for 2,000 years and more.
— Patrick O'Brian
There are some things you never say good-bye to
— Elizabeth Berg, Dream When You're Feeling Blue
Nobody hates us as ourselves. In their minds we're not human... They don't hate us because we did something or said something. They make us stand for an evil they invent and then they want to kill it in us.
— Marge Piercy, Gone to Soldiers
What, did you think," she asked, laughing as he struggled up the bank, "that I, a Gaulish maiden, could not swim?" "I did not think anything about it," Malchus said; "I saw you pushed in and followed without thinking at all." Although they imperfectly understood each other's words the meaning was clear; the girl put her hand on his shoulder and looked frankly up in his face. "I thank you," she said, "just the same as if you had saved my life. You meant to do so, and it was very good of you, a great chief of this army, to hazard your life for a Gaulish maiden. Clotilde will never forget.
— G.A. Henty, The Young Carthaginian
I am fond of history and am very well contented to take the false with the true. In the principal facts they have sources of intelligence in former histories and records, which may be as much depended on, I conclude, as anything that does not actually pass under ones own observation; and as for the little embellishments you speak of, they are embellishments, and I like them as such.
— Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
Think ere you speak
— Valerie Tripp
I want you forever. I will always be with you. I will always love you. I will love, honor, and cherish you for all eternity.
— Katrina D. Miller, Falling in Love With the Enemy
Two are better than one,because they have a good reward for their labor. For if they fall, the one will lif' up his fellow, but woe to him that is alone when he falleth, for he hath not another to help him up.
— John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath
(The golden goose has died, my prince turned into a frog, the Kingdom is lost, everyone has turned into stone and I am locked in the tower)
— Nancy B. Brewer, Beyond Sandy Ridge
I have come to think that's where Heaven is, a place in the memories of other where our best selves live
— Christina Baker Kline, Orphan Train
Down in the cellar the Gestapo were licensed to practice was the Ministry of Justice called ‘heightened interrogation’. The rules had been drawn up by civilised men in warm offices and they stipulated the presence of a doctor.
— Robert   Harris, Fatherland
Through enjoyment we endure.
— Florence Ditlow
Like billiard balls colliding our courses were altered.
— Linda Collison, Star-Crossed
You are both daring and unscrupulous, and you think fast. I have been looking for a person with those particular characteristics. Also I noticed you speak Babylonian.
— Eloise Jarvis McGraw, Mara, Daughter of the Nile
Catch on fire with enthusiasm, and people will come for miles to watch you burn
— Jo Ann Butler
No, It's not fair. But I was thinking more along the lines of the Pentagon and Washington itself. Sometimes I suspect that those who are running things might grow addicted to power. Secrecy's essential in wartime, but once in place, will it ever be removed?
— Marge Piercy, Gone to Soldiers
He could never be anything more than what he was: the inheritor of weakness and unbridled emotion, a creature possessed by the past, and carrying its curse forever into the future--
— John Jakes, The Seekers
No life form on this planet undergoes such a slow and graceful death as the tobacco leaf.
— Mark McGinty, The Cigar Maker
Next time -- we will roll out the red carpet for you in the United States of Arabia, my brethren!
— Leonard Leventon, Brethren: A Gripping Tale of Counter Espionage
French Revolution- all them fellas the figgered her out got their heads chopped off. Always that way, jus as natural as rain. You didn't do it for fun no way. Doin' it cause you have to. Cause it's you. Look a Washington; Fit the Revolution an' after, them sons-a-bitches turned on him. An' Lincoln the same. Same folks yellin' to kill 'em. Natural as rain.
— John T. Steinback
Both slaves had been oiled until their flesh shined like polished ebony, outlining every detail of their muscles.
