Michael Wayland Quotes

#1. He had to think he was Michael Wayland's son, or the Lightwoods would not have protected him as they did. It was Michael they owed a debt to, not me. It was on Michael's account that they loved him, not mine."
"Maybe they loved him on his own account," said Clary.

Cassandra Clare

#2. It is important to rise above rationalizations and make the best choices.

Quentin L. Cook

#3. A novelist has two lives
a reading and writing life, and a lived life. he or she cannot be understood at all apart from this.

Jane Smiley

#4. And then I realized that my utopia was a terrible place, and no one should ever put me in charge of creating a perfect society.

Veronica Roth

#5. Did you ever face Death and let it stare back at you right in the Eyes?

Luis Marques

#6. I'm sure that you didn't think I would notice,
but we memorize the strangest things in a person
when we're in love with them.

Danabelle Gutierrez

#7. We can immortalise, glorify and canonise, but irk us and we are just as easily able to eviscerate you with a single blow of the pen where you will remain wretchedly exposed for all eternity....

Virginia Alison

#8. I can't stay, said Chanu, and they clung to each other inside a sadness that went beyond words and tears, beyond that place, those causes and consequences, and became a part of their breath, their marrow, to travel with them from now to wherever they went.

Monica Ali

#9. At this point in my life, I like the security of a job, while still having time for my young son and to pursue other creative work.

Chris Noth

#10. One of the saddest things about dying is that it's the only event in my life I won't be able to write about.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#11. eyeing one another's new haircuts

J.K. Rowling

#12. Once I start writing, I can't stop.

Chuck Palahniuk