Quote

Men can be very stupid. We cease to value what we have until it's gone, and only then do we realize the gold we glimpsed in distant hills pales as dross compared to treasure we had in hand.

Ann Aguirre

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Ann Aguirre
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: August 27
Author
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
the United States of America
Ellen Connor
Ava Gray
Stupid
Pale
Realizing
Compared
Hand
Hills
Gone
Treasure
Values
Cease
Pales
Hands
Gold
Glimpsed
Men
Value
Dross
Realize
Distant

More quotes by Ann Aguirre

Image
Perhaps that was the point life, if you did it right, meant learning and changing. If you didn't, you died- or stopped growing - which amounted to more or less the same thing. So I would slide in and out of different roles until I discovered the one that fit me best. -Deuce, (183)
Ann Aguirre
Image
He'd said the sun could burn me. It certainly looked angry enough, all orange and glowing mad.
Ann Aguirre
Image
There’s a hollow where he used to be, and it echoes with self-imposed loss.
Ann Aguirre
Image
Show, not tell, right? Action, not words. You don’t want to hear how sorry I am or how things will be different this time. You want to see it with your own eyes. And until I can show you that, you won’t tell me what I want to hear.
Ann Aguirre
Image
We’re bound by chains of love, but they don’t weigh us down. Instead, they allow us to be bigger and better than we are.
Ann Aguirre
Image
Every army has a beginning, no matter how humble.
Ann Aguirre
Image
If so, I couldn't imagine how the opposite gender managed to get out of bed in the morning. They might be lovely to look at, but clear thinking wasn't their strong point.
Ann Aguirre
Image
You don’t need to be afraid of falling // when there’s someone around to catch you.
Ann Aguirre
Image
Each love is unique. Special. Giving to one never takes away from another.
Ann Aguirre
Image
Like most, I was a mix of good and bad, anger and protectiveness, kindness and pride. But right now, I had only strangled fear and the promise of revenge.
Ann Aguirre
Image
Life…never gave me a chance to be soft.
Ann Aguirre
Image
For love to flourish there has to be trust. Promises don’t matter as much as personal choice.
Ann Aguirre
Image
We find heroes, not on battlefields, but in hospitals that tend the injured. Sometimes I think it’s easier to fight than it is to heal.
Ann Aguirre
Image
I never knew I had the power to hurt him, only that he possessed the power to hurt me.
Ann Aguirre
Image
This is the way we win over our enemies, not with bigger weapons, or faster ships, but with human courage, ingenuity, and sacrifice. Don't lose hope. We've faced the darkness before-it has nothing new to teach us. As we go about our lives, let us remember the example Dr. Navarro set for us. At the right time, anyone can be a hero.
Ann Aguirre
Image
His reply offers infinite solace in a single word. Always.
Ann Aguirre
Image
I imagine the ones we’ve lost as ghosts who prowl about the edges of the light, waiting for us to join them. Sometimes that’s terrifying, and sometimes it’s reassuring, a promise of homecoming.
Ann Aguirre
Image
He went in, lean and deadly, and ended the creature with a lightning-fast spike of his blade. It shrieked, likely altering the rest. The death call carried like a mournful song.
Ann Aguirre
Image
My skill didn't lie in planning battles, only in fighting them.
Ann Aguirre
Image
We stood back-to-back, blocking and striking in harmony sometimes it felt like his arms and legs were an extension of me. I could count on him to keep them off me from behind.
Ann Aguirre