Harlen Quotes & Sayings

I think family dynamics are definitely very interesting. And in my case my sister did get married. She gave my parents a grandchild. — Aasif Mandvi

Poetry seems to sink into us the way prose doesn't. I can still quote verses I learned when I was very young, but I have trouble remembering one line of a novel I just finished reading. — Jack Prelutsky

How do you make love to someone when you know they'll be gone forever the next day? How do you spend the last few hours with someone when you know there will never be
anything after that? — B.G. Harlen

Most people don't understand what humor is. They think it's something lighthearted and cheerful. Like 'good humor.' But it isn't. It's looking into the darkness and spitting at it with a joke. Humor is dark. Humor is that we're all going to die. — B.G. Harlen

It was a debacle which swept the Columbia Plateau. — J Harlen Bretz

I think the best thing I could ever teach my daughter is that she's not an object or a trophy, and that she can trust in herself and believe in herself and that you are not your things, and you are not your job. — Josh Homme

It's soul against soul in here, isn't it?"
"And may the best soul win! — B.G. Harlen

Rook cocked his head. "Harlen would want me to give you more time."
"I could punch you again, even while being proxied," she offered. "Would that satisfy you?"
"And into the Scrape we go," he said. — Erin Kellison

That's what forgiving was: seeing someone for what they were, flaws and all, not what you wanted them to be, not what they should have been. — B.G. Harlen

Everyone wants to be the survivor, but they seldom realize how very high the cost is. — B.G. Harlen

The colors on the river faded, the rain began, and the river began to rise. It was apparent that the sun would soon give up the tremendous struggle it cost her to get to Paris for a few hours every day. — James Baldwin

King shrugged and looked back at Harlen. Please tell me you have a plan. Because my baby girl really likes to color with me. — Erin Kellison

If she couldn't be with Harlen in Washington, DC, this was the place to be.
Sera's mobile screen lit, and she glanced down to find a text from him: I have to pee. — Erin Kellison

I've been fucked up the ass by Fate. What do you think you can do to me with your little, fucking penis? — B.G. Harlen

Believe me, there's nothing more brittle than human beauty. Encounter it. Savour it, by all means. Then watch how it turns to dust. — Alexander McCall Smith

Eventually I found my way out of the alley. The laughter had died down and I knew there was a foreboding wave of darkness waiting for me. I wondered why, when I had feelings of intense joy or happiness, I could always sense that black wave, cresting above and threatening to crash down on me at any time but, when I was actually having one of my sad spells, it felt like it was never going to end - like I would never get the happiness back. — Andersen Prunty

There were two ways to get through something like this, she finally realized. Being utterly dead inside and completely cold-blooded. Or being 100 percent obsessed with living. — B.G. Harlen

reached up and opened the top button of his shirt. "I am not getting married." "Not before a first date, anyway," Forrest teased. "You know me, Forrest. I don't do commitment." "I used to think that was true," his brother admitted. "But the last six months with Bennett have proven — Brenda Harlen

But you could conceivably be attracted to me. Theoretically."
"But then again. Maybe not. Your eyes, I mean. Because, of course, you're a homicidal maniac."
"Stop, you'll make me blush."
"With a sense of humor that makes you even more disturbing. — B.G. Harlen

Is she okay?" Harlen's throat was clogged with stones of fear. "She has to be okay. — Erin Kellison

Ideas without precedent are generally looked upon with disfavor and men are shocked if their conceptions of an orderly world challenged. — J Harlen Bretz

The blankets had fallen off and I stared down at her white back, the shoulder blades sticking out as if they wanted to grow into wings, poke through that skin. Little blades. She was helpless. — Charles Bukowski

We reveal ourselves in the metaphors we choose for depicting the cosmos in miniature. — Stephen Jay Gould

We have the means and the capacity to deal with our problems, if only we can find the political will. — Kofi Annan

We have always been involved in spiritual evolution. We are spiritual beings, we have always been spiritual beings and we will always be spiritual beings. — Gary Zukav

We don't like murders here, said a man's voice, low and threatening, from the back of the crowd. Megan glanced at Cassie and her friends. They looked away, as if they didn't see what was happening.
Anger boiled in her chest. Why wouldn't they leave her alone? She hadn't killed anyone. She hadn't killed Harlen Trooper, all those years ago. She knew it and the judge knew it. She hadn't even been charged.
If I wanted to, I could have you all killed, she thought, and was stunned when the thought didn't scare her the way it should. She looked at their faces, stony and stubbled, shiny with alcoholic sweat. The power in her chest hadn't worked against Ktana Leyak, but it could against them, this miserable bunch of humans with their heavy boots and beer guts.
She pictured those guts exploding. She pictured the terror in their eyes when they realized they were messing with the wrong fucking demon, they were -
Demon? — Stacia Kane