Runaway King Quotes

#1. I need a sword first," I said. "People here keep taking mine.

Jennifer A. Nielsen

#2. Cancer is the worst way for a fictional wife to die.

Adam Johnson

#3. When my father died in Greece, leaving my mother strapped, a cheque arrived next day from my Greek publishers who'd just bought two of my books for pounds 500.

Emma Tennant

#4. She must have been a nurse. She looked a few years older than me. Pretty. Naturally pretty, the type that's still attractive, even more so, when she's filthy.

Ruta Sepetys

#5. You probably have to split yourself in various ways just in order to survive, and to think of yourself as a multitude.

Vijay Seshadri

#6. Never. I wouldn't trade one day I've spent married to Clarisse for even an hour of being single again. I need Clarisse like I need air.

Nicole Clark

#7. Humbling as it may be, for all our vaunted brain power, humans emerge as nothing special in the sensory sweepstakes. Our senses of vision, hearing, smell, taste, and touch are middling, at best.

Jonathan Balcombe

#8. We've been married almost a year, and I've known you for two, but I've never met one of your colleagues," Rebecca said. "They would bore you,

Ken Follett

#9. Maybe I'll have something out by Christmas, maybe not. I don't know, I'm really trying to take my time and do what feels right. (about the next step in her music career)

Jennifer Lopez

#10. I feel like it's important to be flexible, particularly when I'm coming in late in the game and I'm connective tissue in the story. I'm not at the very center. It's important for me to have a certain kind of flexibility and try to help people do what they need to do.

Willem Dafoe

#11. You can't let your personal disposition be dictated by the world around you.

Greg Graffin

#12. 14Then Jesus called to the crowd to come and hear. "All of you listen," he said, "and try to understand. 15It's not what goes into your body that defiles you; you are defiled by what comes from your heart.*

Anonymous

#13. By thinking mostly about everything that has gone wrong, is going wrong, and can possibly go wrong, the thinker is bound to end up in a lousy mental and emotional state.

Gudjon Bergmann

#14. (To illustrate from) the case of all females: - the female always overcomes the male by her stillness.

Lao-Tzu

#15. He struggled wildly and got one hand free just as a fist looped down into his face like a runaway moon.

Stephen King

#16. This is where the runaway train started down the track. I was inside the dining car enjoying a plate of cookies or something. I didn't feel it then. But the train had been boarded on Saturday night when we drank the bat. And this was the beginning of its journey. Right here.

A.S. King

#17. He was the son of his son
he was here, he was left behind.

Colum McCann