Etzel Cardena Quotes & Sayings

By my hand only. By my cock and mouth only, unless I command otherwise. — Joey W. Hill

My future was mapped in negatives. Next year, I could be anywhere but here. — Barbara Kingsolver

But the reason that writers like Harlan and Lee don't outline is that they enjoy the serendipity, the surprises that arise when they're not constricted by the steel girdle of an outline. And I get that too. Some of the best plot twists in my work have been ones that I didn't plan on, including the ending to PARANOIA. One of the great pleasures of writing fiction is living in the story so that you "experience" it the way your characters do. — Joseph Finder

Out of perfection nothing can be made. Every process involves breaking something up. — Joseph Campbell

Anyone can obtain money, but it takes a certain type of person to obtain honor. — Idowu Koyenikan

There's so many kids," he said low enough so only Jessica could hear. "We're going to walk right into them in two more steps."
If it gave Jessica pause, he didn't sense it. Instead she seemed to pull him faster.
A frigid hand closed around his heart, freezing the ebb and flow of his blood.
Eddie gasped, overcome with the chill of a thousand deep, dark graves. — Hunter Shea

His honor, rests in the very actions that led to his conviction and death. It is beyond your power to add to or detract from it. — Isaac Asimov

Sex is like petrol. It's a galvaniser, a wonderful fuel for starting a relationship. — Elizabeth Jane Howard

Some people are dotted lines and other people are destinations. Some people get you somewhere and some people are just a place to be, all in themselves. But you cannot force those dotted lines into destinations. It doesn't really work that way. — Hannah Brencher

an occasional birthday dinner, and of course Marathon — Michael Palmer

Of all America's natural resources, its richest is an inexhaustible vein of irony. — Markham Shaw Pyle

Men passionately desire to live after death, but they often pass away without noticing the fact that the memory of a really good person always lives. It is impressed upon the next generation, and is transmitted again to the children. Is that not an immortality worth striving for? — Pyotr Kropotkin

No. But I have to warn you. I love dragons. Will your family be upset if I kidnap you and take you to live with me? I promise to feed you." Razzy — Milly Taiden

We have our phones right by our beds, right next to us in our most exposed, vulnerable moments. And yet the government could have been collecting information from our phones at any moment. I think that basically as humans, we feel that's a violation. — Maggie Gyllenhaal

She took a shaky swallow of wine. "She didn't know me. When we were face-to-face again, and she looked right at me. She didn't know me."
"Did that hurt you?"
"No. I don't know. I couldn't think. I just know that for a minute I was nothing again. Like they - she - took everything from me. Roarke, my badge, my life, myself. For a minute it was just gone because she was there. I can't be nothing again."
"You could never be nothing." Roarke spoke in a voice of barely controlled rage. "You're what you made yourself against the impossible. Even when you were helpless they couldn't destroy what you are. You're a miracle. You're my miracle, and you'll never be anything else. — J.D. Robb