Katherine Howe Quotes

Part of growing up is doing things you don't want to do. When it's in the best interest of someone you love. ~ Katherine Howe

But remember. Just because you don't believe in something doesn't mean it isn't real. ~ Katherine Howe

None on the Court be well disposed to the hearing of reason,I'm afraid. They are gripped with fear for their own reputations. ~ Katherine Howe

Only by being present can you be happy. Too much attention to the past and the future takes the now away. And once it's gone, you never get it back. ~ Katherine Howe

A thin stream of smoke drifted skyward, speaking of mysteries within. ~ Katherine Howe

Il est bon à savoir. It is good to know. ~ Katherine Howe

It could be that the best thing is something different from what you expect. ~ Katherine Howe

The Lord works in mysterious ways. What's true to one man, a wonder and a marvel, might not seem so to another, as God didn't intend it for him. ~ Katherine Howe

Everyone has wounds as want healing. Seems like they all find me. ~ Katherine Howe

It crumbled apart into ash, going from form to formlessness. To everything, it's season. The pine cone grew into being, burned bright, and now it had disappeared. That was natural. ~ Katherine Howe

Of course, it was a rather hard lot, to be cherished. The beloved can so easily disappoint when they inevitably prove to be human. ~ Katherine Howe

Most conjure doesn't really deal with the weather. It's about the house, or the body. Luck, and love. Money, obviously. And fixing enemies. It's about power for the self, and influence over others. Charms get delivered by washes for the floor, or bath salts for the body. Candle work. Bible work. It's small and personal. ~ Katherine Howe

She was always puzzled that people say that darkness falls. To her it seemed instead to rise, massing under trees an shrubs, pouring out from under furniture, only reaching the sky when the spaces near the ground were full. ~ Katherine Howe

The night felt both eternal and instantaneous. ~ Katherine Howe

But an attentive researcher
like you
might be able to see something that all the experts can't see. If she asks the right questions. ~ Katherine Howe

In this world, everyone is friends with everyone else. In a way. ~ Katherine Howe

The philosophers stone is just an allegory. It represents everything that man wants and can never have. ~ Katherine Howe

Daffodils, first sign of spring. It's how you know everything is about to change. ~ Katherine Howe

A weird artifact of the past, aiming at the future. An intrusive, constructive contradiction. ~ Katherine Howe

When I looked at life through the camera, I felt like I could finally see it. ~ Katherine Howe

The only constant was change. ~ Katherine Howe

Her freckles were delectable. Most fellows didn't care for freckles as a rule, thinking they were tough-looking. But Betty's were appealing. Like cake batter you could wipe off with your thumb, buttery and sweet. ~ Katherine Howe

She slipped into this rhythm without thinking about it, like a clock that moved its hands without knowing why. ~ Katherine Howe

My life was such a careful balance, a fragile nexus of work and attention and preparation and planning, like the old vaudeville trick of spinning plates on poles all over a stage, running from one to another to another, not letting any of them fall. I'd been so good at it, the running and the spinning. I'd been getting up before dawn and staying late after school and running and spinning the plates for as long as I could remember. I was getting so tired. I didn't want to run and spin anymore. But I didn't know what would happen, I didn't know who I would be, if one of the plates broke. ~ Katherine Howe

Mentally Connie gathered her strands of thinking into thick handfuls, trying to braid them into a coherent whole. ~ Katherine Howe

I was impressed. She had already mastered the art of not saying much of anything at all. ~ Katherine Howe

My worst habit used to be smoking but I quit. ~ Katherine Heigl

Jake, our fearless leader. On a crazed kamikaze mission. I'd never seen him like this. Even in our lowest moments, he'd always been steady. Resolute. He weighed the costs, made a decision, forged ahead.
And I'd always wondered how he did it. How he kept it straight in his mind. Yeerks. Visser One. Aliens conquering humans, conquering the planet. Fighting the enemy without becoming like them. How did he sort through all that? The emotions, the ethical dilemmas, the moral crises? How did he wrap his brain around it all so he could make logical decisions? Smart decisions. The kind that saved the lives of his team. The kind that set the enemy back a small step or two.
But now I knew.
Jake didn't understand any of it better than the rest of us did. If he defeated the Yeerks, freed humanity, rescued Earth, that was good. But that was just a bonus. His main goal was much simpler. To save his family. That goal was what had given him strength. That goal was what had kept him sane. Allowed him to retain a center of calm focus amid the awful chaos.
His family. ~ Katherine Applegate