— Myra Hargrave McIlvain, Stein House
And unbidden, floating into consciousness came the truth of his utter wretchedness. Even the very earth seemed to cry out in pain. Hodburn Wood
— J. Tyson-Capper, Hodburn Wood
All malice, real and imagined, Ralegh's and the KIng's, will die upon the instant stroke of an axe. Be buried with him. His faith, then? Whatever remains will be parted. Some will go with the head and some with the headless body. Let them look for each other on Judgment Day. Perhaps on that day, in the haste of it, the bodies of traitors will have to settle for heads other than their own. Some inevitable mismatching of villians and rogues will take place. And one fine bony fellow will spy his skull upon another's body. Then another. And then maybe we shall be witness to the brawl and battle of the bones...
— George Garrett, Death of the Fox: A Novel of Elizabeth and Ralegh
Exile might satisfy the anger of the living, but it did not appease the dead.
— Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles
The never-ending ache of love and sorrow.
— Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles
Most of these people are not going anywhere, and have nothing meaningful to do. They are zombies seeking purpose in an environment that cannot provide it. This is why, at the slightest public commotion, they quickly form their mobs, like a swarm of flies seeking shit on which to settle. But I did not come here to give a lecture. I came here to look for you.
— Ben  Hinson, Eteka: Rise of the Imamba
Christ's father let him die on that cross. I understand why he done it. But Christ never had no granny like me.
— Taylor  Brown, Gods of Howl Mountain
Readers will be swept up by the drama and fast pace of this powerful debut novel.” Reading Today Online, International Reading Association
— Sharon Lovejoy, Running Out of Night
I’m all alone against the darkness. Dark winds rising against me.
— Mark Noce, Dark Winds Rising
If the sky falls, we shall catch larks./Když nebe padá , zjímáme skřivani.
— Czech Proverb
Sometimes I wonder which is worse: To have to kill because it is your job, or to have no remorse for all the murderous things you have done?
— Jason E. Royle, The Beheading of John
Sometimes I wonder which is worse: "To have to kill because it is your job, or to have no remorse for all the murderous things you have done?
— Jason E. Royle, The Beheading of John
Now the day has ended, its brief excitements already an imperfect memory.
— Barnaby Allen, Pacific Viking
I cannot tell you how exciting it is when you first see your book in paperback, then when the good reviews roll in it is just the red bow on the present under the tree.
— Sue Stokes, Walking on Paths of Stones
Lush, detailed, total-immersion storytelling.–Kirkus Review
— Sharon Lovejoy, Running Out of Night
(Running out of Night) ...is a story that respects this pivotal era of American history, a story that reveals the pain, the courage, and the hope that eventually changed the world.–Middle Shelf : Cool Reads for Kids magazine
— Sharon Lovejoy, Running Out of Night
Rarely do page-turners written for middle-school kids also ignite excitement in adults. (A notable exception is the series of Harry Potter books.) Fewer still explore the secret sorrows of children's lives in the mid-1800s, whether enslaved or free. Running Out of Night, a debut novel from Californian Sharon Lovejoy, a veteran author-illustrator known nationally for her prizewinning nonfiction books on gardening and nature, gives you both.–OpEd News
— Sharon Lovejoy, Running Out of Night
An Underground Railroad story with a distinctive flavor. –Booklist
— Sharon Lovejoy, Running Out of Night
A gripping historical novel . . . heart-stopping, heart-racing and eventually heart-easing.–Library Voice
— Sharon Lovejoy, Running Out of Night
This book would be a great addition to a classroom library, especially considering its emphases on timeless and critical topics like discrimination and prejudice. –examiner.com, National Book Examiner
— Sharon Lovejoy, Running Out of Night
Very different from other middle grade of YA stories I've read about slaves running during the 1800s. – Wandering Librarian
— Sharon Lovejoy, Running Out of Night
The rural, mid-19th-century dialect, coupled with the author's interest in ethnobotany, roots the story deeply in the houses, forests, gardens, and even streambeds of antebellum Virginia. –School Library Journal
— Sharon Lovejoy, Running Out of Night
She dreamed of Venice. However, it wasn’t a city alive with stars dripping like liquid gold into canals, or Bougainvillea spilling from flowerpots like overfilled glasses of wine. In this dream, Venice was without color. Where pastel palazzi once lined emerald lagoons, now, gray, shadowy mounds of rubble paralleled murky canals. Lovers could no longer share a kiss under the Bridge of Sighs; it had been the target of an obsessive Allied bomb in search of German troops. The only sign of life was in Piazza San Marco, where the infamous pigeons continued to feed. However, these pigeons fed not on seeds handed out by children, but on corpses rotting under the elongated shadow of the Campanile.
