Darena Yee Quotes

#1. A poet might die at twenty-one, a revolutionary or a rock star at twenty four. But after that you assume everything's going to be all right. you've made it past Dead Man's Curve and you're out of the tunnel, cruising straight for your destination down a six lane highway whether you want it or not.

Haruki Murakami

#2. Brute force, no matter how strongly applied, can never subdue the basic human desire for freedom.

Dalai Lama

#3. I've been writing for a long time. I sat down to write my first novel in the middle of March of 1982.

J. A. Jance

#4. It is my ambition to be, as a private individual, abolished and voided from history, leaving it markless.

William Faulkner

#5. It's easier for parents to ignore, to pretend that everything's great and then do whatever they want while convinced it's something you want, too.

Sophie Jordan

#6. Her body was more persuasive than a room full of scholars.

Brent Weeks

#7. And he isn't crying for her, not for his grandma, he's crying for himself: that he: too, is going to die one day. And before that his friends wil die, and the friends of his friends, and, as time passes, the children of his friends, and, if his fate is truly bitter, his own children. (58)

Nicole Krauss

#8. I've always loved to combine different scents to come up with my own unique thing.

Jennifer Aniston

#9. I was born singing. Most babies cry, I sang an aria.

Gail Carson Levine

#10. What's the use of having eyes if we can't see the world we pass through?

Matthew Pearl

#11. Lust and self-mutilation are closely related impulses. There are also self-mutilators among knowers: they do not want to be creators under any circumstances.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#12. Dancing is my daily exercise.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#13. I know from experience that I make the best decisions when I'm into the story and inspired by the story, not when I'm sitting there trying to plot.

Pamela Clare

#14. The whole game was about confidence, as it always was. Everything was fine - until it wasn't.

Ron Suskind