Elena's Quotes

When I am working, I have two shows on Saturday, and when I wake up, and it's a lovely day, I just cry. I'm joking: I love my job. — Elena Roger

Who cared whether you could change motor oil when you could snap a rottweiler's neck in 2.8 seconds? Now there was a practical skill. — Kelley Armstrong

Was at a good point, even though I hadn't even started it. Then I set off — Elena Ferrante

Because what is the face, what finally, is the skin over the flesh, a cover, a disguise, rouge for the insupportable horror of our living nature. — Elena Ferrante

We climbed slowly toward the greatest of our terrors of that time, we went to expose ourselves to fear and interrogate it. — Elena Ferrante

Such tensions without sense push us to formulate questions of meaning. — Elena Ferrante

God, Elena missed her friends. (Not that Troy and Gabe weren't great. She'd definitely miss them.) (Even Gabe.) (Especially Gabe.) — Rainbow Rowell

Today I feel some uneasiness in recalling how much I suffered, I have no sympathy for myself of that time. — Elena Ferrante

The fictional treatment of biographical material - a treatment that for me is essential - is full of traps. — Elena Ferrante

The daily standard of unlivability isn't news. So when the exceptional passes, everything is silent and everything continues to rot. — Elena Ferrante

Volleyball was a lot of fun, but I knew it wasn't my sport. — Elena Delle Donne

Yeah, tell me I'm a bottle of single malt scotch, she thought. That's the way to my heart. — L.J.Smith

I thought that I'd never be able to work in films or TV. Another girl would be cutting her nose to be an actress. I was always very sure about myself. — Elena Roger

Elena: I love you.
Damon: 'til death do us part. — L.J.Smith

Why do people always assume that volume will succeed when logic won't? - Damon — L.J.Smith

Yes, I can talk and think at the same time. Most people can, though I suppose you wouldn't know that from personal experience.
Elena (Bitten) — Kelley Armstrong

Rescuing Elena plunged him into the nightmare world of people trafficking and sex slavery.... but as an ex-Royal Marine, he could handle it — David Zelder

It's funny. Maria Elena and I, we are meant for each other and not meant for each other, it's a contradiction. — Woody Allen

My grandmother taught me to knit, and as I knit, my mind returns to my childhood. — Elena Roger

Spend time with your family and try to spend time doing things that you enjoy doing other than basketball. — Elena Delle Donne

confusion captures my lover's pleasure. I won't give up. Sorrow lies hidden in the darkness as the zeal of light revolves around it. — Elena Carpenter

He whispered her name, her true name, and she screamed as he - Celaena awoke with a gasp, clutching the Eye of Elena. — Sarah J. Maas

I believe that books, once they are written, have no need of their authors. — Elena Ferrante

Elena gasped back, "I can touch the ground!"
"I can see you touching it!", Bonnie exclaimed with tears of joy. — L.J.Smith

There are moments when we resort to senseless formulations and advance absurd claims to hide straightforward feelings. — Elena Ferrante

I'm not 20 anymore, and I feel it. — Elena Anaya

Sarratore's son is really unbearable. — Elena Ferrante

Elena, my four year old, says to me in all seriousness; "Mommy, you need to buy another baby". — Ronald Reagan

It is absolutely true that I have served in two Democratic administrations. You can tell something from me and my political views from that. — Elena Kagan

You see? In the fairy tales one does as one wants, and in reality one does what one can. — Elena Ferrante

A source told me that you don't do girlfriends."
"Your source was mistaken. I do my girlfriend quite frequently. — Elena Kincaid

Learn from my mistakes," she said.
Learn what? Elena wondered. Avoid men? Avoid love? Avoid radiologists who buy movie-replica lightsabers? — Rainbow Rowell

How heavy a body that has been traversed by death is, life is light, there's no need to let anyone make it heavy for us — Elena Ferrante

I write in order to belong. — Elena Poniatowska

I hope to grow up and see myself accepting myself and accepting time going by and everything falls. — Elena Anaya

I would like to play Broadway! — Elena Roger

you have to get your hands dirty if you want to change things. — Elena Ferrante

But her husband was sleeping, he had fallen asleep as if wrapped in a magic cape. — Elena Ferrante

Why doesn't glue stick to the inside of the bottle, Frau Elena? — Anthony Doerr

The disgusting face of things alone was not enough for writing a novel: without imagination it would seem not a true face but a mask. — Elena Ferrante

Existence is this, I thought, a start of joy, a stab of pain, an intense pleasure, veins that pulse under the skin, there is no other truth to tell. — Elena Ferrante

Languages for me have a secret venom that every so often foams up and for which there is no antidote. — Elena Ferrante

So afterward, when you no longer love him, it bothers you just to think that you once wanted him. — Elena Ferrante

When the task we give ourselves has the urgency of passion, there's nothing that can keep us from completing it. — Elena Ferrante

I keep everything fans give me, if I can, but I do worry about when I run out of room in my house! — Elena Roger

Animals obviously ranked higher in Michaela's world view than humans. Having seen some of the things humans were capable of, Elena couldn't disagree. — Nalini Singh

She took the facts and in a natural way charged them with tension; she intensified reality as she reduced it to words, she injected it with energy. — Elena Ferrante

