“It can't rain all the time.”
― James O'Barr, quote from The Crow
“So the crow spirals down through a collapsed dream and the only sound it makes in like a concave scream.”
― James O'Barr, quote from The Crow
“We do not recognize our souls until they are in pain.”
― James O'Barr, quote from The Crow
“It's not death if you refuse it...
It is if you accept it.”
― James O'Barr, quote from The Crow
“Life is just a dream on the way to death.”
― James O'Barr, quote from The Crow
“Sarah: "Buildings burn, people die, but real love is forever...”
― James O'Barr, quote from The Crow
“Childhood is over when you know you’re gonna die.”
― James O'Barr, quote from The Crow
“When sorrow comes, they come not single spies, but in battalions. I've allies in heaven, Jack, i've commrades in hell...say hello for me...”
― James O'Barr, quote from The Crow
“Funboy: Pal, something is seriously wrong with you.
The Crow: Atrocity has that effect on me.”
― James O'Barr, quote from The Crow
“Remember when you said "Mine?" and I said "Forever". You said "Only forver?" It's forever, now.”
― James O'Barr, quote from The Crow
“Sometimes I dream of sleepiness,
sometimes I feel like I'm alive.”
― James O'Barr, quote from The Crow
“Death, like virtue, has its degrees.”
― James O'Barr, quote from The Crow
“Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of all children. Do you understand? Do you understand?”
― James O'Barr, quote from The Crow
“I know why Jesus wept, motherfucker.”
― James O'Barr, quote from The Crow
“Life is lousy with hurt but it also shimmers with beauty.”
― James O'Barr, quote from The Crow
“Tonight, hell sends an angel bearing gifts...”
― James O'Barr, quote from The Crow
“Eric screams and screams and pounds his head against the wall until phantom fire trucks race across his vision. All he wants is pain. Pain and hate. Yes, hate. But never fear. Fear is for the enemy. Fear and bullets.”
― James O'Barr, quote from The Crow
“ICH BENDÜRFNES JESUS CHRISTUS HANGELENK
MEIN GEBEIN WEINEN
ODLAND, KRIEGSBIET, LEBENWEISE
GESCHWINDIGKEIT, HALBMESSER, ABSTEIG
GNAPENSTOB”
― James O'Barr, quote from The Crow
“...the girl.. her name was Shelly...”
― James O'Barr, quote from The Crow
“Mira chico, aparta esa pistola. Las balas no me detienen, las navajas no me hieren... Mira...¡Mírame! Soy el error del piloto, soy la malformación del feto, soy el cromosoma aleatorio... soy la más completa y total locura... soy el miedo...”
― James O'Barr, quote from The Crow
“Tell them I'm coming, mr. Jones.”
― James O'Barr, quote from The Crow
“He hears men's voices, shouts, so evil and grim he hears their names: Tin Tin, Fun Boy, T-Bird, Top Dollar and Tom Tom. The sounds sink into his heart like ice and brun in his head with a heat so intense it glows white.”
― James O'Barr, quote from The Crow
James O'Barr
Born place: in Detroit, Michigan, The United States
Born date January 1, 1960
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“My children ain’t the only thing I love. If I was allowed, I reckon I’d love myself, too.”
― Dolen Perkins-Valdez, quote from Wench
“Her guardian sighed and looked back down at his book. "I can't tell you how much I look forward to these mature and scintillating conversations. Still, when the old Ari pays a visit, let me know."
"Old Ari? I was sarcastic to you before."
"True." He nodded, turning the page on the paperback. "But there was this era bewteen scared, sarcastic Ari and this new-fangled five year old Ari where you were actually a decent person to be around."
Ouch. "Bite me."
Jai grinned slyly and looked up at her from under his lashes. "Just tell me how hard.”
― Samantha Young, quote from Scorched Skies
“A single action can cause a life to veer off in a direction it was never meant to go. Falling in love can do that, you think. And so can a wild party. You marvel at the way each has the power to forever alter an individual's compass. And it is the knowing that such a thing can so easily happen, as you did not know before, not really, that has fundamentally changed you and your son.”
― Anita Shreve, quote from Testimony
“I asked once before, do you always court trouble, Miss Click, or does it just seem tae follow you where’er you go?” She flushed. So word of her run-in with Hero McClary had reached the doctor as well. Her face grew pinker, not from his mention of the feud but from his intense scrutiny. She managed as calmly as she could, “As I told Colonel Barr, the matter is settled.” His eyes sparked. “Nae, no’ settled. Nothing is ever settled with a clan like the McClarys. It matters no’ that you’re a woman. It matters greatly that you live alone.” She swallowed, not taking her eyes from his, and saw the warning and concern in their blueness. Wearily, elbows on the table, she rested her face in her hands. Gently but firmly his fingers encircled her wrists like iron bands and brought them back down. “Look at me, Lael, and say that you’ll come tae the fort, just for the winter.” Lael. Lay-elle. In his Highland brogue, it sounded like no name she had ever heard, yet she bristled at his familiarity. Her resistance to the notion of forting up doubled. “Nay,” was all she said as she looked away. Releasing her, he looked down at the bowl of food Ma Horn had set before him. Did he find turnips and greens disagreeable fare? Or was he regretting saying her given name? In a few days’ time, “Miss Click” had changed to “Lael.” “I’d best be going,” she said but made no move to do so. “Nae . . . stay.”
― Laura Frantz, quote from The Frontiersman's Daughter
“most disturbing part of the meeting had been Sarah’s blatant dislike”
― Barbara Taylor Bradford, quote from Hold the Dream
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