Top 100 Mina's Quotes
#1. Luke caught Mina's chin in his left hand and turned her face toward him. 'Guess what, sweetheart?'
'What?'
He grinned. 'I'm keeping you.
Cynthia Eden
#2. The man was more temperamental than she was. Not an easy feat. (Mina's view of Diego.)
Maria Grazia Swan
#3. Nan, I'm cursed."
"Yeah, I know. We all are." Nan kicked her legs back and forth and grabbed a magazine from Mina's nightstand. "It's called being a teenager.
Chanda Hahn
#4. Oh, here we go, firing questions right and left. I sort of missed that part. [Mina's most endearing trait?]
Maria Grazia Swan
#5. Mina's own life was already a reality show; why would she want to watch someone else's?
Chanda Hahn
#6. Mathias lifted his head and looked directly into Mina's eyes. His smile was gone. Possession filled his gaze. After tonight, you won't be asking another man for anything.
Gayle Donnelly
#7. Mina's mouth dropped open, and he bent his head as if to kiss her. She jammed her gun barrel under his chin. He grinned.
Meljean Brook
#8. Comics don't work if the story is all in the text and the images are illustrative. It's hard to have enough faith in the artists to allow them to do their job.
Denise Mina
#9. Food feeds both the body and soul - there are clear reasons to eat a balanced diet, but there are also reasons you cling to your mom's secret chicken noodle soup recipe when you're sick.
Michael Mina
#10. When I first went to Las Vegas, I thought I would never go to Las Vegas; you can't get anything. But then I realized that they were trucking in almost everything; you could get a lot of your product, and I think that's why a lot of chefs actually went there.
Michael Mina
#11. My family were great story-tellers. My mum was one of 12 and they were all fighting to tell stories. You have to tell a good tale or no one is going to listen. You have to make it entertaining and interesting. That's how I learned to tell stories.
Denise Mina
#12. I have two children. They are more fun than anything in the world, and it's more immediate fun than the hard slog of writing.
Denise Mina
#13. Because I write a book a year, I always want to do one other project every year that's stimulating in a different way. It means you can be working but not using up your prose juice, you know?
Denise Mina
#14. Brody spun, and Mina stared over his shoulder to see an impossibly large black wolf only feet away. The wolf's mouth was opened wide, teeth glaring as he lunged for Brody's throat.
Chanda Hahn
#15. From the reader's point of view, punctuation provides a map for one who must otherwise drive blindly past the by-ways, intersections, and detours of a writer's thought.
Mina P. Shaughnessy
#16. A blacksmith can go anywhere. A detective inspector only goes where the dead bodies are."
"But there aren't any dead people here today."
Mina glanced over her shoulder at the chest Newberry carried. "That's why I brought my own.
Meljean Brook
#17. Wha--huh? You've made a mistake? You? Wait... The world isn't ending. Big Ben's Infinity Day Clock has stopped. You can't have made a mistake. It's simply not... possible. It's a day just like any other day. - Evaline, to Mina
Colleen Gleason
#18. Don't go on holiday to Blackpool, it's fucking horrible there.
Denise Mina
#19. I like complicated dishes but also appreciate simple foods.
Michael Mina
#20. I can only take one step at a time, whether I am running or living. Today is a good day. This is my life and it's happening now.
Mina Samuels
#21. I'm sorry that you are hurting. It's because of me that you are even here in the first place. I offered to get those passes so I could get to know you. There is something about you that feels so comforting and familiar, and I'm not sure why.
Chanda Hahn
#22. You have to take your ego out of it and say, do I want people to be obsequious to me or do I want to write good books? If it's the latter, you have to take criticism. It's annoying, but that's how to do good stuff; listen to other people.
Denise Mina
#23. In the 'Garnethill' trilogy, people always forget that Maureen O'Donnell's dad was a journalist and she did art history at uni and her brother did law, but no-one ever thinks they're middle-class - they're just working class because they speak with accents.
