Tania Aebi Quotes

#1. The key to writing successful YA is to keep the adults out of the story as much as possible.

Beverly Cleary

#2. Even in Sri Lanka, the worst only happened in my imagination, I'd say, and this is so because we live on a planet where good people outnumber bad.

Tania Aebi

#3. The person of Christ is to me the greatest and surest of all facts.

Philip Schaff

#4. ...unfortunately, I am incapable of thinking up perfectly biting, split-second retorts, in any language. The French even have a word for this: l'esprit de l'escalier; staircase wit, something you only think of on the way out.

Tania Aebi

#5. You are beyond worth and your potential to change is in your next thought.

Toni Sorenson

#6. Charter boats are like books with no covers.

Tania Aebi

#7. I think this is something we all can relate to: experiences that may start out as good ideas until suddenly, they become ordeals, no longer adventures, no matter the attitude.

Tania Aebi

#8. When God designed the Marquesas... he must have been high.

Tania Aebi

#9. 33% of urban traffic is actively seeking a parking space.

Donald Shoup

#10. You okay?" Fix asked her.
"Have to be," she said.

Jim Butcher

#11. ... no matter how we go about it, we are never poorer for the experiences that teach us how to write our own manuals.

Tania Aebi

#12. Tell your boss he can suck my cock," I say, shoving my chair back to stand up. "If he does a good enough job, maybe I won't blow his fucking brains out for calling me a thief.

J.M. Darhower

#13. Safety is an illusion and perhaps it's better to challenge it sometimes, to see how far we can go, to learn about the stuff we are made of.

Tania Aebi

#14. My soul,
how will I recognize you if we meet?

Anne Stevenson

#15. If God's grace and blessing only rest on Christians, we have a problem because there is no statistical difference between Christians and non-Christians in terms of fertility.

Jeremy Steele

#16. We must give Italians a sense of race.

Benito Mussolini

#17. If you think of someone enough, you're sure to meet them again.

Haruki Murakami

#18. Actually, I didn't start sweating until I had children.

Dave Grohl

#19. Man cannot live without joy; therefore when he is deprived of true spiritual joys it is necessary that he become addicted to carnal pleasures.

Thomas Aquinas

#20. It's only when you abandon your ambitions that they become possible.

Thomas Keneally

#21. ... beginnings are always reserved for anxiety, middles are for experience, problems and troubleshooting, and only once the beginning and middle have been combined to form a past can room be made for the ending, and relief.

Tania Aebi