172 quotes found
Novelist · American · 1964
American novelist (born 1964)
“I kept it to remind me that although there is evil, there is sometimes beauty and light. You, Jillian. You were always my light.”
“He is my vulnerability”
“One of the first lessons a warrior is taught is that denial of one's circumstances only results in failure to recognize real danger.”
“I wept for me, for my sister, for things I couldn't even begin to put into words, and might never be able to explain. But it felt something like this: I used to walk on my feet. Now all I knew how ...”
“I'd never understood why anyone would want to live forever. It had always seemed to me that death lent life a certain poignancy, a necessary tension.”
“The single greatest advantage anyone can take into any battle is hope.”
“Women fight differently from men. You couldnt get me to hurt a womans breasts for anything. I know how tender my own are when Im PMSing. Besides, we feed babies with them.”
“One day you will kiss a man you can't breathe without, and find that breath is of little consequence.”
“I love books, by the way, way more than movies. Movies tell you what to think. A good book lets you choose a few thoughts for yourself. Movies show you the pink house. A good book tells you there's...”
“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.”
“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.”
“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 dep...”
“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...”
“It's often only in the lies we refuse to speak that any truth can be heard at all.”
“You can’t give somebody faith. They either got it or they don’t.”
“Things we had, like respect and trust, but also freely expressed desires and accountability to whatever degree it took to make both people happy. It took work, a willingness to fight passionately a...”
“Strength wasn‘t about being able to do everything alone. Strength was knowing when to ask for help and not being too proud to do it.”
“What are you" -Mac "I don't follow" -Jericho "You dropped 30 feet in that warehouse. You should have broken something. What are you?" -Mac "A man with a rope." -Jericho”