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In plotting a book, my goal is to raise the stakes for the characters and, in so doing, keep the reader mesmerized.


Barbara Delinsky

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KELLY JONES Now is the only time we have, and the only time that we have any control over.
RICHARD CARLSON She was intimidating and all I could do was sit back on the couch as she paced back and forth, slowl...
IN THE MAKING Now is the only time we have, and the only time we have any control over.
RICHARD CARLSON You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace."
I looked up at him and arched a brow. "I'm a girl...
TAMMARA WEBBER The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha...
FRANCINE RIVERS If I provide for this life and turn away from the Lord, I am wise for a moment, but lost forever.
FRANCINE RIVERS The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha...
FRANCINE RIVERS The battle is not physical, it is spiritual and your mind is the battleground. Keep your mind pure a...
JEANETTE CORON In the beginning, there was nothing and from nothing came our species then behold the dawn of music....
GARY F EVANS... We fall back into the past, we jump ahead into the future, and in this we lose our entire lives.
THICH NHAT HANH He wept because he was afraid now that he could not save Gabriel. He no longer cared about himself
LOIS LOWRY Not," Swift said firmly, "for all the tea in China."
"That expression has never made sense to m...
LISA KLEYPAS Use your heart. Understand. Learn to see things
in the now, not as they were or will be, or as ...
E.J. PATTEN When you live in the present, the past is forgotten & the future takes care of itself.
MANDY HALE I have always wished the present to resemble memory: because the present can be flat at times, and b...
LYDIA MILLET There is no such thing as objectivity. We are all just interpreting signals from the universe and tr...
BONES THE DOCTOR IN THE PHOTO No, of course not. But surely you know your affair couldn't go on forever."
"Forever has no mea...
ELLEN HOPKINS A perfectly decent fellow may be driven by circumstances to commit a crime and if he's found out he'...
W.SOMERSET MAUGHAM Let me repeat. I have not read all the work of this present generation of writing. I have not had ti...
WILLIAM FAULKNER I hate saying corny things like "traveling incognito." But when I'm with somebody that's corny, I al...
J.D. SALINGER “Love is not to be discovered but felt.It is brewing in air across universe.One needs only open ey...
ANUJ SOMANY I promise myself that I will enjoy every minute of the day that is given me to live.
THICH NHAT HANH You can't go back to how things were. How you thought they were. All you really have is...now.
JAY ASHER Life is a journey, not a destination.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON It is so torturous to be in the crowd not only because the voice there is usually loud, but also oft...
ANUJ SOMANY When you grow up there are things that you would love to do make your father proud is one and have f...
GARY F EVANS... It seems like all the best people have all the worst habits.
THOMAS WALLACE SCHERZER A person who lives truly in present time is dependent on oneself only not on sycophants’ people.
ANUJ SOMANY I had a best friend once 20 years down the line a friendship that you just do not get now, i regarde...
GARY F EVANS... Tongues are a miraculous manifestations of being filled with the Holy Ghost.
PST ADELAJA SUNDAY The Buddha told him, "When we sit, we know we are sitting. When we walk, we know we are walking. Whe...
THICH NHAT HANH She plucked the blossoms from the bag and arranged them, one by one, in the water glass on her dress...
SARAH JIO Tomorrow is tomorrow.
Future cares have future cures,
And we must mind today.
SOPHOCLES To him, even the momentary was momentous.
G.K. CHESTERTON ‎You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the...
JAN GLIDEWELL I’m pretty sure there are some things in the dark that we’re not meant to see.
KARINA HALLE I know,” said November. He was pale and thin lipped. He helped October out of the wooden chair. �...
NEIL GAIMAN God is not impressed with what PRECEDES your name, but how you PROCEED in His Name."
BJ NELSON When Luke had descended into the River Styx, he would've had to focus on something important that wo...
RICK RIORDAN Here is one fact 1 minute to finish the class, 1 day to die, one day behind that fact, one day in th...
DEYTH BANGER That’s what I liked about those nuns. You could tell, for one thing, that they never went anywhere...
