Kopans Needle Quotes

#1. ... she shone in beauty upon the shore; Long did my glance on her alight, and the longer I looked I knew her more.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#2. Because I never plan anything out ahead of time, I'm always in the process of learning about my characters. Without a biographical sketch to guide me, I discover things about my heroines as the stories unfold. Only in 'Body Double' did I discover that Maura's mother was a serial killer.

Tess Gerritsen

#3. You have to stay true to your heritage; that's what your brand is about.

Alice Temperley

#4. I am a practical girl, and a life is only so long. It should be spent in as much peace and good eating and good reading as possible and no undue excitement. That is all I am after.

Catherynne M Valente

#5. Failure is not the final fall. The will to rise when you fall is fortitude to success.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#6. I've been in love with you for a long time. I've fought it. I've hidden it. I've tried to cast them aside. But since our night together I haven't been able to hold my feelings down ... I want to be with you. I want to see where this could go.

Samantha Young

#7. There is a big gap between what we read in Scripture about the Holy Spirit and how most believers and churches operate today.

Francis Chan

#8. Now, at the end of three years struggle the nation's condition is not what either party, or any man devised, or expected. God alone can claim it.

Abraham Lincoln

#9. But you could not blame someone for dying. For leaving on purpose, perhaps, as her brother had left her and her parents, but not for dying, the power over which was surely beyond the grasp of any mortal human.

Cassandra Clare