276 quotes found
Novelist · American
American novelist
“Someone put opera on inside the house. Someone changed it to hip-hop, thank God. Someone started a shower. Someone vacuumed. Again.Life. In all its mundane majesty.And you couldn't take advantage o...”
“he(Quinn)put his hand out to his friend. Ill 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 -...”
“The essential truth of life, he was coming to realize, wasn't romantic an took only two words to label: Shit. Happens.”
“Gallows humor is part of having a doctor in the house. Deal with it.”
“Beth's not on that train?""Nope. She's not even in that station, that town, or that part of whatever country your metaphor lives in.”
“Sometimes in life, from out of a myriad of prosaic decisions like what to eat and where to sleep and how to dress, a true crossroads is revealed. In these moments, when the fog of relative irreleva...”
“You are the sweetest thug I've ever known.”
“Caregivers had to take care of themselves, and part of that meant having a life beyond whatever illness had put them in their cole.”
“Ah, hell.His peripheral vision was working far too well tonight.His slut of a cousin, his cocksucking, suit-wearing, Montblanc-up-the-ass cousin Saxton the Magnificent, was standing next to the que...”
“It felt odd to realize she was frightened more by what he might know, and not of what he might be.”
“As Qhuinn looked at his best friend's handsome face, he felt as if he'd never not known that red hair, those blue eyes, those lips, that jaw. And it was because of their long history that he search...”
“Qhuinn's eyes shifted away from his buddy--and just happened to measure the distance down to the stone patio below. Hmm . . . doing a swan dive onto all that slate might just get the images of thos...”
“You've always been there for me. Always. Even when I" V"Even when you what?" B"You know." V"What?" B"Fuck. Even when I was in love with you. Or some shit." VButch clasped his hands to his chest. "W...”
“But then, gifts are like beauty, are they not. It is in the eye of the recipient that they find their seat, not in the hand of the giver.”
“Okay, well...how's that water feeling, then?' 'Excuse me?' 'The Nile warm this time of the year?”
“Michael Rafferty was a goodman. A solid man. He was never going to be Hugh Jackman handsome or Bill Gates rich or King of England powerful. But he was hers and he was Sean's and that was more than ...”
