Burnished Slate Quotes

#1. How is a person supposed to prepare for what happens tomorrow when there's just no figuring out today?

Jenny Han

#2. Bad luck relies absolutely on perfect timing

Catherynne M Valente

#3. Why does it take girls so long to shower?" he demanded. "Mortal girls, Shadowhunters, female warlocks, you're all the same. I'm not getting any younger waiting out here."
-Magnus to Clary, pg.272-

Cassandra Clare

#4. Perseverance in almost any plan is better than fickleness and fluctuation. (Alexander Hamilton, July 1792)

Ron Chernow

#5. Love and trust are Siamese twins, as conjoined as Chang and Eng.

David Ebershoff

#6. You need to remind people that you vote, you matter, and that they can't succeed without your help.

Richard Hanna

#7. Jerusalem is one stubborn city that refuses to roll over and die.

Nathan Erez

#8. I like football, but I think this is a very personal matter. I don't see any negatives for some Russian rich man to buy a football club.

Viktor Vekselberg

#9. To be a power to reckon with you need to believe in yourself and your dreams.

Stephen Richards

#10. But maybe she'd always been this fucking adorable and I'd just been the jackass who never bothered to notice.

Sarah Darlington

#11. Therefore from the fact alone that I know that I exist and that, at the same time, I notice absolutely nothing else that belongs to my nature apart from the single fact that I am a thinking thing, I correctly conclude that my essence consists in this alone, that I am a thinking thing.

Rene Descartes