Powerless Book Quotes

#1. Sylvia smiled at her like a wily fox.

Tasha Blue

#2. It ain't brave if you ain't scared.

Victor J. Banis

#3. But you didn't try it with Maddox. The inner voice refused to shut up. That could be you. Someone to text. Someone to make your favorite foods. Someone in your bed. Someone to bring home surprises to. Someone to go places with. Never walk into a gathering alone again. That could be you happy. Fuck.

Annabeth Albert

#4. Emptying the ashtrays was very expressive of myself. I just lump everything in a great heap which I have labeled 'the past,' and having thus emptied this deep reservoir that was once myself, I am ready to continue.

Zelda Fitzgerald

#5. But the lust for power never dies- men cannot have enough.
No one will lift a hand to send it from his door, to give it warning, 'Power, never come again!

Aeschylus

#6. Life must be savored, not rushed. Let me savor your soft warmth."

(Eagan,"A Veil of Glass and Rain")

Petra F. Bagnardi

#7. They tied me back together, but they didn't use double knots. My insides are draining out of the fault lines in my skin, I can feel it, but every time I check the bandages, they're dry.

Laurie Halse Anderson

#8. We are all spiritually powerless, however, and not just those physically addicted to a substance, which is why I address this book to everyone.

Richard Rohr

#9. Strange how everyone tried to disguise truth with nonsense. Like the slang for death: kicking the bucket, wiped out, snuffed, wasted, blown away. The light touch to dispel the heavy fear.

Robert Bloch

#10. It's extreme. The character comes back from the dead, and, at first he doesn't know where he is, how he got there ... How does that tie in with the physicality? I just didn't think he should be too healthy-looking, so I lost some weight for the role.

Brandon Lee

#11. 'Cyber-security' is one of those hot topics that has launched a thousand seminars and strategy papers without producing much in the way of policy.

David Ignatius

#12. I write about characters that interest me. And I don't think of my books as being forms of entertainment.

Jhumpa Lahiri

#13. Well, chaos was not unfamiliar to him. In daily life, his emotions were chaos. He let himself become a vessel for them, letting feeling roar through him, pulling him around like a kite, boiling him like water in a kettle, dissolving him in a whirl of elements.

Mary Gaitskill