J.D. SALINGER It was frustrating to still be in the dark about something and be given only so little light.
LAUREN LOLA Wake up to a brand new day and realize why you woke up to meet the day! Live to the end of another d...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH The things i know now, i never knew then. I wish i knew.
SOTONYE ANGA An emotionally locked person refuses to let go of their sad memories and live in the now.
KILROY J. OLDSTER Art must be parochial in the beginning to be cosmopolitan in the end.
GEORGE A. MOORE The past is behind, learn from it. The future is ahead, prepare for it. The present is here, live it...
THOMAS S. MONSON Yes, I know that now that there is truth in beauty and beauty in truth. My nature is to be depressiv...
ABIGAIL GEORGE Savor the moment. Set a goal that you value and plan the steps to of getting there in a way that you...
TERENCE T. GORSKI Even as we live with the knowledge that each day might be our last, we don’t want to believe it.
SHARON SALZBERG No book that is written for an external purpose is going to be a passionately felt book for the writ...
ELIZABETH KOSTOVA My readers have to work with me to create the experience. They have to bring their imaginations to t...
J.K. ROWLING Now is everything
Now is the essence
Now is the focus
Focus on the now
For that ...
KAREN HACKEL If you want to conquer the anxiety of life, live in the moment, live in the breath.
AMIT RAY One must simply take the days of their lives as they happen. If you spend time worrying over what is...
R.J. GONZALES Now i know what it feels like being Ryan Bingham
ARIEL SERAPHINO To have the time to reminisce is one of the futures gifts. Don't think to much, don't live to fast, ...
CALVIN WILSON We are the masters of our own destinies we shape and mould our lives into to the circumstances surro...
GARY F EVANS... The best thing you can do for your kids is to show them God working in you on a daily basis.
CRAIG GROESCHEL To get over the past, you first have to accept that the past is over. No matter how many times you r...
MANDY HALE He called out to his fellow monks,'Come quickly I am tasting stars.
JOHN GREEN A show of confidence raises the bar.
LORII MYERS I’d wish it were easier to not allow other people’s pasts to create my own present.
JONATHAN HARNISCH His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha...
TEKOA MANNING Now my main goal is my solo career, so I want to keep doing that.
PAUL TAYLOR Make every day count... Even when you think it's the worst day of your life; for you never know when...
SOLANGE NICOLE All the things that are in the past are in the past.
PABLO SANDOVAL What else? She is so beautiful. You don’t get tired of looking at her. You never worry if she is s...
JOHN GREEN What day is it?"
It's today," squeaked Piglet.
My favorite day," said Pooh.
A.A. MILNE And let me tell you something else, my friend," she said in the precise enunciation of a trained nur...
JAMES JONES Be present in all things and thankful for all things.
MAYA ANGELOU Look at everything always as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time: Thus is yo...
BETTY SMITH Pero diré esto: Cuando los científicos del futuro aparezcan en mi casa con ojos robot y me digan q...
JOHN GREEN I hate saying corny things like 'traveling incognito.' But when I' with somebody that's corny, I alw...
J.D. SALINGER Do not look back and grieve over the past, for it is gone; and do not be troubled about the future, ...
IDA SCOTT TAYLOR MCKINNEY Life is a preparation for the future; and the best preparation for the future is to live as if there...
ALBERT EINSTEIN The only way to survive eternity is to be able to appreciate each moment.
LAUREN KATE Better to play dumb than to go as smartass… after all smartasses get what they deserve in the end....
DEYTH BANGER Things were a little untidy, but what did that matter? It was possible to become the slave of things...
ELIZABETH VON ARNIM Live today. Not yesterday. Not tomorrow. Just today. Inhabit your moments. Don't rent them out to to...
JERRY SPINELLI How can something feel so crucial in the moment and then seem completely trivial after the fact?
PAULA STOKES There's no sustenance in the past.
VIOLETTE LEDUC Mindfulness is like that—it is the miracle which can call back in a flash our dispersed mind and r...
THICH NHAT HANH To live in the present, you need to act or accept but never stay stuck.
