Brookshire Quotes & Sayings

Why do you love me?"

I sigh at the question I've asked myself frequently over the years. With a quick peck to his lips, I tell him, "Because, in you, I found my heart. — April Brookshire

of myself right off the bat? If that doesn't send her running back to me, I don't know what will. — April Brookshire

My existence is colorless when I'm not imagining you. You haunt me, Annabelle. — April Brookshire

That's it. That is fucking it. I stand up, grab Anna by the waist and, while dragging her to the bedroom, say over my shoulder to Brent, "If you can answer the door when her brother gets here, we'd appreciate it. Don't bother us for the next hour, two if Anna's as insatiable as usual. You may want to turn on the television to drown out the noise!" I push a laughing Anna into the bedroom and slam the door behind us. — April Brookshire

Do I worship God or what other people think of me? — Andy Mineo

I've been thinking a lot about the word "everything." Whenever something horrible happens, you hear people say they "lost everything." They lost their house or their car or their stuff or whatever, and to them it feels like everything. But they have no idea what it's like to lose everything. I thought I knew, but now I realize even I haven't lost everything, because I still have that polka-dot swimsuit in my memory. I still have those ice cream nights and the scorpion that scared Marin and the Barking Bulldogs sweatshirt and the robins-egg-blue nail polish. Somehow having those things makes the other things matter less.
I'm wondering if it's even possible to lose "everything" or if you just have to keep redefining what "everything" is. — Jennifer Brown

Think of the Nets infrastructure as a source of natural building resources. Linux is not growing on the trees - it is the trees. — David "Doc" Searls

You need to come meet me immediately - I'm with a group called the Right Arm. Corner of Kenwood and Brookshire, Apartment 2792.' — James Dashner

since I'm still healing from my gunshot wound. That I wear like a badge of honor. My baby gave me this injury. 'Cause she loves me. — April Brookshire

I want you back, Annabelle." This time my laughter is full of nothing but genuine humor. It's that 'oh my god, I can't believe that' kind of humor. I lean forward and put my face in my palms, still laughing. "Holy crap," I say in-between laughs, "that's hilarious." I peek up at him to see his disgruntled expression and then bust up laughing again. "I'm serious," he grunts out, looking cute in his exasperation, damn him. Not done, I hold up a hand. "Oh, oh, wait. Just let me go get my gun so you can shoot me again. Of course I want to get back together with you, Gabriel." Putting on a serious face, I say earnestly, "He shoots me because he loves me. — April Brookshire

Honey, if brains were dynamite, he wouldn't have enough to blow his nose. — Kris Calvert

All right, I'll go with this one called 'Handsome Devil'. That's me after all. — April Brookshire

The stupid boy has the nerve to laugh. I sit up and punch him in the gut. Stupid boy ain't laughing now. Now he's too busy grunting in pain. — April Brookshire

My proudest moment? Every Friday morning when I look at the board at Celtic Park and see my name on the team sheet for tomorrow's game. — Jock Stein

For most Indians in America, wealth is not inherited. Neither do we make it as heads of large hedge funds and private equity funds. For us to make it to the top, we have to use our knowhow to create great new technology products and build high-tech companies. — Romesh Wadhwani

I never went into acting to be able to scare everybody. If I'd wanted to frighten people, I could have joined the C.I.A. — Michael Shannon

It figures you've got to hate yourself if you've got any integrity at all. — Woody Allen

The highest virtue does nothing. Yet, nothing needs to be done. The lowest virtue does everything. Yet, much remains to be done. — Laozi

Rich father, rich mother, rich husband. I'm sure her whole life she's never known what it's like to worry about money." Licking — Imbolo Mbue

Don't think because I tease you that I don't take you seriously. — Julianne Donaldson

When you love someone more than he loves you, you'll do anything to switch the scales. You dress the way you think he'd like you to dress. You pick up his favorite figures of expression. You tell yourself that if you re-create yourself in his image, then he'll crave you in the same way you crave him. — Jodi Picoult