Sing Sweet Nightingale Quotes

#1. You know the phrase 'hard to get'?" K.T. asks.

"Yeah."

"Forget hard to get. Chasing Mari would be like Mission: Impossible.

Erica Cameron

#2. Sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest

Gaston Bachelard

#3. K.T. sighs. If you mess with her head, I'll personally hunt you down, but otherwise, good luck. If you can get her to talk, you're a freaking miracle worker. Hell, if you can get her to actually smile, her parents might throw you a party.

Erica Cameron

#4. Holy shit. I'm a Smurf.

Erica Cameron

#5. And finally, it was the place where Father made the crates for those items of our household that we were allowed take with us to our future home in the Reich.

John Tschinkel

#6. I tell myself I have time. But the itch forming along the back of my neck and across my shoulders says otherwise.
I hate this. It's like I'm racing a clock ticking down to doomsday without knowing how much time I have left.

Erica Cameron

#7. Horace's eyes get wide, and he glances between me and the house. "Every time I think I got a grip on this crazy shit going on in your head, I realize I don't know the half of it, do I?"
My eyes tracing the red trim of the house, I shake my head. "Not even close.

Erica Cameron

#8. To deny that there was this dark side of life would be like pretending that the cold of winter was somehow only a temporary illusion, a way station on the way to the higher "reality" of long, warm, pleasant summers. But summer, it turned out, was no more real than the snow that melted in wintertime.

David Guterson

#9. Glancing at the time on my phone, I cringe. Midnight. The witching hour. This was when Calease always came for me.
I hate midnight.

Erica Cameron

#10. After all the shit that went down with Calease, I hate sleeping the way some people hate airplanes. Or small, dark spaces. Or spiders. Or being on an airplane in a small, dark space filled with spiders.

Erica Cameron

#11. The world should be full of Josh Bennetts. But it's not. I had the only one. And I threw him away.

Katja Millay

#12. Don't be stupider than you need to be, I remind myself. Remember Calease? The last glowing girl you talked to tried to kill you.

Erica Cameron

#13. I'll be judged on the body of work and not the popularity of any one decision.

Kamala Harris

#14. Stable happiness doesn't come from getting everything we want, because we never will; true happiness comes from wanting whatever we get.

Dan Millman

#15. I'm getting used to the fact that you find me incredibly forgettable.

Erica Cameron

#16. Be direct and sure of the path you tread, but not so sure that you pass the paths better suited to your feet, brother.

Erica Cameron

#17. Everything we are afraid to try, all our unfulfilled dreams, constitute a limitation on what we are and could become.

Gordon Livingston

#18. A true Christian militant attacks systems of oppression and fights for a better world even though that new world might negatively affect their own position of power.

Peter Rollins

#19. There are many religious points of view where the conservation of the world is just as important as it is to scientists.

Richard Dawkins

#20. I seem to always inspire a strong reaction one way or the other.

Nathan Lane

#21. My gaze lands on the digital clock on my nightstand as it flicks to 12:01 AM. Hours spent in Orane's world, and one minute has passed in mine.

Erica Cameron

#22. Then all the charm
Is broken
all that phantom-world so fair
Vanishes, and a thousand circlets spread,
And each mis-shape the other.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge