Michelle Zink Quotes

#1. Whether or not Darius is pleased doesn't matter.' Griffin's voice took on a hard edge, and for a moment, he almost sounded like his brother. 'He has what he needs. He always has. Now ... ' he began.
'Yes?' she prompted.
'I need you,' he said.

Michelle Zink

#2. I'm convinced from what I know of Vernon Bundy that his testimony was truthful.

Jim Garrison

#3. If you are still breathing, don not stop learning.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#4. I avoid looking at the clock, fearing the slow passing of time that will only seem slower if I watch its progress.

Michelle Zink

#5. Quite a lot of British women stop working when they have children, and that is rarely the case in Denmark. We have a very flat, structured way of approaching everything. Nobody's the boss. In a sense, we're all equal.

Birgitte Hjort Sorensen

#6. I am not the kind of girl who can trust a theory based on one person.

Brigitte Boisselier

#7. I've begun to wonder if that's all we really need. Just one person who knows us truly. One person who knows the darkness that lies within and believes in us anyway.

Michelle Zink

#8. The most important advances, the qualitative leaps, are the least predictable. Not even the best scientists predicted the impact of nuclear physics, and everyday consumer items such as the iPhone would have seemed magic back in the 1950s.

Martin Rees

#9. Perhaps because it seems so appropriate, I don't notice the rain. It falls in sheets, a blanket of silvery thread rushing to the hard almost-winter ground. Still, I stand without moving at the side of the coffin.

Michelle Zink

#10. Still, experience has taught me that knowing one's enemy is key to winning any battle.

Michelle Zink

#11. Time - and all the events held therein - plays out as it must. We cannot impose our will on it. The only true measure of strength is our ability to bear that which time demands.

Michelle Zink

#12. Some things must be done however much we wish to avoid them.

Michelle Zink

#13. To find the books end,
cross the ancient wood to the mystic isle.
Until then, prepare yourself
for the coming battle ...
AND TRUST NO ONE.

Michelle Zink

#14. I hated him at first," she said. "And I think you did, too. He was overbearing, and he didn't sympathize with your situation. And then you let yourself be vulnerable, and then he invited another girl to your House. And then he took a stake for you, and he proved himself.

Chloe Neill

#15. every other aspect of his life. He had the

Janet Evanovich

#16. If I'd had a nickel for every time Rachel had said whatever, we wouldn't have had to steal Warren Fairchild's gold.

Michelle Zink

#17. But I learned long ago that it does no good to think too far into the future. There is only here. Only now.

Michelle Zink

#18. But I know that in order to get to the end of a thing, one must start at the beginning.

Michelle Zink

#19. Keeper scum."
"That's offensive coming from a wraith. I think I'm going to have to defend my honor.

Michelle Zink

#20. I'm not very good with anything physical ... ' she began as they turned down a hallway she had never seen.
He flashed her a grin as they walked.
'I find that hard to believe.'
She caught the innuendo in his voice and felt a blush creep to her cheeks.
'You know what I mean.

Michelle Zink

#21. I must confess I will miss your ... proximity when jumping together.'
'Well,' she said, answering his smile with one of her own.
'There's always sickle training in the ballroom.'
'That there is.

Michelle Zink

#22. I love you anyway, Lia," he calls after me. "Until time tells, I mean."
I turn to him and smile, loving him more in this moment than any other. "Until time tells, then, Henry, and beyond. I love you as well.

Michelle Zink

#23. Books never lied to me, never betrayed me, never left me alone and wondering what was wrong with me.

Michelle Zink

#24. I think we all need to be looking to the better angels of our own selves. We don't need to be looking for great people so much as becoming great people.

Marianne Williamson

#25. The blackness that smothers me is total, and in the moment before everything falls away, I know what it feels like to be dead.

Michelle Zink

#26. I recall his somber eyes during that last, private conversation. His eyes and his words, far too wise for a boy of ten: only time will tell, Lia.
In the end, I suppose it will.

Michelle Zink

#27. She appreciated his protection, of course, but she was not sure if she wanted to be looked at ... as if she were fragile. A thing to hold gingerly, as one holds a delicate rose, careful not to bump its silken petals lest they should spill to the floor.

Michelle Zink

#28. Don't you see, Helen? There would be no life for me now without you in it."
He covered her hand with his own, bringing it to his lips.
"I need to know that you're mine. That I alone have your heart.

Michelle Zink

#29. She didn't know why it should seem strange that Darius fancied someone, but even as little as she knew him, it already seemed improbable, though not as improbable as someone fancying him in return.

Michelle Zink

#30. I shake my head. "Remember, Mother. There are no mistakes."
She smiles through her tears, leaning in to kiss my cheek "No mistakes, my angel.

Michelle Zink

#31. There is no ladylike way to tell him to push all he wants, that his mouth and body on mine are the only things keeping me from losing my hold on a reality I never questioned until these past days.

Michelle Zink

#32. sometimes you have to live your life with the motto...#NoRegrets. Sometimes you have to ignore the way people perceive you and do what you feel is right.

Meghan Quinn

#33. The day is like a diamond, all beautiful warmth on the outside but without any heat to accompany it.

Michelle Zink

#34. Her soul was as cold as the air that bit through London in winter, her grief a shadow to the vengeance ...

Michelle Zink

#35. The right song can change everything.

Jody Gehrman

#36. Life's never a postcard of life, is it? It never feels like how you'd want it to look.

Russell Brand

#37. Excuse me," Helen interrupted. "Did you say sewage tunnels?"
Darius grinned. "That I did, Princess.

Michelle Zink

#38. Alice will always be a beautiful mystery. It is one I am content not to solve.I can love her now in her lovely darkness. -Amalia Milthorpe

Michelle Zink

#39. The girl looked up, blinking, a far-off expression in here eyes. I recognized it, understood the shock of realizing the world inside your book wasn't real. Even worse, you were in another world entirely and no one understood - or even cared - that you preferred the one living on the page.

Michelle Zink

#40. I am not my mother. I love her, but I am not her.

Michelle Zink

#41. Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain but for the heart to conquer it.

Rabindranath Tagore

#42. If you do what you always did, you get what you always gotten

Henry Ford

#43. Connection is very important. It's extremely important for me to be connected and sharing with other people, giving them what I feel is important.

Joshua Roman