Author Quote by Shannon Alder Download Open image ““When I die I hope it may be said: 'Her suffering was black, but her books were read'.”” — Shannon Alder ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Author Books Death Feelings Humor Inspirational-writers Novels Questions Rhymes Self help Writing
“She was surprised to be alive. Yet she felt indifferent. If death was the black emptiness from which she had just woken up, then… — Stieg Larsson Copy Share Image
“I can see her struggling to find the right word. Death seems so harsh. Passing so oblique. Some things are beyond words, I suppose,… — Kelseyleigh Reber Copy Share Image
“She had learnt a painful lesson, she thought – that as they die, the ones we love, we lose our witnesses, our watchers, those… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“She remembered her books in the moments of worst sorrow, especially the ones that were made for her and the one that saved her… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
“She'd read in novels of people who couldn't speak because their hearts were too full and she'd always thought, Not my black heart. But… — Loretta Chase Copy Share Image
“I wish she were alive, but I am grateful for her death. If she were alive, I would likely still be working at the literary agency. For how much longer in my life would I have believed there was time for everything? And by the time I faced my own mortality at the Bookmill in western Massachusetts, how much less… — John Hodgman Copy Share
“In all his imaginings, he had never envisioned her crying. He knew that her son had died, but he'd never expected that her pain… — Bebe Moore Campbell Copy Share Image
“When I heard that she was dead, I really suffered very little.” — Geoffrey Household Copy Share Image
“I can see death and more death, till we are black and swollen with death.” — David Herbet Copy Share Image
“With the last months spent preparing to face this darkness, it was improbable that the end of her story would be a happy one.… — Jess Bowen Copy Share Image
“Death had to take her little by little, bit by bit, dragging her along to the bitter end of the miserable existence she'd made… — Émile Zola Copy Share Image
“Death required me to pay attention to my life, to what I believe. A woman never knows when her life will be required of… — Rachel Hauck Copy Share Image
“Life doesn’t happen to you, but for you. Lessons can be found in everyone’s story.” — Shannon Alder Copy Share Image
“The God I believe in believes in me and won’t silence my heart or others based on a paycheck at the end of the… — Shannon Alder Copy Share Image
“Defensiveness is usually someone silently screaming that they need you to value and respect them in disguise. When you look for deeper meanings behind… — Shannon Alder Copy Share Image
“There are no coincidences in life. What person that wandered in and out of your life was there for some purpose, even if they… — Shannon Alder Copy Share Image
“Your lack of commitment to being different is what kills you. It is the insanity of doing the same thing every time and expecting… — Shannon Alder Copy Share Image
“I have known friendship love, parental love, romantic love, family love and unrequited love in my life time, but the only love that made… — Shannon Alder Copy Share Image
When someone you loved finds no flattery in the gift you gave them then you must ask yourself, What was worth loving? — Shannon Alder Copy Share Image
“The most important thing is this: to sacrifice what you are now for what you can become tomorrow.” — Shannon Alder Copy Share Image
“Never rearrange your life in order to meet Mr. Darcy half way. If he couldn’t see your worth at the moment you met then… — Shannon Alder Copy Share Image
“Before you can live a part of you has to die. You have to let go of what could have been, how you should… — Shannon Alder Copy Share Image
“To be a follower of Christ and not just a fan means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.” — Shannon Alder Copy Share Image
“All death reminds us that nothing is promised, only that life was worth it.” — Shannon Alder Copy Share Image
“Writers whose thoughts are expressed with clarity and precision are assumed by readers to be superficial. Where the meaning is obscured, then readers give… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
A children's author on a soapbox is not a pleasant sight but I have become drawn into issues, slightly unwillingly, relating to young people,… — Anthony Horowitz Copy Share Image
“Grayson: Fiction is just a lie anyway. Brianna: But it's not - it's a different kind of truth - it would be your truth… — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
“Religion is like wax. How anyone deals with it is decisive for how it will look like.” — Ben Midland Copy Share Image
“Expression is a function of intention and intention emanates from your thought faculty.” — Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha Copy Share Image
“There is no shortcut for hard work that leads to effectiveness. You must stay disciplined because most of the work is behind the scenes.” — Germany Kent Copy Share Image
I come from a working-class family. They're the people I know and the people I love, I guess. I do not write about them… — Per Petterson Copy Share Image
I am a completely horizontal author. I can't think unless I'm lying down, either in bed or stretched on a couch and with a… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
“Betsy was so full of joy that she had to be alone. She went upstairs to her bedroom and sat down on Uncle Keith's… — Maud Hart Lovelace Copy Share Image
Writing is a intensely personal activity. I can pen down my best thoughts when I'm alone. But when one is elevated into the stature… — Ashwin Sanghi Copy Share Image
“WHEN THE ALMIGHTY HAS PREDESTINED YOU, THERE IS NOONE IN THIS PHYSICAL LIFE THAT CAN BLOCK YOUR BLESSINGS…” — Muffin Copy Share Image
“From this point forward, you don’t even know how to quit in life.” ~ Aaron Lauritsen, ‘100 Days Drive” — Aaron Lauritsen Copy Share Image
