Leigh Ann Pinnock Quotes

They can rip you bring you down, down to their size, but they will never get to the heart you hold inside. ~ Little Mix

They take my breath away, Killian. How grand and marvelous, how utterly magnificent they are. I have never beheld such an astounding, impressive sight. Apart from seeing you unclothed, of course," she added. ~ Leigh Ann Edwards

Keep your wits about you, Killian O'Brien, for you'll be no good to anyone if your head lies apart from the rest of your body! ~ Leigh Ann Edwards

Half the pleasure is in the anticipatin' of it. ~ Leigh Ann Edwards

I have come to believe that I am a lesser authority in my own life. I have learned to distrust less-than-rational, nontechnical experiences, my own phenomenal knowledge. Because, to trust the senses - the mortal body - is to risk sounding crazy, especially, it seems. if you're a woman.
She's seeing things.
She's hearing things.
She's so sensitive.
Read: She's irrational.
And this I have internalized. Who am I to trust my body, my senses, my instincts? Who am I to know how to raise my child without consulting parenting books and up-to-date rearing studies? Who am I to try to find God outside of an institutionally approved, fully vetted doctrine? Who am I to think I can pursue impractical dreams? Who am I to be taken seriously? Who am I to think I'm capable or worthy? Who am I to...who am I? ~ Leigh Ann Henion

I love him. It's that simple, but yet that complex at the same time. ~ Leigh Ann Lunsford

He's always been my weakness, my strength, my protector, and my destroyer. Pretty powerful for one person. ~ Leigh Ann Lunsford

He fawns over ye like flies to a dung pile. ~ Leigh Ann Edwards

What is a miracle if not the manifestation of light where darkness is expected? ~ Leigh Ann Henion

I love you. Like really love you, and you offered me a pity date, went off and fucked another girl.. If I mattered, if you felt half of what I feel for you, then it would have been me in your arms; it would have been me under you that night. It would have been me, and it wasn't. It never is. ~ Leigh Ann Lunsford

No more shall the birds or the beasts seek to harm me,
From the power that has held them, they will henceforth be set free
And should another such attempt dare come to be
The doer of the spell shall be so cursed ten-fold, plus three! ~ Leigh Ann Edwards

Ice-cold water to my face wouldn't have shocked me more. How can the feeling of euphoria I just experienced become devastation in a mere five seconds? ~ Leigh Ann Lunsford

All of life is a trust fall, and I'm awakening to the thrill, rather than the fear, of being suspended midair. ~ Leigh Ann Henion

So, we are searching for some form of difficult, uncooperative creature that apparently can change shapes and does not wish to be found? ~ Leigh Ann Edwards

While my head accepts all his decisions, my heart won't. It can't, and unfortunately for him, my heart leads me. ~ Leigh Ann Lunsford

You have me, always. You may not want me, but my heart is yours. My life is yours. don't do this to me. ~ Leigh Ann Lunsford

Poebe, why did that feel like a goodbye kiss?"

"It wasn't a goodbye kiss," I see the briefest of smiles form on his lips. "A goodbye has a chance for a hello. This is not goodbye because this is The. End. ~ Leigh Ann Lunsford

The sun might not rise one day and leave the world in perpetual darkness. The moon might fall to the sea and send an endless tide that floods the earth, or I might simply slip in sheep dung and break my neck! How will Danhoul prevent any of that? ~ Leigh Ann Edwards

I swear the man could seduce the holy mother! ~ Leigh Ann Edwards

He snorted. "He fears you? Why ever would he fear a small girl like you, and his own daughter?"
She napped her eyes back up and whispered, "Because, I know of magic."
Killian smirked. "Of course you know of magic, everyone knows of magic. We live in Ireland. Everyone knows of fairies and druids, and the like. Magic cannot be disputed, even if the priests do not take kindly to these beliefs."
"Aye, but I can do magic. ~ Leigh Ann Edwards

