Raedell Pearson Quotes

They which have no hope of a life to come, may extend their griefs for the loss of this, and equal the days of their mourning with the years of the life of man. ~ John Pearson

Are we still in Morrighan?" I asked.
He half smiled, half grunted. "You don't know your own country's borders? How very royal. ~ Mary E. Pearson

As a child she thought if she could just pull away the fence they would turn back into the beautiful horses they really were and escape to the old plains. she had hope in that power ~ Mary E. Pearson

Nietzsche does not seek a completely politicized existence in which a private realm of existence is abolished. On the contrary, he wishes to preserve a private/public distinction. His quarrel with modern liberal society is that, although its ideology of the privatization of politics allows individuals a tremendous degree of private freedom, it does so at the cost of undermining notions of culture and citizenship. ~ Keith Ansell-Pearson

The angels threw glitter up there, just for you, Zoe, Daddy had told her. They celebrated almost as much as I did the day you were born. Every time you look up there you remember how special you are - so special the angels threw a big party. ~ Mary E. Pearson

I see you in the grass,
Running through the snow,
But where you have gone,
I cannot go. ~ Helen Pearson

Be careful what you wear to bed, because you never know where you might wake up. ~ Ridley Pearson

People say that time is a great healer. Which people? What are they talking about? I think some feelings you experience in your life are written in indelible ink and the best you can hope for is that they fade a little over the years. ~ Allison Pearson

I gently pressed on the back of my head, wondering how bad the gash was. Beneath the crusted patch of blood, there was still a sizable lump. It was ironic that a housekeeper armed only with an iron pot had nearly done in the Assassin of Venda.
How the Rahtan would laugh at that.
The name dug into me with a surprising sting - and longing. Rahtan. It brought back the familiar, the feeling of pride, the one place in my entire life where I had felt like I belonged. Now I was in a kingdom that didn't want me and in a cottage where I wasn't welcome. I didn't want to be here either, but I couldn't leave. I wondered about Griz and Eben. Surely Griz was healed and they were on their way by now. They were the closest thing I had to family - a family of poisonous vipers. The thought made me grin. ~ Mary E. Pearson

It's still there, you know? All the love, it's still right there underneath my ribs, begging you to pull them back one by one and crawl inside. ~ Moriah Pearson

This was something I'd never been trained for. There were no military strategies or drills to prepare me for the daily torment of not killing someone. ~ Mary E. Pearson

Desperate pieces of string that hold us up but at the same time keep us from being anything other than what we have always been. ~ Mary E. Pearson

I've discovered I love the vast landscape a series offers. I tend to write long anyway, so, it turns out, series gives me the perfect vehicle for writing 'large' stories. ~ Mary E. Pearson

Until one comes who is mightier,
The one sprung from misery,
The one who was weak,
The one who was hunted,
The one marked with claw and vine,
The one named in secret,
The one called Jezelia. ~ Mary E. Pearson

My timing is off. But I had to get it out. Some things you have to tell, no matter how stupid they may sound. Some things you can't save for later. There might not be a later. ~ Mary E. Pearson

I know many of you would say "What about the Bible?" The Bible says this, the Bible says that, the Bible is the inspired Word of God. I think the Bible is the inspired word of man - about God, and some of that is now expired. ~ Carlton Pearson

So planning something big."
"If this is the work of the Overtakers, we've never seen anything like it."
"It is," a voice said behind them. Maybeck slipped in alongside of them.
"You about scared the pee out of me!" Charlene complained. ~ Ridley Pearson

If you don't believe in yourself, who will?' ~Maybeck ~ Ridley Pearson

For what is falling to a flyer but a pleasant reminder, a firm affirmation of wings. ~ Z. Marick Pearson

Obstacles are a sign you're doing something you care about and that matters to you. ~ Sharon Pearson

Especially with four insanely angry, sword-carrying pirates bearing down on you, followed closely by an alien with a genetic malfunction that posed like Elvis Presley and looked slightly like a cross between a koala and a cuddly dog. ~ Ridley Pearson

Don't let something you don't fully understand unravel everything you do know. ~ Kevin W. Pearson

I've been running from, and toward, death all my life, more aware of it than a person should be. ~ Ridley Pearson

And I began walking. A thousand miles, or two, I would carry her all the way to Dalbreck if I had to. No one would pry her from my arms again. ~ Mary E. Pearson

We stood and watched as the clan ran ahead of us into the valley that would become our home. Jafir pressed his hand to the small mound growing in my belly and smiled. Our hope. "We have been blessed by the gods," he said. "The cruelties of the world are behind us now. Our child will never know them." I ~ Mary E. Pearson

I remember Mr. Bender's comment about us only being here for two weeks, too. It's true. How could Mother and Father have known? After I spent over a year in a coma, how could they have predicted exactly when I would wake up and then move to California precisely at that time? Was it only coincidence? Or did they decide when I would wake up? Why would they keep me in a coma for so long? Why would they steal a year and a half of my life? What kind of parents are they? ~ Mary E. Pearson

Deliberate deception is not a mistake. It's calculating and cold. ~ Mary E. Pearson

She leaned closer and said, "Let's just call this a friendly warning. If you hurt
my brother, I'll make sure that you regret it. ~ Mary E. Pearson

The boys had asked why, if it acted slowly, was it called quicksand. The Mollusks had replied that, as far as they were concerned, most English names for things were silly. The word that they used for quicksand was a deep grunt that translated roughly to uh-oh. ~ Ridley Pearson

The world before us is a postcard, and I imagine the story we are writing on it. ~ Mary E. Pearson

Misquotation is, in fact, the pride and privilege of the learned. A widely- read man never quotes accurately, for the rather obvious reason that he has read too widely. ~ Hesketh Pearson

It is intensely frustrating to be misquoted. ~ Stuart Pearson Wright

She laughed now, and the sound of it--clear as a bell, dirty as a rugby match--turned heads all along their row. ~ Allison Pearson

An author should be delighted, not annoyed when he hears himself persistently misquoted. He could receive no higher compliment. It proves that the world has frequent and urgent need of his thoughts and will rather change the manner in which he expresses them than do without the things expressed. ~ Hesketh Pearson