Lynn Cullen Quotes

Pay attention to fate, Mrs. Osgood. It will always have the last word. ~ Lynn Cullen

Americans are being poisoned, all in the name of profit, producing a weak-minded race of people who are given to lust and desire. ~ Lynn Cullen

He was as uncontainable as a handful of water: if you squeezed, it trickled away. ~ Lynn Cullen

The principled man is merely one whose ancestors were ruthlessly unprincipled, affording him the option of acting upon fine sentiments. ~ Lynn Cullen

Fortunate is the person who can succeed in extracting honey from such a flower as this life, whose root and every petal is bitterness. ~ Lynn Cullen

Every heart, it have its own ache. ~ Lynn Cullen

In spite of Mr. Poe's fame, the pair made me feel out of sorts, and sad. In one of the busiest cities in the world, they seemed to exist on a bleak island of their own making, their backs turned against the social tide lapping at the battered door. ~ Lynn Cullen

What did I expect him to say
that he would leave his wife? To do so was the province of fiction. Real life was not as easy as that. ~ Lynn Cullen

Magdalena pulls me away by the arm. "I am the stronger one of Titus and I," she says over the marketplace din. "Woman are always the stronger sex." She smiles to herself. "The trick is not appearing to be so. ~ Lynn Cullen

History has a way of forgetting the mistresses of great men. Even if they have talent. ~ Lynn Cullen

Madness," he said quietly, "is as a drop of ink in water. It sends sly tendrils from the afflicted person into everyone around until all are shaded in black. Soon one does not know who is mad and who is not. ~ Lynn Cullen

In painting, three things must be considered - the position of the viewer, the position of the object viewed, and the position of the light that illuminates the object. ~ Lynn Cullen

Whenever you see this much wealth, assume that someone dirtied his hands. Fortunes don't come to saints. ~ Lynn Cullen

To say that he 'nailed a subject's soul to the canvas' makes the assumption that we persons, as well as artists, can see one another's souls.
Maybe we do. Maybe we all have the ability to perceive another's soul, and do so every day, only we take it for granted, and don't even know it when we're doing it. We call it knowing someone's 'character' or 'personality. ~ Lynn Cullen

Tell me, who is behind a great woman? That's right. No one. She has to get there herself. ~ Lynn Cullen

How quickly the world changes, yet we are so busy trying to live that we don't notice it. And yet, it does not change quickly enough. ~ Lynn Cullen

It is as if producing a creative work tears a piece from your soul. When it is ripped completely free of you, the wound must bleed for a while. How similar it is to letting go of a dream, your hope, or your heart's desire. You must open up and let it drain. ~ Lynn Cullen

You and I are poets, Mrs. Osgood. Our job is to raise questions, not to answer them. ~ Lynn Cullen

But why should we have dominion? Are we better than the dog that stays by a master who forgets to notice him? Than the cat who lays the mouse at your door when she is hungry and could have eaten it herself? Than a horse who will keep galloping to please you until its lungs have given out? ~ Lynn Cullen

Tell me," said Miss Fuller, "who is behind a great woman?" She looked around our circle, then stopped at me. "That's right. No one. She has to get there by herself. ~ Lynn Cullen

Pay attention to fate ... It will always have the last word. ~ Lynn Cullen

Desire inspires us to be our very best. ~ Lynn Cullen

The unspoken truth was that New Yorkers considered everyone in the world to be just a tad - well, more than just a tad, a lot more than a tad - old-fashioned compared with themselves. ~ Lynn Cullen

Only the rich, he said not a little bitterly, can afford to act like income does not matter. ~ Lynn Cullen

First you must believe there is a soul."
"Do you?"
"If by a soul one means the creature who lives within each of us, a creature born loving, born joyful, but who with each wordly blow shrinks more deeply into its shell until at last, the poor desiccated thing is unrecognizable, even to its own self, yes. I do. ~ Lynn Cullen

The lady doth protest too much, methinks.' ~ Lynn Cullen

I want us. I want us to be something special to each other... ~ Sandi Lynn

You're trembling," he said. "I think I'm scared." "But why?" He smoothed his hand over her hair. "I was a fool to have left you alone, but it won't happen again." "I've never had anyone try to kill me before." Richard patted her back gently. "'Tis a bit unnerving the first time. ~ Lynn Kurland

A stepping-stone can be a stumbling block if we can't see it until after we have tripped over it. ~ Cullen Hightower

