Deryn Sharp Quotes

#1. She was a soldier, not some girl twisting her skirts at a village dance.

Scott Westerfeld

#2. I'm too nervous to eat before I go onstage, and I'll usually eat out after the performance or when I get home at midnight.

Jo Brand

#3. But whoso is heroic must find crises to try his edge. Human virtue demands her champions and martyrs, and the trial of persecution always proceeds.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#4. Sadat made us feel more secure.

Naguib Mahfouz

#5. An' there never yet was speculation but in the long run, it meant smash. Ye run so hard that ye fall ower yoursel

Neil M. Gunn

#6. You'd think that in a fight, NOT MOVING would be a bad habit!

Scott Westerfeld

#7. A moment's thinking is an hour in words.

Thomas Hood

#8. By what you do, you teach your children how to respond to difficult information.

Elizabeth Edwards

#9. Sometimes you have to take a half step back to take two forward.

Vince McMahon

#10. I try very hard to be fair, and I look for ironies. In a way, I live on ironies as a novelist.

Robert Stone

#11. I let him get a few steps away, and then I asked the burning question. "Why were you here?"
Luke shrugged. "You wanted saving, didn't you?

Maggie Stiefvater

#12. Explicitly Christian themes are regularly excluded from news articles.

Gary DeMar

#13. Racism has always been a divisive force separating black men and white men, and sexism has been a force that unites the two groups.

Bell Hooks

#14. It's fear that makes us lose our conscience. It's also what transforms us into cowards.

Marjane Satrapi

#15. Male fantasy is seen as something that can create reality, whereas female fantasy is regarded as pure escape.

Bell Hooks

#16. Holding your team accountable to do the jobs they're being paid to do is not being mean; it's being a manager, and that's your job.

Liz Weber

#17. Dr. Barlow, it is, of course, customary to check with the caption before, uh, giving away his ship.
-Deryn Sharp

Scott Westerfeld

#18. Even bloody and bruised, he had an odd sort of swagger, as if he crash-landed in giant air ships every day.

Scott Westerfeld

#19. As one does a bear riding a bicycle. One sees it so rarely.
(Spoken by Volger, on Deryn)

Scott Westerfeld