145 quotes found
“If I ever stop challenging myself, then I am getting lazy and comfortable and I am no longer growing. I hope to use life's challenges as stepping stones to ever greater things.”
“Abbey," Sarah said, "life is to be lived. If you're living, you're going to stumble along the way.""All the time?" Abigail lept to her feet and began to pace. "I have such a bad temper and when I w...”
“It's your way of fighting. You refuse to engage and then you can't lose.”
“My mother is quiet. The way he acts, she thinks it must mean he doesn't love her as much as she loves him”
“There are roughly 1,200 dogs trained to detect bombs and bomb making materials in the US - and over 40,000 trained to detect marijuana. Some of the bomb-dogs are also cross trained as drug-dogs whi...”
“Let us not compare the genius with the clever”
“The Best Thing I love about being a writer and a poet is, I can make up my own words to fit my imagination.”
“[The waves] move across a faint horizon, the rush of love and the surge of grief, the respite of peace and then fear again, the heart that beats and then lies still, the rise and fall and rise and ...”
“A full moon sprinkled the black ocean with diamonds, and she could imagine fairies dancing in the silver foam that laced the huge, dark waves.”
“I will cross the border”
“There are times when the ocean is not the ocean-not blue, not even water, but some violent explosion of energy and danger: ferocity on a scale only gods can summon. It hurls itself at the island, s...”
“There's always hope. And oceans. Hope and oceans.”
“In a world of seven billion people, where every inch of land has been mapped, much of it developed, and too much of it destroyed, the sea remains the final unseen, untouched, and undiscovered wilde...”
“Oceania is vast, Oceania is expanding, Oceania is hospitable and generous, Oceania is humanity rising from the depths of brine and regions of fire deeper still, Oceania is us. We are the sea, we ar...”
“You can't muffle a real good time.”
“Not all beaches are fun and sunscreen.”
“The worst mistake you can make, Kroeber taught, is to see another person through the lens of your prejudices. And the second-worst mistake is to think you aren't looking though the lens of your pre...”
“The Internet made fame wack and anonymity cool.”
“It's cool to be recognised by your peers.”
“The idea of recognising your strengths and using them in as versatile a way as you can is cool to me.”