Protector and destroyer were two sides of the same coin. Who knew which one would come out in a toss-up? ~ Mina Khan

Sometimes, there aren't any good choices. Sometimes, making the right one is hard ... It's funny, but when you think about it, we're all broken. That's what life does. It knocks you down and breaks you and you either get back up again, or you don't. You either do things on your terms, or you don't. You let the bad things win, or you don't."
"You either let it break you, or you don't. ~ Jennifer Lynn Barnes

The night whose sable breast relieves the stark,
White stars, is no less lovely being dark ~ Countee Cullen

I know I need to stay away from you, Avery. All I want is one kiss. I've got to taste you. ~ Nikki Lynn Barrett

Brian must have heard the commotion, because he came up behind her and yanked the door all the way open. "You got a f**king problem with me, James?"
James, ever the type to go off all half-cocked until things started to get serious, seemed to shrink a bit. "I've got a problem with you screwing my sister, yeah."
"I suggest you get the f**k over it. ~ Cherrie Lynn

Neophyte writers tend to believe that there is something magical about ideas and that if they can just get a hold of a good one, then their futures are ensured. ~ Lynn Abbey

Information is power. You can never know ahead of time which pieces will be worth the most. ~ Jennifer Lynn Barnes

When you make sure you're on the same page with someone, also make sure you are in the same book, and all parties know how to read. -Words of wisdom ~ Lani Lynn Vale

Am I going to have to carry you? If so, it would complete my badass knight-in-shining-armor act with you today. ~ J. Lynn

I want you. Bad. Right now. Against the wall. On my bed. The floor and maybe in the bathroom later. I have a shower stall and a Jacuzzi we could put to really good use. I know you'd like it. ~ J. Lynn

as he leaned over the edge of his massive, five-foot yacht ~ Aliyah Lynn

Happiness is something that comes from our own hearts, not from other people. ~ Lynn Austin

My father was too distracted to see anything in this. Mimicking my mother, he taped it to the fridge in the same place Buckley's long-forgotten drawing of the Inbetween had been. But my brother knew something was wrong with his story. Knew it by how his teacher reacted, doing a double take like they did in his comic books. He took the story down and brought it to my old room while Grandma Lynn was downstairs. He folded it into a tiny square and put it inside the now-empty insides of my four poster bed.

~pgs 217-218; Buckley's childhood ~ Alice Sebold

It's been almost a century that Edward's been alone. Now he's found you. You can't see the changes we see, we who have been with him for so long. Do you think any of us want to look into his eyes for the next hundred years if he loses you? ~ Stephenie Meyer

She swallowed it down and willed her heart to settle. This was an important moment. For the first time she could introduce herself how she wanted. She got to define her own self. And no one was going to stop her. "Ella," she said quietly, as if saying out loud what had been only in her head for so long would break it further. ~ S.T. Lynn

I'm not Team Gale or Team Peeta. I'm Team Katniss ... the core story in the Hunger Games trilogy has less to do with who Katniss ends up with and more to do with who she is - because sometimes, in books and in life, it's not about the romance.
Sometimes, it's about the girl. ~ Jennifer Lynn Barnes

As an actor, particularly because I'm - I would call myself a character actor. I change my look, my physical appearance and my body, my hair color, my whatever all the time for a role. ~ Lynn Redgrave

I'm doing stand-up comedy. I'm working on a one-woman show about how I don't like my baby. There is a period of time where a baby is born where the next 3 months is harrowing. A lot of people say it's the most wonderful time, but for me it was harrowing. ~ Mary Lynn Rajskub

He can occasionally see to an enemy," she conceded. "If he manages to get his sword pointed in the right direction and the enemy does him the favor of falling upon it in precisely the right way. ~ Lynn Kurland

And what is this wild summons? What art is asked of us? The gift offered is different for each but all are equal in grandeur. To paint, draw, dance, compose. To write songs, poems, letters, diaries, prayers. To set a violet on the sill, stitch a quilt,; bake bread; plant marigolds, beans, apple trees. To follow the track of the forest elk, the neighborhood coyote, the cupboard mouse. To open the windows, air beds, sweep clean the corners. To hold the child's hand, listen to the vagrant's story, paint the elder friend's fingernails a delightful shade of pink while wrapped in a blanket she knit with deft young fingers of her past. To wander paths, nibble purslane, notice spiders. To be rained upon. To listen with changed ears and sing back what we hear. ~ Lyanda Lynn Haupt

