Alex Sheathes Quotes

#1. I told you," he whispers back. I can feel his breath just tickling the space behind my ear, making my hair prick up on my neck. "I like you."
"You don't know me," I say quickly.
"I want to, though.

Lauren Oliver

#2. Writing is a fearsome but grand vocation - potentially healing but likewise deadly. I wouldn't trade my life for the world.

Reynolds Price

#3. You can't cheat if there are no rules

Lauren Oliver

#4. But how could anyone who's ever seen a summer - big explosion of green and skies lit up electric with splashy sunsets, a riot of flowers and wind that smells like honey - pick the snow?

Lauren Oliver

#5. The place that, even disembodied, her spirit recognized because it had drawn her to it for so many years. She entered the House of Night

P.C. Cast

#6. Finances, n.
You wanted to keep the list on the refrigerator.
"No," I said. "That's too public."
What I meant was: Aren't you embarrassed by how much you owe me?

David Levithan

#7. That's the thing about faith. It works.

Lauren Oliver

#8. Everyone is asleep. They've been asleep for years. You seemed ... awake.
I'm tired of sleeping.

Lauren Oliver

#9. Evil is important for us to look at, in my opinion, only insofar as it makes us look at our own actions and make us wonder, 'Am I participating in some kind of human evil that I really should stop doing?'

John Carroll Lynch

#10. If you are looking to build a new culture or transform the one you have, the first questions you should ask yourself are, "What do we stand for?" and "What do we want to be known for?

Jon Gordon

#11. The universe had an odd sense of fairness; it took away things one did not want to give up, and then gave things one did not ask for.

Laila Lalami

#12. Maybe, the hope said. Maybe.

Lauren Oliver

#13. I always knew I wanted to be on air and travel the world and tell people's stories. I wanted to convey something from other cultures to the U.S. - and vice versa.

Clarissa Ward

#14. I went to live on a kibbutz, and I'd idealized the world of collective, agrarian work, where everyone was equal, everyone contributed, that all this awful European intellectual stuff just fell away.

Tony Judt

#15. He says "You are my property" and I feel relieved. After all, no one wishes to shatter what he owns.

Malak El Halabi

#16. Love, the deadliest of all deadly things.
It kills you.
Alex.
When you have it.
Alex.
And when you don't.
Alex.

Lauren Oliver

#17. I could be myself. I'm very shy and awkward. I think the best thing is to embrace it.

Hunter Hayes

#18. We'll walk together holding hands, and kiss in broad daylight, and love each other as much as we want to, and no one will ever try to keep up apart.

Lauren Oliver

#19. His eyes are the color of honey. These are the eyes I remember from my dreams.

Lauren Oliver

#20. I don't know how i stay on my feet, why i don;t just shatter into dust right there, why my heart keeps beating when i want it so badly to stop

Lauren Oliver

#21. Everywhere he touches is fire. My whole body is burning up, the two of us becoming twin points of the same bright white flame.

Lauren Oliver

#22. If I could press a button and have all of Sequoia Capital on the Midas List, I would choose to do that over a honoring a single individual.

Douglas Leone