Literary Tropes Quotes

#1. The ultimate act of heroism shouldn't be death. You're always saying you want to give Baz the stories he deserves ... So you're going to kill him off? Isn't the best revenge supposed to be a life well-lived? The punk-rock way to end it would be to let them live happily ever after.

Rainbow Rowell

#2. The work of intimacy, of course, is to learn to both show your own illumination, and to see it in a way that the physical eyes cannot reveal. In a way that only the heart can reveal: the illumined beauty in another person.

Marianne Williamson

#3. Luscious feet that listened to the soil and stole its secrets.

Fannie Hurst

#4. I've had to work hard at that easy-going manner you see on screen.

James Garner

#5. I didn't play or like a lot of board games as a child. I liked playing with my G.I. Joes and making up adventures for them.

Jonathan Ames

#6. I always say, or have said in the past, that ninety-nine and forty-four-hundredths of the audience does not pay any attention to the lighting, but one hundred percent is affected by it.

Jennifer Tipton

#7. Battles are won en route, Shalhassan of Cathal though. A worthy thought: he raised his hand in a certain way, and a moment later Razeil galloped up, uneasy on a horse at speed, and the Supreme Lord of Cathal made him write it down.

Guy Gavriel Kay

#8. If he cannot be tried for his failures as a king, let him be tried for his failures as a man.

Leigh Bardugo

#9. What a wonderful time to be young. You will see events in your lifetime that will test your courage and extend your faith. If you will face the sunlight of truth, the shadows of discouragement and sin and error will fall behind you. You must never give up!

Boyd K. Packer

#10. You can't write a song out of thin air you have to feel and know what you are writing about.

Irving Berlin

#11. One cannot apologize for one's nature.

Matthew J. Kirby