C. Elizabeth Quotes

Quick, how do you pick up a cat?" "Buy her a drink.

I'll never stop wanting to kiss you," he whispered.

Endings are beginnings, and beginnings are ours to turn into something good.

Every night she had fallen asleep dreaming about that kiss, and each kiss after.

He leaned over her, the sun behind his head making a halo of gold, his face lit by the reflections off the water.

He can't remeber who he is or where he lives." "Well that's convenient." "Not when it rains.

Her joy with him was like nothing she had ever experienced. His love for her felt like a miracle.

Was he still, somehow, watching over her?

I'm sorry that you're still hurting.

dreams are shadows cast by truth shining on our darkest secrets

Let's just say that if you were stealing TVs instead of thoughts, you would have been caught by a half-deaf, mostly blind, fifteen year old dog three robberies ago.

We sat in silence, both of us looking up at the stars. He was probably envisioning a machine headed for Pluto. I wished i was on that machine.

The truth was, it was myself I couldn't trust, my eyes from betraying my heart.

Good people were also capable of doing very bad things.

The devil makes a great deal of the religion we see.

great inventors and discoverers seem to have made their discoveries and inventions as it were by the way, in the course of their everyday life.

But the way to wealth through the quill seems long.

The devil never seems so busy as where the saints are, which is another reason why I feel how difficult it would be to be religious.

Unremembered and afar I watched as I watched a star, Through darkness struggling into view And I loved you better than you knew.

We do not die with those we mourn.

You can have it all, but not all at once.

Absent opens a door to a view of Iraqi life we have seldom seen. With a compassionate eye Khedairi explores a community, damaged by wars and sanctions, struggling for survival.

It took me ten years to write The Night Journal, so that was a big ordeal.

I love Austin. It's great here. I don't mind the heat.

I grew up thirty miles down the highway in San Marcos, and I've still got family there, so I guess I'm pretty well rooted.

I love the writers in Austin. We stick together. We all like each other and go to each other's book signings in case no one else shows up.

When Larry Wright won the Pulitzer for The Looming Tower we all strutted around for weeks, until some sourpuss among us noted that it was actually Larry, and not the rest of us, who won the prize.

I'd be a dope to compare my writing with Wallace Stegner's, but that book probably influenced me in ways I didn't even realize while I was writing The Night Journal.

I got hooked on TV westerns back in the early sixties when I was about five, mostly because my brother was addicted to them and wouldn't let me watch anything else.

It seems like the Western genre has crept out of its casings during the last few years, and expanded to include books and movies we wouldn't originally have thought of as westerns.

The defining aspects of westerns are still pretty much in place - namely landscape and conflict. In other books the conflict can be internal, but in westerns it usually plays out on a big stage.

I think when you're a writer most of what you read influences you. The rhythms get into your head.

In middle school I wrote a paper on Hemingway and none of the sentences had more than five words.

I wrote a paper [in school] on [William] Faulkner and no one could tell what the sentences meant.

I love the mystery, the reconstruction of history, and the way past and future define each other.

I would probably never have learned to cook.

An awful lot of people think it's easy to lift recipes out.

The comforting thing for Australian actors is that there's a strong community in L.A. as well - it's almost like you swap one home for another. I didn't feel any pressure.

I definitely try my best not to stay in character when I'm not on set, which can be more difficult in some roles than others.

Kissing in films, it's just another thing you have to do. It kind of becomes as technical as how to open a door, really.

[On newspapers:] A first draft of history.

The Republicans’ plan is that if they can’t buy the 2012 election they will steal it.

I certainly have a lot to lament, as do we all, everybody has their griefs. But the griefs we can fix, shouldn't we go around fixing them?

You wouldn't know I was sick unless you knew I was sick.

Brave people are the firemen who run into the burning building. That's brave.

I've had experiences that, you know, really couldn't be replaced.

Honestly, I get energized by the crowds. They feed me emotionally.

By what you do, you teach your children how to respond to difficult information.

I think being an effective First Lady is first of all being the partner that your husband needs.

I love children, love spending time with them; I love getting things for them.