— Pamela Allegretto, Bridge of Sighs and Dreams
If I had two breaths left inme, one first one I would use to tell you I miss you, and the second that I love you.
— Katarina Jovic, Howling at the Stars
Jewish history is never simply about the Jews, but always about their relationship with the rest of society.
— Abigail Green, Moses Montefiore: Jewish Liberator, Imperial Hero
Did I behave myself tonight, Ross?’ she asked. ‘Did I behave as Mrs Poldark should behave?’‘You misbehaved monstrously,’ he said, ‘and were a triumph.
— Winston Graham, Ross Poldark
If I had two breaths left in me, the first one I would use to tell you I miss you, and the second that I love you.
— Katarina Jovic, Howling at the Stars
Cease, daughter!" said the priest at last in a trembling voice. "I cannot grant absolution, no priest could...
— Anya Seton, Katherine
He grieved too, Klara said, for the loss of a certain idea of himself.
— Julie Orringer, The Invisible Bridge
Nicholas met with him earlier about some lumber deal and sent him here for lunch. He's evidently new in town and was wondering where to get something good to eat.
— Melissa Jagears, A Love So True
Margaret looked at the ring on her finger. "Gran gave me this before we boarded the ship. It's the most special thing in the world to me. I'll never take it off, Hanna. No matter how hungry I am.
— Meredith Jaeger, The Dressmaker's Dowry
Leave the gun, take the cannoli--Clemenza to Rocco in the Godfather (1972)
— Richard S Castellano
Hanna reached for Margaret's hand, knowing nothing she could say would bring comfort. Margaret would never see her grandmother again. Nor would Hanna see her Oma, who had wept when Hanna boarded the ship for America, waving goodbye for the last time. Only the elderly and frail were left behind. And letters from home were not the same as a warm laugh or a cup of tea shared on a cold day.
— Meredith Jaeger, The Dressmaker's Dowry
I looked evil in the eye and smiled at it with such power that I felt a little dizzy.Jade Gentry (Polishing Jade)
— Tekoa Manning, Polishing Jade
Page 158: 'Architecture is team work,' said Sinan. 'Apprenticeship is not.''Why don't you want us to look at each other's drawings? ' Jahan once asked.'Because you'll compare. If you think you are better than the others, you'll be poisoned by hubris. If you think another's better, poisoned by envy. Either way, it is poison.
— Elif Şafak, The Architect's Apprentice
Seems like we own the day! Now die like a good Christ!- Boniface de Monteferret, ON THE WALLS OF CHRISTAs Constantinople falls.
— Earl Devere
I never wanted to safe... I wanted to be good.
— Kermit Roosevelt III, Allegiance
From the front row of the balcony, I look out over the Uptown Cinema. The red velvet seats are emptying, the credits scrolling up the screen. Ginger Rogers married a Nazi, but Cary Grant got her out of it. Their ship is sailing to America; sun burns away the fog and the wind blows free. Now they are gone and I am coming back to reality, breathing a harsher air. It is how I always feel when a movie ends.
— Kermit Roosevelt III, Allegiance
How may times can you lose the one you love?
— Lauren James
In time of war, it is not enough to say, ‘I am a citizen and I have rights.’ One must also say, ‘I am a citizen and I have obligations.
— Kermit Roosevelt III
So we rode through a broken gate in a broken wall into a broken town, and it was dusk, and the day's rain had finally lifted, and a shaft of red sunlight came from beneath the western clouds as we entered the ruined town. We rode straight into the light of that swollen sun which reflected from my helm that had the silver wolf on its crest, and it shone from my mail coat and from my arm rings and from the hilts of my two swords, and someone shouted that I was the king. I rode Witnere, who tossed his great head and pawed at the ground, and I was dressed in my shining war glory.
