Patricia Vanasse Quotes

It's all inside of you - what you want, who you are, and who you want to be. Just give it time." He pulls away and helps me to my feet. "Nobody makes you, you. You make yourself. ~ Patricia Vanasse

Who did you lose?"
This girl is full of questions.
"Nobody." Or everyone - depends how I look at it. People don't really need to die to be gone. ~ Patricia Vanasse

Although many philosophers used to dismiss the relevance of neuroscience on grounds that what mattered was the software, not the hardware, increasingly philosophers have come to recognize that understanding how the brain works is essential to understanding the mind. ~ Patricia Churchland

Writing is a way of organizing experience and life itself. ~ Patricia Highsmith

If you don't have sex with me right now, I swear I will light you on fire and bury your body in the desert. ~ Patricia Eimer

I reel in an uncanny intoxication of emotions, on minute bewildered and then frightened then the next, I swing from exhaustion to mania, from depression to tranquility and beneath it all, excitement fizzes as if my blood is filled with gas. ~ Patricia Cornwell

If you chomp down too hard on my work, you're going to break your teeth. ~ Patricia Cornwell

You trust God, and no matter what happens, you refuse to let your faith be shaken. ~ Patricia H. Rushford

You aren't up to dealing with werewolf business." "Seems to me that she's been dealing just fine," Adam said mildly. "She killed two of them in as many days and came out of it without a scratch." "Luck," said Samuel. "Is it?" In my rearview mirror, I saw Adam close his eyes as he finished in almost a whisper. "Maybe so. When I was in the army, we kept lucky soldiers where they would do us the most good." "Adam ~ Patricia Briggs

I had always believed government was not a fungus: It could survive in sunshine. ~ Patricia Schroeder

Each human must invent human love, a chance that will be given to you in becoming human. And for all the atrocity they have done and will do, it is still through human love, and no other, that appetite, desire, and pleasure themselves become the source of ethics, which knowledge makes inseparable from love ~ Patricia Storace

In memory each of us is an artist: each of us creates. ~ Patricia Hampl

Nobody ever says to men, how can you be a Congressman and a father. ~ Patricia Schroeder

A six year old can probably do more on their iPad than you can do and access more. My daughter's swiping away windows and doing all these things that I don't know how to do. ~ Patricia Arquette

I wouldn't want to donate my body for scientific study. ~ Patricia Cornwell

But that's what makes it so fun! Life is scary. So why wouldn't we enjoy and make fun of that fear? It's like life is trying to makes us fear it, and on this day we just mock its attempts and say 'no, not today, today I'm not scared of anything you throw at me'. ~ Patricia Morais

Drawing is what you see of the world, truly see ... And sometimes what you see is so deep in your head you're not even sure of what you're seeing. But when it's down there on paper, and you look at it, really look, you'll see the way things are ... that's the world, isn't it? You have to keep looking to find the truth. ~ Patricia Reilly Giff

The question was asked, how can you be a mother and a congresswoman? I said, I have a brain, I have a uterus and they both work. ~ Patricia Schroeder

If you're waiting for a special occasion to make your next trip happen, then consider this: The day you get off the couch and head for the airport, that's the special occasion. ~ Patricia Schultz

Let your feelings flow freely, accept each one of them, know that they are your feelings and no one is to blame for them. Live from your essence and watch your feelings flow; only when you accept them can you understand the story of your life. ~ Patricia Selbert

I don't like it when I outweigh my men. ~ Patricia Briggs

I see you've decided to take my advice after all, Richard." Lady Wendall's amused voice said from somewhere above and behind him. "Marrying your ward is *exactly* the sort of usual scandal I had in mind: I wonder it didn't occur to me before. ~ Patricia C. Wrede

May you and your triple cursed wash water turn purple with orange spots and fall down a bottomless pit! ~ Patricia C. Wrede

Every time you play a bad girl or guy in a movie, you really come from a place of pain. ~ Patricia Velasquez

I need you to forgive me. And then perhaps I can begin to forgive myself. There is no one but you who can do that either. ~ Patricia A. McKillip

All my life I have overheard, all my life I have listened to what people will let slip when they think you are part of their we. A we is so powerful. It is the most corrupt and formidable institution on earth. Its hands are full of the crispest and most persuasive currency. Its mouth is full of received, repeating language. The we closes its ranks to protect the space inside it, where the air is different. It does not protect people. It protects its own shape. ~ Patricia Lockwood

He kissed her temple, her hair, and then her mouth again, with great passion and heartbreaking tenderness. My Love ... from the beginning of time until the end. Always and forever. You'll always be my love. Always. ~ Patricia Ryan

You can do it because this time you will do it for yourself, for your inner existence. For that child who was not able to stand up, because no hand of rescue came on. ~ Patricia Dsouza

Advice and consent does not mean rubber stamp in the Senate. ~ Patricia Ireland

Trying is always enough. ~ Patricia Briggs

It was unsettling to be in love with someone who looked like the face in her nightmares. ~ Patricia Briggs

The thought of herself as decoration was absurd. ~ Patricia Briggs

I thought you couldn't make it here until morning," I said.
"I hurried. ~ Patricia Briggs

The phone rang.
"Hauptmans' mortuary," I answered. "You stab 'em, we slab "em." Baba Yaga was wearing off on me.
"Hard-boiled is the best way to eat eggs," said Baba Yaga. "But I've quit eating eggs - it upset my household. What did the boy-who-isn't-a-boy have to say?"
I decided I didn't want to know what inspired the information about eggs."

"She hung up.
I'd just replaced the handset when it rang again.
"Yes?" I said.
"I'm waiting for more cleverness," Baba Yaga said. "Hauptman House of Horrors, don't mind the screaming - we don't. Something of the sort."
"Okay," I said. "Hauptman House of Horrors - "
"Sssss," she said. ~ Patricia Briggs

Don't resist the urge to burn down the stronghold, kill off the main love interest or otherwise foul up the lives of your characters. ~ Patricia Hamill

Writing... is ... brave. You are brave. ~ Patricia MacLachlan

Seriously, if you really, truly don't understand basic terminology (which was at least half my problem with the adult-level "beginner" books), the children's section is the place to go. ~ Patricia C. Wrede

Being engaged in some way for the good of the community, whatever that community, is a factor in a meaningful life. We long to belong, and belonging and caring anchors our sense of place in the universe. ~ Patricia Churchland

Sending me into a climax that left me wrecked in body and whole in spirit. ~ Patricia Briggs

The problem of working in a mine, you are inside the belly of the monster, and it controls you. The air you breathe, the stones that fall on your head, we had to be on guard. ~ Patricia Riggen

You don't 'find' love, mi amor. You choose it. And then to keep love, you must choose it again, day after day. ~ Patricia Engel

Just be careful, Mary Jo. Be very careful. You've made mistakes. Everyone makes mistakes. One you should not make is to imagine that Christy will ever be Adam's mate. He is mine, and unlike her, I don't throw away people who are mine. ~ Patricia Briggs

In California we believe that most anxiety can be traced to a purely physical cause.
Which can be traced to a purely mental cause.
Which can be traced to a purely spiritual cause.
Which can probably be traced back to a physical cause. Et cetera. ~ Patricia Geary

She lay there, destroyed, quiet aftershocks shuddering through her. Silence settled into the room.
"Mind letting go of my hair, Sophi?" His muffled voice vibrated against her pubic bone.
"Oh!" She released her fists still violently clenched in his hair. He raised his head, laughter gleaming in his eyes. ~ Patricia A. Knight