“But just remember: a woman's like a rose; if you treat her right, she'll bloom, if you don't, she'll wilt.”
― Eric Wilson, quote from Fireproof
“Fireproof doesn't mean that a fire will never come, but that when it comes you'll be able to withstand it.”
― Eric Wilson, quote from Fireproof
“A real man's gotta be a hero to his wife before he can be a hero to anybody else- or he ain't a real man.”
― Eric Wilson, quote from Fireproof
“Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might . . . ”
― Eric Wilson, quote from Fireproof
“Yeah, it's hard to care when you're afraid of getting hurt. You know, the sad part is that when most people promise 'for better or for worse,' they really only mean for the better.”
― Eric Wilson, quote from Fireproof
“On his own, he was lost. On his knees, he knew he was found.”
― Eric Wilson, quote from Fireproof
“He was a fireman. And what did she do? She went around lightning fires, while he tried to put them out.”
― Eric Wilson, quote from Fireproof
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“One must always proceed with method. I made an error of judgment asking you that question. Toeach man his own knowledge. You could tell me the details of the patient's physical appearance- nothing there would escape you. If I wanted information about the papers on the desk, Mr. Raymond would have noticed anything there was to see. To find out about the fire, I must ask the man whose business is to observe such things. - Detective Hercule Poirot to Doctor Sheppard”
― Agatha Christie, quote from El asesinato de Roger Ackroyd
“the great advantage of really contemporary fiction is that one finds oneself mirrored on every page”
― Peter Ackroyd, quote from The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde
“Order is the Shire of Tolkien’s hobbits: peaceful, productive and safely inhabitable, even by the naive. Chaos is the underground kingdom of the dwarves, usurped by Smaug, the treasure-hoarding serpent. Chaos is the deep ocean bottom to which Pinocchio voyaged to rescue his father from Monstro, whale and fire-breathing dragon. That journey into darkness and rescue is the most difficult thing a puppet must do, if he wants to be real; if he wants to extract himself from the temptations of deceit and acting and victimization and impulsive pleasure and totalitarian subjugation; if he wants to take his place as a genuine Being in the world.”
― Jordan B. Peterson, quote from 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos
“He hunched his shoulders and looked at the floor. With that movement, he entered the past. When he put on his jacket, kissed me again, and walked to the door, he was already a memory.”
― Siri Hustvedt, quote from The Blindfold
“Shyly Nancy and Plum sat down at the table while Mrs. Campbell heaped pink-flowered plates with baked beans, sausage cakes ad salad, passed a steaming plate of brown bread, cut them off generous pieces of the pat of new butter and handed them big mugs of ice-cold milk.”
― Betty MacDonald, quote from Nancy and Plum
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