Top 40 Quotes About Liesl
#1. She liked the word ineffable because it meant a feeling so big or vast that it could not be expressed in words.
And yet, because it could not be expressed in words, people had invented a word to express it, and that made Liesl feel hopeful, somehow.
Lauren Oliver
#2. Po flickered. "Thank you?" it repeated. "What is that?"
Liesl thought. "It means, You were wonderful," she said. "It means, I couldn't have done it without you.
Lauren Oliver
#3. Liesl knew then that Po had been lying. The ghost did miss the living side. She understood then, too, that everyone drowns differently; and that for everyone, even ghosts, there is a different kind of air.
Lauren Oliver
#4. Maybe destiny isn't something that just happens. Maybe destiny is something you do. Maybe destiny is like a seed and it grows.
Liesl Shurtliff
#5. Names are powerful and so is destiny, but a person's will is more powerful than both put together.
Liesl Shurtliff
#6. It's all the things in the middle that make a person special.
Liesl Shurtliff
#7. Life is like a story. It doesn't mean anything if it doesn't end.
Liesl Shurtliff
#8. Love is the bridge that spans the world above and below, and keeps the wheel of life turning.
S. Jae-Jones
#9. Loss is the shocking catalyst of transformation.
Aspen Matis
#10. Rhymes make me feel better when I'm down ... When you say the words and the sounds match, it feels like everything in the world is in its place and whatever you say is powerful and true.
Liesl Shurtliff
#11. Life would be awfully grim and glum if I couldn't laugh at myself.
Liesl Shurtliff
#12. It's difficult to tell how much time is really passing when you're hungry and bored.
Liesl Shurtliff
#13. Sometimes we have to fall down before we can stand up.
Liesl Shurtliff
#14. Just as people laugh at a name like Rump, they fear a name like Red. Red is not a name. It's a color, an evil color. What kind of destiny does that bring?
Liesl Shurtliff
#15. Yes, I know liberals are more empirical because Jonathan Chait says they are, but my empirical studies of liberal empiricism keep spitting out contradictory findings.
Jonah Goldberg
#16. Philip's words. Though the story was by now well known to him, still it held a powerful resonance. What he saw and heard was not merely a retelling of the Lord's coming, but rather the fulfillment of words written centuries before by their most revered prophet.
Davis Bunn
#17. Once there was a little girl who played her music for a little boy in the wood. She was small and dark, he was tall and fair, and the two of them made a fancy pair as they danced together, dancing to the music the little girl heard in her head.
S. Jae-Jones
#18. He was in love, very much in love; and it was a love which, operating on an active, sanguine spirit, of more warmth than delicacy, made her affection appear of greater consequence, because it was witheld, and determined him to have the glory, as well as the felicity of forcing her to love him.
Jane Austen
#19. Home is a place to get out of the rain
It cradles the hurt and mends the pain
And no one cares about your name
Or the height of your head
Or the size of your brain
Liesl Shurtliff
#20. The last night of the year," Constanze said. "Now the days of winter begin and the Goblin King rides abroad, searching for his bride.
S. Jae-Jones
#21. I didn't think meanness was ever in anyone's destiny. Meanness was a choice.
Liesl Shurtliff
#22. And that's its own kind of magic - to feel that people who are gone are still here.
Liesl Shurtliff
#24. I started doing standup when I was in college, and I would incorporate a lot of characters into my act.
Roger Craig Smith
#25. Your music," he said at last. "Your music was the only thing that kept me sane, that kept me human instead of a monster.
S. Jae-Jones
#26. All magic has consequences, Rump. Even small magic can have big consequences.
Liesl Shurtliff
#27. When I recognize I've got anger, then I realize it's because I have a need that's not being met.
Marshall B. Rosenberg
#28. Funny, that we always told stories with wolves and beasts and demons as villains, but in real life it seemed the humans were always the worst enemies. You could be your own villain.
Liesl Shurtliff
#30. Global environmentalists have said and written enough to leave no doubt that their goal is to destroy the prosperous economies of the world's richest nations.
Russell Kirk
#31. In the end we are all separate: our stories, no matter how similar, come to a fork and diverge. We are drawn to each other because of our similarities, but it is our differences we must learn to respect.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#32. That was so completely unfair that I told Tantalus to go chase a donut, which didn't help his mood.
Rick Riordan
#33. What would be enough? He had an answer he wanted to hear, but I withheld it. Games and more games. We would always be dancing with each other, the Goblin King and I.
S. Jae-Jones
#34. We have to believe that by engaging in dialogue with the other person, we have the possibility of making a change within ourselves, that we can become deeper.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#36. I think I look very healthy. You've already seen what I've eaten, so I couldn't be anorexic, and I wouldn't throw up if you paid me $1,000, so I'm not bulimic. Okay, for $1,000 I would stick my finger down my throat, but throwing up is the worst thing in the world.
Courteney Cox
#37. I woke with my name singing in my ears. It was a beautiful sound, music unlike any in the world. It made me wish that everything could have such a name. Not just people, but animals and villages, and roads and kingdoms, even mountains.
Liesl Shurtliff
#38. A stiltskin is magic at its greatest. Pure magic, un-meddled-with and more powerful than any enchantment or spell.
Liesl Shurtliff
#39. A living cell requires energy not only for all its functions, but also for the maintenance of its structure.
Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
#40. It's hard not to feel guilty when starving people bring you food.
Liesl Shurtliff