Alainn, it is no herb that has made me so entirely insatiable, 'tis just being with you. ~ Leigh Ann Edwards

You cannot know what it is to say farewell to the one you love more than life. ~ Leigh Ann Edwards

Wonder isn't about finding answers; it's about becoming more comfortable with questions. ~ Leigh Ann Henion

Always life would bring with it joy and sorrow combined. To allow herself to love and to love well, she opened her heart to loss, but to live without love would truly be no life at all. Alainn was well aware with any great love there would be great loss. It was both the cost and the reward of loving. ~ Leigh Ann Edwards

To call someone a navel gazer on the mainland is to say that they're narcissistic, self-absorbed in their introspective pursuits. This perspective, I realize, might be the very reason I've come to think of a spiritual life as some sort of luxury. I'm suddenly struck by the irony of a culture that seems to point to personal spiritual quests as somehow selfish when, in the end, those journeys, like the discredited belly button, are ultimately a search for connectivity. ~ Leigh Ann Henion

I can't hate the boy I have always loved, but I can't continue to love him the way I always have. ~ Leigh Ann Lunsford

I do love him you know."

"Love is a verb, Phoebe, not a noun. You need to show that action, not spout it off so easily. For one syllable, that's a powerful word, one that has the power to make or break you. ~ Leigh Ann Lunsford

How do magical beings celebrate?" Killian was curious to know.
"Music, food, wine, ale, dancing, frivolity, and merriment in many forms." Lugh grinned again.
"So entirely the same as in the human realm?" Killian smiled back at the god.
"Well, with a bit of magic thrown in for good measure. ~ Leigh Ann Edwards

You were so intent on what your purpose would be. I remember it nearly word for word."
"Recite it for me then, my Lainna."
She smiled a warm, soft smile, and her eyes filled with light.
"You would waken in your bedchamber with your lady beside you... ~ Leigh Ann Edwards

Fear is a powerful ally, and loyal. ~ Leigh Bardugo

Interest refers to student's affinity, curiosity, or passion for a particular topic or skill. ~ Carol Ann Tomlinson

I was never happier than on the nights we stayed home, lying on the living room rug. We talked about classes and poetry and politics and sex. Neither of us were in love with the Iowa Writers' Workshop, but it didn't really matter because we had no place else to go. What we had was the little home we made together, our life in the ugly green duplex. We lived next door to a single mother named Nancy Tate who was generous in all matters. She would drive us to the grocery store and give us menthol cigarettes and come over late at night after her son was asleep to sit in our kitchen and drink wine and talk about Hegel and Marx. Iowa City in the eighties was never going to be Paris in the twenties, but we gave it our best shot. ~ Ann Patchett

I could have had one life but insteads I had another because of this book my grandmother protected. What a miracle is that? I was taught to love beautiful things. I had a language in which to consider beauty. Later that extended to the opera, to the ballet, to architecture I saw, and even later still I came to realize that what I had seen in the paintings I could see in the fields or a river. I could see it in people. All of that I attribute to this book. ~ Ann Patchett

The dichotomy between art and industry is totally dysfunctional in terms of film. ~ Ann Macbeth

I think my degrees in Theology and Psychology qualified me for nothing, but probably prepared me for everything. ~ Brooke Bida

Beauty was your armor. Fragile stuff, all show. But what's inside you? That's steel. It's brave and unbreakable. And it doesn't need fixing. ~ Leigh Bardugo

The passions are the seeds of vices as well as of virtues, from which either may spring, accordingly as they are nurtured. Unhappy they who have never been taught the art to govern them! ~ Ann Radcliffe

Her father would have said the shadows were about their own business tonight. Something bad was going to happen here. ~ Leigh Bardugo

You know how exasperated you can be when you're the mother of five young boys. ~ Ann Romney

'La Mancha' was a gift from me to me. I never thought for a minute it was going to be a hit. ~ Mitch Leigh