Blake Nelson Quotes and Sayings - Page 1

“But I think Cybil was my biggest fan. She cut out my articles and hung them in her locker and we were always cracking up how if you wrote the simplest, most obvious thing in the world people thought you were a genius.”
-- Blake Nelson

Source : Blake Nelson (2008). “Girl”, p.223, Simon and Schuster

#Cutting Quotes #Thinking Quotes #People Quotes

“Life is ridiculous. It's not our fault.”
-- Blake Nelson

Source : Blake Nelson (2011). “Recovery Road”, p.14, Scholastic Inc.

#Faults Quotes #Ridiculous Quotes #Life Is Quotes

“No matter what I do now, there are certain doors I have already closed, certain opportunities I'll never get back. There's nothing to be done, I guess. It is what it is.”
-- Blake Nelson

Source : Blake Nelson (2011). “Recovery Road”, p.209, Scholastic Inc.

#Opportunity Quotes #Doors Quotes #Done Quotes

“I like if you're reading something, and they're saying something you always thought, but they're putting it in the exact right way”
-- Blake Nelson

Source : Blake Nelson (2011). “Recovery Road”, p.213, Scholastic Inc.

#Reading Quotes #Way Quotes

“If i get 8 hours to cut a tree i'll spend 7 hours to sharp my knife.”

“You see, Hansel and Gretel don’t just show up at the end of this story. They show up. And then they get their heads cut off. Just thought you’d like to know.”

Source : Adam Gidwitz (2012). “In a Glass Grimmly”, p.143, Penguin

“Energy has to be fed from a source. If you don't feed the source, it dissipates entirely.Same is true of liking a boy. If you cut off the thoughts, if you stop pinning, you're free to find a boy who is attainable.”

“Goodbye, my almost lover. Goodbye, my hopeless dream. I'm trying not to think about you, can't you just let me be? So long, my luckless romance, my back is turned on you. Should've known you'd bring me heartache. Almost lovers always do.”

Source : Song: Almost Lover, Album: One Cell in the Sea, 2007

“Before one can walk as Christ walked, and talk as He talked, he must first begin to think as Christ thought.”

“Americans think the only funny Brits are John Cleese, Benny Hill and whoever makes our toothpaste. They're not laughing with us, they are laughing at us.”

“A quotation is a handy thing to have about, saving one the trouble of thinking for oneself, always a laborious business.”

Source : A. A. Milne (2013). “The Red House Mystery and Other Novels”, p.1247, eBookIt.com

“I think I feel rather differently about sympathy to what seems the normal view. I like just to feel it is there, but not always expressed.”

“The question of boundaries is a major question of the Jewish people because the Jews are the great experts of crossing boundaries. They have a sense of identity inside themselves that doesn't permit them to cross boundaries with other people.”

Source : "Boundaries And Crossing". Interview with Vered Shemtov, shma.com. March 4, 2004.

“The bells they sound on Bredon, And still the steeples hum. "Come all to church, good people"- Oh, noisy bells, be dumb; I hear you, I will come.”