Lois Duncan Quotes

#1. It's only by facing things that you ever put them behind you.
-Mrs. McConnell to Susan

Lois Duncan

#2. We are the wise. Do not envy us - We who are too wise to draw near the fire Lest we get burned; We who are too wise to love Lest love should vanish and we be hurt. We are the wise. Do not envy us our wisdom - We who are too wise to live Lest we should die.

Lois Duncan

#3. Writers 'get started' the day they are born. The minds they bring into the world with them are the amazing machines their stories will come out of, and the more they feed into it, the richer those stories will be.

Lois Duncan

#4. The best things in life are simple. Simple things work. They don't foul up. It's the complicated things that get twisted around on you.

Lois Duncan

#5. Aloud she said why not you ray you were involed in this as much as the resst of uswhy is it that bud never tried to do anything to you ?his armed tighted around her.'he knew the worst thing for me was a world without you

Lois Duncan

#6. I want to live. Doesn't everyone feel the same way?

Yua Kotegawa

#7. If there were a mile high mountain of granite, and once every ten-thousand years a bird flew past and brushed it with a feather, by the time that mountain was worn away, a fraction of a second would have passed in the context of eternity

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#8. The world had seen so many Ages: the Age of Enlightenment; of Reformation; of Reason. Now, at last, the Age of Desire. And after this, an end to Ages; an end, perhaps, to everything.

Clive Barker

#9. Sit down every day and DO IT. Writing is a self-taught craft; the more you work at it, the more skilled you become. And when you're not writing, READ.

Lois Duncan

#10. Life continues, and we all of us keep changing and building, toward what we cannot know.

Lois Duncan

#11. College guys are different. They're looking for quality.

Lois Duncan

#12. The silence was gone now, and the night was filled with voices - a chirp, a growl, a twitter - a burst of high-pitched laughter.

Lois Duncan

#13. I feel now as though I've been sitting all my life inside a box, and suddenly someone is lifting the lid and I can look up and see the stars.

Lois Duncan

#14. December is a month that is rife with nostalgia. If there's anything deep in your heart that you want to keep buried, you can count on December to bring it to the surface.

Lois Duncan

#15. As a general rule, if you are prone to melodramatic meltdowns, please avoid purchasing a webcam for any reason.

Ray William Johnson

#16. Can't you just go peek over the wall? Make sure she doesn't have a Trump sign on her lawn?

Jodi Picoult

#17. It would't be easy. Max was too hurt and her parents too upset for a cry session to fix everything, but it was the beginning, and that's all we can ask for in life - for a beginning to follow every end.

Cora Carmack

#18. She thought ray i'll never see ray again there was a time she looked into those green eyes and said i love you so long ago he'll never know i still do

Lois Duncan