Verse Novel Quotes

#1. Stars crown the world, she said, but the lights in your eyes, those are stars, too.
They make up your crown, he said.

Jeannine Atkins

#2. Let's give our slave a big dream. A big future.

Stasia Ward Kehoe

#3. Forget the soul. No such ghost in the machine. What happens to our mind befalls our body also. The condition of the body is also the state of the mind.

Salman Rushdie

#4. The demand that I make of my reader is that he should devote his whole life to reading my works.

James Joyce

#5. Rigour and ruthlessness do not preclude sympathy with another's point of view.

Kiran Nagarkar

#6. I told graduates to not be afraid to fail, and I still believe that. But today I tell you that whether you fear it or not, disappointment will come. The beauty is that through disappointment you can gain clarity, and with clarity comes conviction and true originality.

Conan O'Brien

#7. Youth wrenches the sceptre from old age, and sets the crown on its own head before it is entitled to it.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#8. Thank God there are places
with sounds that make me cry
from beauty,
not from pain.

Stasia Ward Kehoe

#9. over the centuries Dante has been variously "constructed" - as lover, statesman, neo-Platonist, proto-Protestant, Romantic visionary, Byronic hero, Pre-Raphaelite, father of his country, theologian in verse, precursor of the modern novel, and, finally, altissimo poeta, the consummate poet.

Peter S. Hawkins

#10. Believe it or not, I sold my first novel, 'Crank,' with only seventy-five pages complete. It was in verse then, and it was hard-hitting then.

Ellen Hopkins

#11. She didn't want to run, period. It made her breasts feel like they were going to detach from her body.

Rainbow Rowell

#12. I call them sacred echoes because I noticed that throughout my relationships, daily life, and study, the same scripturally sound idea or phrase or word will keep reappearing until I can no longer avoid its presence. -The Sacred Echo

Margaret Feinberg

#13. I never even considered writing a career option. I just liked the play of words. I was certainly interested in story, but the stories I was telling then were in narrative verse and prose poems, short and succinct, except for one novel-length poem written in narrative couplets.

Charles De Lint

#14. I calculate the breadth of Steven's shoulders, now wider than mine;
watch him tear open the Blokus game he likes to play with me after school;
count the hours between now and Dad coming home to take over
and I am only a little afraid
of the night.

Stasia Ward Kehoe

#15. I play the music of Steven
for Steven;
ragged, helpless,
it owns me, enveloping me
with an incomprehensible love -

Stasia Ward Kehoe

#16. We all know that the Disney brand is our most valuable asset. It is the sum total of our seventy-five years in business, of our reputation, of everything that we stand for.

Michael Eisner

#17. Don't talk to me any more about poetry for months
unless it is other men's work. I really love verse, even rubbish. But I'm fearfully busy at a novel, and brush all the gossamer of verse off my face.

D.H. Lawrence

#18. Marvin wasn't a beat-box gangsta-rapper-bitch, but a stressed invalid in a town not equipped with ramps.

Jonathan Dunne

#19. I made the first cut razor thin. A gentle kiss on virgin skin.

Madeleine Kuderick

#20. The dusty library air is electric with secrets/ almost palpable in the thick quiet that bounces between/ Cal and those books and me

Stasia Ward Kehoe

#21. Vampire Diaries instead of Supernatural?
(Bad choice.)

Madeleine Kuderick