251 Quotes by Colleen Houck

To have regret is to be disappointed with yourself and your choices. Those who are wise, see their life like stepping stones across a great river. Everyone misses a stone from time to time. No one can cross the river without getting wet. Success is measured by your arrival on the other side, not on how muddy your shoes are.

Perhaps if you’d been willing to experience love and had had a few years of happiness, you might have amounted to something. As it is, your life is rather pathetic. What a waste.

The truth is, if I could bottle your water-lily scent and carry it with me as I wandered the desert, even if I was sick from the sun and dying from thirst, only to be saved by a desert sheikh who wished to barter for it, and even should the trading of it save my life, I would not part with it for all the jewels, silks, and precious riches of Egypt and all the lands surrounding it. So to say your scent is pleasant to me is an understatement most villainous.

The generations rose and fell like so many waves upon the beach, and he stood alone, a rocky, unmovable sentinel, letting the waves of humanity pass him by, hardly noticing them at all.

Reliance soon became trust. Trust led to admiration. And then, before I was even aware it happened, admiration transformed into a longing that was at once terrific and terrible, and I realized I was in love.

There never was a horse that couldn’t be rode; never was a cowboy who couldn’t be throwed.

Don’t forget, Lily, the sun always leads to life. To see the sunrise is to embrace life. The sunset is where you will find death.

Now turn around and go to sleep. I’m warning you that I plan to sleep with you in my arms all night long.

It’s not the ones who look different from you that you should be careful around,” Deverell said. “It’s the ones who look human.