Callahan Quotes & Sayings

Infatuation burns itself out,' she says. 'Friendship mixed with old chemistry
that can last a lifetime. — Tess Callahan

James Cain was saddled with being called the father of hardboiled fiction. Apparently, he didn't like this saddle. — Bill Callahan

Riley's smile saturated her entire face with beauty. This was the sister Maisy had left all those years ago. The sister with the full laugh and the face of an angel who was unaware of her beauty. Gone was the sister who pulled her hair back into a baseball cap. — Patti Callahan Henry

Whoa," Becky said, because the baby kicked her hard in the bladder.

Felix startled, backing up and nearly falling over a chair.

"Sorry, I was whoa-ing because right when you came in, the baby kicked, not because you're Felix Callahan. Oh, you know what it reminded me of ? When Elisabeth's baby kicks just as Mary greets her? Isn't that funny? As if I had some spiritual sign when I saw you."

Annette smiled, her eyebrows raised. Felix glared handsomely. Becky stamped down a desire to squirm.

"No, it's not terribly funny," Felix said, "particularly as I have no idea what you're talking about."

"Elisabeth, wife of Zacharias, cousin to Mary, mother of Jesus? No? Nothing?"

Felix looked at her with a careful lack of amusement.

"Oh, maybe you don't have the Bible in England. See, there's this guy named Jesus and his mother is named Mary, and well, it's a really interesting read if you don't mind parables. — Shannon Hale

The dollar bills attached to her hips fluttered to the rug of the small square stage, like the first flakes of winter in the Bronx. (Dark City Lights) — Tom Callahan

Open. Silence fell around the sisters as they squeezed through the room. — Skye Callahan

When trust is gone, a man no longer believes in humanity." ~Ty Callahan~ — S.J.D. Peterson

Avoiding risk is not much of a goal ... whether you crawl into a hole or walk a high wire, nobody gets out of here alive. We cannot grow without challenge. — Steven Callahan

People say it all the time
'follow your heart.' What are we supposed to do
take our heart out and walk around behind it
follow it down the sidewalk to the mall? Your feet will lead you to your heart. Ha!
Maybe it just means you should know your heart, because if you know it, you might do what it says to do. I don't think it means you do whatever you damn well please. I don't think the heart speaks very loudly either
just tosses you hints and whispers. — Patti Callahan Henry

The photographs that excite me are photographs that say something in a new manner; not for the sake of being different but ones that are different because the individual is different and the individual expresses himself. — Harry Callahan

I'm not really a child of this '120 TV channels, a billion websites' era. I tried to live that for a long time but recently realized I don't get anything from it. I told myself it was luxury, but it was really only annoying. I'd rather just watch the same 50 movies over and over. — Bill Callahan

She's cold, sir," Greyson said, partially terrified, partially impressed. "Wrong again," I replied. She was a Callahan and like all Callahans... "She's ruthless. — J.J. McAvoy

Writing songs was like my ticket to the world, I think. — Bill Callahan

I think I came alive when I started photography. — Harry Callahan

When faced with everything sometimes the best course of action is nothing. — Bill Callahan

Only the journey matters. — Harry Callahan

I look forward to sleeping each night. The air is cool and it often starts to rain around 2:00 A.M., breaking the heat and singing me to sleep. And I drink my tequila as if I'd be letting you down if I didn't. — Bill Callahan

Just because I say what you want to hear, doesn't mean it's not the truth. — Skye Callahan

...she would have walked all the way up to East Sixty-Third Street, and probably 163rd Street, if it meant pouring even more into this memory that wasn't a memory. — Michael Callahan

Carnality was a dangerous pasttime. — Michael Callahan

Let the story settle inside you. Let it move and twist around until you see what it has to say to you. — Patti Callahan Henry

You need to start doing what's uncomfortable for you, April. Because your idea of what feels right took a left turn somewhere. — Tess Callahan

You'll let him talk you out of your dreams. That's what love does sometimes- talks you out of your dreams." "Not me," Katie said. "Jack would talk me into my dreams. — Patti Callahan Henry

