All Quotes By Tag: Mystery
“After earning a degree in Marketing at Auburn University, I spent the next five years in the business world, which is a polite way of saying that I had eleven jobs in a five-year period, including door to door sales, skip tracing people who didn’t want to be found, repossessing cars and collecting on defaulted student loans. During this five-year period, I did an in-depth study of abnormal psychology and sociopathic behavior – and then I divorced him.”
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“There are things that will happen to you and there is nothing you can do about this. Isn’t it exciting beyond belief?”
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“In your handsThe dog, the donkey, surely they know They are alive.Who would argue otherwise?But now, after years of consideration, I am getting beyond that.What about the sunflowers? What about The tulips, and the pines?Listen, all you have to do is start and There’ll be no stopping.What about mountains? What about water Slipping over rocks?And speaking of stones, what about The little ones you can Hold in your hands, their heartbeats So secret, so hidden it may take yearsBefore, finally, you hear them?”
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“It was this mystery, bereft now of all fear, and this beauty together that made life the endless, changing and yet changeless, thing it was. And yet mystery and loveliness alike were really only appreciable with one’s legs, as it were, dangling down over into the grave.”
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“Tell me you have a plan.” He swore when Colt didn’t answer right away.”
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“I forget myself with you. I forget the rules. I forget every other living soul in this would. Do you understand?”
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“The reader is the final arbiter.”
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“My ex calls the ochre winter ‘autumn’ as we queue to hear dock boys play jazz fugues in velvet dark.— Broken Verses”
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“Several Terminal Policy readers got together to tell Raker jokes: – Raker CAN piss into the wind. – Raker donates a lot of blood to the Red Cross — just never his own. – Superman wears Raker pajamas. – When Raker jumps into the pool, he doesn’t get wet — the pool gets Raker. – Why did the chicken cross the road? Because Raker THREW her there!! – Raker’s daughter lost her virginity … he got it back. – Raker doesn’t cheat death, he wins fair and square. – Raker turns on a light at night … not because he’s afraid of the dark but because the dark is afraid of him.- When the boogy man goes to bed he checks under his bed for Raker.- Don’t tread on Raker’s cape!”
“Rene Caron takes my breath away!”
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“The blood dried on his good hand, he passed his palm over her hair. It curled about his wrist and sprung back into displace as the breeze fluttered by. In the firelight, it was golden like the dandelions of which she’d spoken. The ones that had grown along the Franklin riverbank in late summer. The ones he had lost any faith in since he’d committed his first murder there.”
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“Oh honey, someday a real man is going to make you see stars and you won’t even be looking at the sky.” Excerpt from Grace Willow’s Last Minute Bride”
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“She was a ray of sunshine, a warm summer rain, a bright fire on a cold winter’s day, and now she could be dead because she had tried to save the man she loved.”