Jacqueline Patricks Quotes

Civilization is held together by duct tape and spit, and I'm worried about the duct tape. ~ Jacqueline Patricks

Was this love in its purest form, unrequited yet all-consuming and unselfish? ~ Jacqueline Patricks

She is such a blade - -beautiful, powerful, and deadly to her enemies- - as well as her bond-mate due to her fatal flaw. The questions are - How deep is her flaw and can it be healed? After all, a mortal is not a mearcair blade to be discarded if forged improperly. (Kagan Donmall regarding Tessa Montgomery) ~ Jacqueline Patricks

Feral beauty tangled up and over every surface. Enormous vines and flourishing blooms swathed the area creating a shadowy, organic cathedral. A faint whiff of perfume breezed to her, like jasmine, but sweeter, more delicate - if jasmine could be more delicate without losing its scent entirely. The buzzing of alien insects reminded her of the sticky, summer days of her childhood in the South, and cicadas filled her memory with their incessant mating calls. Here, however, the insects grew louder as it grew darker. It seemed even they understood the dangers of daylight. ~ Jacqueline Patricks

Art is a journey of excellence not a goal of perfection. ~ Jacqueline Patricks

His fingers wrapped around the smooth metal handle, and he eased the knife from its sweat-patinaed leather sheath and weaved the blade skillfully through the air. While it didn't have the impression of a Fae-forged blade, he did feel something alive within the mortal steel as if the old blade had drunk deeply of blood and continued to thirst. ~ Jacqueline Patricks

One cannot lead well until one learns to follow well. ~ Jacqueline Patricks

I've met people I didn't like. I've met people who've used words in ways I didn't like. I've never met a word I didn't like. ~ Jacqueline Patricks

Why use profanity in real life and writing? Because sometimes 'darn it' just doesn't cut it. ~ Jacqueline Patricks

Many things become clearer with the perspective of maturity gained. ~ Jacqueline Patricks

Now, what are you going to wear for Halloween, Pearl? ~ Jacqueline Wilson

It kept coming back to joy-- how could I live a life filled with it? And always, the answer that came back to me was "Write."

... I am here because of the indigenous people of this country, because of the enslaved people who were here before me, the young people of the civil rights movements who fought hard to get me to this moment.

My biggest responsibility is to recognize that I am part of the continuum, that I didn't just appear and start writing stuff down. I'm writing stuff down because Andre Lorde wrote stuff down, because James Baldwin wrote stuff down... and all the people who came before me -- set the stage for my work. I have to keep all of that in my heart as I move through the world, not only for the deep respect I have for them, but also for my own strength.

So my advice to other young writers: Read widely. Study other writers. Be thoughtful, Then go out and do the work of changing the form, finding your own voice, and saying what you need to say. Be fearless. And care.

The fact that young people continue to rise brings me such joy. They are where I look to find my hope.

-- "Continue to Rise: A Conversation with Jacqueline Woodson ~ Glory Edim

For the keeping of secrets from adults is oft the only power a child may hope to possess. ~ Jacqueline Carey

A sustainable world means working together to create prosperity for all. ~ Jacqueline Novogratz

People use the word "natural" ... What is natural to me is these botanical species which interact directly with the nervous system. What I consider artificial is 4 years at Harvard, and the Bible, and Saint Patrick's cathedral, and the Sunday school teachings. ~ Timothy Leary

I have also been touched by the dark side of power and leadership. ~ Jacqueline Novogratz

I work very hard at relationships. I've done the thing of being home. I worked all day and came home and did all the stuff at home that a woman is supposed to do, the cooking and the entertaining. I'm a perfectionist, and, besides, I loved all those things. ~ Jacqueline Bisset

I wouldn't mind the early autumn if you came home today I'd tell you how much I miss you and know I'd be okay. It's funny how we never know exactly how our life will go It's funny how a dream can fade with the break of day. Time can't erase the memory and time can't bring you home Last Summer was a part of me and now a part is gone. - Margaret ~ Jacqueline Woodson

Some chains are forged for us - those are the hardest to bear. ~ Jacqueline Carey

