"A pen and a notebook and a reasonable amount of discrimination will change a journey from a mere annual into a perennial, its pleasures and pains renewable at will."

“Ease leads to habit, as success to ease. He lives by rule who lives himself to please.”

Source : George Crabbe, George Crabbe (Jr.) (1834). “The poetical works of the rev. George Crabbe: with his letters and journals, and his life”, p.37

“I want to make movies that pierce people's hearts and touch them in some way, even if it's just for the night while they're in the cinema; in that moment, I want to bring actual tears to their eyes and goosebumps to their skin.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“The thing about George Barrol is that he's always putting his own and other people's feet into things that had best be left quite free of feet.”

Source : Zenith Brown, Leslie Ford (2018). “Ill Met by Moonlight”, p.112, Wildside Press LLC

“I love having the opportunity to surf.”

“I could fall in love with a sumo wrestler if he told stories and made me laugh. Obviously, it would be easier if someone was African-American and lived next door and went to the same church. Because then I wouldn't have to translate.”

“When I go home to Santa Cruz, I'm the same girl as when I grew up.”

Source : "Monte Headliners Hope Show Starts Something Big..." by Genevieve Bookwalter and Alia Wilson, www.santacruzsentinel.com. October 02, 2009.

“Please," said Lirael..."I think I would like to work in this Library." "The Library," repeated Sanar, looking troubled. "That can be dangerous to a girl of fourteen. Or a woman of forty, for that matter.”

Source : Garth Nix (2014). “Lirael”, p.38, Hot Key Books

“As we're bombarded daily with new ads for pills, diets and ab-doers, we have to protect our wallets and our time.”

Source : Dan John (2009). “Never Let Go”, p.266, On Target Publications