Tara Michener Quotes

I don't know anyone who remembers meeting their parents when they were a baby so i'm just like everybody else. -Zoey (100% Real) ~ Tara Michener

I'm at a camp with over 100 girls 11 to 13 years old, around my own age, and I feel like my parents are my only friends. -Mackenzie ~ Tara Michener

You are real! Everyone has to be different or the world would be really boring. If we all looked the same, then no one could tell us apart. -Janelle ~ Tara Michener

When I was in the third grade, I did my very best to fail every class so that the kids would like me and stop calling me a teacher's pet. It did not work out for me, though. My best attempts at failure in school garnered me an A- at best, and at my worst, I won awards for being the student of the month. -Mackenzie ~ Tara Michener

Looking at my reflection tonight, I see a new girl staring back at me. She has big hair and big eyes and a big heart. Not only is she the perfect size and pretty ... she is smart. -Mackenzie ~ Tara Michener

She knows her place in this world. She can tear down its walls, and still nobody knows her name. - Naomi ~ Tara Kelly

I have never thought of myself as a good writer. Anyone who wants reassurance of that should read one of my first drafts. But I'm one of the world's great rewriters. ~ James A. Michener

A witness. An impartial account. The fever of self doubt had broken long ago. That's not to say I trusted my memory absolutely, but I trusted it as much as I trusted anybody else's, and more than some people's. ~ Tara Westover

It was one of those idiotic things that could've been resolved in a split second. Tara had no right to touch Raphael, and once she did he had every right to punch her. She should've left it at that, and now she was dead because she didn't. ~ Ilona Andrews

Excuse me," she said, her voice tight. "But if I'd known there was going to be a firearms examination at the end of the kidnapping, by God, I would have studied for it! ~ Tara Janzen

The bouncing cricket that was my brother is gone. Now when I look into his eyes, an old man stares back at me. ~ Tara Sullivan

Hells, Nori-girl, if the Ell called me on it in council, I'd have to swear by the second moon that you couldn't tell a man from a mudsucker. ~ Tara K. Harper

All my shrinks have told me I need to find a hobby. Something to focus on other than the torture and the pain, something to keep me grounded to the here and now and not stuck in the past, reliving every moment of hell. It's probably not healthy that I've decided finding Shelby and convincing her to love me again is the perfect hobby for me, but that's too damn bad.
I'm broken and scarred and half the man I used to be, but if she'll let me explain, I hope to God she can put me back together again. ~ Tara Sivec

I love you more than a hooker loves free VD testing day at the clinic ~ Tara Sivec

The tears pool in my eyes and fall down my face. I love her so much and all I'm doing is hurting her. The one person in my life who never lets me down and all I keep doing is breaking her apart. I let her down every time I leave, I let her down every time she has to handle something alone, I let her down when I come home and I'm not myself because I'm still stuck in a place halfway across the world ~ Tara Sivec

My friends in Cambridge has become a kind of family, and I felt a sense of belonging with them, that for many years, had been absent.... I preferred the family I had chosen to the one I had been given.... ~ Tara Westover

Go after what gives you goosebumps. ~ Tara Stiles

Pussy punch: when a twat tap just isn't enough ~ Tara Sivec

I can feel the sickening fear inside of me subside as my instincts take over. Inside of me are animal instincts. They were born in a world I wasn't. They take over when I need them to. They've taught me how to survive. I have learned it is the most important part of the world I live in. ~ Tara Brown

We're not going to make it, I said.
The words caught in my throat, choking me. What was it Leslie had said to me when we were discussing Shannon's and Antoinetta's disappearance? 'You're beginning to sound like one of the characters in your books, Adam.' She'd been right. If this were a novel my heroes would have arrived just in the nick of time and saved the day. But real life didn't work like that. Real life had no happy endings. Despite our best efforts, despite my love for Tara [his wife] and my determination to protect her, and after everything we'd been through at the LeHorn house, fate conspired against us. We were still nine or ten miles from home, and night was almost upon us. By the time we got there it would already be too late. I fought back tears. I had the urge just to lie down in the middle of the road and let the next car run over me. ~ Brian Keene

The belief that we are deficient and unworthy makes it difficult to trust that we are truly loved ~ Tara Brach

Tara moved into the kitchen and went still at the condition of it. "Formica countertops," she said as if she'd discovered asbestos. ~ Jill Shalvis

In that moment, I understood that love and hate were opposite sides of the same coin. For as much as I'd loved Nathaniel ten minutes ago, I hated him now. ~ Tara Sue Me

Drawing and painting is like a quickie in bed. Were as novel writing is a long term relationship, much more fulling. ~ Tara Dobbs

