Erika Quotes

Always, we think we know what courage means. If I were called upon, we say, I would answer the call. I would not hesitate. Until the moment is upon us, and then we realize that the demands of true courage are very different from what we had envisioned, long ago on that bright morning when we felt brave. ~ Erika Johansen

Love was a real thing, Aisa thought, but secondary. Certainly love was not as real as her sword. ~ Erika Johansen

Majesty. The word seemed to ripple through her. "I haven't been crowned, Lazarus." "No matter, Lady. I see the queenship in you, and I never saw it in your mother, not one day of her life. ~ Erika Johansen

It's so stupid, I know, to want your life to be a sitcom ~ Erika L. Sánchez

Rulers who attempt to control an unwilling populace govern nothing, and often find their heads atop a pike to boot. ~ Erika Johansen

And if Tear's words can't be trusted, then who do we listen to? Yourself. The ~ Erika Johansen

Guess what, Callie? Love isn't safe. It's messed up and crazy and it hurts like hell. But why would you want anything less than what we had? Jesus, what we had - it was more than love. It was…Dammit. Why do I have to explain this to you? I'm empty without you, and no other woman, no friend or brother - no one can take your place. You're part of me. And I'm sorry but I'm not buying that you've moved on. We messed up, and we got lost, but I will be damned if I accept that you'd rather have some boring, bland, safe relationship than me. ~ Erika Kelly

The future was only disasters of the past, waiting to happen anew. ~ Erika Johansen

Beware the past, Kelsea. Be a steward. ~ Erika Johansen

Look at us. A line of symmetry. Two halves of a whole. Two peas in a pod. A pair of queens. Though your card, I must observe, has aged better than mine, which has been played too often. ~ Erika Robuck

The problems of the past.
How the problems of the past, uncorrected, inevitably became the problems of the future. ~ Erika Johansen

We were worried about that actually. The cast was thinking that they'd lose their minds. But we didn't. ~ Erika Christensen

He sleeps as if making up for years of being awake. ~ Erika Swyler

And Kelsea wondered suddenly whether humanity ever actually changed. Did people grow and learn at all as the centuries past? Or was humanity merely like the tide, enlightenment advancing and then retreating as circumstances shifted? The most defining characteristic of the species might be lapse. ~ Erika Johansen

If you can look back at your entire life and at the end of the day and say, 'You know? My life was good. I'm pleased with how it all turned out . . . and if I could do it all over again, I'd be happy to' - those people have integrity," Norma told her students. ~ Erika Hayasaki

If I end up being an office lady who wears slacks and changes into white sneakers to walk home from the train, I'll just jump off a skyscraper. ~ Erika L. Sánchez

I liked acting early on, and I really liked roles that were meaningful to me, and 'Baywatch' was. ~ Erika Eleniak

Perhaps the book opened a door; books have a way of causing ripples. ~ Erika Swyler

Carlin often said that history was everything, for it was in man's nature to make the same mistakes over and over. ~ Erika Johansen

Kelsea didn't recognize the guard, but she knew his voice. After a moment she realized, bemused, that it was Dyer. He'd shaved his red beard.
"Dyer, is that your face under there?"
Dyer flushed bright red. Pen snorted gleefully, and Kibb clapped Dyer on the back. "I told him, Lady...now we can see every time he blushes. ~ Erika Johansen

I want to live where irony meets kindness, where daring meets bullshit, where everything that failed meets the hope that something might not. I hope my readers do too. ~ Erika Anderson

Even small gestures of kindness have the potential to reap enormous rewards. Only the shortsighted man believes otherwise. ~ Erika Johansen

There's danger in the system of justice that makes no allowance for circumstance. ~ Erika Johansen

There are harsher things I could say, things I've compiled and archived, each with a catalog card. ~ Erika Swyler

I'm more proud of my upper body. Let's just say I'm a typical female in that way. ~ Erika Christensen

noon. Having all the time in the world makes getting things done impossible. I've earned a rest; I've worked without breaks since ~ Erika Swyler

My responsibility, she thought, and the idea brought no fear now, only an extraordinary sense of gratitude.
My kingdom. ~ Erika Johansen

