Lucas Delos Quotes

#1. They travelled for thirteen hours down-hill, whilst the streams broadened and the mountains shrank, and the vegetation changed, and the people ceased being ugly and drinking beer, and began instead to drink wine and to be beautiful.

E. M. Forster

#2. You don't go into the game to compete. You go into each game to win.

Cam Newton

#3. How marvelous books are, crossing worlds and centuries, defeating ignorance and, finally, cruel time itself.

Gore Vidal

#4. I believe God spoke to you at cliffs. Her hand came to rest on the top of my head. But perhaps you weren't truly listening

Jenny B. Jones

#5. Lucas Delos," he said, holding out his hand.
"Don't you hate this kid?" Jerry asked Helen candidly as he shook the offered hand.

Josephine Angelini

#6. Corporations care very much about maintaining the myth that government is necessarily ineffective, except when it is spending money on the military-industrial complex, building prisons, or providing infrastructural support for the business sector.

Michael Lerner

#7. You all have the potential to be what you wanna be.

Bethany Mota

#8. Also, it'd be kinda hard to be together if I was in prison."
"What are you talking about?" Helen asked, suddenly alarmed. "Why would you go to prison?"
"For killing the guy that took your virginity," he replied. "You I would forgive. But the guy? Dead man.

Josephine Angelini

#9. Spelling is improved when reading is done.

Stephen D. Krashen

#10. And I don't just WANT you, Helen. I LOVE you. Big difference.

Josephine Angelini

#11. I am not the first to note the vast differences between the Wall Street protesters and the tea partiers. To name three: The tea partiers have jobs, showers and a point.

Ann Coulter

#12. Helen?' Lucas asked, his voice faint and breathy.
'Make sound. If alive,' he barley managed to say.

Josephine Angelini

#13. My phobias worsen as I get older. I'm scared of flying, driving. I'm terrified of sharks. I'm a germaphobe. But I try to face my fears; I do. Well, most of them.

Eli Roth

#14. Books are full of words and they are the most influential tools in the world. These seemingly innocent things strung together by letters have the power to ignite ideas, to spark a dying motivation, to fuel a passion.

Sarah Noffke

#15. To live is to walk beside Death but never join hands. ~ Captain Buck "Slackeye" Roberts

Kai McCarthy

#16. I can't just sit around thinking how lucky I am.

Elizabeth McGovern

#17. But how could anyone be grateful for what they have if they didn't know what it was like not to have what they need?

Josephine Angelini

#18. Contrary to all those times you've heard a writer confess at a reading that he writes fiction because he is a pathological liar, fiction writing is all about telling the truth.

Paul Harding

#19. The scythers, Time and Death,
Helmed locusts, move upon the tree of breath

Robert Lowell