Words got in the way. The things we felt the hardest--like what it was like to have a boy touch you as if you were made of light, or what it meant to be the only person in the room who wasn't noticed--weren't sentences; they were knots in the wood of our bodies, places where our blood flowed backward. If you asked me, not that anyone ever did, the only words worth saying were I'm sorry.

Ender didn't like fighting. He didn't like Peter's kind the strong against the weak and he didn't like his own kind either the smart against the stupid.

Orson Scott Card

I feel the weight of just telling the truth. There really is no weight to telling the truth. It's a little scary sometimes, but if you tell the truth, you don't have to be looking over your shoulder.

Jussie Smollett

The real hero is always a hero by mistake he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.

Umberto Eco

The tendency of an event to occur varies inversely with one's preparation for it.

David Searles

If I must fall, may it be from a high place.

Paulo Coelho

I'm gonna be making records anyway, even if I had to sell 'em out of the trunk of my car. I'm that kind of musician and singer.

Dolly Parton

Women are in bondage; their clothes are a great hindrance to their engaging in any business which will make them pecuniarily independent, and since the soul of womanhood never can be queenly and noble so long as it must beg bread for its body, is it not better, even at the expense of a vast deal of annoyance, that they whose lives deserve respect and are greater than their garments should give an example by which woman may more easily work out her own emancipation?

Lucy Stone, As quoted in The Lif

If I had my way books would not be written in English, but in an exceedingly difficult secret language that only skilled professional readers and story-tellers could interpret. Then people like you would have to go to public halls and pay good prices to hear the professionals decode and read the books aloud for you. This plan would have the advantage of scaring off all amateur authors, retired politicians, country doctors and I-Married-a-Midget writers who would not have the patience to learn the secret language.

Robertson Davies

The total collapse of the public opinion polls shows that this country is in good health. A country that developed an airtight system of finding out in advance what was in people's minds would be uninhabitable.

E.B. (Elwyn Brooks) White

If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere.

Frank A. Clark

Someone may beat me, but they're going to have to bleed to do it.

Steve Prefontaine

I love getting presents. And awards. I'd do whatever they told me to do.

Jackie Weaver