But then you heard Sophie was coming to Hecate, and you decided to stay," Lara finished, and her lips twisted in the triumphant smile I'd seen on Mrs. Casnoff's face dozens of times. I stood there, frozen in place, as she turned back to me and said, "Mr. Callahan gave up a chance to travel the world with the Council so that he could be little more than a janitor on Graymalkin Island. For you. — Rachel Hawkins

I believe it's a miracle in life when you find people who care about and desire the same things you do, and creativity does that
brings those people together in one place. — Patti Callahan Henry

May you find your Tower, Roland, and breach it, and may you climb to the top! — Stephen King

It's time you stop running, little Loner. — Skye Callahan

Dreams, ideas, and plans not only are an escape, they give me purpose, a reason to hang on. — Steven Callahan

She hadn't really known Box; it turned out perhaps she hadn't really known Vivian, either. Maybe nobody really knew anybody. — Michael Callahan

Jason sang merrily in the backseat. "Jay! Quiet!" I barked. "Daddy is trying to drive. — K.W. Callahan

I don't want to destroy anything. But I want to know what I can destroy. — Bill Callahan

You look down on us... you think you're so much smarter than we are. When the only thing you really are is younger and luckier. — Michael Callahan

Patti Callahan Henry seamlessly combines mystery, family love, and personal journey all in one engrossing tale. From the intriguing beginning to the touching ending, The Stories We Tell is filled with the warmth, heart and compassion that have become the trademark of her novels. — Diane Chamberlain

The precision of hisskill places his work beyond the tentative and the experimental stage. He is continually searching and exploring both himself and his surroundings. and in this exploration of the realm of places, people and things, contrasts and relationships, Callahan is no respecter of conventional technical formula or code. His delicate sense of pattern is an integral part of his photography and not a thing by itself. — Edward Steichen

You think it is so different because you live here in this time, in this place, because I'm from the far side of the sea. But we are attached by the water between us. It is the same tide and moon, the same sea, love, fear, losing, and death. Love does not change with time. The love that fills us and empties us, that clips our wings so that
we must decide whether to learn to fly after that. To love or to fear. — Patti Callahan Henry

Those are the facts. It's easy to believe in facts, my dear. To believe in the story you need faith. Tell me the story as you experienced it. — Patti Callahan Henry

I'm more into human nature than politics. But they're intertwined. Obviously, I live in civilization, so politics are part of my life. — Bill Callahan

Riley sensed the shift before it actually happened: Mack turning his smile, his focus on Maisy. She felt the desperate desire to rewind time, to undo the act of Maisy running toward them. Even before the change occurred, Riley knew that it would happen eventually, so why not now? Riley was bland gray compared to Maisy's radiant light. — Patti Callahan Henry

His gaze had the intensity of a laser. "But it's not the same with you." My heart faltered. "Why?" "Because, Callahan." The brown eyes came closer. "I never loved anyone the way I love you. — Sarina Bowen

Music is a social act. — Bill Callahan

I was nothing to them.
Just a toy, like Suit said. And they were like a bunch of bratty rich kids who knew that every toy was replaceable. — Skye Callahan

The only words I've said today are "beer" and "thank you". — Bill Callahan

I'm the boss," he said as I pulled down my pants and got into position. "Even if you're trying to be cute, no trying to passive-aggressively top me." There — Skye Callahan

Every day I don't Google my name, there's another beautiful day. — Bill Callahan

The sea remains the greatest wilderness. To my mind, voyaging through wildernesses, be they full of woods or waves, is essential to the growth and maturity of the human spirit. — Steven Callahan

Nothing wrong with people getting shot, as long as it's the right people getting shot. — Harry Callahan

God said to Faldo, as He once said to Nicklaus, "You will have the skills like no other." Then he whispered to Ballesteros, as he whispered to Palmer, "But they will love you more." — Tom Callahan

Is maybe the best we can do?" Callahan asked. "Yeah," Eddie said. "For the time being, I guess it is. — Stephen King

A picture is like a prayer; you're offering a prayer to get something, and in a sense it's like a gift of God because you have practically no control-at least I don't. — Harry Callahan

I'm not asking you to marry me, or even confessing my love for you. Those things take time, and work. This," he ran his fingers along her collarbone, "this takes chemistry. — Skye Callahan

