Braffet Quotes & Sayings

This girl. This little high school kid with her stupid boots and her Addams Family wardrobe and her skin as white and floury-looking as unbaked bread. Pillsbury goth girl, just out of the can. — Kelly Braffet

It all began to seem unreal, the chairs and the waiting and the dead girl at home in the closet. — Kelly Braffet

Nunca se debe gatear, cuando se tiene el impulso de volar (Never crawl when the impulse is to fly) — Helen Keller

I will be thirty years old again in thirty seconds. I will take the best room in the Grand Central or the Orndorff Hotel. I will dine on oysters and palomitas and wash them down with white wine. Then I will go to the Acme or Keating's or the Big Gold Bar and sit down and draw my cards and fill an inside straight and win myself a thousand dollars. Then I will go to the Red Light or the Monte Carlo and dance the floor afire. Then I will go to a parlor house and have them top up a bathtub with French champagne and I will strip and dive into it with a bare-assed blonde and a redhead and an octoroon and the four of us will get completely presoginated and laugh and let long bubbly farts at hell and baptize each other in the name of the Trick, the Prick, and the Piper-Heidsick. — Glendon Swarthout

He did not understand her. They were not the same. The garage, the trial, the old man with his head in his hands
his mother, struggling to breathe
those things were horrors. The mess under Layla's clothes was a game and he hated her for making a part of it, for ever coming near him. — Kelly Braffet

When you love somebody, you don't just give up on them when they do bad things. You fight for them. — Kelly Braffet

The only way to keep something pure is to keep it to yourself — Kelly Braffet

The problem with hope, Anne finds through the years, is that it gets your hopes up. But hopelessness is worse. — Kelly Braffet

You couldn't talk about the way things should be in somebody else's family. Families were like oceans. You never knew what was under the surface, in the parts you hadn't seen. Caro — Kelly Braffet

We are going to expand enormously
our economy, our consumption, over the years to come ... But the consequences of that on emissions are going to be severe unless we change direction. — Tony Blair

I don't appreciate a preacher who commits adultery and then goes out and blames me. — Jimmy Swaggart

All he would say was that sometimes you have to burn it down and start over. — Kelly Braffet

These Are Not The Droids You Are Looking For. — George Lucas

There are people who live their entire lives and never know this kind of love. — Kelly Braffet

It wasn't so much that I thought there was nowhere to go, in this huge city; but with so many places to go, where were you supposed to begin? — Kelly Braffet

Miranda rolls her eyes. "Passing over," she says. "That's nice. Is that anything like kicking the bucket? Keeling over, taking a dirt nap, biting the big one? — Kelly Braffet

Lately, she found herself thinking about Brent a lot, and for the first time, feeling angry. Because she had been twelve years old and all she'd wanted was a safe place, and now she was twenty-five and she wanted the same thing, and life shouldn't be so fucking hard, you shouldn't have to give so fucking much. — Kelly Braffet

Logic is what the devil likes most. — Kelly Braffet

We are God's creations, living in God's earth, placed within God's plan of redemption. — Francis Chan

That was my brother: it was like he was his own species, one that had sneaked a couple thousand extra years in while evolution was looking the other way. — Kelly Braffet

Sex is just sex. It's everything wrapped around it that's the problem. — Kelly Braffet

Did you ever, think when the hearse passes by, that someday in it you will lie? — Kelly Braffet

I have that love for music, when you are finding either old gems that you never heard or newer stuff that perks your ear. It keeps you trying to look for new stuff to write about it. You don't spin your wheels. I take that same approach to music and books. — Corey Taylor

It is my belief that, as a rule, creatures of Happy's ilk - I am thinking here of canines and men both - more often run free than live caged, and it is in fact a world of mud and feces they desire, a world with no Art in it, or anyone like him, a place where there is no talk of books or God or the worlds beyond this world, a place where the only communication is the hysterical barking of starving and hate-filled dogs. — Joe Hill

Death, Randa thought, elevated people. — Kelly Braffet

Did you blame the men who fired the guns, the men who built the guns, or the men who invented the guys? Did you blame the men who had put those particular guns in the hands attached to those particular trigger fingers? When Nick's plane crashed into the ocean off Honduras at a speed which turned the ocean to unyielding stone, was it Western Mountain's fault, for sending him out?Nick's, for going? Anne's, for letting him? Did you blame the human beings who had made such a world possible, or the world that had made such human beings possible?
The answer, she thought, lying now in her missing daughter's bed (Was it Miranda, for pushing a limit any time she saw one? Anne again, for uprooting her so callously, for failing in some way to adequately console her after her father's death?), was that you had two choices: you could blame everybody, or you could blame nobody. — Kelly Braffet

Caro needed to be important. It was boring and typical and transparent as hell, even to her, but she couldn't turn it off any more than she could quit having arms. — Kelly Braffet

Hate can be just as intimate as love. — Kelly Braffet

You think you're paying your dollar for a chance at the $6.2 million jackpot on Saturday, but really you're paying for the pleasure of the car ride home, deciding which credit card to pay off first and where your kid will suddenly be able to go to college. — Kelly Braffet

Caro, you're a pretty girl, but I'd no sooner fuck a good waitress than I'd key my own car — Kelly Braffet

Nature has a pretty sick sense of humor. — Kelly Braffet

The store was filled with hollow-eyed people standing in line: at the sandwich counter, at the soda fountain, at the register. All of them waiting, waiting, their hands full of candy, chips, cups of coffee, money. It was like purgatory, with snacks. Not just the customers; the employees, too. They worked the registers, squirted ketchup on hot dogs, piled limp lettuce onto flaccid lunch meat and waited for it to be over, waited until they could go home. — Kelly Braffet

Human beings suck the life out of everything that's beautiful. — Kelly Braffet

To kill was to be doomed. To kill was to die, yourself. — Kelly Braffet