A man needs a friend not to flatter him, but to strengthen him at his weak points. ~ Edgar Watson Howe

The first time I met Crenshaw was about three years ago, right after first grade ended. It was early evening, and my family and I had parked at a rest stop off a highway. I was lying on the grass near a picnic table, gazing up at the stars blinking to life. I heard a noise, a wheels-on-gravel skateboard sound. I sat up on my elbows. Sure enough, a skater on a board was threading his way through the parking lot. I could see right away that he was an unusual guy. He was a black and white kitten. A big one, taller than me. His eyes were the sparkly color of morning grass. He was wearing a black and orange San Francisco Giants baseball cap. He hopped off his board and headed my way. He was standing on two legs just like a human. "Meow," he said. "Meow," I said back, because it seemed polite. ~ Katherine Applegate

Good readers make much out of little. ~ Irving Howe

You have never been curious about me; you never wanted to explore my soul. ~ Katherine Mansfield

No, she never recovered, madam. She had a stroke at the end. Last words she ever said was - very slow, "Look in - the - Look - in - " And then she was gone. ~ Katherine Mansfield

Self-censorship can be very damaging to a story. When our chief goal is not to offend someone, we are not likely to write a book that will deeply affect someone. ~ Katherine Paterson

The ending is coming. I can feel it. I don't know if I can take it this time. But then again, I say that every time and yet, every time I take it. And, I come back to her again for more. I will take whatever time I can get with her. I will do that for a lifetime. I will. I know that much about myself. She is my water. I can never get enough of her, and it appears that I will die trying to love her, to keep her, to hold her with me, even though our time together seems to evaporate so swiftly. It slips through our fingers so damn fast that we don't even have time to savor it when we're together. ~ Katherine Owen

Leslie was one of those people who sat quietly at her desk, never whispering or daydreaming or chewing gum, doing beautiful schoolwork, and yet her brain was so full of mischief that if the teacher could have once seen through that mask of perfection, she would have thrown her out in horror. ~ Katherine Paterson

Elaina Miles doesn't have cancer. She doesn't have kids. She doesn't have a past. She doesn't have a future. Elaina Miles has the present and she holds on to him as tightly as he holds on to her ~ Katherine Owen

I don't believe other people are ever as foolishly excited as I am while I'm working. How could they be? Writers would have to live in trees. ~ Katherine Mansfield

[Marriage] is the merciless revealer, the great white searchlight turned on the darkest places of human nature. ~ Katherine Anne Porter

It's more fun to think that there are other worlds. ~ Katherine Heigl

I'm picky. Not so much about looks, although even there I'm kind of picky. It's more that I can't pretend some guy is interesting when he's not. If he's immature, I'll probably tell him so. Within five minutes of knowing him. And if he looks ridiculous dressed up like some wannabe, I'll probably say that, too, or more likely just steer clear of him. ~ Katherine Applegate

You're cooking?"
"I think the right word here would be 'trying'," Tate mumbled…
"Would this have anything to do with whoever that is barfing up a lung in the bathroom upstairs? ~ Katherine Allred

When I was growing up my mother used to tell me that the best gift parents could give their children was to have a strong and loving relationship with each other. ~ George Howe Colt

When she'd read, her voice wrapped around my head and my heart, and it softened and lightened everything up. It put a pain in my hear that felt good. ~ Katherine Hannigan

You're not very fond of your room by day. You never think about it. You're in and out, the door opens and slams, the cupboard creaks. You sit down on the side of your bed, change your shoes and dash out again. A dive down to the glass, two pins in your hair, powder your nose and off again. But now–at night time- it's suddenly dear to you. It's a darling little funny room. It's yours. Oh, what a joy it is to own things! ~ Katherine Mansfield

You don't have to fight dragons to write books. You just have to live deeply the life you've been given. ~ Katherine Paterson

