“For some reason, this is the moment I know I’m gonna be all right; that the hurt might never fade, and my heart might always long for a stubborn cowboy with squinty eyes, but I’ll make do. Sure as the sun will rise.”
― Erin Bowman, quote from Vengeance Road
“When I were first learning to shoot a rifle, Pa told me that nearly every battle people face is in their heads.”
― Erin Bowman, quote from Vengeance Road
“Money’s supposed to fix problems, not give you more, but I guess life ain’t that straightforward.”
― Erin Bowman, quote from Vengeance Road
“Life don't care 'bout sorry's," Will says. "Bad things happen, and you can't let 'em harden you. Whatever happened to yer pa, it ain't yer fault, Nate, and you gotta let it go.”
― Erin Bowman, quote from Vengeance Road
“Hell, I'll be safest pretending I'm a boy the rest of my life. The frontier ain't for the faint of heart, and it certainly ain't kind to women. Sometimes I think the whole world's 'gainst us.”
― Erin Bowman, quote from Vengeance Road
“People don't gotta like the same stuff. If they did, life would be pretty boring.”
― Erin Bowman, quote from Vengeance Road
“When I were first learning to shoot a rifle, Pa told me that nearly every battle people face is in their heads. If you think you can't do something, you won't. If you believe you can, it's only a matter of time before you will.”
― Erin Bowman, quote from Vengeance Road
“Jesse finishes paying for his drinks and turns. It takes only half a second, but his eyes burn a trail from my dress's neckline to its hem and back again. "The dress'll do," he says.”
― Erin Bowman, quote from Vengeance Road
“It is funny how the things we hate are the things we miss most when they are gone”
― Erin Bowman, quote from Vengeance Road
“He sips his drink and it leaves his handlebar mustache dripping like a cattle dog come outta a river.”
― Erin Bowman, quote from Vengeance Road
“Maybe he kept the act going as long as possible, till a faked death were the only way to keep my memory of her pure and clean and something worth loving.”
― Erin Bowman, quote from Vengeance Road
“It shows damn near everything. I's been hiding my breasts for so long, I half forgot I had 'em.”
― Erin Bowman, quote from Vengeance Road
“[His eyes] gleaming like a demon done the devil's work”
― Erin Bowman, quote from Vengeance Road
“Life don’t care ’bout sorry’s,” Will says. “Bad things happen, and you can’t let ’em harden you.”
― Erin Bowman, quote from Vengeance Road
“It is funny how the things we hate are the things we miss most when they are gone.”
― Erin Bowman, quote from Vengeance Road
“If you think you can’t do something, you won’t. If you believe you can, it’s only a matter of time before you will.”
― Erin Bowman, quote from Vengeance Road
“It's a hard concept to hold on to--the idea that there was a time before us. A time before time.
In the beginning there was nothing. And then there was everything.”
― Nicola Yoon, quote from Everything, Everything
“There were two sets of encyclopedias that had sections on rats. From them we learned that we were about the most hated animals on earth, except maybe snakes and germs.
That seemed strange to us, and unjust. [...] But people think we spread diseases, and I suppose possibly we do, though never intentionally, and surely we never spread as many diseases as people themselves do.”
― Robert C. O'Brien, quote from Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH
“He has a saying: he'll only believe what can be written on a postcard.”
― John le Carré, quote from Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
“To have risked so much in our efforts to mold nature to our satisfaction and yet to have failed in achieving our goal would indeed by the final irony. Yet this, it seems, is our situation.”
― Rachel Carson, quote from Silent Spring
“There is one moment, a moment in eternity. Before we find out the truth about one another. That simple moment is the one that propels us through life – what we felt at the very edge of our future, standing over the abyss, before we knew for sure we loved. Before we knew for sure we loved forever. …
Before all that, you and I walked through The Summer Garden, and once in a while my bare arm touched your arm, and once in a while you spoke and that gave me an excuse to look up into your face, into your laughing eyes, to catch a glimpse of your mouth and I, who had never been touched, tried to imagine what it might be like to have your mouth touch me. Falling in love with you in The Summer Garden in the white nights of Leningrad is the moment that propels me though life.”
― Paullina Simons, quote from Tatiana and Alexander
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