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“What is there so fearful as the expectation of evil tidings delayed? ... Misery is a more welcome visitant when she comes in her darkest guise and wraps us in perpetual black, for then the heart no...”
“Bad news should always come after lunch.. first thing in the morning everything left a bruise.”
“Theres more.Of course there is, Brishen said flatly. It had started badly; it turned worse and hinted at becoming ruinous.”
“This is what I say: I've got good news and bad news.The good news is, you don't have to worry, you can't change the past.The bad news is, you don't have to worry, no matter how hard you try, you ca...”
“She was always left feeling like a murderer. Because the messenger becomes the murderer. Until the fatal words are spoken, the loved one concerned is still alive, waking, sleeping, going about his ...”
“But in real life things don't go smoothly. At certain points in our lives, when we really need a clear-cut solution, the person who knocks at our door is, more likely than not, a messenger bearing ...”
“But in real life things don't go so smoothly. At certain points in our lives, when we really need a clear-cut solution, the person who knocks at our door is, more likely than not, a messenger beari...”
“The end occurred mostly in her whispers and his silence - because he couldn't whisper and they didn't want to wake Colin's parents. They succeeded in staying quiet, in part because it felt like the...”
“For writers - even sportswriters - bad news is always easier than good, since it is, after all, more familiar.”
“Bad news is that you can control nothing but your thoughts. Good news is that with your thoughts you can control everything else.”
“I would forget it fain,But oh, it presses to my memory,Like damnd guilty deeds to sinners' minds.”
“A chill swept through the air, the sort of graveyard kiss promising bad news to follow.”
“The bad news is nothing lasts forever,The good news is nothing lasts forever.”
“I need a kid like I need a bad heart. A pretty kid is a ticket to trouble... and I'm too old to ask for that. Shit, I haven't even booked Tommy the Face in two years. I'm turning into a jack-off id...”
“No one loves the messenger who brings bad news.”
“Being the bearer of bad news is a terrible thing; sometimes you don't know if you'll have the words, the delicacy,the strength. You think of the person on the other side: how you're about to bring ...”
“Bad news doesn't hurt as much, if you hear it in good company. It's like, if somebody pushes you out of a 5th floor window and you bounce off an awning, a car roof, and a pile of plastic garbage ba...”
“There’s more.”“Of course there is,” Brishen said flatly. It had started badly; it turned worse and hinted at becoming ruinous.”
“I would forget it fain,But oh, it presses to my memory,Like damnèd guilty deeds to sinners' minds.”
