O.R. Melling

Image of O.R. Melling
To run with the wolf was to run in the shadows, the dark ray of life, survival and instinct. A fierceness that was both proud and lonely, a tearing, a howling, a hunger and thirst. Blessed are they who hunger and thirst. A strength that would die fighting, kicking, screaming, that wouldn't stop until the last breath had been wrung from its body. The will to take one's place in the world. To say 'I am here.' To say 'I am.
- O.R. Melling
Collection: Running
Image of O.R. Melling
Life isn't as magical here, and you're not the only one who feels like you don't belong, or that it's better somewhere else. But there ARE things worth living for. And the best part is you never know what's going to happen next.
- O.R. Melling
Collection: Somewhere Else
Image of O.R. Melling
When you come to the edge of all that you know, you must believe one of two things: either there will be ground to stand on, or you will be given wings to fly.
- O.R. Melling
Collection: Inspirational
Image of O.R. Melling
If you're betwixt and between, trust the one with red hair.
- O.R. Melling
Collection: Hair
Image of O.R. Melling
Hope burns eternal in the human heart.
- O.R. Melling
Collection: Heart
Image of O.R. Melling
Where there is no respect for life, there you will find evil.
- O.R. Melling
Collection: Evil
Image of O.R. Melling
Where do we record the passing of wildlife? Who mourns the silent deaths of the small?
- O.R. Melling
Collection: Wildlife
Image of O.R. Melling
Love is patient. Love is kind. It bears all things. Love never fails. Love is as strong as death.
- O.R. Melling
Collection: Strong
Image of O.R. Melling
When you write for children and young adults, you have much more affect and influence on them than when you write for adults. The books that get us through our childhood stay with us for life.
- O.R. Melling
Collection: Children
Image of O.R. Melling
You can't really know what you are made of until you are tested.
- O.R. Melling
Collection: Made
Image of O.R. Melling
If I have not love, I am Nothing.
- O.R. Melling
Collection: Ifs
Image of O.R. Melling
For every pleasure, there must be a sacrifice.
- O.R. Melling
Collection: Sacrifice
Image of O.R. Melling
Whatever will happen will happen. You either face it as a coward or you face it as a hero.
- O.R. Melling
Collection: Hero
Image of O.R. Melling
Those who rise first are morally superior. It's a universal law.
- O.R. Melling
Collection: Law
Image of O.R. Melling
All my books reflect travel adventures of some kind, and all have a soul: a spiritual or mystical underpinning.
- O.R. Melling
Collection: Spiritual
Image of O.R. Melling
I was fortunate in that I attended university in Canada in the early 1970s when you could take a true liberal arts degree with no programmes, majors or minors.
- O.R. Melling
Collection: Art
Image of O.R. Melling
Im omnivorous in my tastes, fiction and non-fiction, always several books on the go, though Ill read a novel in a day or two.
- O.R. Melling
Collection: Book
Image of O.R. Melling
You shouldn't read so much, you'll get a brain tumor.
- O.R. Melling
Collection: Brain
Image of O.R. Melling
By that which you kill are you bound.
- O.R. Melling
Collection: Bounds
Image of O.R. Melling
Life is a journey through a foreign land.
- O.R. Melling
Collection: Journey
Image of O.R. Melling
Tread softly for you tread on my dreams. -Honor,from the Summer King.
- O.R. Melling
Collection: Summer