Historical Ya Quotes

#1. He would die in this room, buried alive by the weight of his life.

Christine Fonseca

#2. You can cower," she told them in a clear voice, wrapping her long shaking fingers around the cold iron bars. "But I will stand.

Gwenn Wright

#3. The practice of lying is concerned with attempting to overlay a thin paper substitute atop the world that exists in order that it seem to suit your purposes. But the Swallow Man didn't need the world to suit him. He could make himself suit whatever world it pleased him to agree existed.

Gavriel Savit

#4. He gave her body a raking gaze. "I doona give up my secrets that easily, lass. And it takes a lot more than honeyed words to persuade me. If ye must know, I prefer to be wooed first.

Victoria Roberts

#5. Annella would sooner spill my blood than court me. Furthermore, I like my women a little less spirited. I don't want to have to fear that my wife would put a blade to my throat in the middle of the night. Hell, I'd have to sleep with one eye open.

Victoria Roberts

#6. Obviously not a Stephen King level writer, but I'd written short stories and short fiction, from the time I was 12.

Mick Garris

#7. No one is afraid of heights, they're afraid of falling down. No one is afraid of saying I love you, they're afraid of the answer ...

Kurt Cobain

#8. Now that women are jockeys, baseball umpires, atomic scientists, and business executives, maybe someday they can master parallel parking.

Bill Vaughan

#9. There are no more gates, only hinges clinging to the walls like broken spiders.

J. Anderson Coats

#10. I suppose you'll not let me rest until I admit that I like your company?"
"You're getting to know me well ... "
"Very well, I'll admit. You're slightly more than tolerable.

Jody Hedlund

#11. He wore black breeches, a black doublet, and a black mask adorned with silver. How fitting that he was already dressed in mourning clothes for his own funeral.

Victoria Roberts

#12. He shrugged. "I am nae like any otherman. I am a Highlander.

Victoria Roberts

#13. Then I tried to get them in a little intelligent conversation, but it was practically impossible.

J.D. Salinger

#14. I don't like to play with my prey. I prefer their deaths to be quick.

Victoria Roberts

#15. No matter how much he denied his attraction to her, those red curls haunted his dreams like brilliant flames that couldn't be extinguished...
"Fuirich air falbh on teine," he said under his breath, but loud enough for her to hear. Stay away from the fire.

Victoria Roberts

#16. Tyranny is always better organized than freedom.

Charles Peguy

#17. Please accept my apologies, lass. I should nae have been so forward, but I've been wanting to kiss ye.

Victoria Roberts

#18. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,
Fill'd with death, ya pens'll hang ya.

Ron A Swan

#19. Ien stopped her voice with more kisses, more promises of a world filled with only them.

Christine Fonseca

#20. Lady's mouth tasted like blood and iron all the time now. It tasted like defeat.

Kiersten White

#21. We are all ill: but even a universal sickness implies an idea of health.

Lionel Trilling

#22. I open my eyes and see a head hanging upside down. Grinning at me.

Margarita Morris

#23. you have any idea of what you are going to do?

Nether Boy

#24. It was enough to drive me mad. I was no longer myself and yet I was so much more me than I had ever been before.
~Katherine Demure

Gwenn Wright

#25. The number of choices you make in the event that you see on stage, those choices are sometimes largely determined by the rehearsal process and the experiments that you go through and the choices that you make in the rehearsal room, not in front of an audience.

Ben Kingsley

#26. The queen's mocking laughter cut in. "This is your treasure, Lord Sheftu?"
"Aye. The greatest treasure in Egypt - a maid whose loyalty cannot be bought. Whatever bargain we make, Daughter of the Sun, must include her freedom.

Eloise Jarvis McGraw

#27. When I lie where shades of darkness Shall no more assail mine eyes.

Walter De La Mare

#28. You are both daring and unscrupulous, and you think fast. I have been looking for a person with those particular characteristics. Also I noticed you speak Babylonian.

Eloise Jarvis McGraw

#29. Wicked eyes are not a good prospect for seminary boys. They want a gentle, soft sort of wife, not a wife who looks as though she may sprout wings and carry off the young children of the village. ~Maria "Smythe

Gwenn Wright

#30. Books are unique treasures that you can carry regardless of getting robbed.

Raj Singh

#31. I studied how to use the clothes washer. The handy instructions on the lid helped; so did the box of suds. It instructed me to separate the whites from the coloreds. Laundry will be the last American institution to desegregate.

Huston Piner

#32. He gave her an encouraging smile. "I know horrible memories haunt your dreams, but you're the strongest woman I know. If anyone can do this, it's you. We must kill the snakes in our garden, protect what we love, and let no man stand in our way.

Victoria Roberts