Charlayne Quotes

#1. So why didn't he vanish?" Charlayne nods toward Kiernan. "After Max took his key, he should have disappeared, right?"
"I would have," Kiernan says, "except someone was wise enough to give me a backup when I was eight. This isn't the first time it's saved me.

Rysa Walker

#2. Charlayne is in front of me, holding a rifle identical to the one in my hand, raised to shoulder height and pointed at Kiernan, who's sitting on the bed. He looks more bored than afraid.

Rysa Walker

#3. You need one of those recap sequences," Trey says. "Like, 'Hi, I'm Kate. Here are a few things you might need to know.'"
Charlayne smiles. "Previously on The Vampire Diaries."
"Or," Ben says, "' The Timeline So Far,' like on Supernatural.

Rysa Walker

#4. No room can be called perfect unless it has real comfort.

Dorothy Draper

#5. The rest of the class looked away. He [Jonas} was a quiet freak, not a zombie. The horde would not protect him. They'd stand by and watch the culling.

Laurie Halse Anderson

#6. I think that the thing that we learned back in the day of the civil rights movement is that you do have to keep on keeping on.

Charlayne Hunter-Gault

#7. What is so great about being good?

Marie Lu

#8. people are suffering, brew some coffee. Sometimes it's all you can do to help.

Meli Raine

#9. You have to assess every situation that you're in and you have to decide, is this happening because I'm black? Is this happening because I'm a woman? Or is this happening because this is how it happens?

Charlayne Hunter-Gault

#10. It really wasn't my thing. It still isn't my thing, the whole science-fiction action thing. I prefer simpler, character-based movies.

Natalie Portman

#11. Some of the greatest social reformers of our time were wealthy.

Jerry Rubin

#12. Laughter clears the atmosphere and it gives liberty to every soul.

Euginia Herlihy

#13. I get much more information about the rest of the world from people who are not Americans. You get a distance from America that is useful for a journalist; useful for my perspective on the world.

Charlayne Hunter-Gault

#14. The private schools and the independent schools like Oprah's are really doing well because they've got the best of everything but it certainly puts the spotlight on a system of public education that is still reeling from the apartheid years [in South Africa].

Charlayne Hunter-Gault

#15. If people are informed they will do the right thing. It's when they are not informed that they become hostages to prejudice.

Charlayne Hunter-Gault

#16. You have a way of turning the established order on its head." Instantly regretting that, he forced his face to relax; Lynx must not see anger in his eyes.

Gwynn White

#17. True republicanism is the sovereignty of the people. There are natural and imprescriptible rights which an entire nation has no right to violate.

Marquis De Lafayette

#18. The South African government, unlike a lot of African governments, isn't poor.

Charlayne Hunter-Gault

#19. The provincial dandy wore the longest of spurs and the fiercest of mustaches.

Victor Hugo

#20. You're all scum and you know it

Robert Graves