Barrett Arvizu > Barrett's Quotes

“You see, there are no pretty pink flowers in the woods at night.”
― J.K. Franko, Eye for Eye

“A look of absolute terror locked onto her features.”
― Gabriel F.W. Koch, Death Leaves a Shadow

“Valdin had learnt from Noren that there was no known passes over the Coe. Apparently Noren had heard stories about some underground passage that led through the mountains, but he had never visited the site. South of the Coe Mountains and stretching away to the east and the south were the endless grasslands of the Plains. Valdin had no idea how far he was from Bala’s eastern seaboard. From the vista below him it looked as though he had a long ride to catch up with his quarry.”
― Robert Reid, The Thief

“Black reached for a Glock G21 SF. Two boxes of .45 Precision Tactical. Two knives. If he needed more, he was in real trouble.”
― William Kely McClung, Black Fire

“Choose joy.”
― Gregory S. Works, Triumph: Life on the Other Side of Trials, Transplants, Transition and Transformation

“I have decided it's my mind that's woman. It's my narrator. It's my relationship to myself, and oddly, nothing at all to do with my body.”
― Sara Pascoe

“All scriptures contain contradictions and the Qur'an is no exception.”
― Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Heretic: Why Islam Needs a Reformation Now

“Good fences make good neighbors.”
― Robert Frost

“History shall never fade from sight.”
― Jana Petken, Author, The Guardian of Secrets and Her Deathly Pact

“Worth dying for. Worth killing for. Worth going to hell for. Amen.”
― Frank Miller, Sin City Volume 1: The Hard Goodbye

“Too pissed off to care, Aurelia interrupted him. "No, I will not wait just one moment!" Piercing him with her best scary stare, she said, "It surprises me that no one has pointed out your glaringly obvious agenda, so let me be the first.”
― Therisa Peimer, Taming Flame

“Let the writer take up surgery or bricklaying if he is interested in technique. There is no mechanical way to get the writing done, no shortcut. The young writer would be a fool to follow a theory. Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error. The good artist believes that nobody is good enough to give him advice. He has supreme vanity. No matter how much he admires the old writer, he wants to beat him.”
― William Faulkner

“This is what the cobbler threw at his wife.”
― Laura Ingalls Wilder, The Long Winter

“You see, if you will live like no one else, later you can live like no one else.”
― Dave Ramsey, The Total Money Makeover: A Proven Plan for Financial Fitness

“¡Oh, cariño!, no fue solamente por eso, habría acudido a ti tarde o temprano. Desde el primer día que te vi supe que…
—¡Ángel mío! —dijo Spade con ternura—. Mira, si tienes suerte dentro de veinte años saldrás de San Quintín, y entonces me vienes a buscar.”
― Dashiell Hammett, The Maltese Falcon

“The more you try to be like someone else, the more you find yourself standing in the way.”
― gregory david roberts, Shantaram

“There has always been a sliver of panic in him, deeply buried, when it comes to his daughter: a fear that he is no good as a father, that he is doing everything wrong. That he never quite understood the rules. All those Parisian mothers pushing buggies through the Jardin des Plantes or holding up cardigans in department stores—it seemed to him that those women nodded to each other as they passed, as though each possessed some secret knowledge that he did not. How do you ever know for certain that you are doing the right thing?”
― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See