— Bernard Cornwell
Adele, if you think that, no matter how mad you drive me, that I want to give you up, you are insane, possibly more insane than is healthy.
— Kellyn Roth, Flowers
Writing is an act of faith. One must believe and see people who are invisible to others and be faithful to tell half formed stories. It’s like being on the trail of an apparition who’s repeatedly just out of reach.K. Youngblood
— Katherine Imogene Youngblood
He was sixty years old
—  his backbone had been as straight as his gun
Prisoners!" Finan shouted, and I suspected he was shouting at me because I had so blatantly ignored my own insistence that we take men captive.
— Bernard Cornwell, The Flame Bearer
It happened so quickly. One minute I was plucking the flower, and the next I was in his chariot immersed in darkness. I struggled to wrench myself free from his grasp and run away. I twisted as far as I could, hoping to see mother chasing after me. But ahead of me, behind me, on either side of me, everywhere I looked, all I could see was darkness.
— Tamara Agha-Jaffar, A Pomegranate and the Maiden
You cruel, hard-hearted gods!” I flung the goblet in his direction. Hermes barely had time to dart out of its way before it hit the wall and shattered to small pieces. “You’re all the same! Hsst! Jealous! Vindictive! That’s what you are! You allow yourselves to take pleasure with any mortal you wish. Let a goddess do the same. Let a goddess choose a mortal for her lover, and you set off in a fury of revenge against her as if her actions are an affront to you. And all the while, you male gods allow yourselves all kinds of liberties you deny to us females.
— Tamara Agha-Jaffar, Unsung Odysseys
A novel, or so-called “fiction,” if deeply researched and conscientiously written, might well contain as much truth as a high-school history textbook approved by a state board of education. But having been designated “historical fiction” by its publisher, it is presumed to be less reliably true than that textbook. If fiction were defined as “the opposite of truth,” then much of the content of many approved historical textbooks could be called “historical fiction.”But fiction is not the opposite of truth. Fiction means “created by imagination.” And there is plenty of evidence everywhere in literature and art that imagination can get as close to truth as studious fact-finding can.
— James Alexander Thom, The Art and Craft of Writing Historical Fiction: Researching and Writing Historical Fiction
my own definition of bad historical fiction hits these points:It fails to transport the reader to a former time.It fails to put the reader in another place.It fails to bring characters to life.It fails to make the reader shiver, sweat, sniffle, sneer, snarl, weep, laugh, gag, ache, hunger, wince, yearn, lust, lose sleep, empathize, hate, or need to go potty.It seems dubious.It has characters who seem too good or too bad to be true.It has anachronisms.It has clichés and stereotypes.Its writing style distracts the reader from the narrative.It takes historic license with times and facts.It is pointless.It is carelessly written.It is easy to put down.
— James Alexander Thom, The Art and Craft of Writing Historical Fiction: Researching and Writing Historical Fiction
Before you're ready to tell that story well, you might have to study and learn the equivalent of an entire specialized college education on the society in which your story takes place, because all sorts of things were happening that you need to understand before you can even begin to tell a story in that milieu.
— James Alexander Thom, The Art and Craft of Writing Historical Fiction: Researching and Writing Historical Fiction
Mortmain is an old French word that should be tattooed on the inside of any historical novelist's skull. This wonderful and terrible word means “dead hand.” Its definition is: “The influence of the past regarded as controlling the present.” (It is also used as a legal term with the same basic meaning.
— James Alexander Thom, The Art and Craft of Writing Historical Fiction: Researching and Writing Historical Fiction
If you don't know what those old occupations were, how they were done, and how they interacted with the passersby, you're not prepared to write a historical novel. A historical figure doesn't pass through a blank countryside. That means you, the novelist, must learn by research what the whole place was like in those times. As much as you can, you must be like someone who has lived there, because you're going to be not just the storyteller but also the tour guide taking your readers through the past.
