Boivin Hippocamp Quotes

#1. You were born among monsters," she lifted my face when I hid in her shoulder, "but you were not meant to walk with them.

B.B. Reid

#2. My process for determining which eras I'd write about was to just read history books that gave a really broad overview of Chinese history. And when I came across a historical figure or a historical incident that was especially interesting to me, ideas for characters and stories would surface.

Susan Barker

#3. There are so many miserable people out there who have not fulfilled their dreams. I believe you should do something that you love.

John Tesh

#4. Books are like mirrors: if a fool looks in, you cannot expect a genius to look out.

J.K. Rowling

#5. Knowing policy does help make the gossip more understandable.

Tabitha Soren

#6. He seemed so old ... endlessly old, built up of layers of disillusion, going down in him generation after generation, like geological strata; and at the same time he was forlorn like a child. An outcast, in a certain sense; but with the desperate bravery of his rat-like existence.

D.H. Lawrence

#7. The usual metric for whether a planet is habitable or not is to ascertain whether liquid water could exist on its surface. Most worlds will either be too cold, too hot or of a type (like Jupiter) that may have no solid surface and be swaddled in noxious gases.

Seth Shostak

#8. Melville's example demonstrates the wisdom of waiting to read the classics. Coming to a great book on your own after having accumulated essential life experience can make all the difference.

Nathaniel Philbrick