Minefield Quotes

“I needed to say something. Something romantic! Something to sweep her off her feet.
"You’re like a potato!" I shouted after her. "In a minefield."
She froze in place. Then she spun on me, her face lit by a half-grown fruit. “A potato,” she said flatly. “That’s the best you can do? Seriously?”
“It makes sense,” I said. “Listen. You’re strolling through a minefield, worried about getting blown up. And then you step on something, and you think, ‘I’m dead.’ But it’s just a potato. And you’re so relieved to find something so wonderful when you expected something so awful. That’s what you are. To me.”
“A potato.”
“Sure. French fries? Mashed potatoes? Who doesn’t like potatoes?”
“Plenty of people. Why can’t I be something sweet, like a cake?”
“Because cake wouldn’t grow in a minefield. Obviously.”
She stared down the hallway at me for a few moments, then sat on an overgrown set of roots.
Sparks. She seemed to be crying. Idiot! I thought at myself, scrambling through the foliage. Romantic. You were supposed to be romantic, you slontze! Potatoes weren’t romantic. I should have gone with a carrot.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Firefight

“Although social relationships may be crippled by acrimonious minefields, manipulative psychological gambits or mysterious undercurrent power games, a number of social tell-tale flickers might help us in finding a lucid interpretation of hazy circumstances. ("Trompe le pied.")”
― Erik Pevernagie

“If you erased your past mistakes, you could purge your regrets with them, but you’d also wipe any lessons learned and any subsequent maturity gained. Don’t regret the minefields you stepped into, just try and learn not to step into the same one twice.”
― Stewart Stafford

“The subconscious is a minefield of unwanted rote thoughts.”
― Steven Redhead, Life Is A Cocktail

“Life is a minefield and Love its coveted mine.”
― Stewart Stafford

“It’s like I've been walking through a minefield blindfolded, and the explosions are starting to catch up with me.
The shrapnel of my own stupidity and selfishness raining down on my head.”
― Daniel Ruczko, Pieces of a Broken Mind

“What in the whole fuck is happening? I must be dreaming. I'm gonna cry, I'm gonna throw up, I will die.”
― Marilyn Shae, Minefields

“Most of the mines in the minefields of our life were planted by the choices that we should have never made while we were in the places that we should have never been.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough