“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 felt a bit like French kissing an old lady; all the right moves, but in totally the wrong places.”
― Graham Parke, quote from No Hope for Gomez!
“Those who believe they can move mountains, do. Those who believe they can't, cannot. Belief triggers the power to do.”
― David J. Schwartz, quote from Magic of Thinking Big
“I think God made us to desire beauty. But I’m learning we have to first find our beauty in God.”
― Rachel Hauck, quote from Georgia on Her Mind
“Dalin must have whiffed the anarch in me, a man with no ties to state or society. Still, he was unable to sense an autonomy that puts up with these forces as objective facts but without recognizing them. What he lacked was a grounding in history.
Opposition is collaboration; this was something from which Dalin, without realizing it, could not stay free. Basically, he damaged order less than he confirmed it. The emergence of the anarchic nihilist is like a goad that convinces society of its unity.
The anarch, in contrast, not only recognizes society a priori as imperfect, he actually acknowledges it with that limitation. He is more or less repulsed by state and society, yet there are times and places in which the invisible harmony shimmers through the visible harmony. This is obviously chiefly in the work of art. In that case, one serves joyfully.
But the anarchic nihilist thinks the exact opposite. The Temple of Artemis, to cite an example, would inspire him to commit arson. The anarch, however, would have no qualms about entering the temple in order to meditate and to participate with an offering. This is possible in any temple worthy of the name.”
― Ernst Jünger, quote from Eumeswil
“I was beloved. I had been hoped for. Somehow, I was necessary.”
― Tosca Lee, quote from Havah: The Story of Eve
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