Denise Mina
#24. Wow, that's huge, Mina thought. How am I supposed to carry that around? She watched in amazement when the book, as if hearing her thoughts, slowly began to shrink into a smaller, thinner book.
Chanda Hahn
#25. Dacians consider Trehan the kingdom's sword, Viktor its wrath, Stelian its sentinel, and Lothaire its cunning. Our people see Mina and me as the beating heart of Dacia.
Kresley Cole
#26. There's always room to improve in a restaurant. A restaurant is better or worse every day than it was the day before. It's impossible not to be, because it's human.
Michael Mina
#27. People are very frightened in publishing at the moment. Nobody knows what sells. More so now because the market's changing so fundamentally because of Kindle and electronic publishing. It's a fundamental shift in the way stories are put out into the world.
Denise Mina
#28. She is yet like a diamond on a heap of broken glass.
Mina Loy
#29. Of course you do things differently in your 30s and 40s than in your 20s.
Michael Mina
#30. I had always been told cooking was a servant's job.
Michael Mina
#31. Some say that you should turn your face from the light of the moon. They say it makes you mad.
I turn my face towards it and I laugh.
Make me mad, I whisper. Go on, make Mina mad.
I laugh again.
Some people think that she's already mad, I think.
David Almond
#32. Oh that's right
Keep away from me Please give me a push
Don't let me understand you Don't realise me
Or we might tumble together
Depersonalized
Identical
Into the terrific Nirvana
Me you --- you --- me
Mina Loy
#33. Aghast, Yasmeen gaped at her before looking to the duke. It's worse than I thought. Not just the Horde, not just the police- you're keeping company with someone who has principles.
Meljean Brook
#34. It's called evolution. You must know that. Yes, we are.'
She looked up from her book.
'I would hope, though,' she went on, 'that we also have some rather more beautiful ancestors. Don't you?'
Mina
David Almond
#35. I'd rather have Daniel Boulud have 20 restaurants than some restauranteur. It's going to make the food in our country better.
Michael Mina
#36. It's all chaos and the house is occasionally filthy but I get to stand at the school gates. Writers are so lucky to have that flexibility.
Denise Mina
#37. Women and taxes, the two great banes of any man's life.
Mina Carter
#38. Quatermain (while climbing down): We are above an abyss such as satan's own, Miss Murray.Pray not to look down.
Mina: And you, Sir, should not look up.You have me at a disadvantage and I trust you'll not misuse our situation.
Alan Moore
#39. I take after my mother more than my father in terms of personality. My mother's a worrier, and I'm a worrier. Both were very good with numbers and mathematics, so I kind of got that from both of them.
Michael Mina
#40. It's very hard to be cut off in Glasgow because it's such a small city. You know, we have the highest rate of per-capita imprisonment, certainly in Britain, maybe in Europe. We have a very high murder rate here. So most people will know someone who's been to prison.
Denise Mina
#41. I'm not much of a plotter. I start off with an inciting incident, and in classic crime fiction what happens is that all the action flows from that incident. It's very comfy when it all ties up and feels like a complete universe, but my stuff doesn't always work that way.
Denise Mina
#42. Hurry up, Mina. There's a dead body here for you! - Evaline
Colleen Gleason
#43. There's nothing or no one here that could possibly hurt the Fates - right, Mina?
Chanda Hahn
#44. There's always these giant baffling books, like 'The Da Vinci Code.' People say it's not as well written as 'Midnight's Children.' Why aren't people reading 'Midnight's Children?' Nobody knows why these phenomenons happen but they're great.
Denise Mina
#45. As Christina held my hand and Ms. Mina held Mama's, there was a moment - one heartbeat, one breath - where all the differences in schooling and money and skin color evaporated like mirages in a desert. Where everyone was equal, and it was just one woman, helping another. That
Jodi Picoult
#46. Leadership is not just about giving orders. It's about being prepared to put your body and soul on the line to protect those who look to you for command. Any leader who won't isn't worth the name.