[On Gertrude Stein's Making of Americans:] I doubt if all the people who should read it will read it for a great while yet, for it is in such a limited edition, and reading it is anyhow a sort of permanent occupation. ~ Katherine Anne Porter

His hand tightened around hers, and his smile was like watching the dawn, but his eyes were still in doubt. "Are you afraid?"
"Of you?" She wrapped her hands around his and pressed them to her lips. "I'm afraid of your ambitions," she said softly, telling her own secret truth. "I am afraid that you will leave me, particularly if you marry this Katherine. I am afraid that you might not love me or that even if you do, that you might stop." She raised her eyes to his. "but no, my fallen angel. I am not afraid of you. ~ Jayel Wylie

Privately, in the depths of my heart, I would have given my soul to have stood beside her in a large, yes, a large, fashionable church, crammed with people, with old reverend clergymen, with The Voice that breathed o'er Eden, with palms and the smell of scent, knowing there was a red carpet and confetti outside, and somewhere, a wedding-cake and champagne and a satin shoe to throw after the carriage - if I could have slipped our wedding-ring on to her finger.

Not because I cared for such horrible shows, but because I felt it might possibly perhaps lessen this ghastly feeling of absolute freedom, her absolute freedom, of course. ~ Katherine Mansfield

I admire any woman who does stand-up, but frankly I'd rather pull out my own eyelids. ~ Katherine Parkinson

Self-protection keeps you from love, Mr. Knightley-all love. I am so sad at how I've kept them at a distance-the Muirs, Alex, Father John, Kyle, Hannah ... Anyone and everyone who has ever stood by me. I played God in our relationships. I determined their value by how much I let them in, by how much I let them determine my worth. I'm not God. And I don't need to work so hard anymore ... ~ Katherine Reay

I grew up reading 19th-century novels and late Victorian children's books, so I try for a good story full of coincidence and error, landscape and weather. However, the world was radically changed during my lifetime, and I tell of that battering as best I can. ~ Fanny Howe

I did a lot of serious plays, and I did the Oxford Review as well, which is supposed to be funny, but I'm not sure how funny we were when we did it. Then, when I finished my course, it was only then that I decided to go to drama school and try and do acting because I was enjoying it so much and so on. ~ Katherine Parkinson

You can't do anything unless you do it yourself. And usually you can't do it yourself very well. ~ E.W. Howe

People can't hear anything except when it's nonsense. Then they hear every word. If you try to talk sense, they think you don't mean it, or don't know anything anyway, or it's not true, or it's against religion, or it's not what they are used to reading in the newspapers ... ~ Katherine Anne Porter

I was the youngest child and really spoiled. I loved to play make-believe. I loved pretending to be all kinds of different people and it just seemed natural that I would go into acting. ~ Katherine Heigl

I am called to listen to the sound of my own heart
to write the story within myself that demands to be told at that particular point in my life. And if I do this faithfully, clothing that idea in the flesh of human experience and setting it in a true place, the sound from my heart will resound in the reader's heart. ~ Katherine Paterson

Shut your eyes," said Miss Tanner.
"Oh no," said Miranda, "for then I see worse things ... ~ Katherine Anne Porter

Civilization as well as education takes a downward spiral when it ceases to ask "What is truth?" and concerns itself primarily with what is measurable. ~ Katherine Paterson

And all the best words together couldn't hold the happiness. ~ Katherine Hannigan

But I think you should be careful, Batyushka, that God does not speak in the voice of your own wishing. We have never needed saving before. ~ Katherine Arden

I don't think trying to be happy means you can never be sad," I said. "Right? ~ Katherine Center

I think I was interested in history without knowing it and that became very clear when I arrived in France. Everything that I was really interested in was there, but I knew nothing, no education, no art education, no education beyond high school. It was extremely overwhelming and it still is. ~ John Howe

His voice was deep,
like a storm coming,
but gentle,
like the rain ending. ~ Katherine Applegate

I still find libraries astonishing; I still think they speak to our better instincts. The library remains one of the few places in the world where you don't have to buy anything, know anyone or believe anything to enter in. ~ Katherine Rundell

When you enjoy doing something it no longer feels like a task but an essential aspiration. ~ Ryan Howe