JOHN KUYPERS Wow,” I said. “Are you making this up?”
“Hazel Grace, could I, with my meager intellect...
JOHN GREEN Finally, I decided that the proper strategy was to stare back. Boys do not have a monopoly on the St...
JOHN GREEN We were sitting there on the couch together, and he pushed himself up to go but then fell back down ...
JOHN GREEN So it’s your death suit.”
“Correct. Don’t you have a death outfit?”
“Yeah,”...
JOHN GREEN I spent your Wish on that doucheface,” I said into his chest.
“Hazel Grace. No. I will gran...
JOHN GREEN «Hazel Grace,” he said, my name new and better in his voice. “It has been a real pleasure to ma...
JOHN GREEN Cold,” he said, pressing a finger to my pale wrist.
“Not cold so much as underoxygenated,�...
JOHN GREEN If he is anything other than a total gentleman, I’m going to gouge his eyes out.”
“So you...
JOHN GREEN People always get used to beauty, though.”
“I haven’t gotten used to you just yet,” he ...
JOHN GREEN Augustus: “You probably need some rest.”
Me: “I’m okay.”
Augustus: “Okay.” (...
JOHN GREEN Time's a slut, she screws with everyone.
JOHN GREEN como toda pregunta sobre el universo, esta vía de investigación nos obliga inevitablemente a pregu...
J.K. ROWLING No puedes escoger si serás lastimado en este mundo, pero si puedes decidir quién te lastima
JOHN GREEN But it's your life.
JOHN GREEN No matter how hard you kick, no matter how high you get, you can't go all the way round.
JOHN GREEN

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BARBARA LYNN You'd always see a lady or a little girl sitting at a piano. I decided I wanted to play somethin...
BARBARA LYNN I tell my grandchildren - I've got seven of them - to go to college and get that degree first. I...
BARBARA LYNN In my relationship with a young guy I was going with in a band - his name was Sylvester, and I think...
BARBARA LYNN I go on stage with what God gave me - and that's a natural high. I don't need nothing to per...
BARBARA LYNN God has taken care of me, and mother dear has taken care of me, too. All my life.
BARBARA LYNN I told Mr. Nader today that a vote for Ralph Nader is really a vote for George Bush.
BARBARA LEE We all agree that we've got to bring these terrorists to justice and to make sure that they'...
BARBARA LEE What they are doing is taking something that otherwise creates pollution and turning it into somethi...
BARBARA LEE I am convinced that military action will not prevent further acts of international terrorism against...
BARBARA LEE The last two elections were stolen. They were stolen and so we will not rest until we reclaim our de...
BARBARA LEE I wish the press were paying more attention to the erosion of the Constitution and the slippery slop...
BARBARA LEE We must use all the tools of American power in resolving disputes, including diplomacy. And we must ...
BARBARA LEE We need to honor our troops who served and show our support by giving our men and women who served t...
BARBARA LEE I think there are different ways of being rigorous, and I am asking people to be as rigorous in thei...
BARBARA KRUGER I'm an artist who works with pictures and words. Sometimes that stuff ends up in different kinds...
BARBARA KRUGER I believe that who we are, and consequently the work that we make, whether we're visual artists ...
BARBARA KRUGER It's good to keep in mind that prominence is always a mix of hard work, eloquence in your practi...
BARBARA KRUGER Things change and work changes. Right now I like the idea of enveloping a space and getting messages...
BARBARA KRUGER I think there are lots of ways to make good work. You can throw big bucks at a project and make what...
BARBARA KRUGER Power doesn't just exist. It is threaded through different mechanisms of control. I'm intere...
BARBARA KRUGER I'm trying to deal with ideas about histories, fame, hearsay, and how public identities are cons...
BARBARA KRUGER I always say that I'm an artist who works with pictures and words, so I think that the different...
BARBARA KRUGER Money talks. It starts rumors about careers and complicity and speaks of the tragedies and triumphs ...
BARBARA KRUGER Prominence is cool, but when the delusion kicks in it can be a drag. Especially if you choose to sur...
BARBARA KRUGER