She just got sad, okay? Unbearably sad. ~ Erika Swyler

I saw that book in the lot and I needed a better look at it. I overbid terribly, but I needed to be certain I had it. Purely speculation, of course - nobody was allowed to get a good close look before bidding - but I thought there was a chance it was my book. The way Treasure Island is Marie's. But the moment I touched it I knew it wasn't mine. I knew it wasn't for selling, either, not at Churchwarry and Son. I can't explain it other than to say that it was begging to be given away. ~ Erika Swyler

Being an actor is definitely not about sitting around on set and having a cigarette or something. It's about acting. The more you can audition, then that's the best thing ever because you learn so much and you get your face out there and you grow your confidence. ~ Erika Christensen

A miracle is no less glorious for having previously happened ~ Erika Gardner

Ever love something so much you start to think it's yours? ~ Erika Swyler

They're not people at all, they're graduate students, there's a difference. They fuck like bunnies and drink like fish and stay up late worrying that somebody somewhere is getting something that they're not getting." - Erika Jones ~ Kevin Canty

Pen will no longer be your close guard, Lady," Mace said flatly.
"What?"
"Starting tonight, Elston will take over Pen's duties."
Kelsea turned to stare at Pen, who in turn stared at the floor."
"What's happened?" she demanded.
"I'll give you two a few minutes, but only a few," Mace replied, speaking to Pen. "After that, you will not be alone together again."
Pen nodded, but Kelsea turned on Mace.
"You don't make changes to my Guard behind my back, Lazarus! I didn't ask for a new close guard. This isn't your decision."
"No, Lady," Pen said. "It's mine. ~ Erika Johansen

His words are heavy with rare things: care and possibility. ~ Erika Swyler

as always, the story was the compelling thing, worth all of its suffering to find out the ending ~ Erika Johansen

You do need prayer, more than you know, ' Carita said softly. 'Prayer is the keynote. Prayer isn't the preparation to accomplish the purposes of Adon Olam. It is the accomplishment of His purposes. Great works are done through prayer. ~ Erika Mathews

I look around the room and can't help but think about how it is the little things we look back on in life. I wonder how often people think that they should pay more attention to them. ~ Erika Lance

Kaelan, the work is His. That means the methods must be His. The timing must be His. And above all things, it must be bathed in prayer for His blessing. No step can be taken without Him. ~ Erika Mathews

I'd rather live in the streets than be a submissive Mexican wife who spends all day cooking and cleaning. ~ Erika L. Sánchez

You think I don't care about my people, but I do... - The Red Queen ~ Erika Johansen

Actually, I came because I have a last-minute invitation. My friend Erika Gill is having a big party tomorrow night, one of those all-out birthday bashes that girls like. Want to go?"
"No. Sorry."
"Since it's a catered thing, at a restaurant, I'll pick you up at- what did you say?"
"I'm sorry. I can't do it."
"You're busy?"
"I just can't do it," I said. ~ Elizabeth Chandler

Girdle: such an ugly word, a word as gross as what it does. ~ Erika L. Sánchez

Something is very wrong. What began as a passing fascination with the book has turned into something darker, ~ Erika Swyler

Don't be who others want you to be; become who you desire to be! ~ Erika A. Garcia

It's your decision how you use the sacred gifts that are already yours. But know this: ordinary days are the very stage on which alchemy desires to appear. You can sink into the celestial right in the midst of everything else - with that baby at your chapped breast and the mud tracks on the carpet and the stranger on the corner holding out a McDonald's cup for coins. ~ Erika Morrison

These people are so damned proud of their hatred! Hatred is easy, and lazy to boot. It's love that demands effort, love that exacts a price from each of us. Love costs; this is its value. ~ Erika Johansen

Once she was gone, Pen bowed and said, "Good night, Lady."
"You don't have to bow to me, Pen."
Humor sparked in Pen's eyes, but he said nothing, only bowed again before retreating into his anteroom and drawing the curtain. ~ Erika Johansen

An upset stomach was a small price to pay for fiction made real. ~ Erika Johansen

There is nothing like taking someone's breath away. ~ Erika Lance

Mariella felt as if there were signs all around her that losing what you loved was worse than never having it to begin with. ~ Erika Robuck

What doesn't kill you will eventually turn you on ~ Erika Lopez

Corruption begins with a single moment of weakness. ~ Erika Johansen

I cook a lot. I'm always experimenting. I'm not much of a recipe follower. ~ Erika Christensen