— James Alexander Thom, The Art and Craft of Writing Historical Fiction: Researching and Writing Historical Fiction
Some writers don't believe they're ready to begin writing the story until they've finished all the research they can think of to do — until they're sure of everything. That's a logical approach, of course. The more factual knowledge, the less likelihood you'll have to throw out a lot of glorious prose when you find out that something you assumed to be true wasn't.But one problem with delaying your start until the research is all done is that the research is never all done.
— James Alexander Thom, The Art and Craft of Writing Historical Fiction: Researching and Writing Historical Fiction
Lucia Robson's facts can be trusted if, say, you're a teacher assigning her novels as supplemental reading in a history class. “Researching as meticulously as a historian is not an obligation but a necessity,” she tells me. “But I research differently from most historians. I'm looking for details of daily life of the period that might not be important to someone tightly focused on certain events and individuals. Novelists do take conscious liberties by depicting not only what people did but trying to explain why they did it.”She adds, “I depend on the academic research of others when gathering material for my books, but I don't think that my novels should be considered on par with the work of accredited historians. I wouldn't recommend that historians cite historical novels as sources.”And they sure don't. They wouldn't risk the scorn of their colleagues by citing novels. But, Lucia adds:“I think historical fiction and nonfiction work well together. … I'd bet that historical novels lead more readers to check out nonfiction on the subject rather than the other way around,” she says, and then notes:One of the wonderful ironies of writing about history is that making stuff up doesn't mean it's not true. And obversely, declaring something to be true doesn't guarantee that it is. In writing about events that happened a century or more ago, no one knows what historical ‘truth’ is, because no one living today was there.That's right. Weren't there. But will be, once a good historical novelist puts us there.
— James Alexander Thom, The Art and Craft of Writing Historical Fiction: Researching and Writing Historical Fiction
Anyone young, famous and beautiful who dies young is forever frozen in time and fascinating to all of us.
— Deb Stratas, Diana, A Spencer in Love
Holding the bread to her chest, she made her way home, thinking of those dreamy winter afternoons, when the light looked as it did now, the crystalline blue of the sky slipping into a faded purple, as faint as a bruise.
— Alexis Landau, The Empire of the Senses
They tell us race is an invention, that there is no genetic variation between two black people than there is between a black person and a white person. Then they tell us black people have a worse kind of breast cancer and get more fibroid. And white folk get cystic fibrosis and osteoporosis. So what’s the deal, is race an invention or not?
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah
Most historical accounts were written by fallible scholars, using incomplete or biased resource materials; written through the scholars' own conscious or unconscious predilections; published by textbook or printing companies that have a stake in maintaining a certain set of beliefs; subtly influenced by entities of government and society — national administrations, state education departments, local school boards, etcetera — that also wish to maintain certain sets of beliefs. To be blunt about it, much of the history of many countries and states is based on delusion, propaganda, misinformation, and omission.
— James Alexander Thom, The Art and Craft of Writing Historical Fiction: Researching and Writing Historical Fiction
Of this fickle temper he gave a memorable example in Ireland, when sent thither by his father, Henry the Second, with the purpose of buying golden opinions of the inhabitants of that new and important acquisition to the English crown. Upon this occasion the Irish chieftains contended which should first offer to the young Prince their loyal homage and the kiss of peace. But, instead of receiving their salutations with courtesy, John and his petulant attendants could not resist the temptation of pulling the long beards of the Irish chieftains; a conduct which, as might have been expected, was highly resented by these insulted dignitaries, and produced fatal consequences to the English domination in Ireland. It is necessary to keep these inconsistencies of John’s character in view, that the reader may understand his conduct during the present evening.
— Walter Scott, Ivanhoe
The longer I don't write, the more I hurt.
— Naomi Wood, Mrs. Hemingway
The world is going crazy, Karl. And when the world is crazy, a sane man is never okay." from The Berlin Boxing Club
— R. Sharenow
Step into the fire of self-discovery. This fire will not burn you. It will only burn what you are not, - Rumi
— Leta McCurry, A Shadow Life
No one ever tells you that: that there’s no method. Writing’s a lawless place.
