Jerome Dickey Quotes & Sayings

Physical attraction was about aesthetics, not sexual performance, not mental stimulation. Without a mental connection, a remarkable sexual performance yielded no lifelong guarantees. It was only lust. And lust was not love. — Eric Jerome Dickey

revenge knows no boundaries! — Eric Jerome Dickey

It takes as long as three generations of hard work, three generations of sacrifice to correct the wrong! — Eric Jerome Dickey

Love is a mental illness, an obsessive-compulsive disorder romanticized! — Eric Jerome Dickey

The only perfect people are dead people, because their the only ones who can't make mistakes! — Eric Jerome Dickey

Sex and love are not identical twins. Not fraternal. Not born at the same moment but still of the same womb. — Eric Jerome Dickey

He says, "Your husband fucked my wife."
We look at each other and this time it's different. Now I know him.
"My husband didn't fuck your wife." My voice is soft. Not amorous, but the tone of a bewildered child. "They had a relationship, then came home and fucked us. — Eric Jerome Dickey

with attachment comes pain! — Eric Jerome Dickey

Inside every pause lived a contemplation — Eric Jerome Dickey

you had to have happiness to miss happiness! — Eric Jerome Dickey

As a writer, I challenge myself not to tell the same story - to tackle different characters with different issues. — Eric Jerome Dickey

We shed the skins of who we used to be! — Eric Jerome Dickey

Lust is a master showman who disguises himself as love, and love is a mythical creature who keeps habitat with the Easter Bunny, Santa Claus, the Tooth Fairy, and other lies we have been fed. — Eric Jerome Dickey

A woman can plan. A woman thinks she needs a man for nothing in this world but soon realizes she is wrong. The same way every black- owned business has to acquire goods from a white distributor, women have to do business with men, be it professional or personal, to achieve too many of our goals. — Eric Jerome Dickey

Hate isn't healthy, it damages the hater more than the one who's hated! — Eric Jerome Dickey

beauty is the currency of betrayal! — Eric Jerome Dickey

I went to public school but kept to myself. When you live in a brothel, you don't want anyone coming to your home. — Eric Jerome Dickey

Wind as old as Rome outside my window, inky fleece clouds against charcoal crushed velvet skies, fall feels soulful, like a LaBelle octave. — Brandi L. Bates

Honesty is like seeing a crackhead up close: it ain't that fucking attractive. — Eric Jerome Dickey

All I wanted was you. I tore down my wall for you. Now it's been rebuilt. — Eric Jerome Dickey

If you're craving oatmeal cookies, apple sauce won't do.. — Eric Jerome Dickey

We tried it again and it didn't work out. Sour milk is always sour milk. When something goes bad it stays bad.You don't put sour milk in the refrigerator one day,and take it out the next and expect it to taste sweet. — Eric Jerome Dickey

we make promises that start with always and end with forever! — Eric Jerome Dickey

I'm just trying to write a good story, strictly from imagination. People just think it's random, they don't see the rewriting, phrasing of characters, choosing the words, bringing the world to light in which the characters live in. That creates an illusion that this is real. — Eric Jerome Dickey

A man's ego is a fragile thing; as fragile as a woman's heart — Eric Jerome Dickey

If I carried Catherine to the top of Mount Corcovado and placed her before the statue of Christ the Redeemer, Jesus would close his eyes and turn his back on her. If she touched his feet, the six million stone tiles that covered the religious figure would catch fire and fall like fiery rain, — Eric Jerome Dickey

when a lie is repeated enough it becomes the truth! — Eric Jerome Dickey

I can become a new woman every day until i like the woman i become, then i can become her for a while, if not forever! — Eric Jerome Dickey

Preacher pulled her gun to her lap, the trigger aimed toward the stranger. . . . He stared at her like he was ready to dial 911, until he saw she was of European heritage, saw her clerical collar, saw the Bible on the dashboard. White, blond, and Christian. Trifecta. The man's shoulders relaxed and he smiled, waved, and kept going. — Eric Jerome Dickey

The path to love wasn't a smooth road. Love would show up while you were busy with another love, leaving you to decide. — Eric Jerome Dickey

He was old enough to know you can't make people love you. But I suppose when you're wounded, logic ain't logical. — Eric Jerome Dickey

But sometimes living in denial was the only way to keep a man from going on a killing spree. — Eric Jerome Dickey

you are unimportant to the important! — Eric Jerome Dickey

only a fool would argue with a fool! — Eric Jerome Dickey

Women ignore history. Always think it will be different for them. — Eric Jerome Dickey

fear is weakness uncontrolled! — Eric Jerome Dickey

Falling in love was a solo act. I knew that, had learned that the hard way. You just jumped and hoped your parachute opened. Sometimes you looked up and saw you were falling by yourself, the object of your desire still on the plane, not interested in jumping, watching you descend into that scary place alone. — Eric Jerome Dickey

