172 quotes found
Novelist · American · 1964
American novelist (born 1964)
“He is my vulnerability”
“Attitude shapes reality.”
“A lamb in a city of wolves.”
“Grief shared was grief lessened.”
“One day you will kiss a man you can't breathe without, and find that breath is of little consequence.”
“Dying is overrated. Human sentimentality has twisted it into the ultimate act of love. Biggest load of bullshit in the world. Dying for someone isn't the hard thing. The man that dies escapes. Plai...”
“Fear and doubt are major stampeders.”
“Desire makes life happen. Makes it matter. Makes everything worth it. Desire is life. Hunger to see the next sunrise or sunset, to touch the one you love, to try again. 'Hell would be waking up and...”
“It's just that in the Deep South, women learn at a young age that when the world is falling apart around you, it's time to take down the drapes and make a new dress.”
“The entire time I'm burning in Hell, I'll regret each tear I made you weep. But if Hell were the price for twenty days with you, I'd condemn myself again and again. - Cian MacKeltar ”
“You, Ms. Lane, are a menace to others! A walking, talking catastrophe in pink!”
“The more excited I get, the more I vibrate.""Now there's a thought," Lor says."If you mean what I think you mean, you want to shut the fuck up and never think it again," Ryodan says.”
“I can see you are a fine lady, but this boy is randy as a goat around you and it's plain to see. If he seeks the joys of wedded bliss, he can wed you. Without a weddin' he'll be havin' no bliss.”
“Was he a good kisser, Ms. Lane? Barrons asked, watching me carefully.I wiped my mouth with the back of my hand at the memory. It was like being owned.Some women like that.Not me.Perhaps it depends ...”
“It's just another of Robin's sayings. Like, 'Holy strawberries, Batman, we're in a jam! Or, Holy Kleenex, Batman, it was right under our nose and we blew it!”
“And Mega has a crush on Chester.""I do not!""Do too, Mega.""He's like, old!""How old, Christian says.""Like at least thirty or something."Lor laughs. " Fucking ancient, ain't it, kid?""Dude," I agr...”
“I have found there to be little distance between the unlatching of a chain and the spreading of a womans legs. As if they can never unbar only a single entrance. Its a disease called hope. Women su...”
“Friends dont build cages for each other.”
“Words can be twisted into any shape. Promises can be made to lull the heart and seduce the soul. In the final analysis, words mean nothing. They are labels we give things in an effort to wrap our p...”
“It's often only in the lies we refuse to speak that any truth can be heard at all.”
“It's not enough to listen to their words. You have to mine their silences for buried ore. It's often only in the lies that we refuse to speak that truth can be heard at all.”
“My city. I pondered that phrase, wondered why Barrons felt that way. He never said our world. He always said your world. But he called Dublin his city. Merely because hed been in it so long? Or had...”
“Is anyone who's supposed to be dead actually dead?”
“Sit," Chloe said, dashing after him and tugging firmly at his sleeve. "Let's hear the rest of it. You can kill him later."~Chloe to Dageus.”