Nadja Abd Quotes

#1. I think inspiration is strongest when I find a balance between observation and participation. You can't write about what it means to dance by watching from the bleachers.

Chelsey Philpot

#2. Pain has been with him since birth - the universe's gift to a poet ...

Dan Simmons

#3. Holy shit . . . They'd joined the war.

J.R. Ward

#4. Human rationality depends critically on sophisticated emotionality. It is only because our emotional brain works so well that our reasoning can work at all.

Jonathan Haidt

#5. The sun kept on with its slipping away, and I thought how many small good things in the world might be resting on the shoulders of something terrible.

Carol Rifka Brunt

#6. Books connect us with others, but that connection is created in solitude, one reader in one chair hearing one writer, what John Irving refers to as one genius speaking to another.

Lewis Buzbee

#7. Only a woman who had killed a man in battle was allowed to give up her virginity.

Stieg Larsson

#8. Through career fumbles and life changes, she supported me. Through shattered dreams and hopes almost-realized, she supported me too.

Shannon Celebi

#9. One of the things he likes about Justineau is her seriousness. He frigging flatout hates frivolous, thoughtless people who dance across the surface of the world without looking down.

M.R. Carey

#10. Blunt the knives.
Bend the forks.
Smash the bottles and burn the corks.
Chip the glasses and crack the plates.
That's what Bilbo Baggins hates!

J.R.R. Tolkien