I can't say enough about how I'm against drugs. Be smart, think about it, look at what it does to people, look at how much you have to experience in life and be courageous enough to do everything you want to without that chemical help. ~ Erika Christensen

I'd not taken you for a fool. Silent yes, but a fool, no. ~ Erika Swyler

I lean back into my clothes and take some deep breaths. Why does it always feel like life is a stupid puzzle I'll never figure out? ~ Erika L. Sánchez

That's exactly what I'm telling you. And right now, I'm feeling in need of the firefighter part of him because he just freaking lit my body on fire with his damn orgasmic drumming. ~ Erika Taylor

There is no heaven. There is only earth, sky, and the transfer of energy. The idea would almost be beautiful if it weren't such a nightmare. ~ Erika L. Sánchez

I was taught to watch for gentle souls, as they've not the wit to look after themselves. ~ Erika Swyler

Katie preferred honesty, even at the expense of civility. She longed to have everything in the open. ~ Erika Johansen

Few things are more dangerous to an egalitarian ideal than the concept of a chosen people, and the divide drawn by the early iteration of God's Church helped to exacerbate the many ideological faults that already underlay the landscape. When they chips were down, Tear's people were ready to turn on each other, and the fall of the Town was very quick, so quick that this historian wonders whether all such communities are not destined to fail. Our species is capable of altruism, certainly, but it is not a game we play willingly, let alone well ~ Erika Johansen

She is not in my books, and what kind of man would choose words that are already written over what might still be? ~ Erika Swyler

I never liked the influence of others when it came to feelings. I rather went through the painful process of analyzing everything half to death. ~ Erika M. Szabo

The worst storyline I've ever been involved in I wasn't involved in, because I was clever enough to get pregnant with my second child and they wrote me out and they replaced me with Christine Jones. And thank God - that was the worst storyline. ~ Erika Slezak

This is the problem when you create enemies, Erika. They go off and plot, and often flourish in the shade. ~ Robert Bryndza

Are you my father, Lazarus?"
Mace's mouth twisted. "No, Lady. I wish I was. I wanted to be. But I am not. ~ Erika Johansen

I've figured out that I don't want to spend all of my spare time trying to make money. But, with things like fame or internet presence - things you cannot cash in at the bank - there is still a sense that more is better and that your career should be following a certain trajectory. ~ Erika M. Anderson

Learn all the knowledge in the world, but your gut will always know best. ~ Erika Johansen

I know your father broke your heart, Claire. Most days, he broke mine too. But we all make the choices that suit us at that moment in time, and eventually our hearts heal. And after enough excuses for why you can't make your life the way you want it, maybe it stops being everyone else's fault and becomes your own. ~ Erika Marks

My skin feels too tight, like I might rupture. My mother must have read the end, the cards Enola keeps reading, the same thing Verona Bonn read, all the way back to Ryzhkova. They passed the cards to each other creating history, fingers touching paper, imbuing it with hope and fears, fear like a curse. Of course they wouldn't clear their cards, they were talking to their mothers, and isn't that part of why I've stayed here? The book noted a falling out between Ryzhkova and her apprentice, a falling out over the mermaid. Enola said that cards build history - what a perfect way to wound someone. The cards were hers, Ryzhkova's, then Amos and Evangeline's on down the line, each leaving themselves in the ink, each pulling from the deck, pulling in fears that work like poison. The wind blows a sheet of paper across a split board. The only paper of consequence was never in my possession - it was in Enola's. ~ Erika Swyler

Here's my top secret: When I have a crush, the world is way pretty, like all the colors are brighter. - Mason, ~ Erika V. Shearin Karres

A trigger point for a curse may be hard to find, but if it's there, then there's a chance to break it. There is no stopping sadness. Sadness slips through the fingers. Frank ~ Erika Swyler

This is how women are trained to stay indoors, she thought, the idea echoing in her mind like a gravesong. This is how women are trained not to act. ~ Erika Johansen

I've obviously made a very nice amount of money. I have a very nice lifestyle. I get to do what I love. Very few actors get to do that, and even fewer are lucky enough to work steadily for 24 years. ~ Erika Slezak

I had withdrawn from the townspeople in as many ways as possible, thinking my isolation would be less painful if it came on my own terms. ~ Erika Robuck

