Ascher Quotes

#1. Ascher eyed me. "You have a very negative attitude. Just relax and we'll get this done. Try not to look around so much. And for God's sake, smile." I smiled. "Maybe without clenching your jaw.

Jim Butcher

#2. Try not to look like that," Ascher said under breath, after we were in the elevator.
"Like what?" I asked.
"Like you're expecting ninjas to leap out of the trash cans. This is a party."
"Everyone knows there's no such things as ninjas," I scoffed. "But it will be something. Count on it.

Jim Butcher

#3. I dealt with the White Council my whole life, so I'm used to being treated like a mushroom - " "Eh?" Ascher asked. "Kept in the dark and fed bullshit," Binder reported calmly. "Ah.

Jim Butcher

#4. Smart people learn from smart people

Thabiso Monkoe

#5. Nights and days came and passed
and summer and winter
and the sun and the wind
and the rain.
and it was good to be a little island
a part of the world
and a world of its own
all surrounded by the bright blue sea.

Margaret Wise Brown

#6. Discover that we are capable of solitary joy and having experienced it, know that we have touched the core of self.

Barbara Ascher

#7. Grief is like the wind. When it's blowing hard, you adjust your sails and run before it. If it blows too hard, you stay in the harbor, close the hatches and don't take calls. When it's gentle, you go sailing, have a picnic, take a swim.

Barbara Ascher

#8. Actions are destiny's pen.

Grenville Kleiser

#9. A new study shows that American students are becoming less proficient in science, and if the trend continues, we will become a nation that's science and chemistry illiterate. And you thought a lot of meth labs are blowing up now?

Jay Leno

#10. Raw humanity offends our sensibilities.

Barbara Lazear Ascher

#11. From beginning to end this is a wet and blood smeared voyage, this begetting and birthing and moving away.

Barbara Ascher

#12. My writing has always been what you call 'narrative fiction' in the sense that it's got very strong plots and twists at the end.

Anthony Horowitz

#13. There is a need to find and sing our own song, to stretch our limbs and shake them in a dance so wild that nothing can roost there, that stirs the yearning for solitary voyage.

Barbara Lazear Ascher

#14. do what is right no matter what the consequences to me.

Rebecca Ascher-Walsh

#15. A red brick Presbyterian church ... captured by kudzu vines as surely as a butterfly in a net.

Barbara Ascher

#16. The hot, moist smell of babies fresh from naps.

Barbara Ascher

#17. Beth grimaced. "He is a pompous ass." "And in dire need of a wealthy wife. Perhaps you should find a twitch to go with your stutter." "I would fall upon the floor in a fit if I thought it might do some good. The man is a menace.

Karen Hawkins