Top 36 Dara Horn Quotes
#1. Sibling relationships figure in a lot of my books. You don't often see relationships between adult siblings explored in fiction.
Dara Horn
#2. Or worse, he could be born perfect, and then, through some error she would never perceive, grow up and destroy someone else's life
for there are thousands of ways to destroy someone's life, Sara knew, but to improve someone's life, there are so few, so few!
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#3. Time itself is created through deeds of true kindness.
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#4. It had been a long time, perhaps years, since she had heard a man apologize
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#5. The way I express ideas is through the plot, Suspense is an important part of expressing an idea.
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#6. The moment when a feeling enters the body/ is political. This touch is political
Adrienne Rich
#7. No one is anything more than a cloud that vanishes, and the best anyone could hope for was not to be the last.
Dara Horn
#8. ...she smiled - and time was created.
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#9. There's no such thing as a problem that's yours and not mine.
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#10. It was possible, probable even, that the world could be rebuilt.
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#12. We recognize ourselves in Westerns, ... I believe the Western can orchestrate moments around reality. The reality can be as entertaining to us as the lie.
Kevin Costner
#13. I wanted to explore the kinds of hope and doubt, faith and disappointment, that shape the next generation, whether consciously or not. I suppose, in all of my work, I'm always going back in time.
Dara Horn
#14. I am much more aware of making the plot more original, avoiding contrivance, having the story matter much more. I used to think more about symbols consciously. Now I think much more about the story.
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#15. The bathroom was made of the finest materials, but underneath it all was nothing but shit.
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#16. No one can keep a secret better than a child.
Victor Hugo
#17. Good books leave an impression. Great books forever alter the way you think about what it means to be alive. You Disappear is not just a well-told story, but a dramatic recalibrating of what it means to have a mind-and a soul.
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#18. My siblings and I had this theory that my parents were spies.
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#19. Every person has a legacy. You may not know what your impact is, and it may not be something that you can write on your tombstone, but every person has an impact on this world.
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#20. What is the cost of replacing and bringing up to speed one of your managers, supervisors, or front-line employees who left because they were frustrated with your organization's leadership?
Liz Weber
#21. I'm a person who always wanted to turn my life into an archive. Social media made my dream come true.
Dara Horn
#22. The books are like children in that having written one doesn't make writing the next one any easier, because it's a new set of problems and a new set of challenges with each one, and having dealt with one before means that you now know how to do it.
Dara Horn
#23. Commanded by God dozens of times in the Hebrew Bible to remember their past, Jews historically obeyed not by recording events but by ritually re-enacting them: by understanding the present through the lens of the past.
Dara Horn
#24. I could never understand what was going on in my dreams I couldn't control the happenings, it's like I just stood there glued to the ground watching everything around me move and evolve into different scenarios. I was a ghost of myself watching life unravel before my own eyes ...
JaszCab.
#25. Immortality, thou art a chimerical bridesmaid of life.
Aporva Kala
#26. Regardless of where you are and where you think you should be, you is where you is. Accept that fact. And at the same time, become aware of and accept another universal fact: the only constant is change. You are always exactly where you need to be...
Jordan Finneseth
#27. Writing songs is about trying to connect with people on a deeper spiritual level - but I'm not a fan of contemporary Christian music.
Ryan Tedder
#28. Memory as an article of faith often comes naturally to writers, who by temperament are likely to be diarists and record keepers, forever searching past events for elusive patterns - and forever believing that such patterns are to be found.
Dara Horn
#29. In the enriching of marriage, the big things are the little things. There must be constant appreciation for each other and thoughtful demonstration of gratitude. A couple must encourage and help each other grow. Marriage is a joint quest for the good, the beautiful, and the divine
James E. Faust
#30. I think all parents have a double life.
Dara Horn
#31. Love your fellow, and not just those who agree with you.
Dara Horn
#32. Most of the other visitors were chained to their audio guides, looking only at what their little headsets told them was worth seeing.
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#33. Why are children so much smarter than adults?
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#34. Another remarkable thing about the dead is that they are all ages, preserved at every age you ever knew them, and at no age at all.
Dara Horn
#35. Let's focus on how we can take someone who is being poorly educated in an American public school and how they are poorly trained for a job, and put in place those opportunities for them to get that education, give their parents choice in education, make it real for them.
Michael Steele
#36. The more I learn, the more I know how less I had.
Anonymous