S.A. Tawks Quotes

She'd been fed anti-consumerist bullshit by her parents but didn't understand simple economics.

An adventurer has a purpose. Such as finding new lands and valuable treasures. A misadventurer, besides doing it for the hell of it and for a good time, doesn't really have a good purpose.

The imagination gland doesn't die. It just becomes reliant on manufactured spirit.

The acceptance of just one person is enough to silence the rejection of thousands.

You can't draw lines in the sand like that. Humour's a tsunami that doesn't care about your little lines.

Too many questions can cripple imagination, for how can you apply logical questions to something that is not real?

I don't make people smoke pot or meth, snort coke, put pills or tabs in their mouths or shoot themselves up with heroin. I just transport the stuff.

He was the organised traveller type. The type that has to know the top ten tourist spots in a country and the five best ways to get to them.

Someone who lives vicariously will never be truly happy because they're not happy with themselves.

Anxiety's already tingling my skin.

Sometimes one's imagination can be more beautiful than the most picturesque beach.

Misadventure was my primary compass and I followed it without caring if I pissed off one person or a whole bunch of people.

I also smoked two cigarettes, which was pretty good considering I could have smoked five if I'd really tried.

This didn't sound good. It sounded like the optimism was escaping from him.

Reassuring thoughts have a funny way of getting stuck on repeat. Then you wake up one day and you can't remember where you put the last thirty years of your life.

Misadventure will always cause someone to be pissed off at you, because they don't know what degree you're willing to go to to satisfy your need for misadventure.

I think that Richard was more of a one-girl-for-the-rest-of-your-life-marry-and-make-a-family kind of guy.

The old author knew all too well that the imagination was a top cause for missing good meals.

Never ask about the details of someone's personal life, only the quality. Because if they want you to know, they'll let you know. If they don't want you to know, there is no need to know.

You must learn not to rely so heavily on others. Only then will help come when you truly need it.

In my defence, I did like my ex until she cheated on me. I just thought the feeling was love.

Besides the gifts, the only thing that gave the headstones colour were the memories family and friends had of the people they represented.

Can't get myself down by thinking about what could have been, right?

Appreciate the negatives. Because the negatives are what you learn from to make more positives.

Too much negativity can make the strongest structures dilapidate.

But now I think he was trying to teach me to never feel entitled because life can be a cruel bitch at times.

Besides, if it was the wrong choice, what difference was one more bad decision going to make?

I found that disturbing the night's calm ambience was almost as gratifying as the ambience itself.

He was the captain of the rugby team and he was built like a fucking gorilla. He had the personality of a fucking gorilla, too.

Where's your sense of misadventure?

I found it hard to get motivated because I found it hard to care.

A cup of tea at the ready and a jug of water will suffice just fine.

The purpose of the Sisterhood of Librarians is to keep the secret of creative juice and keep the idea of libraries alive.

I didn't let what I wanted to do become a made up memory that I looked back on years down the road and wished it was real.

What the future held for spirit, Emily could only imagine.

There's no need to blame fate or destiny for a stupid decision.

They had to be untrustworthy enough to buy a minor alcohol but trustworthy enough to not walk away with my money.

And I thought Ereaders could not become any more dreadful.

Don't just hope, dear. Plan and do. Only reserve hope for the things you cannot control.

When does relaxing turn into living? How can you call it relaxing when that is all you are doing?

How do you crush spirit? You take out all the good.

He held out a shaky and worn hand and she met it with one of her young and inexperienced ones.

Cussing like a commoner wasn't something I was tested on. I picked that habit up outside of high school.

Be warned, reader. Once seen, something cannot be unseen and once read, something cannot be unread. What lies ahead can be the future of spirit but the future of spirit can also be what lies inside your head.

Yeah," I said because it led to more options than 'no'.

There was a moment of silence as they imagined a future in which there existed an organisation that stole imagination for, undoubtedly, a sinister plan.

One thing a girl loves more than a bad boy is a self-aware bad boy.

I liked learning but the challenge was that my mother's need to turn education into a competition was ruining the experience for me.

