Jarbas Pereira Quotes & Sayings

It's hard, because when you talk about process or your characters ruling your narrative, it sounds like you have no control, but obviously you're ultimately the author, so you do have control. — Alice Sebold

I was not so sure but too tired and too relieved to go further that night. To reach one another again had been far enough. — Jeanette Winterson

When you con for revenge, you might not know when you've won. — Karina Halle

Was he joking? Was he being sarcastic? Aggressive? Impertinent? Or just courteous? There was no telling from his impassive face. What a country, he thought despairingly. In Russia you always knew. If a man made a stern face he was threatening; if he was laughing uproariously, he was joking. — George Mikes

My favorite animal to hunt is probably elk. There's nothing like the sound of a bugling bull splitting the cold air at first light. And that smell is unmistakable. Once you experience their musk in the wild there's no going back! A close second would be a varmint hunt. — Chris Pratt

So much about life was disappointment. He often wondered how humankind endured so long, and if the few moments when things went right really made up for all the rest. — Brandon Sanderson

The cold impassive stars didn't bother him so much as the gaps between them did. — Laird Barron

The mask can be a limitation, but you just deal with it. You do get superhuman strength and pumpkin bombs and all this other stuff to express yourself with.' — Willem Dafoe

While leaning over the toilet getting up his nerve, he thought that the moment before making yourself throw up must be very like the instant before suicide. You are almost content to bear the sickening headache and the torment in your stomach rather than go through that moment. But the prospect of relief made you foolhardy and you jammed your finger down your throat. — John Clellon Holmes

I have so many themes I want to explore, so many questions I'd like to raise and develop, and hopefully, I'll get to do just that. — Catherine McCormack

Jackson and I spent the day together, just me and him and his children. Little underlings came and went. The PR person came and went. It was just Michael and me and the kids. And it was very interesting. — Geraldo Rivera

Seldom in the business and transactions of ordinary life, do we find the sympathy we want. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe