Nikki Dalgarno > Nikki's Quotes

“we are only what we always were”
― Arthur Miller, The Crucible

“Do you wish me a good morning, or mean that it is a good morning whether I want it or not; or that you feel good this morning; or that it is a morning to be good on?”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again

“A child's spirit is like a child, you can never catch it by running after it; you must stand still, and, for love, it will soon itself come back.”
― Arthur Miller, The Crucible

“...an everlasting funeral marches round your heart.”
― Arthur Miller, The Crucible

“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“The marks humans leave are too often scars.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“Never say goodbye because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting.”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

“To live will be an awfully big adventure.”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

“Sir, with no intention to take offence, I deny your right to put words into my mouth.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island

“Dead men don't bite”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island

“You have nice manners for a thief and a liar," said the dragon.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again

“But a word once spoken who can recapture it?”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, Kidnapped

“What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“Fiction is the truth inside the lie.”
― Stephen King

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

“It just shows anyone can make something and something can always make you.”
― Keiran Jamie Lee

“The pain of Mother was the pain of mine ,the umbilical cord reappearing to the invisible but hearty seen connection between mother and son.”
― Kieran Jamie Lee, Igloos in the Summer

“Life is not about negativity of people; life is about the goodwill of others, the positive aspects the desired dreams.”
― Kieran Jamie Lee, Igloos in the Summer

“I am here, you are there and together we live on.”
― Kieran Jamie Lee, Igloos in the Summer

“We all judge others secretly, it is part of human nature.”
― Kieran Jamie Lee, Igloos in the Summer

“Life is not about how others see it; it is about how you feel it, how you approach it and how you play it, Be bold,be different and be you. Forget how people expect you to play it out; it is your game, your rules.”
― Kieran Jamie Lee, Igloos in the Summer

“I am writing yesterday as tomorrow, tomorrow as yesterday and today as now.”
― Kieran Jamie Lee, Igloos in the Summer

“It just shows anyone can make something and something can always make you”
― Kieran Jamie Lee, Igloos in the Summer

“why should you be someone you are not when you can be you”
― Kieran Jamie Lee, Igloos in the Summer

“Sometimes I think that maybe we are just stories. Like we may as well just be words on a page, because we're only what we've done and what we are going to do.”
― Jodi Lynn Anderson, Tiger Lily

“For the girls with messy hair and thirsty hearts.”
― Jodi Lynn Anderson, Tiger Lily

“It's the injustice that I hate, more than anything," he'd said to Smee one night, his eyes red and glassy, slurring his words, his head lolling as he tried to focus. He'd vomited, and then promptly passed out on a bush. "I hate the world that does not work out fair.”
― Jodi Lynn Anderson, Tiger Lily

“He tousled Baby's hair, then looked up at Tiger Lily. "The woods have rules." He put Baby down gingerly in his trough with his bottle. "But the rules are ugly."
"It's nature," she said, thoughtfully.
"I have a lot of disagreements with nature," he said, looking confused, and his downy brow wrinkled over his eyes.”
― Jodi Lynn Anderson, Tiger Lily

“If there was a true moment that Tiger Lily fell so in love with Peter she could never turn back, it was that night, when he shivered and walked and told her he was warm, and told her he loved her so much. She was fierce, to be sure, but she had a girl's heart, after all. As she walked home that night, she was shaking from the largeness of it. I didn't know why she seemed so sad and happy and the same time. To love someone was not what she had expected. It was like falling from somewhere up and breaking in half, and only one person having the secret to the puzzle of putting her back together.”
― Jodi Lynn Anderson