Some guys step on a rake in the dark, and get mad and go punch somebody. Others step on a rake in the dark and fall down laughing at themselves. I know which kind of guy I'd rather be. So do my friends. — Spider Robinson

He was right: not about her playing him, or about her laughing at him, but certainly about her carelessness, about her casual disregard for how he would feel if he found out, and about the stunning lack of depth it exposed in her character. — Michael Callahan

If you choose your subject selectively - intuitively - the camera can write poetry. — Harry Callahan

I have long begged off the question of my albums reflecting where I am 'at' personally. There is more inaccuracy in that approach than accuracy. — Bill Callahan

Photography is an adventure just as life is an adventure. If man wishes to express himself photographically, he must understand, surely to a certain extent, his relationship to life. — Harry Callahan

I ... drew out the gun I kept at home, a great big old Dirty Harry Callahan number that weighed about seventy-five thousand pounds. — Jim Butcher

We're competing with everything: the beach, the mall, bookstores. Libraries are in a transition right now, caught between two forces, the old ways and technology. Libraries are under a lot of pressure to provide both. — John Callahan

I DID my life - one thing to do after another, always something else to do. Because you don't need a heart to DO, but you do need one to live. — Patti Callahan Henry

Clients are becoming more global; they're realizing that markets are more interconnected. It's no longer the local regional clients buying the local regional flavors. It's everybody asking for everything. — Mary Callahan Erdoes

I didn't feel like a slut, a bad mother, a terrible person. I didn't worry about my nudity or if he liked what I was doing. This shit was natural, like I was born to be in Joe Callahan's bed and it was natural to him too, like Joe Callahan was born to be in me. — Kristen Ashley

Patti Callahan Henry's THE STORIES WE TELL is a lyrical exploration of love and longing, secrets and suspicion, family and friendship, all told with the author's trademark insights into the hollows and curves of the heart and mind of a working woman who must balance the demands of motherhood, wifedom, sisterhood, and yes, the deepest cravings for artistic expression. I always love the stories PCH tells! — Mary Kay Andrews

You're a legend in your own mind. — Harry Callahan

Violet, there a reason Joe Callahan is lookin' at me like he wants to rip my head off? — Kristen Ashley

Cheating and lying aren't struggles, they're reasons to break up. — Patti Callahan Henry

There's no danger of me forgetting, but if you think the threat of a seven-foot-tall bear of a roommate is my only incentive for treating you well, maybe we should cancel dinner. — Skye Callahan

If you put someone in a job who is thinking for even a moment about the next job, you have the wrong person. — Mary Callahan Erdoes

And that is the choice everyone has. They can wish for what they want in their life or they can face the truth. But sometimes you cant have both. — Patti Callahan Henry

I think nearly every artist continually wants to reach the edge of nothingness - the point where you can't go any further. — Harry Callahan

You worry just as much about great performance as you do about underperformance. — Mary Callahan Erdoes

Donegan Bane and Gracious O'Callahan - the Monster Hunters. Adventurers, inventors, authors of Monster Hunting for Beginners and it's sequels, Monster Hunting for Beginners is Probably Inadvisable and Seriously, Dude, Stop Monster Hunting. — Derek Landy

I'm somewhere between a gumshoe and a journalist. A writer, not a symbol. — Bill Callahan

I present Mr. and Mrs. Cole Bridge. You may kiss the bride." Father Callahan gave Cole a nod of approval.
Cole faced Kyle and wrapped her in his arms. He pulled her off her feet and closer to his face. Livia and Blake were the only ones close enough to hear Cole's private vows.
He kissed her once, gently and almost chastely. "For our past."
Cole kissed her again, just a breath of a kiss, lightly touching her lips. "For today."
The last kiss was deeper, but still maintained church decorum. It was the intimacy in his gaze that made the guests feel voyeuristic. "For the rest of our lives," he said softly as he set her back on her feet. — Debra Anastasia

That's what novels are: They're amalgams of archetypes, collections of random traits one observes in other people through life, blended into fresh characters. — Michael Callahan

