Margaret Stohl Quotes

You need books to read and readers for books.

It's not easy to be Light when you've been Dark. It's almost too much to ask anyone.
-Macon Ravenwood

There are a lot of things we choose not to see. Doesn't mean they aren't there, even if we wish they weren't.
Charlie

I haven't left a mark on the world, but is that so bad? Considering how deeply the world has marked me?

So yeah... They say you can never go home again, but it's not true. You can go all you want... You just can't expect it to be any different once you get there.

I didn't feel very powerful. as a matter of fact, with every word, it got harder and harder to breathe. I couldn't pretend any longer, and now a great hopelessness rose inside me, an uncontrollable tide... and as it threatened to swallow me... I threatened to let it.

Anyone who says that writing for children or teens is easier than writing for adults has never tried it, because they are so much more critical than adults. You cannot get anything past them.

I first read Harper Lee's 'To Kill a Mockingbird' as a teen in school, like you did. I read the book alone, eating lunch at my locker, neatly scored oranges my mother divided into five lines with a circle at the top, so my fingers could dig more easily into the orange skin. To this day, the smell of oranges reminds me of 'Mockingbird.'

It's like how science fiction in the '50s was a way of talking about war without actually having to risk any political capital. The obvious metaphor is power and powerlessness, but I also think it's a way of experimenting with dangerous feelings in a safe arena and trying things out.

I grew up sitting in my closet waiting to go Narnia.

And what do I know about humans? Only this: My name is Doloria Maria de la Cruz, and I'm not just the end of childhood. I'm the end of humanity. And if you come from the skies- I'm coming for you.

I was raised in a community of Christian orthodoxy that had traveled with my parents to Los Angeles when they moved there for my father's job.

There are reasons you don't live with your parents once you've grown up. The criminal should never return to the crime scene. All the evidence is still there.

When you're alive, you don't dwell on how you're going to spend your time once you're dead. You just figure you're gone, and the rest will pretty much take care of itself. Or you think you're not really going to die. You're going to be the first person in the history of the world who doesn't have to. Maybe that's some kind of lie our brains tell us to keep us from going crazy while we're alive.

I worked as a writer, lead designer, and creative director in the game industry.

There was no one color that could paint Lena Duchannes. She was a red sweater and a blue sky, a gray wind and a silver sparrow, a black curl escaping from behind her ear.

Perhaps there is something more frightening than love itself.

But I knew no one. I was alone. No one cared. You might as well have left me to die."
"You didn't, did you?"
"Die? No, I didn't. No thanks to you. Now I know I can only depend on myself."
"Exactly." Natasha shrugged. "You're welcome."
Ava didn't respond.
Natasha sat down next to her. "Such Russian problems." She settled her back against the wall. "I know you're angry. Be as angry as you want. But no matter how you feel, we need to get out of here. Fair enough?"
"Why should I do anything you say?"
"Because you can trust me."
"Are you crazy? You're the one person I can't trust. You taught me not to trust you."
"No. I taught you not to trust anyone," Natasha said. "And that's something everyone has to learn. Especially every girl." She sounded as stubborn as Ava felt.

There's a lot of loneliness in a book tour. A lot of grilled cheese sandwiches alone in your hotel at night.

I used to think about how alike we all are. The human race, those of us who survived. Then I thought, if the stories were true and there were other Icon Children - if I met any - we would understand each other perfectly, the way Ro and I so often do.

The truth? What do you know about the truth? You're so good at lying you don't even know when you're lying to yourself.

When I first met you, that's what I remember. I looked up at the sky and thought, I'm going to love this person because even the sky looks different.

There wasn't an asteroid big enough to punch. Not this time. Not even the moon.

Ro winks. "I forgive you, Dol-face."
Then, without a word, he takes off running and I have no choice but to follow.

If you keep acting like an idiot and don't get yourself straight, someone's gonna get HURT because of it.

Getting books out into the world helps us all.

I guess this was what it felt like to love someone and feel like you had lost them. Even when you were still holding them in your arms.

Enough!" Romanoff barked. "Look around you. You're on a military transport. Nobody's flirting. S.H.I.E.L.D. does not run a dating service." "Well," Coulson said, "technically it's frowned upon, but I'd be lying if - " Romanoff glared at Coulson, and he fell silent.

Harper Lee was my David Bowie, and I feel her loss in my bones.

The business of the dead belongs to the living.

I'm always excited to see my good buddy Richelle Mead. She cracks me up. I never get to see Veronica Roth enough, either.

In the end, the Wheel crushes us all.

These things are difficulties, not impossibilities.
Macon

Sam and Dean Winchester sitting on the top of the Impala sharing their feelings over a beer is a reward worth driving any 'Supernatural' demon away - but in real life, they'd have crippling co-dependency issues.

I think, to give our bookshelf a little credit, our area of the library and the bookstore has attracted stronger writers as it's started to thrive.

It's a fallacy that people think that today's teenagers are shallow or somehow less intelligent than in the past.

When I... was little... I thought... No I knew my family wasn't perfect... But I thought love was.

Lucas motions to Ro's ears, where the blood is spattering down to his shoulders. "Let's just get this done before our heads explode." Ro considers him for a long moment, then hands him Tima's map.

Tony had started the evening off with his improvised Stark Quantum Detangler - quickly followed by a Stark Quantum Retangler - soon detouring into a little Stark Quantum Hypnotic Regulator, a Stark Quantum Rapid Eye Movement Stimulator, and a Stark Quantum Ultrasound Scanner. Basically, if Tony could put the words Stark or Quantum in front of it, he was game.

She yanked my plate away and took it to the sink. She rinsed some bones that looked like pork shoulder, which was weird since we'd had chicken tonight.

Great. So he's a genius. Fifty points for Ivanclaw.

For me a book has always been a chance to reach out and connect to someone and not be alone.

At heart, I would have to say I'm a pantser. I fully embrace the chaos of letting the unintended happen, on life and on the page.

I'm up at dawn. I practically fall asleep at dinner.

Sports section and a sticky bun. Know what that means.

My thief of junk. Climber of mountains. Builder of worlds.

I understand that fictional men aren't real. Not 'really real'. I know this the same way I wonder if my readers are disappointed when they meet me.

Alden Ehrenreich is a drama nerd, and Alice Englert is indie girl. They're so cool in the way that our characters are cool.

When you're with your family, the only fights you want to be having are -- yanno -- with your family. But things don't always work out that way... not when you're me.

I was an obsessive fantasy reader from the time I could read at all.

I like to make an outline or cards and then utterly ignore them.

Ant Prune was holding one of the squirrels in her hand. 'And once a day, we have ta clean their little private parts with a Q-tip, so they'll learn ta clean themselves.'
That was a visual I didn't need

ROMANOFF: A gun might as well shoot both ways at once, sir. You want to take out the person in the crosshairs? You have to get okay with taking out the person at the trigger. You don't get to choose.

People ask why do I write strong women characters, and basically, all the girls I know are strong; the girls I've had are strong. The women in my life are strong.

I know how it makes you feel ... peaceful, permanent, unbroken

...Only then will I teach you how to take a life - how and when and where." "And why?" Natasha had asked. She had been young, then, or she would have known better. ... He had laughed outright. "Not why, my Natashka. Never why. Why is for guitar players and Americans.

Old paper, which my mom used to say was the smell of time itself.

Everything I write is about big feelings. What I care about is trying to be brave enough to feel how you feel and to be emotionally true.

Her arms, wrapping around me like my own house, because she was the place I was from.

The privilege, and the challenges, of taking on Black Widow have never been lost on me. I worked on the first 'Spiderman' game as well as 'Fantastic Four,' and I had always wanted to be able to tell more of a character-driven comic book story than was possible to fit into a game narrative.

The double-teaming paid off; there was no resisting the power of a Stark-Romanoff alliance for long.

We kept my middle schooler home from school for three days before we turned in our final draft because she was so mean and so brutal at editing out all the cheesy bits. She would roll her eyes and make fun of us, and it was what we needed.

So you are a vampire."
"I most certainly am not." He looked annoyed. "That's such a common phrase, such a cliche, and so unflattering. I suppose you believe in werewolves and aliens too. I blame television.

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I was the person who stayed awake reading by the nightlight until the scary shadows made me crazy.

We love what we love, and shared fandoms bring people of all ages and backgrounds into one great tribe.

Darkness does not leave us easily as we would hope.

Ro trails his hands against the wall as he walks. The archivists look at him as he passes. Ro is good at irritating people; he'll find the one thing you don't want him to do, and do it every time. It's one of his many gifts.

Jump or stay in the boat.

I'm getting pretty tired of unicorns. Could we try to get a regular horse around here for once?

The Lowcountry traditionally is a logical place where the big ships stopped and brought new things in from the ocean, and the islands have a mystical tradition. It is such a visual place, too, with these iconic villages with the Spanish moss and the village and historical homes and the coast.