Mina Carter
#47. We don't really go in for big family dinners, but Scottish people are famously confrontational. It's a cultural thing, so maybe we don't need to have them to clear the air. Also, traditional family food isn't as nice here so there's no payoff for traveling hundreds of miles.
Denise Mina
#48. I'm not going near anything that's going in the crack of his ass!
Mina Carter
#49. Because I write prose, when I sat down to write a comic, it feels like my brain's working differently. It actually feels like different bits of my head are springing into action.
Denise Mina
#50. Did you just call me a mutt?":
"Yes! Fur, paws..selective deafness. Just like my aunt's lab. He always ignores me unless I have food for him. So ... mutt.
Mina Carter
#51. There's a real emphasis on being witty in Scotland, even in crime novels.
Denise Mina
#52. At the worst it can only be death, and a man's death is not a calf's, and the dreaded Hereafter may still be open to me. God help me in my task! Goodbye, Mina, if I fail. Goodbye, my faithful friend and second father. Goodbye, all, and last of all Mina! Same
Bram Stoker
#53. Mina held her breath as Jared's eyes flickered between them, the longest pause in the history of long pauses.
Chanda Hahn
#54. Mina penned the jubilant words into her blue spiral notebook with her favorite ballpoint pen. She faithfully used the same pen when writing all of her entries in the hope that
Chanda Hahn
#55. Mina and I fear to be idle, so we have been over all the diaries again and again. Somehow, although the reality seem greater each time, the pain and the fear seem less.
Bram Stoker
#56. A man who thinks he has a higher purpose can do terrible things, even to those he professes to love.
Denise Mina
#57. And I had about a hundred friend requests. Shit was getting real.
Mina Vaughn
#58. LOVE of others is the appreciation of one's self. MAY your egotism be so gigantic that you comprise mankind in your self-sympathy.
Mina Loy
#60. Every time I find something redeeming about you the jerk side messes it up.
Mina Carter
#61. You have to always remember who your guest is, and that's who we cater to.
Michael Mina
#62. If Sean's voice is layers of wood, and Mina Ma's is the voice a copper pot, then Mathew Mercer's is the voice of a wild animal. I suddenly think of a movie Ammara and I loved when we were little, and I think of Scar, the lion who murdered his brother to become king. That kind of voice.
Sangu Mandanna
#63. Context overrides. In different contexts, cells do different things.
Mina Bissell
#64. The PPA had a lot of predator-type shifters. Their natural aggression and hardiness made them excellent operatives few wanted to take on in a fight.
Mina Carter
#65. My friend, we are not dressed for going into town," I insisted, heading him off in another direction.
"Why?" asked Insel in bewildered politeness. "You look as lovely as you always do.
Mina Loy
#66. Bringing your kids into the kitchen doesn't require you to be a top chef; only time and maybe a willingness to get a little messy.
Michael Mina
#67. His life had no meaning. It was intolerable. The last three decades had been a hollow waste of time. Hands
Denise Mina
#68. Truth and dreams are always getting muddled.
Mina
David Almond
#69. Lord Milles stands before the One God, now, Galdar," Mina said, "where we will all stand one day. It is not for us to judge him.
Margaret Weis
#70. In the best tradition of kidnapping, she appeared to be in some kind of run down warehouse. Sheesh, didn't the bad guys ever watch the movies?
Mina Carter
#71. I'm afraid you're going to have a rather boring couple of weeks, Mr. Smith. If I were you, I'd buy a couple of good books. You're going to need them.
Mina Carter
#72. I just didn't know where he'd come from.
Or, as Mina would no doubt say, from where he'd come.
Colleen Gleason
#73. The song was "I See the Light", another Tangled number. Aaron sang the male part of the duet, and Walter's friend Rose did a less-than-Mina soprano, but mostly the music fell away in the brilliant presence of the two young men on the dance floor.
Heidi Cullinan
#74. You wear your armor even to dinner, Lady Wilhelmina?"
