Brad Meltzer Quotes - Page 2

Don't go to eighth grade...don't talk about something old...don't bring up old memories that have nothing to do with who we are now. THIS is all that matters! TODAY.

As I tell my daughter, when you want something in life - no matter how impossible it seems - you need to fight for it.

Women are not weaker. Read that again. Women are not weaker. They are just as strong, just as resolute, just as creative, and are filled with just as much potential as any man.

I played Little League for one year. That was it. Then my mother realized I liked books and threatened my father. I owe her forever for that.

Most archivists don't like surprises. That's why we work in the past.

There's nothing wrong with wanting someone to save us - or admitting we can't do it all ourselves.

Haven't you ever played Uno?... Sometimes you have to lose all your cards to win.

There is no better place to plot the death of a character than when you're miserable and working out.

For me, Superman's greatest contribution has never been the superhero part: it's the Clark Kent part - the idea that any of us, in all our ordinariness, can change the world.

There's the life you live and the life you leave behind. but what you share with someone else - especially someone you love - that's not just how you bury your past. It's how you write you future.

...can I tell you something...? I don't think you're in love with the past. I think you're scared of the future.

I understand pain. I've lived with pain my entire life. But pain is nothing compared to betrayal. And betrayal is nothing compared to knowing that the javelin in your back was rammed there by the one person in your life you actually trusted.

I love when I teach my son a good lesson. But I love it even more when he teaches me.

There's nothing in the world like buried treasure-and people hungry and obsessed enough to risk their lives for it. Pirate Hunters isn't just a good story-it's a true one. Searching for the souls of its explorers, it takes you to the far tip of the plank and plunges you deep to the bottom of the ocean.

People are more twisted than people think.

Overwatch doesn't just bring together the legal and espionage genres. It merges family problems with professional ones, swirls in a major helping of murder and mayhem, and with a deft touch, reminds us why politics is-always-perso nal.

Not every President is a great speaker. Not every President is a great thinker. But in the modern era, every single President is a master of one thing: eye contact.

Nico was wrong. The Book of Fate isn't already written. It's written every day. Some scars never heal. Then again, some do.

The point is, as death gets closer - what's so wrong with wanting someone you love to live forever?

There are some people in your life who bring back old memories. And there are others - your first kiss, your first love, your first sex - who, the moment you see them, bring a spark...and something far more potent. They bring back your old life and with that, potential. And possibilities. And the feeling that if you were back in that time, life could be so very different from where you're stuck right now. That's the most tantalizing thing....I want my potential back.

Our fathers never leave us. Ever.

My worst moments as a parent have been much like my greatest moments as a parent: the product of complete and perfect accident.

It's the worst part of seeing old friends: when your rose-colored memories become undone by reality.

Every life has forks in the road. And sometimes, the tines of that fork stab deep.

On the day my daughter was born, I started writing a book for her. The plan was that, over the course of her life, I'd fill it with advice on how to be a strong woman. But along the way, I got caught up in the stories of Amelia Earhart, Sally Ride, and so many others. So how do you pick the best heroes for your kids?