Featherstone Castle Quotes

#1. The only way out of a hole is to climb out.

Cheryl Strayed

#2. Luck favors the prepared mind.

Richard Hamming

#3. You wouldn't want Alan Greenspan to write the instructions for assembling a beach chair.

Robert Orben

#4. I have to be a freelance writer for the rest of my life, unless I get some kind of real lucky break. But other than that, I'll always have to work. I always worry about whether my stuff is going to get over. Will they like this, will they like that?

Harvey Pekar

#5. Every act of love brings happiness; there is no act of love which does not bring peace and blessedness as its reaction.

Swami Vivekananda

#6. How can we understand forgiveness if we haven't recognized the depth of our sin?

John Henry Newman

#7. A grateful journal, joyful soul.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#8. Pity makes a thin drink, indeed.

Caroline Pafford Miller

#9. To halve the number of asses that you're required to kiss: double your dependency on yourself.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#10. It's weird - sort of not terribly wise - to take a book that was successful and then change its cover.

Augusten Burroughs

#11. The way that Dickens structured his books has a form that we most readily recognize now from, say, the great T.V. series, like 'The Wire' or 'The Sopranos.' There's one central plot line, but then from that spin off all kinds of subplots.

Jennifer Egan

#12. There is no suspension, no whispered prayer for silk to stop my fall. There is only the falling, and it goes on and on, in fierce silence and sharp bursts of breath.

Kermit Roosevelt III

#13. We're the roughest people in the way we play and live, and that is because Americans come from people who all got up one morning and went 5,000 miles, and that was a time in the 19th century when it wasn't so easy to do.

Alan Furst

#14. There's no more happiness," Leo said roughly. "There's no peace in any damn corner of my life. She took it all with her. For pity's sake, Amelia ... go meddle in someone else's affairs, and leave me the hell alone.

Lisa Kleypas