Ms Rainn, when was the last time you visited a library for the books and not the free Internet it offers?

For you, I do morning price.

Harry and I are misadventurous misadventurers that like to partake in misadventure.

What if I were seeking a hardcopy? A book I can bury my nose in metaphorically and literally if I'm a self-confessed book-sniffer and proud to say so.

By three in the afternoon, after one Bintang too many, I was absolutely smashed and feared that trying to stand may end badly.

I'd be somewhat of a lousy writer if I didn't know what to say.

Staying out all night and sleeping most of the day is quite a drain on the wallet.

You know what's the worst? Having realistic, ordinary expectations taken out of your reach by seemingly unrealistic, extraordinary circumstances.

The sisterhood of librarians is a non-profit organisation and our goal is to keep imagination alive, not make money.

Everyones' worst problems weigh the same, and it's up to you how heavy that weight is and how much you let it drag you down.

The stretch of Bruce Highway between Gin Gin and Miriam Vale was long and lonesome.

Acting with confidence, but inside lacking certainty, I'd told her I could.

Then an argument would ensue because they were men with different ideas.

You live by whatever rules you need to govern your life the best you think. Let's just try not to encroach.

If you work hard all day and all night, something may come of it. You never know, it just might.

A woman can never be late when she is meeting with a man. But a man can most certainly be late when he is meeting with a woman.

Do you want me to call the internet police for you?

I'd developed an apology-is-much-better-than-asking-for-permission mentality.

They were queen bitches and it seemed everyone and everything they knew and everyone and everything they didn't know deserved some kind of criticism.

He seemed like he was baiting me to ask, like he wanted me to know his troubles but wanted me to ask first.

Anyone can do the wrong thing if they really want to.

I tried to kill myself when I was thirteen but failed. That was the greatest failure of my life.

Thoughts. Your imagination. The voices inside your head. They're all the same thing and spirit is what fuels it.

Natural art is the most amazing form of art there is.

The imagination is a wild and dangerous forest that is impossible to know the full might of.

It's called the kindness of a fellow human being. You should try it sometime, ya fuck.

I believe the uncertain times are almost upon us, and they are much more uncertain than I imagined.

No one is better than anyone else. Some just simply don't fulfil their potential of being the best they possibly can.

There has to be at least one other reason besides money that makes you do the things that you do.

Doesn't she understand that a key factor to learning is the want to learn?

As long as you don't kill someone or seriously maim them, sure, it doesn't matter what anyone else thinks as long as you have a good time.

A donation to the police officer's back pocket should have you on your way without a problem.

It was odd but I couldn't jump the chasm of missing evidence to the conclusion Todd was making.

What does a guy say to that? What does an inexperienced guy say to a beautiful, smart, proper girl who's not supposed to say things like that?

My job had been to get the package from point A to point B and what happened after that did not need to concern me. I was just the mule.

My sense of misadventure took over and I began looking at my problems as challenges.

Tales of triumph are my favourite.

You need a break every once in a while to enjoy the everyday and you need the everyday to enjoy the break you take every once in a while.

What does that quote mean to you? Can you explain the concept behind it and not just repeat the pretty phrase to me?

There is so much we do not know about the imagination. That is why we must study it.

The spirit of pessimism inside of her was purely organic.

Young lovers. If you get it right, it's amazing what you can share. The challenging part is maintaining it.

Your days are only important if you decide to make them important.

Maybe I should have given more thought to her thoughts.

We each have a little imagination in all of us, and a book is the best absorbent there is.

I didn't appreciate the moment as much as I should have while living it, but I can attribute that to my poor emotional state and hindsight.

I'd gotten on the piss and it had kicked me the fuck off. Hard.

The false hope I filled myself with is fleeing and I'm beginning to feel scared again.

Looking back really does make you wonder, but the truth is it doesn't change a thing.

No one knows if something works until it actually works. That's why you must always try.

I'd gotten high enough to fly through time.

As much as I respect him, he is somewhat of an ignorant fool.