It Is In Things. Quotes

Mother didn't understand that children aren't frightened by stories

I find I'm unable to speak, unable to move, snared in his serious gaze like some kind of frightened rabbit

I suppose I should be happy to be misread

The Law of Moronic Ubiquity: Anything in the universe that is generally considered to be idiot-proof will eventually be ruined by an idiot.

The Law of Chaos: Any activity or event that seems to lie beyond the boundaries of possibility will usually be the first thing to occur.

The battle had been as hideous as you might expect between one side who were simply not afraid to die and another who regarded death as merely a door to the eternal life.

Ammu's tears made everything that had so far seemed unreal, real.

Lady, you have the wrong number. Our cat isn't even in the hospital. He doesn't want pajamas.

Endurance is critical if you want to succeed spectacularly at anything God sets before you.

Don't just steal the style, steal the thinking behind the style. You don't want to look like your heroes, you want to see like your heroes.

[Eddie] wondered if every criminal saw himself as the hero of his own story and if every thankless son was convinced he'd been mistreated by his father.

He holds his hand out for me to see it like he’s cradling something delicate or breakable, an egg or like, his heart.

Total freedom from your past

Tori gazed out on the calm Ancific Ocean across which, incredibly, she would be taking a coach.

best solutions will not fall intoour lap if we fail to grab the best available solutions andimprove upon them continuously.

Refrigerators are good for keeping homemade moonshine less gross. Freezers are good for keeping rattlesnakes less angry. Garages are good to hide in when your wife finds either.

Some people exert more energy on less important things

... security is not having things

The opposite of Insecurity isn’t Security. It’s a Sense of Adventure.

As believers, everything we do is based on how we view God.

And here we see again that we do not decide our own lives. Dieneke, even if we won't see each other again on earth, we will never be sorry for what we did, that we took this stand.

Branding is about everything.

The things that frighten us most are those that remind us of our fragile existence

A tree can be tempted out of its winter dormancy by a few hours of southerly sun—the readiness to believe in spring is stronger than sleep or sanity.

She was talking to a tree. Just talking to a tree. Totally normal. People probably did it every day here. They're only trees. She fought an insane urge to laugh.

Nobody is born with a style or a voice. We don't come out of the womb knowing who we are. In the beginning, we learn by pretending to be our heroes. We learn by copying.

What is impossible today can become possible tomorrow only if we do what is possible today.

And once again, only the Small Things were said. The Big Things lurked unsaid inside.

Nothing was nothing else. Nothing was anything it shouldn’t be.

They were everything they ought to be and nothing else.

I am a novelist, and my goal in writing a novel is to leave the reader not knowing what to think. A good novel shouldn't have a point.

Be careful what you wish for

Moving a pile of bricks from one side of the room to the other requires strength. Time, discipline, patience.

Each morning, despite the unknowns, they made their legs move.

Life in Britain had seemed like one long antechamber to a room that had too many barriers to entry

Gossip never goes away, no matter where you are in life.