I hope to be 70 and sitting at the table with journalists, talking about my films. — Elena Anaya

I think this is the biggest win in my career. To beat Venus in Wimbledon is just something amazing. — Elena Vesnina

Sunday is the day I connect with Buenos Aires. I speak to or text my mother every day, but on Sunday I phone everyone. — Elena Roger

Everything is interesting if you know how to work on it. — Elena Ferrante

The scent of the sea, a wild turbulent storm, crashing into her mind.
Elena, why is Dmitri naked? — Nalini Singh

For a moment, as Damon glanced toward Elena, their gazes met and something electric passed between them. It made Elena tingle all over, that look did. — L.J.Smith

The solitude of women's minds is regrettable, I said to myself, it's a waste to be separated from each other without procedures, without tradition. — Elena Ferrante

I soon discovered that I was getting used to being happy and unhappy at the same time, as if that were the new, inevitable law of my life. — Elena Ferrante

Perfect night, wasn't it?"
"It could have been." I smiled up at him. "But you were there. — Kelley Armstrong

the park had climbed up to — Elena Ferrante

I doubt that work ennobles man and I am absolutely certain that it does not ennoble woman. — Elena Ferrante

Anonymity lets me concentrate exclusively on writing. — Elena Ferrante

I had less success in the courtyard. There only love and boyfriends counted. — Elena Ferrante

Although she was fragile in appearance, every prohibition lost substance in her presence. — Elena Ferrante

[I]t was as if I had been strolling absentmindedly and banged into a door. — Elena Ferrante

Unlike stories, real life, when it has passed, inclines toward obscurity, not clarity. — Elena Ferrante

Childhood is a tissue of lies that endure in the past tense — Elena Ferrante

I don't want to accept an idea of life where the success of the self is measured by the success of the written page. — Elena Ferrante

I'm sorry. I never meant to hurt you."
"Then why were you carrying a gun? — Nalini Singh

I feel lonely in big cities. Disconnected. — Maria Elena Sandovici

Live your life as a curious student and you will discover how fascinating it is. — Elena Ornig

She went like that saint who, although she still has her head on her shoulders, is carrying it in her hands, as if it had already been cut off. — Elena Ferrante

You can't leave me here to hope, when in reality you've already decided everything. — Elena Ferrante

Uh-uh" Clay drawled above me, "Elena's played with you long enough, Its my turn — Kelley Armstrong

There's nothing more emotional than looking out at an audience and knowing they're there because they understand. — Elena Tonra

It's not wrong to hustle hustlers. It's like killing murderers, a public service. -Damon Salvatore — L.J.Smith

Trouble's not only my middle name, it's my first and last, too. — Nalini Singh

Maybe there's no second time without a third, but there is a first time without a second. — Elena Ferrante

I love you, Elena. And it's because I love you that I can't be selfish with you. I don't deserve you, but my brother does.-Damon Salvatore, S2 — L.J.Smith

How difficult it was to find one's way, how difficult it was not to violate any of the incredibly detailed male regulations. — Elena Ferrante

I love dark humor that crosses the line and makes you say, 'That's so wrong!' And that's 'Family Guy' to me. — Elena Satine

Frau Elena, does a bee know it's going to die if it stings somebody? — Anthony Doerr

You're really doing well, it's the satisfaction you get from school, it's love," Lila said to me, and I felt that she was a little sad. — Elena Ferrante

I just said to myself, She's just like you, you know, she can be nervous — Elena Dementieva

I am not generous about telling people who I am and what I like to do because it's my life and it only belongs to me and my friends and family. — Elena Anaya

I feel that working now is the way for me to learn things, whether it's languages or another activity. — Elena Roger

Then Pasquale himself began to be silent, defeated by Lila's capacity to link one thing to another in a chain that tightened around you on all sides. — Elena Ferrante

Elena notched a bolt into her crossbow. Let's go kill that murderous bitch. — Nalini Singh

It's the people who love us or hate us - or both - who hold together the thousands of fragments we are made of. — Elena Ferrante

Maybe I should tell her that things without meaning are the most beautiful ones. It's a good sentence, she'll like it. — Elena Ferrante

highlights of Elena's career, — James Patterson

We all know Her Creepiness isn't dead." Elena's — Nalini Singh

Move on another plane in the name of one's own difference. — Elena Ferrante

It's so warm," he said. "I love inside."
"Inside is the best," Elena said. "Let's never go outside again. — Rainbow Rowell

What's inside you no one can touch. — Elena Gorokhova

I love to be awful. There's nothing wrong with being awful. — Elena Roger

You are mine, Elena. If you choose to sleep in another bed, I will simply pick you up and bring you home. — Nalini Singh

Sara held up a hand. 'How exactly did you "decline" his offer?'
'By slitting his throat. — Nalini Singh

Is that a ukulele?" I ask.
We stop and listen closely. "Actually," says Elena, "it's a bunch of ukuleles. — Paul Acampora

Just like life, reality shifted and twisted out of her grasp [Elena's view on Gran Sasso] — Kirsten Arcadio

It's as if the world is full of honeybees and I'm the only flower -Elena — L.J.Smith

I think I am incredibly generous with how much I give to my projects, but that's my generosity with the job. — Elena Anaya

If what's on your mind
is not in your life
you should go find it — Elena Toledo