Paula Quotes

A person cannot trust another more than they can be trusted. ~ Paula Dickerson

Dust billowed around us, creeping under our loose-tied handkerchiefs and into our noses and mouths. It was fine and silty, red as ochre or the brush-tailed fox, ~ Paula McLain

Constructive criticism is about finding something good and positive to soften the blow to the real critique of what really went on. ~ Paula Abdul

The memory doesn't fit with the reality, because I don't remember anger, raging fury. I remember fear. ~ Paula Hawkins

Don't forget to pause and nourish yourself a bit along the way. When you're born to help others sometimes you forget to help yourself. ~ Paula Heller Garland

I would gladly have climbed out of my skin and into his that night, because I believed that was what love meant. ~ Paula McLain

Do you think we can ever leave the past behind?' he said.
'I don't know. I hope so. ~ Paula McLain

I don't make to-do lists, but if I did, today's would have gone something like this: 1. get drunk, 2. get laid, 3. go surfing (not necessarily in that order.) Noticeably absent from the list: get arrested. And yet here I am, spending my eighteenth birthday with my back against the wall of the Colonel's hunting cabin, two FBI agents prowling the dark with their guns drawn, both trying to get me to confess to the murder of my friend Preston DeWitt. ~ Paula Stokes

You end up becoming who you are by jumping into that circle of fear - that's how it's done. ~ Paula Abdul

They'd scared me and had me thinking about what it meant to be really strong, on my own terms - not just fit and brown from the sun, not just flexible and accommodating. ~ Paula McLain

I believe that one should not think too much about nature when painting, at least not during the painting's conception. The colour sketch should be made exactly as one has perceived things in nature. But personal feeling is the main thing. ~ Paula Modersohn-Becker

We were surrounded by people on the platform, but we were entirely alone. ~ Paula McLain

He might be a very good liar, but I know when he's telling the truth. He doesn't fool me. ~ Paula Hawkins

I'm still trying to find out who Paula Cole is. I always am - and I always will be - my real, inside self, which has no name. ~ Paula Cole

I have a very silly sense of humor. I've never laughed harder in my entire life than seeing someone with toilet paper stuck on the bottom of their shoe. ~ Paula Poundstone

That is why my pictures don't look like modern art. It's some sort of timidity on my part I'm sure. ~ Paula Rego

I stand on principle where many people stand on money. ~ Paula Abdul

The first time I got pregnant, I was a young girl - I was 17 years old. Although I knew right away that I wanted to keep my child, being a pregnant teen was an extremely scary experience for me. Luckily, my family and friends were very supportive and were there for me every step of the way. ~ Paula Garces

She stared at him. Her head tipped to the side and she narrowed her eyes. "That's the best you can come up with? What kind of platitude is that?"
"Give me a second. I can do better." He lifted her hand, then reached for her other one. He pulled her close so they stood toe to toe. She shivered a little. He didn't think it had much to do with the cold. Her arms were bare, but the evening was warm. "Everything happens for a reason. God works in mysterious ways. There's a light at the end of the tunnel."
"You suck at this." But she was smiling.
She was so achingly beautiful. He slid his hands up her arms to her elbows so they were closer still. And then she leaned against him, resting her head on his shoulder, and he forgot how to breathe.
He stood in the shadows, holding her in his arms, wanting to do the right thing and afraid he'd screw it all up. Her hands nestled the small of his back, thumbs hooked through his belt. Her lips brushed against the sensitive base of his throat. Awareness burned through every single spot her body came in contact with his. This was Danni, all grown up. He wanted one little taste. Just a bit.
So he kissed her. And, without a second's hesitation, she kissed him back. The world around them rocked back on its heels.
Then some small noise interrupted - the sound of footsteps, passing too close. He lifted his head, not wanting any intrusion, and the moment ended as fast as it had begun. ~ Paula Altenburg

There is something intoxicating about ending a life, about wiping bad people off the face of the earth. But it's also a dark and deadly pull. After all, who am I to decide who lives or dies? ~ Paula Stokes

As long as we avoid the creative, we are condemned to reaction. ~ Paula Gunn Allen

I just want to be in the best shape I can be. Not to stand on that start line and say: 'Oh my God, I have this injury and that injury.' I just want to be able to go out and race. ~ Paula Radcliffe

