Kirby Larson Quotes

There should be fireworks at last, when a dream dies.

The worst thing of all is standing by when folks are doing something wrong.

Life was like a batch of biscuits without the baking powder: flat, flat, flat.

It's the company, not the cooking, that makes a meal.

Our actions make the fragrance of our lives...Would you smell of plums? Or Vinegar?

There is nothing like the occasional outburst of profanity to calm jangled nerves.

The wren and the nightingale sound nothing alike, but think how dull the world would be without the songs of both birds.-Miss Kanagawa

I am the richest person alive (or at least one of!) because I get to do what I love as a career.

The lessons this life has planted in my heart pertain more to caring than crops, more to Golden Rule than gold, more to the proper choice than to the popular choice.

I've always been a bookworm. As I mentioned, I moved around a lot, and one of the problems with being the new kid is it takes a while to make new friends. But I always had my books.

Isn't it fascinating how long a few minutes seem when you are completely alone with not a familiar face in sight?

Hattie.' Grace patted my arm. 'My cows sing better than you do.

If I ruled supreme, there would be big problems.

Hon, when someone's a true friend, there's no need to miss 'em." She patted her chest. "'Cause they're always right here.

Sir if I was your daughter I would wait until this train started again and throw myself in front of it!

I gotta pound the keys for the ideas to flow.

The truth can both lift up and knock down.

Why did I keep hitching myself to dreams as big as that Montana sky? I was like Rooster Jim's chickens, with no way to fly that high.

I will have to rely on that painful teacher, experience.

I think if you find your passion and you go with it you are rewarded.

It seems the misfortune of one can plow a deeper furrow in the heart than the misfortune of millions.

My bounce-around life had taught me that dreams were dangerous things - they look solid in your mind, but you just try to reach for them. It's like gathering clouds.

[Rejection] made me quit writing once. For six months. I started up again when my then seven-year-old son asked me to start writing again because I was too grumpy when I wasn't writing.

I love visiting new places but am not overly fond of the travel to get to them.

I had come to believe that there was something sacred in telling stories and telling them true.

no matter how big his smile or how loud his laugh, you could hear the hurt underneath.