Top 41 Nuala Quotes
#1. Nuala, can we just have, like, a cease-fire? I mean, you can go back to calling me an ass and trying to lure me to my death tomorrow and I'll go back to treating you like a psychotic bitch and researching ways to exorcise you in the morning, but seriously, can we just have a cease-fire for tonight?
Maggie Stiefvater
#2. But this upland pass was the right place for remembering how, when I was young, I learned to feel for the harshness underneath every soft appearance.
Nuala O'Faolain
#4. Houses are one of my passions. I probably should have been an interior decorator.
Gene Tierney
#5. Were not a festival band, playing during the day was something we had to get over, I was like uhh this sun stuff kind of sucks
Gerard Way
#6. My life burned inside me. Even such as it was, it was the only record of me, and it was my only creation, and something in me would not accept that it was insignificant.
Nuala O'Faolain
#7. The most important dreams occur while people are fully awake.
Mardy Grothe
#8. I've been waiting for you forever."
"Forever' as in several hundred years, or forever as in since my lesson began?
Maggie Stiefvater
#9. There was only one possible answer, as plain as it was disturbing.
That she was not, in fact, human.
Laini Taylor
#10. There was nothing between the man and me - - nothing, not even liking. But because of the memory of some wholeness, or the hope of some regeneration, I would have dropped whatever I'd planned, just to go back to scratching around on his bed.
Nuala O'Faolain
#11. My mind has changed. My strength has not.
Kamahl
#12. Do the thing that's less passive. Do the active thing. There's more of the human in that.
Nuala O'Faolain
#13. The 'New York Times' reviews of my work have been evenly divided - favourable and unfavourable.
Zubin Mehta
#14. When the heat and motion of blind impulses and passions distract it on all sides, we can neither give nor receive anything truly. But when we find our centre in our soul by the power of self-restraint, by the force that harmonizes all warring element
Rabindranath Tagore
#16. A bugler sounded the Last Post. Heartbreak made audible.
Nuala O'Faolain
#17. And then she fell, from standing, foot-fins together, straight into the wavelets, where she was now seal, and she flung herself down toward the deeper water.
Margo Lanagan
#18. She sees tall, sensible Eleanor sitting out on a terrace at twilight, with bats circling above her head. She sees the Pargiter family rising and falling through the decades like swimmers battling the waves.'
Summer Lies Bleeding
Nuala Casey
#19. Permanence, I once copied down from a magazine, is what we all want when we can love and can be loved; change is what we want when we cannot.
Nuala O'Faolain
#21. My desk was a present from Margaret Atwood.
After Zen and the Art of Uterus Maintenance
sold its first million, she said I needed a place
to write, other than the local bus-shelter.
Nuala Ni Chonchuir
#22. In any case, I would prefer to read something I don't enjoy than do almost anything else. I like the act of reading itself. Following the line of something - not just the story but the rhythm, the tone, the feel of what has accumulated from before and what is beginning to impend ...
Nuala O'Faolain
#23. This is life, in all its gruesome, lovely, neon-lit glory.
Nuala Casey
#24. Numbers are the only things you can trust in this life, Kerstin; they will keep you sane.'
Summer Lies Bleeding
Nuala Casey
#26. They're fathers second, Jimmy said. They're men first.
Nuala O'Faolain
#27. The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
#28. I tried to picture her in a class, any class, anywhere on campus, and failed miserably. I pictured her frolicking in a forest glade around some guy she'd just sacrificed to a heathen god. That image worked way better.
Maggie Stiefvater
#29. When I stay with the couple who are my closest friends, I hear them laughing and talking in bed, and sometimes in the middle of the night one of them goes down and makes tea, and when the clock goes off in the morning, they start again, talking to each other.
Nuala O'Faolain
#30. But sometimes it's the sunshine that frightens us more than the big black shadows.
Megan Hart
#31. When I was young, I learned to feel for the harshness under every soft appearance.
Nuala O'Faolain
#32. I did believe, from my experience of life and of looking at the world, that men hated women.
Nuala O'Faolain
#33. Though it seemed trivial, now, to describe a place as if what is was, was what I could see of it.
Nuala O'Faolain
#35. If there were nothing else, reading would
obviously
be worth living for.
Nuala O'Faolain
#36. Hough silence must add intensity to your intimate moments, it must also shrivel your soul to lie beside someone who doesn't talk to you.
Nuala O'Faolain
#37. I'm usually working either on a picture book and a young adult book, or a middle grade book and a young adult book. When I get bored with one, I move to the other, and then I go back.
Jacqueline Woodson
#38. What makes a woman into a doormat? What makes her see some quite ordinary other person as a looming Goliath? And are not these relationships such an outrage to reality that they cannot last a lifetime?
Nuala O'Faolain
#39. Lovers are allowed to be as cruel as anything to the one who dissappoints them.
Nuala O'Faolain
#40. Part of the art of survival as a coward is not letting things get to the point where that cowardice is exposed.
Mark Lawrence
#41. Americans are really obsessed with their teeth being white and straight, aren't they? I saw this little girl the other day with one of those whole head braces. Elastic all the way around! How traumatizing for a child to have to wear one of those! You look like a monster.
Kate Moss
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