“I’ve been waiting my whole life to fuck up like this.”
― Robert Stone, quote from Dog Soldiers
“I've always remembered. This fellow said to me - if you think someones'doing you wrong, it's not for you to judge. Kill them first and then God can do the judging.”
― Robert Stone, quote from Dog Soldiers
“If you couldn't tell the difference between what hurt and what didn't, you had no business being alive. You can't have any good times if you can't tell.”
― Robert Stone, quote from Dog Soldiers
“If you haven't fought for your life for something you want, you don't know what's life all about.”
― Robert Stone, quote from Dog Soldiers
“He sat desiring the girl - a speed-hardened straw-colored junkie stewardess, a spoiled Augustana Lutheran, compounded of airport Muzak and beauty parlor school. Her eyes were fouled with smog and propane spray.”
― Robert Stone, quote from Dog Soldiers
“The desires of the heart...are as crooked as a corkscrew.”
― Robert Stone, quote from Dog Soldiers
“The richest fuckin' people in the richest country in the world - you gonna tell them some little guy in a hole in South America can have something they can't? Like shit, man. If the little guy in the hole can be a revolutionary, they can be revolutionaries too.”
― Robert Stone, quote from Dog Soldiers
“Don't be afraid to ask for a rise, Sagittarius. Your boss always pay you less than your work is actually worth!”
― Robert Stone, quote from Dog Soldiers
“The birch trees loom ahead like a brotherhood of ghosts. ”
― Lisa Ann Sandell, quote from Song of the Sparrow
“And yet she told you the truth,” Graeme said softly. “Aye,” Teague muttered. “I wouldn’t have even blamed her if she’d withheld what she’d seen. I cannot say that I wouldn’t have done so if I were in her position.”
“She is an amazing lass,” Graeme murmured. “Aye, that she is,” Bowen agreed. “And she’s intensely loyal to you, Graeme.”
― Maya Banks, quote from Never Seduce a Scot
“It is your choice,” he said, so close to me that our lips were almost touching. “Either do what I say—or get another job.”
― Robert Thier, quote from Storm and Silence
“We should treat with indulgence every human folly, failing, and vice, bearing in mind that what we have before us are simply our own failings, follies, and vices. For they are just the failings of mankind to which we also belong and accordingly we have all the same failings buried within ourselves. We should not be indignant with others for these vices simply because they do not appear in us at the moment.”
― Irvin D. Yalom, quote from The Schopenhauer Cure
“A life is made up of a great number of small incidents and a small number of great ones.”
― Roald Dahl, quote from Going Solo
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