If you ramble enough, people will think what you're saying is true, right? ~ Tara Sivec

He's been hung up on a one-night-stand he had five years ago with a girl that smelled like Cocoa Puffs. ~ Tara Sivec

Bastard."
"You love me."
"Yes, I do. Now let me come. ~ Jaci Burton

I doubt, dearest child, that you could ever marry a Frenchman. They're not dependable. I've never believed that they're serious Catholics." He ~ James A. Michener

[Rick] "Tara."
The sound of his voice snapped her away from the memories. His command brooked no argument as he looked up from between her spread thighs.
"Eyes on me."
His voice told her not to think, dominated every part of her soul, until she couldn't fight him, and she slipped firmly back into the present. ~ Jennifer Probst

Only another writer, someone who had worked his heart out on a good book which sold three thousand copies, could appreciate the thrill that overcame me one April morning in 1973 when Dean Rivers of our small college in Georgia appeared at my classroom door ~ James A. Michener

With my pen I have engraved warrants of citizenship in the most remote corners, for truly the world has been my home. ~ James A. Michener

All of life is faith. Just because something has a label doesn't mean it's always going to match the inside. Trust me. Sometimes it takes more faith to believe the label. ~ Tara Sue Me

Yeah, you like that? You like it when Big Papa gives you his hot and juicy wiener?" I pant, my hips hammering against her. Her fists yank my hair, pulling my head away from her neck so hard that I see stars. "Ow! What the fuck?" I complain as she gives me a dirty look. "You cannot say shit like that when we're fucking. You Just can't," she warns me, letting out a low groan when I shift my hips and grind my pubic bone against her clit.
"What's wrong with a little dirty talk? I thought you'd like it." "I like dirty talk. I LOVE dirty talk. What you're doing is not dirty talk. It's 'weird as fuck' talk. Repeat after me: I love fucking you, your pussy is so tight," Ava demands. (Well, damn, that was hot. I kind of wish I had a vagina right now). ~ Tara Sivec

From our solitude
we shall create,
forge songs ,
pour in the reflection
of the stars and
refresh the mind
about the silk-ridden roads
that wait for them
who have forgotten
to feel. ~ Tara Estacaan

What was the exact percentage of this day that had already slipped away? ~ Tara Altebrando

If a man happens to find himself, he has a mansion which he can inhabit with dignity all the days of his life. ~ James A. Michener

There's a light that guides all of us to where we're meant to be. You're meant to be with me, Lucy. Please… be with me. ~ Tara Sivec

Badgers swarm out of the sand;
Talk and walk, don't run or stand.
Pritaries bite and bite again;
Kick and shout and run like wind."

Payne checked the small clock again. "Aye," he cut in. "Black Wolf never did get that last verse right. What she should have said was, 'Pritaries like to bite your ass; best to run away real fast. ~ Tara K. Harper

In the collective psyche it is being understood ... that we can cultivate wisdom and compassion. ~ Tara Brach

Dear Fisher, I guess this is it, huh? After almost fourteen years together, starting a life of our own on this island, five tours of duty and countless letters I've written you through it all, I finally go out to the mailbox and see something I've always dreamed of: an envelope with your handwriting on it. For one moment, I actually thought you'd changed your mind. That all the awful things you said to me were just your way of coping after everything you'd been through. I was still here, Fisher. I was still here, holding my breath, waiting for you to come back even though you told me you never would. You always said you'd find your way back to me. Out of all the lies you've told me, this one hurts the most. Enclosed you will find the signed divorce papers, as requested. I hope you find what you're looking for. I'm sorry it wasn't me. Lucy ~ Tara Sivec

They who laugh the hardest
are the same ones
who have fought the toughest.
The winner, though fraught with scars
stands alone,
wholly victorious. ~ Tara Estacaan

It was his opinion that a man had to wait until he was dead to know the meaning of God, unless he happened to have known the sea in his youth. ~ James A. Michener

I do not need wireless access to Wikipedia. I would prefer to stir-fry my own small intestines than to have continual access to a site where the entry for Klingon is longer than the entry for Latin. ~ Tara Brabazon

I hope his penis falls off. I hope it rots and falls off inside of Miss Teen USA, therefore causing her perfect, twenty-two-year-old vagina to rot and fall out of her thong when she sneezes. ~ Tara Sivec

If you cannot say what you have to say in twenty minutes, you should go away and write a book about it. ~ John Moore-Brabazon, 1st Baron Brabazon Of Tara

Vulnerability is strength. It is being honest about who you are & about your experiences. ~ Tara Estacaan