It has to come out of the chain of command, because the chain of command has really become impotent. The chain of command is vested in protecting itself, and so often, the perpetrator of the assault is in the chain of command. ~ Paula Coughlin

It's a glorious evening, warm but not too close, the sun starting its lazy descent, shadows lengthening and the light just beginning to burnish the trees with gold. ~ Paula Hawkins

Letting ourselves be loved by God is the place where we stumble upon trust. ~ Paula Rinehart

Sometimes, I don't want to go anywhere, I think I'll be happy if I never have to set foot outside the house again. ~ Paula Hawkins

Actually I don't choose to expose myself in public. I choose to compete; the other side just comes with the package. ~ Paula Radcliffe

Because the materials selected for a specific purpose such as food preparation are set on a tray in order and sequence of use, from left to right and top to bottom, the child mentally incorporates this precise order it becomes part of his functional intelligence ~ Paula Polk Lillard

To Paula in Late Spring"

Let me imagine that we will come again
when we want to and it will be spring
we will be no older than we ever were
the worn griefs will have eased like the early cloud
through which the morning slowly comes to itself
and the ancient defenses against the dead
will be done with and left to the dead at last
the light will be as it is now in the garden
that we have made here these years together
of our long evenings and astonishment ~ W.S. Merwin

You might think about putting some heavy-duty hooks into the ceiling joists and beams so that you can have a rope ladder, or a small swing inside your house. ~ Paula Yates

He set the helmet on the floor beside the door and slung his jacket over the back of one chair. He tilted his head sideways to look at her, one eyebrow raised. "I'm not going to ask why. I'm going to make assumptions. ~ Paula Altenburg

He wanted everything there was to have, and more than that. ~ Paula McLain

Everyone wants to procreate, have a miniature version of themselves running around, to carry on the family line. ~ Paula Gruben

To me, Mother Nature isn't nearly as scary as human nature. ~ Paula Stokes

I'm stronger with Cheyenne. Sure, I never settle for less than my best, but my best is better with my sister beside me. The realization brings me a weird sense of calm. Not peace, exactly, but resolution. ~ Paula Stokes

When I turned to leave the groom to his work, I saw that D's ranch manager had been watching us. His name was Boy Long, and he was exotic-looking for these parts, with jet-black hair and a single gold hoop in one ear. His particular flair made me think of a pirate. "What's in the tincture?" he wanted to know. "Nothing unusual." He looked me up and down. "I don't believe you, but you can keep your secret." A ~ Paula McLain

I've always wanted to win in my hometown. ~ Paula Creamer

I've had a lot of success over the years racing in New York, but the main point is that I feel the marathon is a different event, a lot more my event. ~ Paula Radcliffe

I miss good old-fashioned honorable people just trying to make something of life. Simply, without hurting anyone else. I know that makes me a sap. ~ Paula McLain

Anything was possible. When you hear hooves you look for horses, but you can't discount zebras. ~ Paula Hawkins

How unbelievably naive we both were that night. We clung hard to each other, making vows we couldn't keep and should never have spoken aloud. That's how love is sometimes. I already loved him more than I'd ever loved anything or anyone. I knew he needed me absolutely, and I wanted him to go on needing me forever. ~ Paula McLain

You should worry less, smile more....And fall in love ~ Paula Marinaro

He lit another cigarette and inhaled deeply, the tip flaring an angry red. Isn't love a beautiful goddamn liar? ~ Paula McLain

Of baking pans so that we can make individual brownies with ~ Paula Danziger

Books could be an incredible adventure. I stayed under my blanket and barely moved, and no one would have guessed how my mind raced and my heart soared with stories. ~ Paula McLain

At my confirmation, where you get the Holy Spirit, I came down the stairs at my party and had torn, like, 80 holes in my pantyhose and said I had the Holy Spirit, and just would do things like that all the time. ~ Paula Pell

Men hear what they like and invent the rest. ~ Paula McLain

On the train on the way home, as I dissect all the ways that today went wrong, I'm surprised by the fact that I don't feel as awful as I might. Thinking about it, I know why that is: I didn't have a drink last night, and I have no desire to have one now. I am interested, for the first time in ages, in something other than my own misery. I have purpose. Or at least, I have a distraction. ~ Paula Hawkins