Story is a way to find grace in the chaos. — Patti Callahan Henry

Yee-ouch!" she cried as the pan clattered back onto the stovetop. She was shaking her left hand and staring at the venison, grateful she hadn't dropped their dinner on the floor, when Callahan appeared in the doorway to her kitchen. "What's wrong?" "I'm an idiot. I almost dropped the roast." "You burned yourself," he surmised as his gaze shifted from her to the pot on the stove. Crossing to the kitchen sink, he twisted the cold water faucet. "C'mere." When she moved close, he took her arm by the wrist and studied her hand as he guided it beneath the running water. "You grabbed your pan without a pad? You don't strike me as the careless sort." "I have my moments of ditziness," she replied. Ditziness — Emily March

All thoughts are prey to some beast — Bill Callahan

All your life you're yellow. Then one day you brush up against something blue, the barest touch, and voila, the rest of your life you're green. — Tess Callahan

I was late to the Internet. I didn't really understand what it was. I didn't know what an email was. — Bill Callahan

When I sit down with a novel in my hand I want to enjoy the experience. That means having fun. Too many books take themselves too seriously and even a drama needs to have it's lighter moments to make the dark parts more intense. — Clayton J. Callahan

They'd lived their lives on tightropes, never knowing where the next paycheck was coming from or if one was coming at all, their personal lives a mishmash of backstage affairs and dressing room brawls endured for the brief heady adrenaline rush brought by the orchestra's overture and glare of white lights. — Michael Callahan

Memory is a cloudy, disjointed thing - like disconnected dreams with images scattered and thrown to settle where they please. — Patti Callahan Henry

Their words faded into the darkness as if they were spoken and unspoken at the same time; as if they were important and yet not at all, as if they were two people talking or maybe just one.
Darkness, she understood later, easily confused the meaning of words, of skin touching skin. In their remaining summers together she tried to find that oneness again. When it was all over,
when youth ended and he chose Maisy, she understood the lesson from the dock that night: she could never again call her feelings of intimacy and oneness love. Nor would she be fooled again into believing that her love was returned, that a boy felt more for her than friendship. — Patti Callahan Henry

If it were only about my job, I would have saved myself the effort and suspended you ... You can accept that and my help or walk out now and throw everything away. — Skye Callahan

That's not the way it is, Callahan." I grabbed her hands and rolled her closer to me, until our knees touched. "The thing is, we're all fragile. It's just that most of our friends are lucky enough not to know it yet. — Sarina Bowen

At the heel end of the day, I need my glass of wine. Christmas lights for the brain. — Bill Callahan

I wanted to hold you until I heard one voice. I stood without intention of moving and realized we see every punch coming in a boxing movie but in real life we miss a lot of them. — Bill Callahan

I was trained to turn loneliness into laziness. — Bill Callahan

I have never cried in the shower. That's a woman thing I think. — Bill Callahan

It's the subject matter that counts. I'm interested in revealing the subject in a new way to intensify it. A photo is able to capture a moment that people can't always see. — Harry Callahan

I wanted to live in a house. I wanted to have a place where I could record at home - all of these things I'd wanted to do for years. — Bill Callahan

Opinions are like assholes, everbody's got one. — Harry Callahan

Only a few millionaires with wet bottoms were very disappointed. — Tom Callahan

That was why I enjoyed cars - when you cared for them properly and tuned them up just right, they didn't ask stupid questions or go around behind your back. They simply purred under the slightest touch and followed orders. Aubrey's — Skye Callahan

Because we're all rainbow-colored inside, each of us a different arrangement, of course. The kiss just makes all the colors more concentrated, so intense they can be hard to look at. Or feel, rather. Like a Mediterranean sunset. — Tess Callahan

Grief wraps around people, takes them to a place they would not go otherwise. — Patti Callahan Henry

You only do exercises in art school. That's not the real thing. A little bit tells you so much. You have to find your own self. And you don't know what you are! But that's what you have to search for. — Harry Callahan

I do believe strongly in photography and hope by following it intuitively that when the photographs are looked at they will touch the spirit in people. — Harry Callahan

This life is full of trials and tribulations, so you have to capture humor whenever and wherever you can find it. — Steven Callahan

A man's got to know his limitations. — Harry Callahan

We have to know the truth about the past to discover out future. — Patti Callahan Henry