It seems like when God made you, his talents were anything but limited. ~ Jacqueline Francis - The Journal

I often think it would be really interesting to take all of those who would wage war to the battlefield cemeteries, and say, explain yourself to the dead. Explain yourself to the dead! ~ Jacqueline Winspear

Grief heals ... unshed tears fester like a canker in the soul. ~ Jacqueline Carey

Just start Don't wait for perfection. Just start and let the work teach you. ~ Jacqueline Novogratz

At night, every living thing competes for a chance to be heard. The crickets and frogs call out. Sometimes, there's the soft who-whoo of an owl lost amid the pines. Even the dogs won't rest until they've howled at the moon. But the crickets always win, long after the frogs stop croaking and the owl has found its way home. Long after the dogs have lain down losing the battle against sleep, the crickets keep going as though they know their song is our lullaby. ~ Jacqueline Woodson

A man must feel he runs things, but as long as you control yourself, you control him. ~ Jacqueline Susann

All I wanted was to merge with the same person who had broken me, thinking that he was the only one who could fill in all the little crevices making me feel whole again. ~ Jacqueline Simon Gunn

I work hard, and I tend to play hard. I very seldom rest hard. ~ Jacqueline Bisset

I wish I were shyly, quietly intriguing, like Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, like someone French and fashionable who knows how to twirl her ladylike locks just so and walk adroitly on kitten heels, who is all gesture and whisper - but I am unfortunately forward and forthright: When I am interested in a man, he absolutely knows it. ~ Elizabeth Wurtzel

That's what makes best friends. It's not whether or not you live on the same block or go to the same school, but how you feel about each other in your hearts. ~ Jacqueline Woodson

Grace isn't a little prayer you chant before receiving a meal. It's a way to live. ~ Jacqueline Winspear

For every victory," Necthana whispered, her great dark eyes shining with a mother's tears, "there is a price. ~ Jacqueline Carey

My teacher, my great cello teacher Leonard Rose, was such a great cellist, and nurturing man, very patient. But I grew up not only admiring him, but obviously Casals, Rostrotovich, Jacqueline du Pre, and many others, including many of my peers and contemporaries. ~ Yo-Yo Ma

Entrepreneurs are the seekers of solutions, and that they will go into these places where both market and traditional aid has failed or traditional charity has failed. ~ Jacqueline Novogratz

My grandfather had given me Mr. Darwin's book to read. He had given me the possibility of a different kind of life. but none of it mattered. Instead there was The Science of Housewifery for me. I was blind; I was pathetic. The century was about to change, but my own little life would not change with it. ~ Jacqueline Kelly

It's really important in any historical fiction, I think, to anchor the story in its time. And you do that by weaving in those details, by, believe it or not, by the plumbing. ~ Jacqueline Winspear

Century and after century, headstones and grave markers were crafted, marble shrines to lost life and to bodies that could neither see nor touch nor think nor feel, bodies that were respected and appreciated more after death than some ever could have hoped to be in life. ~ Jacqueline E. Smith

It is passing strange, what a fluid thing is one's own identity. ~ Jacqueline Carey

I put both my thumbs under my chin and pushed upwards. Chin up, Shirley, I commanded ~ Jacqueline Wilson

I don't care what your politics are, I would wager that if you asked any American woman which administration would she have most liked to work for as social secretary, she would pick Jacqueline Kennedy's White House as the place to be. ~ Letitia Baldrige

This is the goddess Fortuna. She brought luck - or took it away. But you'd put up with whatever she did. Because when she decided to favour you, it made everything worthwhile ~ Jacqueline Rayner

Sometimes, we miss the truth when it's right in front of us, she thought. Sometimes the closer we are, the harder it is to see. ~ Jacqueline Simon Gunn

It's amazing what you can see when you just sit quietly and look. ~ Jacqueline Kelly

There is no such thing as perfect. But even if there was, I would pick you over perfection any day. ~ Jacqueline E. Smith

Her thoughts were like the moon eclipsing the sun. ~ Jacqueline Simon Gunn