If I am willing to read a book in its entirety, I will give it five stars. I do not list books that I did not finish; they were not written for me as the audience. ~ Paula Shene

For the American Indian, the ability of all creatures to share in the process of ongoing creation makes all things sacred. ~ Paula Gunn Allen

The cool part of being an entertainer is getting the opportunity to get your feet wet in all areas. ~ Paula Abdul

The Olympics is not a race I want to watch on television and think 'I wonder what I could have done if I was there? ~ Paula Radcliffe

Happiness is so awfully complicated, but freedom isn't. You're either tied down or you're not. ~ Paula McLain

You know, nobody can ever cook as good as your mama. ~ Paula Deen

By your words, you form your destiny - what you say within yourself determines the end promise of your life! Your future lives in your mouth! ~ Paula White

Margaret quirked her lips, looking much like the imp their mother used to call her. "What flower would ye pick for Katherine Campbell?"
Callum snorted. "I wouldna pick flowers."
"Ye let her take a bite out of ye." Maggie looked up at him, then cut him off when he opened his mouth to speak. "Ye fancy her. What flower would ye pick for her?"
"Tulips," he mumbled, ignoring her knowing smirk. ~ Paula Quinn

We are the women of daylight; of clocks and steel foundries, of drugstores and streetlights, of superhighways that slice our days in two. Our dreams are pale memories of themselves, and nagging doubt is the false measure of our days. ~ Paula Gunn Allen

She was quite surprised to notice that the "toys" she had placed in the room were among those things virtually untouched. ~ Paula Polk Lillard

Lainey is hot in a prom queen kind of way and we used to be friends back in grade school, but that was two lifetimes ago. Now she's a varsity soccer player and card-carrying popular girl who hangs out with the kind of mean girls and douchebags who get killed first in horror movies. ~ Paula Stokes

I've decided that perhaps I'm bulimic and just keep forgetting to purge. ~ Paula Poundstone

I'm very lucky. I'm very fortunate that my books have never gone out of print - none of them. ~ Paula Danziger

Outside the gates of the finca, watching the passing rows of tin-roofed shacks which represented the residential section of San Francisco de Paula, I began to think about The Old Man and the Sea, and I realized it was Ernest's counterattack against those who had assaulted him for Across the River. It was an absolutely perfect counterattack and I envisioned a row of snickering carpies bearing the likenesses of Dwight Macdonald and Louis Kronenberger and E.B. White, who in the midst of cackling, "Through! Washed Up! Kaput!" suddenly grab their groins and keel over. It is a rather elementary military axiom that he who attacks must anticipate the counterattack, but the critics, poor boys, would never make General Staff. As Ernest once said, "One battle doesn't make a campaign but critics treat one book, good or bad, like a whole goddamn war. ~ A. E. Hotchner

No really, Lainey. Give it a chance. Millions of readers can't be wrong."
"That's like saying millions of boy-band fans can't be wrong," I mutter, but I flip through a few more pages. ~ Paula Stokes

The past doesn't go away. You just can't see it anymore. ~ Paula Morris

Love is a beautiful liar? Beauty was a liar too. ~ Paula McLain

Sometimes I want to scream at him, Just let me go. Let me go. Let me breathe. So I can't sleep, and I'm angry. I feel as though we're having fight already, even though the fight's only in my imagination. And in my head, thoughts go round and round and round. And I feel like I'm suffocating. ~ Paula Hawkins

It gave me a sharp kind of sadness to think that no matter how much I loved him and tried to put him back together again, he might stay broken forever. ~ Paula McLain

I felt a sense of anticipation of being on the verge of something interesting. ~ Paula McLain

The very worst poetry of all perished along with its creator, Paula Nancy Millstone Jennings of Greenbridge, Essex, England, in the destruction of the planet Earth. ~ Douglas Adams

It's transference, Megan," he said. "It happens from time to time. It happens to me, too. I really should have introduced this topic last time. I'm sorry." I ~ Paula Hawkins

Yeah, history is just brimming over with stories of total degenerates evolving into decent human
beings. ~ Paula Stokes

I loved the deep smell of the horses and the track itself and the noises of the happy crowd taking its luck as it came. ~ Paula McLain

