Velmie Quotes

#1. Sentimentality is a basking in feelings that in reality you don't take seriously enough to make the slightest sacrifice to or ever translate into action.

Hermann Hesse

#2. Traveling through the worlds gives you perspective. It makes you value what you have.

Claudia Gray

#3. I love when the darkness ends, don't you? Maybe that's the whole thing. Maybe I find so much breath taking beauty in the sunrise not so much because of what is starting, but more because of what it signals has ended.

Annie F. Downs

#4. Every man needs a blind eye and a deaf ear, so when people applaud, you'll only hear half of it, and when people salute, you'll only see part of it. Believe only half the praise and half the criticism.

Charles Spurgeon

#5. I've always tried to write the kind of book I most loved to read: character-centered adventure.

Lois McMaster Bujold

#6. Be self-indulgent, and those who are also self-indulgent will like you. Tear your neighbor to pieces, and the other neighbors will laugh. But if you beat your soul, all souls will cry out.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#7. A writer is bound to have varying degrees of success, and I think that that is partly an issue of how central the burden of the story is to the author's psyche.

John Hersey

#8. You have never felt the weight of disappointing love or of failing to live up to expectations. The only thing you've ever been is lonely by yourself-you have no idea how desperate it is to be lonely in the midst of people who love you, and whom you would have done anything to make happy..

Alma Alexander