Han Nolan quotes

“When God's moving his hands through your life, you had better sit up and take notice”
-- Han Nolan

Source : Han Nolan (1994). “If I Should Die Before I Wake”, p.52, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

#Moving Quotes #Hands Quotes

“There's always light after the dark. You have to go through that dark place to get to it, but it's there, waiting for you. It's like riding on a train through a dark tunnel. If you get so scared you jump off in the middle of the ride, then you're there, in the tunnel, stuck in the dark. You have to ride the train all the way to the end of the ride.”
-- Han Nolan

Source : Han Nolan (2014). “Dancing on the Edge”, p.218, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

#Dark Quotes #Tunnels Quotes #Light Quotes

“If only his mind were as easy to fix as his body.”
-- Han Nolan

#Mind Quotes #Body Quotes #Easy Quotes

“I glance at the exit across the room. I want out. The bird in my chest is crashing up against its cage. I can feel the heavy thump, thump, thump of its feverish body inside and I open my mouth, not to speak, but to let the bird out so I can breathe.”
-- Han Nolan

Source : Han Nolan (2010). “Crazy”, p.26, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

#Bird Quotes #Rooms Quotes #Exit Quotes

“And she didn't once say anything about this being a sin. It used to be I got the word sin slapped in my face every time I did something wrong, but come on, when you live in a sin-free family with sin-free parents and a sin-free sister, well, you can't help but sin a little extra on their behalf.”
-- Han Nolan

Source : Han Nolan (2011). “Pregnant Pause”, p.5, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

#Parent Quotes #Say Anything Quotes #Littles Quotes

“How it's Done is a richly woven tale of a young woman who discovers what it really means to be an adult. This story, told with honesty and heart, held me in my seat to the very end. I have discovered a new favorite writer in Christine MacLean.”
-- Han Nolan

#Honesty Quotes #Heart Quotes #Mean Quotes

“And I was afraid because I knew I had outgrown my past before I could see a path to my future.”
-- Han Nolan

Source : Han Nolan (2008). “A Face in Every Window”, p.244, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

#Fear Quotes #Past Quotes #Path Quotes

“I thought it was safer and easier to be one my own. But I don’t think I was to be invisible anymore because-because it’s lonely, and I don’t want to be lonely. I don’t want to be alone.”
-- Han Nolan

Source : Han Nolan (2010). “Crazy”, p.248, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

#Lonely Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Want Quotes

“Giulia Melucci has written a wonderfully funny and moving book. It's like Eat, Pray, Love, with recipes.”

“I was very good at sitting. But I just read so much research about how horrible sitting is for you. It's like, it's really bad. It's like Paula-Deen-glazed-bacon-doughnut bad. So I now move around as much as possible.”

“Tip: Take the stodgiest, oldest, slowest moving industry you can find. And build amazing software for it.”

Source : Twitter post from Oct 09, 2013

“As photographers, we must learn to relax our beliefs. Move on objects with your eye straight on, to the left, around on the right. Watch them grow large as they approach, group and regroup as you shift your position. Relationships gradually emerge and sometimes assert themselves with finality. And that's your picture.”

“Who made the world I cannot tell; 'Tis made, and here am I in hell. My hand, though now my knuckles bleed, I never soiled with such a deed.”

Source : A. E. Housman (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of A. E. Housman (Illustrated)”, p.19, Delphi Classics

“He would not stay for me, and who can wonder? He would not stay for me to stand and gaze. I shook his hand, and tore my heart in sunder, And went with half my life about my ways.”

“If in any divination the Tenth Card should be a Court Card, it shews that the subject of the divination falls ultimately into the hands of a person represented by that card, and its end depends mainly on him.”

Source : A. E. Waite (2012). “The Pictorial Key to the Tarot”, p.208, Courier Corporation

“The hand is no different from what it creates.”

“Behave in life as at a dinner party. Is anything brought around to you? Put out your hand and take your share with moderation. Does it pass by you? Do not stop it. Is it not yet come? Do not stretch your desire towards it, but wait till it reaches you. Do this with regard to children, to a spouse, to public post, to riches, and you will eventually be a worthy guest at the feast of life.”

“As a kid, I was always into art at the same time as computers, and eventually I realised I was making more interesting stuff with my keyboard than with my hands. I really enjoyed modifying computer games more than playing them, so that got me into programming.”