Hagridden Quotes & Sayings

I think everything about my life is magical. I've struggled, and against most odds, I'm truly having the experience of living my dreams. — Bella Thorne

You'll likely always have some reason or other to hang onto that girl. You just want her cause she was married to your son, and I understand that, he was a friend to me like a brother, near the only family I ever knew, and I miss him almost as much as you. But I need me a woman. — Samuel Snoek-Brown

The young man should first learn perspective, then the proportions of objects. Next, copy work after the hand of a good master, to gain the habit of drawing parts of the body well; and then to work from nature, to confirm the lessons learned. — Leonardo Da Vinci

Way my mama used to tell me, a girl what lusts after a man falls prey to the forces of darkness. The rougarou ain't just a wolfman but a punishment sent by God to ravage a girl in the night, and if she survives she becomes one herself. — Samuel Snoek-Brown

They were rather handsome, had been educated in one of the first private seminaries in town, — Jane Austen

Why do we pigeonhole and label an artist? It is a sure way of missing the important, the contradictory, the things that make him or her unique. — Lukas Foss

What one of us wants we all want. You a man of the earth as you are, you ought to have known we hunt in packs. And now I come to finish you. — Samuel Snoek-Brown

Everything is a negotiation with you, Brekker. You probably bartered your way out of the womb. — Leigh Bardugo

Lightening flashed again and again but above the shriek of the wind and the pounding hail they never heard the thunder. — Samuel Snoek-Brown

I offer you your life, friend, and recommend you take it. — Samuel Snoek-Brown

Me and her, we know death same as you, we stabbed plenty a man our ownselves. So you come for us you better kill us outright and not mess about with no fool games like you talk, cause ain't neither one of us would leave you alive. — Samuel Snoek-Brown

Bullets is worth more than food, the girl said, and we can't eat gunstock. — Samuel Snoek-Brown

Tastes change, Cherie. I find the older I get the more I like to be reminded of my youth. — Samuel Snoek-Brown

The oaks along the ridge were writhing like tortured epileptics in the winds, and she could make out through the thick rain a cascade of water like a cataract come roiling down the inside slope toward her; a vast arching spray exploded bright against the dark sky as the Gulf slammed over the chenier. — Samuel Snoek-Brown

I'm beginning to feel that the real endangered species on planet earth are not the whales and the elephants but those of us who can laugh at the world and ourselves ... I fear the dry turn of the American mind, this focus on the literal, as much as I fear our capacity for self-destruction. We've become hagridden by facts, obsessed with product instead of process. Where's the energetic wit, the looney outlook, the frivolity, the lightness of comforting laughter? It has become fashionable to know and unfashionable to feel, and you can't really laugh if you can't feel. — Rita Mae Brown

War's all either country knows, and everything seems to depend on it now. — Samuel Snoek-Brown

Mad, malevolent, and incantatory, The Orphan Palace reads like the hagridden fever dream of one who has not only stared the Abyss in Its black and fathomless face, but welcomed Its gaze in return ... and become Its living embodiment. It is a journey to be taken by none but the bravest of readers, and by souls with an ardent desire to savor their own damnation. — Robin Spriggs

I heard a lot of things I know ain't true and I seen a lot of things ain't supposed to be true but was, and I tell you something girl, I believe they is a Hell. — Samuel Snoek-Brown

Not having any drink about ain't the same as not understanding the need for one. Times like these change a body's perspective. — Samuel Snoek-Brown

I guess I'm just sad is all.

You and me alike, but sad don't get the dishes done. — Samuel Snoek-Brown

Talking about food is like talking about your dreams. Everyone has something to say. We all have to eat, it's just what we eat which differs. Some people eat for fuel and I feel bad for them. — Gael Garcia Bernal

You want a sermon? Jesus died and resurrected and then run off to Heaven to leave us sinners here. Amen. — Samuel Snoek-Brown

I don't like coming over here at night, the girl said. The bayou is scary in the dark, all manner of things running wild out there. — Samuel Snoek-Brown

You tell a soul or even God Hisself what you seen when the rougarou changes , or even that you met one, and a year ain't passed, you're liable to change to one yourself. — Samuel Snoek-Brown

Killing a man is indeed a pleasure unmatched in this world. Perhaps it's a pleasure we could share. — Samuel Snoek-Brown

Emma: It's obvious he likes you. So painfully obvious - and what does he do about it? Nothing. — Cecilia Gray

She ran the harder and zagged more erratically, and in the wreckage left from the hurricane the girl misjudged her path and ran straight into the old well.
She didn't even scream. — Samuel Snoek-Brown

Dead man shouldn't have no fears. Makes his passing easier. — Samuel Snoek-Brown