Our Father Who Art in Heaven gathered more meaning for me as my own father joined the Maker when I was still in school. ~ Andy Paula

I think your body is just a little bit stronger after pregnancy. ~ Paula Radcliffe

We are spiritual beings having a human experience. We don't choose the experience but we do choose how we react to the experience we have. Choose to be positive, choose to be helpful, choose to be happy. ~ Paula Coffer

You earned him fair and square. He's not mine to take back." He rose to get himself a drink. The peaty odour of scotch flickered up and stung my nose. "I'd like one of those." He looked at me, surprised. "You'll have to go for water." I shook my head. "All right," he said. "I guess you've earned that, too." He handed me the rounded heavy glass, and we sat in silence as the sun retreated. I'd had wine and champagne, but this was different. It made me feel older. ~ Paula McLain

Running gives me a lot of pleasure. It's something I'll always do, as long as I can. ~ Paula Radcliffe

Apparently, what differentiates the mere rich from the filthy rich is a servant who treats you like dirt. ~ Paula Wall

Are you always this wise, Ruth?"
"Only when it comes to other people's lives. ~ Paula McLain

I took my first creative writing class when I was 24, then went onto to get a graduate degree in poetry. I've sort of never looked back from there. ~ Paula McLain

know what it is to love someone and to say the most terrible things to them, in anger or anguish. ~ Paula Hawkins

But then again it's all just Imagination. ~ Paula Becka

Maybe no one can know how it is for anyone else. ~ Paula McLain

The most depressing part is that relationship instability, like home chaos, is a vicious cycle. As sociologists Paula Fornby and Andrew Cherlin found, a "growing body of literature suggests that children who experience multiple transitions in family structure may fare worse developmentally than children raised in stable two-parent families and perhaps even than children raised in stable, single-parent families." For ~ J.D. Vance

The small child walks to develop his powers, he is building up his being. He goes slowly. He has neither rhythmic step nor goal. But things around him allure him and urge him forward. ~ Paula Polk Lillard

They sat in the cafes with their fresh faces and long lovely legs and waited for something outrageous to happen. ~ Paula McLain

The truth, for me, is I do accept everyone.
I believe people are going to be who they are going to be. Moreover, I strongly disagree that it is my place in life to judge who they are. Or to attempt to mold them into whom I believe they should become. ~ Paula Heller Garland

The first time I saw a narcissus pushing through ice and thriving, I thought it was perfect and wanted that kind of determination for myself. ~ Paula McLain

Paula laughed, remembering more of her mother's words: Better to be unhappy in a Mercedes-Benz than unhappy on a bus. To which Paula had always responded, I'd rather be happy. ~ Fiona Higgins

Sketches always have more vitality than paintings because you're finding things out through doing them. ~ Paula Rego

I'm so glad I'm not a dentist. How many times does someone say, 'Oh, Doc, it felt so good when you were drilling my teeth'? Never. But when you give someone a wonderful cookie, you put a little of yourself in, and you see someone's face light up - that's immediate approval. ~ Paula Deen

I have to keep things vague, jumble up all the men, the lovers and the exes, but I tell myself that's OK, because it doesn't matter who they are. It matters how they make me feel. ~ Paula Hawkins

Some battles aren't worth fighting ~ Paula Hawkins

Listen, I'm from Belfast. We're not polite people. And it's language. We're direct. ~ Paula Malcomson

Boy craziness is really just girl neediness. ~ Paula Hendricks

Any good business person applies financial discipline to everything they do. The movie business is and should be no different; I don't believe you have to sacrifice creativity to have business success. To the contrary, great art requires discipline. ~ Paula Wagner

There are many more layers to innocence than one might ever imagine, and we are ever unaware of them until each barrier is breached. ~ Paula Reed

He follows me and I take off my clothes as I'm going up the stairs, and when we get there, when he pushes me down on the bed, I'm not even thinking about him, but it doesn't matter because he doesn't know that. I'm good enough to make him believe that it's all about him. ~ Paula Hawkins

My very identities as a reader and a writer began at the Walt Whitman branch library. ~ Paula Spencer

What is there to imagine with a gun?" asked Papa . . . .
"Something dead," Papa said more quietly. "That's what there is to imagine with a gun. ~ Paula Fox