"Of course I wear armor. I am sitting with a pirate, a mercenary, an adventurer, and a bounder. If a shot is not fired tonight, I daresay that your reputations are nothing but lies.
Meljean Brook
#75. And "Immortality"
mildews ...
in the museums of the moon
Mina Loy
#76. I love San Francisco; it's very hard to compete with San Francisco when it comes to availability of product, but one thing you can't replace about Las Vegas or Miami is people are walking in the door and they want to have a good time.
Michael Mina
#77. Sheesh, I'm surprised you've survived out here this long. Tell me, are you normal for a warrior or are you like a special day-release case or something?" "What?
Mina Carter
#79. The idea of suicide is of a very set narrative, as if killing yourself is a definitive statement. But it can be just as meaningless as throwing a stone in a river.
Denise Mina
#80. Later.
It is done. My will is made, and all complete. Mina if she survive is my sole heir. If it should not be so, then the others who have been so good to us shall have remainder.
Bram Stoker
#81. To have a very strong opinion all the time is corrosive to a person's intellect. It becomes your default position.
Denise Mina
#82. She studied his clothes, his top hat. "And you've just come from Parliament? How are you finding that?"
"It's much like piracy. You tell your enemies that if they don't fall in line, you'll leave them to die.
Meljean Brook
#83. In prose, leaps of logic can be made while the protagonist thinks about things and arrives at conclusions. Even with voiceover, there's no real way of having an inner voice without it taking over the entire story.
Denise Mina
#84. Lamont, like the judge?"
He tipped his head in embarrassment and looked away quickly. She smiled kindly at him. The two great sources of shame: privilege and penury.
Denise Mina
#85. I don't know if you call a burger 'recession food.' It's comfort food.
Michael Mina
#86. Anything and everything made her think about him. He was so much a part of her, embedded in her soul. [Mina and Diego]
Maria Grazia Swan
#87. Mina, trust me, it's better if we don't discuss this anymore. Words have power and it makes it that much easier for the Story to find you.
Chanda Hahn
#88. Ah, the meek. Playing the long game. Sneaky bastards.
Denise Mina
#89. With my earlier books, I got quite bored being with one protagonist all the way through. With the Alex Morrow books, I wanted to do something a bit more holistic, so there were lots of different points of view, and I wanted to look at aspects of crime that you don't tend to look at.
Denise Mina
#90. Why do you have a picture of my mentor, Siri, on the shelf above your fireplace? - Evaline.
...
That's not your mentor... That's my mother, Desiree. - Mina
Colleen Gleason
#91. There are a lot of bottlenecks to getting published. Publishers are only one of them. Having the time is another one. Feeling entitled is another one.
Denise Mina
#92. Even after everyone had gone home, the house was filled with the good time they'd had, as if it could linger in the air like the voices and music lingered in memory. Mina wrapped the memory up and put it in her heart; there was a quiet gladness, deep like a tree and tall in her
Cynthia Voigt
#93. I'm afraid that the gift of visiting the past is all that we have. We can revisit it, but only as it happened.
Karen Essex
#94. Mina felt as if she were on cloud nine and three-quarters,
Chanda Hahn
#95. It still stung, knowing that he would rather see me with someone else than give me my moment, but I had to be mature about it. It wasn't about me.
Mina V. Esguerra
#96. The part that I know I enjoy most is the restaurants. You can't do everything, you know? For me, the priority has been being deeply involved in my restaurants and figuring out different ways to make them run better.
Michael Mina
#97. The book I made it big with in the U.S. was my fourth book, 'Sanctum.' My novels sell really well both there and in Canada, so once a year I do a promotional tour, visiting a different city every two days, doing book readings and signings.
Denise Mina
#98. She came to find it meaningless, because it was as if that was the reason why people didn't bother to figure her out. She was attractive in that inaccessible way, and people seemed fine with it. "No,
Mina V. Esguerra
#99. Sorry, kitty, I think they're all out of balls of wool.
Mina Carter
#100. LOVE the hideous in order to find the sublime core of it.
Mina Loy
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