Barry Gifford Quotes & Sayings
Enjoy the top 7 famous quotes, sayings and quotations by Barry Gifford.
Famous Quotes By Barry Gifford
In the picture, Ava Gardner's tousled black hair obscured her right eye, and her full, closed lips were pulled slightly to the right, resulting in something less than a smile. They looked as if they'd been smeared shut with red paint, though the photo was in black and white. It wasn't so much a fuck-me face as a I've-been-there-and-back look, the kind of expression you see only on the most expensive whores. — Barry Gifford
Barry Gifford, Author of Wild at Heart, says:
Marisa Lankester's unique chronicle of high crimes and low company is as wild a ride as any reader is likely to be taken on. She was the lone woman in the eye of a predatory hurricane that blew across continents and devastated countless lives. That she survived is testament to her brains and bravery. The old-timers who invented violence as a second language contended that nothing is deadlier than the female, to cross her was to buck dangerous odds, and this book tells you why. — Barry Gifford
This is something an ordinary man can never know. You will enter the House of Dreams, Juanito, where you will live forever. Your mother and father and sisters and brothers, your grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, all you will greet in their dreams. And only you, among them, will be safe. — Barry Gifford
Romeo gritted his teeth and let the wind hit his face. Believe it, he told himself. Life with this woman will be without apologies. — Barry Gifford
The only words worth repeating are from the Old Testament or Oscar Wilde. — Barry Gifford
We fool ourselves
into thinking
we're strong
then complain
the rest of our lives
crippled by
the consequences. — Barry Gifford