S.A. Tawks

“He held out a shaky and worn hand and she met it with one of her young and inexperienced ones.”

“When you're in the safety of the future, the past doesn't seem so relevant.”

“We each have a little imagination in all of us, and a book is the best absorbent there is.”

“Besides the pain in my gut, why shouldn't I laugh? I've almost escaped death in a foreign country.”

“Don't dare try to be heroes.”

“But now I think he was trying to teach me to never feel entitled because life can be a cruel bitch at times.”

“Acting with confidence, but inside lacking certainty, I'd told her I could.”

“You've got to have high expectations to achieve top results.”

“Crying will achieve nothing. Only action will.”

“You may not have finished today but the work you did got you closer than if you would have done nothing.”

“What's inside is none of your business. Your business is getting it for him and getting it to him.”

“Don't just hope, dear. Plan and do. Only reserve hope for the things you cannot control.”

“My biggest problem is that my flight is to depart from Denpasar International Airport in Indonesia, where the penalty for drug trafficking is death by firing squad.”

“Reading for enjoyment won't die altogether, but this Ereader device has the potential to repel those less imaginative from fiction. And that could have an undesirable domino effect.”

“A fight needs at least two fighters. Sometimes you can win straight away by not fighting.”

“As long as you don't kill someone or seriously maim them, sure, it doesn't matter what anyone else thinks as long as you have a good time.”

“The day, like all good days, passed far too quickly.”

“Other times, when existential crisis mode kicked in, I flirted with the idea of giving up and drifting whichever way gravity and wind moved me.”

“The old author knew all too well that the imagination was a top cause for missing good meals.”

“Sometimes one's imagination can be more beautiful than the most picturesque beach.”