Eric Jerome Dickey Quotes & Sayings

Can't blame a man for being human when human is all he'll ever be! — Eric Jerome Dickey

don't take many words to break a fragile heart! — Eric Jerome Dickey

Physical attraction was about aesthetics, not sexual performance, not mental stimulation. Without a mental connection, a remarkable sexual performance yielded no lifelong guarantees. It was only lust. And lust was not love. — Eric Jerome Dickey

It takes as long as three generations of hard work, three generations of sacrifice to correct the wrong! — Eric Jerome Dickey

Love is a mental illness, an obsessive-compulsive disorder romanticized! — Eric Jerome Dickey

DNA predisposes a certain behavior, but if your environment doesn't support it, then that behavior won't manifest. When people don't have opportunity, they have to create their own opportunities — Eric Jerome Dickey

Ownership, even in love, is an illusion. No woman owned any man and no man owned any woman. — Eric Jerome Dickey

I opened my purse, shifted through panty shields, bills, and birth control pills - I call them poppa-stoppas - and took out my menstrual calendar. — Eric Jerome Dickey

Sex and love are not identical twins. Not fraternal. Not born at the same moment but still of the same womb. — Eric Jerome Dickey

He says, "Your husband fucked my wife."
We look at each other and this time it's different. Now I know him.
"My husband didn't fuck your wife." My voice is soft. Not amorous, but the tone of a bewildered child. "They had a relationship, then came home and fucked us. — Eric Jerome Dickey

with attachment comes pain! — Eric Jerome Dickey

Inside every pause lived a contemplation — Eric Jerome Dickey

The next thing I knew, I was falling. I dreamed I was being thrown into an open grave, but jerked awake and landed on a bed. — Eric Jerome Dickey

you had to have happiness to miss happiness! — Eric Jerome Dickey

As a writer, I challenge myself not to tell the same story - to tackle different characters with different issues. — Eric Jerome Dickey

Intelligence is always intimidating to those who aren't! — Eric Jerome Dickey

People pray for rain, then complain about the flood. They pray for it to stop raining, then bitch about the drought. — Eric Jerome Dickey

Hate is cancer of the soul! — Eric Jerome Dickey

A woman can plan. A woman thinks she needs a man for nothing in this world but soon realizes she is wrong. The same way every black- owned business has to acquire goods from a white distributor, women have to do business with men, be it professional or personal, to achieve too many of our goals. — Eric Jerome Dickey

Hate isn't healthy, it damages the hater more than the one who's hated! — Eric Jerome Dickey

beauty is the currency of betrayal! — Eric Jerome Dickey

You must have a goal in life. We all should have goals. Or we are lost. — Eric Jerome Dickey

I went to public school but kept to myself. When you live in a brothel, you don't want anyone coming to your home. — Eric Jerome Dickey

Falling in love is easy. Being in love sucks. — Eric Jerome Dickey

Early is on time, on time is late, and late is unacceptable! — Eric Jerome Dickey

Love is for the soul and sex is for the body. Both cry out for satisfaction — Eric Jerome Dickey

the things we crave, our silent desires, out little addictions! — Eric Jerome Dickey

He was old enough to know you can't make people love you. But I suppose when you're wounded, logic ain't logical. — Eric Jerome Dickey

Women ignore history. Always think it will be different for them. — Eric Jerome Dickey

Falling in love was a solo act. I knew that, had learned that the hard way. You just jumped and hoped your parachute opened. Sometimes you looked up and saw you were falling by yourself, the object of your desire still on the plane, not interested in jumping, watching you descend into that scary place alone. — Eric Jerome Dickey

Soon-Bok Kim closed her eyes, said rapid prayers in castellano, beat the steering wheel, begged God to save her and her stupid husband, said they would become better Christians. — Eric Jerome Dickey

Once desire was turned on, combustion gave it a life of its own. Once it was turned on it became a raging wildfire, uncontrollable and uncontainable, the type of conflagration that had to be allowed to burn itself out. — Eric Jerome Dickey