My grandmother stepped back into the kitchen to get their drinks. I had come to love her more after death than I ever had on Earth. I wish I could say that in that moment in the kitchen she decided to quit drinking, but I now saw that drinking was a part of what made her who she was. If the worst of what she left on Earth was a legacy of inebriated support, it was a good legacy in my book.
~Susie's grandmother, Lynn
pgs 315-316 ~ Alice Sebold

-Do you love this girl ?
-I'm fucking crazy about her.
-Fucking crazy I've gathered. But I asked if you love her. I'm talking true, enduring, unconditional, hold-her-hair-while-she's-pucking-from-the-morning-sickness love. ~ Cherrie Lynn

Only a mother's heart can be
Patient enough for such as he. ~ Ethel Lynn Beers

Her heart is as soft as her curves and neither are easy to access. ~ Donna Lynn Hope

On sacred messages: It isn't for the lack of you, but for our own safety that some things are better left alone… ~ Debbie Lynn - 360 Degrees Full Circle

Oh, hell to the no, he did not just storm out of there like a drama queen. She was going to find him and then castrate him. ~ J. Lynn

Pleased to meet you," Tellin says, shaking me out of my reverie. "Lily told me much about you last weekend."
"Funny." Quince throws me a questioning glance. "She didn't mention you at all. ~ Tera Lynn Childs

You're weird." "I know." I lifted my head so my chin rested on his chest. "But you love me?" His lips tipped up at the corners. "I love you as much as a kid loves Santa." I laughed. "That's serious." "Hardcore," he murmured. ~ Jennifer L. Armentrout

People who are different are considered ineffective. People who can't hide their shortcomings are not considered a threat. A lot of spies rely on being unobtrusive, but we flat out flaunt the fact that we're different, and those we try to get information from put us on an even lower level than the ones they don't notice. They don't believe we're even capable of being a threat, and they misstep more than they might with someone they simply don't know. ~ Lynn Blackmar

I hate it when I'm trying to eat a salad, it falls on the floor, and I have to eat tacos instead. -Text from Audrey to Tobias ~ Lani Lynn Vale

When a man tells a woman there is no chance of a formal, committed, long-term relationship, the only self-respecting response is to take him at his word and move on. ~ Lynn Coady

Mommy smoked but she didn't want us to. She saw smoke coming out of the barn one time, so we got whipped. ~ Loretta Lynn

In the cosmos of a tragedy, even one or two mitigating moments can turn aside an unqualified disaster. But sometimes disaster is without defect, and every one of the thousand instants on which destinies turn goes terribly and perfectly wrong. ~ Lynn Vincent

She did not believe he could have really gone, because for her, to leave the person you loved was impossible. ~ Jodi Lynn Anderson

It was a scary decision to let cameras into my life, but if I was going to do it, I just wanted to be really honest and kind of introduce myself as an adult. I think the world met me as a young girl, and they still associate me with who I was when I was 13, they still don't understand how over the last eight years what has happened and who I've become. ~ Jamie Lynn Spears

Failure is necessary to succeed and will become your biggest blessing. ~ Lynn Bardowski

Trace was just one of those guys who caught your attention no matter if you had a ring on your finger. He would be hot 'til the day he died. Seriously. ~ Chelsea Lynn Charters The Gossip Web

Do people have an idea of who they think I am? Yes, and that's fine with me. My music will speak for itself. ~ Jamie Lynn Spears

But the outsider in May, the one from Briery Swamp who had never fit quite right, kept her tucked safely in her nook. ~ Jodi Lynn Anderson

I've been around a long time, and life still has a whole lot of surprises for me. ~ Loretta Lynn

I've peered into every window, making sure Sthenno isn't within, and am about to concede defeat and return to the meeting place when my light flashes over a small reflective surface back at the far end of the hall.
I sigh.
"This is the place in the movie," I whisper, "when the audience yells for the heroine to run. ~ Tera Lynn Childs

Oh. Dane. That's his name, right?" she asked. "He took our phones and put the shackles on us, but said we could use the phone on the table. I'm not sure if it's some kind of dominance posturing," she trailed off for a moment. "Actually yeah, having been around him for more than thirty seconds, I'm relatively certain that this is one hundred percent, testosterone-laden alpha male posturing. Is Jake like this?"
"I might be an idiot," I said, "but even I wouldn't fall for this sort of thing. A guy who goes to this length to seem awesome must have a dick the size of a gherkin. ~ Lynn Red