I've never been sledding in my life. I've heard of it, have seen it on TV, but my parents have never taken me, just like we've never been to Disney World or watched The Sound of Music. I assumed it was just something white people did. ~ Erika L. Sánchez

The Tearling... I told them not to name things after me. - William Tear ~ Erika Johansen

I need to get into the water, to clear my head. ~ Erika Swyler

I adore my two older sisters, Erika and Betsy. ~ Joan Smalls

I've made choices in my life to be somewhat broke to do art and I think it is going to be the same thing with online exposure. You have to be able to make the choices that can make you happy or it will make you crazy. ~ Erika M. Anderson

Actions may be judged according to time and place, and their values may change; but style, language (apart from content) are crystallized at the moment. ~ Erika Mann

Weakness, all the more dangerous for being combined with a sense of entitlement ~ Erika Johansen

Kelsea saw now that there was something far worse than being ugly: being ugly and thinking you were beautiful. ~ Erika Johansen

Children are intuitive scientists and armchair philosophers, brimming with such startling observations that it's hard to believe they've come from people barely out of diapers. . . . But, along with their Talmudic wisdom and intellectual acuity, preschoolers can surprise, equally, with their undeveloped motor skills, atrocious impulse control, and venal self-interest. Like teenagers, whom they closely resemble developmentally, preschoolers are a complicated mix of competence and ineptitude. The problem with American early education is how often the grownups misread, and even interchange, those two attributes completely, and at such critical moments for learning. ~ Erika Christakis

My final word is for the readers. The Tearling is not an easy world, I know. Contrarian that I am, I am determined to make thins kingdom echo life, where answers to our questions are not delivered neatly in a beautiful expositional package, but must be earned, through experience and frustration, sometimes even tears (and believe me, not all of those tears are Kelsea's). Sometimes answers never come at all. To all of the readers who stuck with this story, understanding and sometimes even enjoying the fact that the Tearling is a gradually unfolding world, full of lost and often confounding history, thank you for your faith in the concept. I hope that your patience was rewarded in the end. Now let's all go and make a better world." (Afterwords of the author) ~ Erika Johansen

And I'm hoping that over the next 20, 50 years, whatever, the mystique of television and film and all that will diminish somewhat, and people will leave us alone to get on with our jobs. ~ Erika Slezak

Memory cut infinitely deeper than swords; ~ Erika Johansen

The mark of the true hero is that the most heroic of his deeds is done in secret. We never hear of it. And yet somehow, my friends, we know. - Father Tyler's Collected Sermons, FROM THE ARVATH ARCHIVE ~ Erika Johansen

It was really bizarre for me to go from being a very private and obscure person and then to be in any way on the internet - like having my picture or videos online. ~ Erika M. Anderson

A librarian remembers the particular scent of glue and dust, and if we're so lucky - and I was - the smell of parchment, a quiet tanginess, softer than wood pulp or cotton rag. We would bury ourselves in books until flesh and paper became one and ink and blood at last ran together. ~ Erika Swyler

She was a woman who lived however she wished without care for another, without putting the needs of those around her before her own selfish opinions. We are breeding a nation of such thinkers and individuals--intent on personal expression at all costs--and that will lead to war. I might be more a successful writer if I did not seek to address human truth, but rather spewed out my own limited opinions without care for reader or critic or any kind of propriety. ~ Erika Robuck

Those who cease to worry about their souls often find them difficult to reclaim later ~ Erika Johansen

To be entirely honest, I am an extremely confident person, and I don't think I would have gotten into this business if I felt that I wasn't going to succeed and I intend to be in this business, for the rest of my life. ~ Erika Christensen

Remembrance. Even more, confession. It did always made the heavy things come loose. ~ Erika Robuck

Kitten, when did you get so tall? (Ravyn)
I grew while you were in the bathroom. (Erika) ~ Sherrilyn Kenyon

Nothing made you angry like missing someone. ~ Erika Swyler

When everyone lives only for self, life doesn't work. ~ Erika Mathews

She has compared me to my sister every single day of my life, so why should I expect that to change now that she's dead? ~ Erika L. Sánchez

They had found the seven volumes of Rowling with no help at all, but there was no squabbling. ~ Erika Johansen