Wisdom ain't seeing what's in your face, but recognizing what's about to come! — Eric Jerome Dickey

you are unimportant to the important! — Eric Jerome Dickey

I heard you on the phone with her. I happened to be in your arms, and you happened to be inside of me, balls deep from what I remember, so I felt the difference, felt what you felt for her, heard how your voice changed when you talked to her. — Eric Jerome Dickey

Can't kill something that doesn't have a heart. — Eric Jerome Dickey

People know your tragedies and they treat you like
you're not human. Like you're a three-headed goat. A monster from some other planet. They keep reminding you of your pain.
You see how they look at me? They're stuck on that person I used to be. They can't see that old life as just a moment in time that I've moved on from. It was a horrible life. — Eric Jerome Dickey

That's what sex does: it starts relationships and it verifies the end of relationships. — Eric Jerome Dickey

Some people are just so happy to get published to, they sign anything. Next thing you know, they've signed over the rights to their book. — Eric Jerome Dickey

We can do anything when we decide to win no matter what! — Eric Jerome Dickey

Tonight I was stealing the time of another woman. — Eric Jerome Dickey

I was erotic. I was beautiful. I was powerful. — Eric Jerome Dickey

Even the righteous man is just a sinner living in between sins. — Eric Jerome Dickey

Changing horses doesn't mean the ride'll get any better! — Eric Jerome Dickey

You want to put a band-aid on something that needs stitches. — Eric Jerome Dickey

A man knows if he loves a woman in three months, if not three days, but what he desires in three hours, if that is all he desires, he should never get from you in three hundred years. — Eric Jerome Dickey

Every man kills the things that he loves. Some with a look, some with flattery, the coward with a kiss. — Eric Jerome Dickey

Marriage is hard work, and you have to show up in hard hat and boots every day of every year. — Eric Jerome Dickey

anger and jeaously are first cousins! — Eric Jerome Dickey

Livvy and Tony are in bed eating Chinese food. — Eric Jerome Dickey

The heart define whom we are were attracted to. I was attracted to him, sexually, mentally and maybe even spiritually. And the heart decided for how long that inner madness would last. — Eric Jerome Dickey

Number two is just the leader for the rest of the leaders — Eric Jerome Dickey

Falling in love is like falling off a building - it doesn't hurt till the end. — Eric Jerome Dickey

Nothings promised, not the rest of tonight, not all of tomorrow! — Eric Jerome Dickey

jealously lives with insecurity! — Eric Jerome Dickey

Desperation's heated breath singed my neck, its jagged teeth prepared to devour my flesh. Poverty growled too, waiting its turn, famished yet patient, a beast that dined on the bones of men. — Eric Jerome Dickey

When you start a new job or a particular journey, you really don't know what to expect. I mean, you hear about your name being on the bestsellers list, but it doesn't really mean anything. Like, really, what does that translate to? — Eric Jerome Dickey

common enemies make enemies become friends! — Eric Jerome Dickey

But that's not the way love goes. You show the good, disguise the bad. — Eric Jerome Dickey

Women were excited after sex, wired becasue in their minds the relationship was on beginning. Men went to sleep m the because for the orgasm had arrived and the relationship was done. — Eric Jerome Dickey

don't call me stupid without calling me stupid and think I'd bee too stupid to notice! — Eric Jerome Dickey

Desire is a beast that must be fed! — Eric Jerome Dickey

It is silent, an anagram for listen.
That is what I do. Listen while she remains silent. — Eric Jerome Dickey

hate is a virus, revenge its only cure! — Eric Jerome Dickey

She's a smart woman. I love that. Intelligence is a wonderful and powerful aphrodisiac. To me, it enhances beauty, makes an ordinary woman look like a movie star. — Eric Jerome Dickey

