Nicole Sobon Quotes

#1. He's safe, I repeated to myself over and over again. But even I knew it wasn't the truth. For now he was safe, but they'd find him. Eventually they'd find him, they always do. I was supposed to protect him. I was supposed to keep him alive. Instead I'd brought him directly into the lion's pit.

Nicole Sobon

#2. Sometimes the hardest part isn't letting go but rather learning to start over.

Nicole Sobon

#3. It never ceased to amaze me just how fast one could lose everything.

Nicole Sobon

#4. Be truly whole, and all things will return to you.

Laozi

#5. As much as I hated the silence, I also found a small part of me that appreciated it. Because, even for just a brief moment, it allowed me to escape the chaos that surrounded me. Silence, as unnerving as it was, was also rather beautiful.

Nicole Sobon

#6. There is no way of stopping death, not here. You can prolong it. But at some point, it is bound to catch up to you.

Nicole Sobon

#7. It was easy to believe in anything when you were desperate enough ...

Nicole Sobon

#8. The thing about the truth was that it sometimes tore apart the perfect world we forced ourselves into believing existed.

Nicole Sobon

#9. I had an unfortunate habit of allowing my anger to blind me. An extremely unfortunate habit. Glate knew that, and he knew how to stop me from doing something stupid. He was my sense of reality in a world thrown off balance. But he wasn't here now.

Nicole Sobon

#10. There are a million great books out there if you just go to Google. There's a lot to pull apart. A lot of crazy, unbelievable stuff that's all completely true. I get into little obsessions, and I read everything I can find on one thing, and then I move onto another.

Caitlin Kittredge

#11. One of my modeling bookers told me that the most important thing is to try to be vigilant about taking care of yourself. Get sleep, don't be afraid to trim your hair even if you're trying to grow it out, don't bite your fingernails, and stay in shape. A lot of it is in the little things.

Julia Jones

#12. If I present a boring personal life to my readers, it's going to be harder for them to think of my novels as thrilling.

M.J. Rose

#13. My past is trying to catch up to me and I must continue run from it. It's the only way I can live.

Nicole Sobon

#14. I have never thought of Angelina Jolie except the last time I saw one of her movies. I think that was years ago. It is so far away from the place I'm in right now to think of think of any celebrity.

Nadya Suleman

#15. Perhaps," Mg. Katter cut in, "she's finally gotten smart. In and out, job done."
Mg. Hughes said, "No. Not her." He paused. "She knows Emery is critical to the syndicate, they all do. He's personally invested in it. That, and she's always kept a . . . keen . . . interest in him.

Charlie N. Holmberg

#16. Hope could be a devastating emotion if you allowed it to control you.
But it was a risk that I was willing to take.

Nicole Sobon

#17. George Bush's political, intellectual and other shortcomings cannot be restricted to one sentence.

Emilio Botin

#18. I think when one's working, one works between absolute confidence and absolute doubt, and I got a huge dallop of each.

Malcolm Gladwell

#19. Wait. Was that a thank you, or a lecture?" I stared back at Ramona, eyebrows raised.
"A bit of both, I suppose." She laughed. "Just do not do anything that stupid again. Got it?"
"Would you believe me if I swore to you that I wouldn't anything stupid, ever again?"
"Not for a second.

Nicole Sobon

#20. Just as I allowed them to live in my mind, I allowed them to die.

Nicole Sobon

#21. The crowning blessing of life-to be born with a bias to some pursuit.

Evelyn Beatrice Hall

#22. I closed my eyes, seeking a moment of peace but finding none. Behind my eyelids, an entirely new nightmare was waiting. This wasn't another haunting memory. This was a new form of torture.

Nicole Sobon

#23. This cell was a form of hell. I was trapped in my past, unable to escape my mistakes, forced to relive them each time a new body was brought in.
It was tortuous, and so much like my uncle.

Nicole Sobon

#24. People screw up. People screw up a lot. We allow our own selfishness to overpower us at times. It happens. But you can't allow that to tear you down. You can't keep dwelling on your past choices, and your past actions, or else you'll never learn from them.

Nicole Sobon

#25. For one last time, I said my goodbyes to the place I'd known as home for the last decade, and for the first time, I welcomed the unknown.

Nicole Sobon

#26. I knew it was a terrible idea. We were supposed to be leaving our past behind us, not fully embracing it. But she was a part of my past that I wanted to hold onto. She was my only reminder of Tommy, my only remaining connection. I couldn't let that die, not yet.

Nicole Sobon

#27. You love them, even though they're gone. In order to love you need to live, if you give up on life you can no longer love. You'd no longer have the capability to love them.

Nicole Sobon

#28. How could you explain to someone that sometimes it was not worth living in the past when the past was all that they had worth living for?

Nicole Sobon