— Naomi Wood
I am looking through a lace curtain at a dead man's feet. I am ten years old, the mist is rising on a fall morning in 1944 in Sawyer, Georgia, and I am standing on a front porch painted gray with white trim.
— Anne Lovett
Durand smiles. There is nothing behind the smile except perhaps another smile, repeating ad infinitum into the distance.'Of course,' he says.
— Beatrice Hitchman, Petite Mort
Was I right?" she asked him. "Was I right to make a stand against what I believed to be wrong? Even though many ills have come from it? I have been asking myself this a lot lately. I must be quiet in my conscience.
— Alison Weir
The schoolroom . . . Olivia had always adored its confines and endless horizons. The melodious purr of the teacher's voice rising up and down her lessons like a musical score. And the sight of book spines--black, blue, green--lined up side by side like London townhouses. Each leather rectangle a gift waiting to be opened and explored and savored.
— Julie Klassen
In my long career in this historical fiction business, though, I've found that the most effective storytelling concept is this: Once upon a time it was now.That has become my credo and my method as a longtime historical novelist.It's quite simple, if you see as Janus sees:Today is now.Yesterday was now.Tomorrow will be now.Three hundred years ago, the eighteenth century was now.You, as a historical novelist, can make any time now by taking your reader into that time. Once you grasp that, the rest is just hard work.Stay with me, and you'll see how such work is done.
— James Alexander Thom, The Art and Craft of Writing Historical Fiction: Researching and Writing Historical Fiction
It is one of the great arts of the human soul," Ezekiel said to himself. Her hand on the door, Quincy shifted and looked back at her uncle's profile. "What is?""Staying with someone. Companionship is one of the great arts of the human soul.
— Beth Brower, The Q
Quincy and Fisher walked through all this in silence. Silence was the most common stock-in-trade between them, and the portfolio of their friendship was thick with it. So, without words, they stepped across the streets, their feet pressing the pavement with the same sounds, their toes turned just so; they knew what life was like at each other's side. Sometimes he would speak, or she would, small offerings on the altar of their joint survival.
— Beth Brower, The Q
I turn away from the smell of death, pressing my lavender scented handkerchief as tight as I can against my nose.
— Meghan Masterson, The Wardrobe Mistress: A Novel of Marie Antoinette
If she could walk away, she would; her pride demanded at least that much from her. But Quincy knew that her heart beat with the rhythm of the presses in the back room, that her blood ran black with ink, and that her mind filled with reams of numbers and projections and plans. The Q was Quincy's only vital organ, so she would play the game.
— Beth Brower, The Q
Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow know what you truly want to become." -Steve Jobs
— Shirley A. Aaron, Troubling the Ashes
For the first time in years, I have vivid dreams, vivid enough to count the stars and the number of ripples in the sea.
— Brittany Weekley/Monroe Starr, The Secret Life of Thomas Commons
I want to be a good man, a good writer.""Be one or the other, Ernest, not both.
— Naomi Wood, Mrs. Hemingway
Plastic flowers last for hours
— Bill Fairclough, Beyond Enkription - The Burlington Files
No man should be asked to live with so much sadness, and with so little promise of relief.
— Naomi Wood, Mrs. Hemingway
Ernest chose to go, she finally thinks, watching the fire turn the papers black. He loved her but he could not live anymore.
— Naomi Wood, Mrs. Hemingway
Martha thanks Sylvia, gesturing with the book. "Just remember not to try to hard with understanding it, " Sylvia says. "Like people, they're best not to be too thoroughly understood.
— Naomi Wood, Mrs. Hemingway
Birkenau simmered in the July sun like some hideous brew, a witch's potion of blood, sweat, smoke, and excrement worthy of something the weird sisters might have cooked up in Macbeth.
— J. Michael  Dolan, The Trumpets of Jericho: a novel