Most women got this thing called compassion. It doesn't make them foolish, just more forgiving. More capable of trying and hoping things worked out. — Eric Jerome Dickey

She returned to consciousness only to find herself in an unescapable nightmare. — Eric Jerome Dickey

Wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to temptation! — Eric Jerome Dickey

I deserved to find pleasure that surpassed my imagination, better than any I had experienced. — Eric Jerome Dickey

love is an investment! — Eric Jerome Dickey

Chiquita was dancing with a brother who was so old I'd bet he used to baby-sit God. — Eric Jerome Dickey

Sleepin with strangers will have you waking with enemies! — Eric Jerome Dickey

A great relationship was when someone accepted your past, supported your present, and encouraged your future. — Eric Jerome Dickey

Losing your job is like having your identity stolen, like having what defined you run through a paper shredder. After a while the despair gets you, and it gets you good. — Eric Jerome Dickey

Paranoia, the first cousin of a bastard named fear — Eric Jerome Dickey

you're just a side dish not the main course! — Eric Jerome Dickey

A full moon is a flashlight so everyone can see your drama! — Eric Jerome Dickey

Like she said, love wasn't a switch that could be turned off. It was more like a battery, had to run until there was no more energy left. — Eric Jerome Dickey

when a lie is repeated enough it becomes the truth! — Eric Jerome Dickey

I mean, I am human, got feelings and desires, and might ultimately want the same thang, but can I get a moment of mental stimulation first? — Eric Jerome Dickey

YOLO - you only live once. — Eric Jerome Dickey

I said, "This is what happens when you find Gideon." Eyes — Eric Jerome Dickey

He thinks being black means having plenty of attitude; I think having plenty of knowledge is what black is all about; — Eric Jerome Dickey

And we all know when a sistuh gets mad, a sistuh gets athletically creative. — Eric Jerome Dickey

The most jealous and insecure are the ones who are guilty of betrayal. The ones who are the angriest are those who are pulling cons themselves, only to find out they're being conned as well. A thief hates to be robbed, and a cheater always wants you to be loyal while they are being unfaithful. When suspicions arise and the questions start, they are always defensive, always volatile. A thief takes being robbed personally, the same way a player falls apart when he finds out he is being played. — Eric Jerome Dickey

But sometimes living in denial was the only way to keep a man from going on a killing spree. — Eric Jerome Dickey

The path to love wasn't a smooth road. Love would show up while you were busy with another love, leaving you to decide. — Eric Jerome Dickey

Preacher pulled her gun to her lap, the trigger aimed toward the stranger. . . . He stared at her like he was ready to dial 911, until he saw she was of European heritage, saw her clerical collar, saw the Bible on the dashboard. White, blond, and Christian. Trifecta. The man's shoulders relaxed and he smiled, waved, and kept going. — Eric Jerome Dickey

I can become a new woman every day until i like the woman i become, then i can become her for a while, if not forever! — Eric Jerome Dickey

Hard to save anybody when you're locked up, when you're too busy trying to fight to save yourself. When you've made yourself a prisoner. — Eric Jerome Dickey

A man's ego is a fragile thing; as fragile as a woman's heart — Eric Jerome Dickey

If you're craving oatmeal cookies, apple sauce won't do.. — Eric Jerome Dickey

we make promises that start with always and end with forever! — Eric Jerome Dickey

Sleeping with strangers will have you walking with enemies. — Eric Jerome Dickey

When you're honest with yourself, often times you betray someone else! — Eric Jerome Dickey

safety and love are both illusions! — Eric Jerome Dickey

Best way to deal with fear is to face the nightmare! — Eric Jerome Dickey

We're all living contradictions, trying to survive in a world filled with hypocrites — Eric Jerome Dickey

A man won't buy the cow when he can get the milk for free phrase my momma used to say has popped into my head one, maybe two million times — Eric Jerome Dickey

He looked like a brand-new heartbreak waiting to happen. — Eric Jerome Dickey