276 quotes found
Novelist · American
American novelist
“Fear of change was a weakness”
“Wrath: look at how their folklore portrays our species. There's Dracula for Christ's sake, an evil bloodsucker who preys on the defenseless. There's piss-poor B movies and porn. And don't get me st...”
“Time to the face the music,”
“the only one who wanted to be free. Surprise, surprise. CHAPTER”
“and Billy rolled in. “Thought you might like some wake-up.” Bingo,”
“Isaac Rothe, Matthias”
“husband and my family and the better half of WriterDog. Prologue”
“All around, grown men were getting out of cars and shoving at each other like fifteen-year-olds, the bunch of juiced-up, armchair quarterbacks ready to peanut-gallery it up: The closest they were g...”
“Bottom line? As much as youwanted someone to change and believed they could, they were in control of their life. Not you. And you could throw yourself against the wall of their choices until you we...”
“Destiny was a machine built over time, each choice that you made in life adding another gear, another conveyor belt, another assemblyman. Where you ended up was the product that was spit out at the...”
“Some bridges you crossed on your own, no matter who drove you to the edge.”
“At the last minute, she bobbed left so that he stabbed the wall she'd hit, trapping the blade in the Sheetrock. As he went to try to get the thing free, she whirled around and nailed him in the gut...”
“Life. In all it's mundane majesty.”
“When I picked up the bird and felt its light weight in my hands, I realized that carelessness was a form of cruelty. See, I'd always told myself that because I meant no harm, anything that happened...”
“Letting go meant you accepted what couldn't be changed. You didn't try to hold on to hope in order to coerce a change in fortune...nor did you battle against superior forces of fate and try to make...”
“he(Quinn)put his hand out to his friend. “I’ll lay my life down for you.With or Without that piece of paper”
“I was dead unit you found me, though I breathed. I was sightless, though I could see. And then you came...and I was awakened.”
“Sometimes your whole life could hinge on a fraction of an inch. Or the beat of nanosecond. Or the knock on a door.Kind of made a male believe in the divine. It really did.”
“What kind of look are you going for?” he asked instead. “Clothed.”
“Perfect!" Wrath bellowed. "And this is a doctor saying it -- I mean, she went to medical school."..."And Dr. Sam told me she's delivered over fifteen thousand babies over the course of her career -...”