Denial is a defense mechanism, all about self-preservation. — Eric Jerome Dickey

not keeping a promise is the same as lying! — Eric Jerome Dickey

Soon-Bok Kim closed her eyes, said rapid prayers in castellano, beat the steering wheel, begged God to save her and her stupid husband, said they would become better Christians. — Eric Jerome Dickey

Once desire was turned on, combustion gave it a life of its own. Once it was turned on it became a raging wildfire, uncontrollable and uncontainable, the type of conflagration that had to be allowed to burn itself out. — Eric Jerome Dickey

You can't question what has no answer. If I knew then it would not be true love. It would have because attached. I love you because this reason, or that reason. Real love has no because attached. — Eric Jerome Dickey

common sense is the enemy of romance — Eric Jerome Dickey

Wisdom ain't seeing what's in your face, but recognizing what's about to come! — Eric Jerome Dickey

It's scary telling someone you care about, someone you love who you really are. — Eric Jerome Dickey

the things we crave, our silent desires, out little addictions! — Eric Jerome Dickey

Hard to save anybody when you're locked up, when you're too busy trying to fight to save yourself. When you've made yourself a prisoner. — Eric Jerome Dickey

I mean, I am human, got feelings and desires, and might ultimately want the same thang, but can I get a moment of mental stimulation first? — Eric Jerome Dickey

YOLO - you only live once. — Eric Jerome Dickey

I wish I had met you first. Before we met them. — Eric Jerome Dickey

I said, "This is what happens when you find Gideon." Eyes — Eric Jerome Dickey

Brotha needed to buy a vowel and rent a verb, then get a roll of duct tape slapped on that broken English. — Eric Jerome Dickey

He thinks being black means having plenty of attitude; I think having plenty of knowledge is what black is all about; — Eric Jerome Dickey

And we all know when a sistuh gets mad, a sistuh gets athletically creative. — Eric Jerome Dickey

I heard you on the phone with her. I happened to be in your arms, and you happened to be inside of me, balls deep from what I remember, so I felt the difference, felt what you felt for her, heard how your voice changed when you talked to her. — Eric Jerome Dickey

The most jealous and insecure are the ones who are guilty of betrayal. The ones who are the angriest are those who are pulling cons themselves, only to find out they're being conned as well. A thief hates to be robbed, and a cheater always wants you to be loyal while they are being unfaithful. When suspicions arise and the questions start, they are always defensive, always volatile. A thief takes being robbed personally, the same way a player falls apart when he finds out he is being played. — Eric Jerome Dickey

Resentment makes anything possible. — Eric Jerome Dickey

Most women got this thing called compassion. It doesn't make them foolish, just more forgiving. More capable of trying and hoping things worked out. — Eric Jerome Dickey

She returned to consciousness only to find herself in an unescapable nightmare. — Eric Jerome Dickey

When you start a new job or a particular journey, you really don't know what to expect. I mean, you hear about your name being on the bestsellers list, but it doesn't really mean anything. Like, really, what does that translate to? — Eric Jerome Dickey

I deserved to find pleasure that surpassed my imagination, better than any I had experienced. — Eric Jerome Dickey

Knowledge enlightens. — Eric Jerome Dickey

love is an investment! — Eric Jerome Dickey

Love ain't never been a rational beast. — Eric Jerome Dickey

It's impossible to explain creativity. It's like asking a bird, 'How do you fly?' You just do. — Eric Jerome Dickey

Chiquita was dancing with a brother who was so old I'd bet he used to baby-sit God. — Eric Jerome Dickey

What I Wish, this I do not practice, but what I hate is what I do. — Eric Jerome Dickey

For some of us love comes into the room, kicks her
shoes off, finds the most comfortable sofa, and lies down, rests, has no intention of going anywhere. For others love walks in smoking a cigarette, checking her watch every two seconds, jittery, with one hand on the doorknob, heart rate up, always in sprinter's position, ready to run. — Eric Jerome Dickey

Sleepin with strangers will have you waking with enemies! — Eric Jerome Dickey

Keep a woman broke, keep her under control. Give her just enough to get by. She won't starve to death, but she'll never be able to afford to leave. That's from the handbook on how to be a pimp. — Eric Jerome Dickey

A great relationship was when someone accepted your past, supported your present, and encouraged your future. — Eric Jerome Dickey

I told Chiquita if a man hadn't made a date with her for a Saturday night before Saturday night, he didn't want to be bothered with her on a Saturday night. — Eric Jerome Dickey

Losing your job is like having your identity stolen, like having what defined you run through a paper shredder. After a while the despair gets you, and it gets you good. — Eric Jerome Dickey

Paranoia, the first cousin of a bastard named fear — Eric Jerome Dickey

you're just a side dish not the main course! — Eric Jerome Dickey

I read this book, it said a woman should think of her virginity like it's a window. And every time you sleep with a guy, it's like letting him put his fingerprints on your window. Staining your glass. — Eric Jerome Dickey

A full moon is a flashlight so everyone can see your drama! — Eric Jerome Dickey

Like she said, love wasn't a switch that could be turned off. It was more like a battery, had to run until there was no more energy left. — Eric Jerome Dickey

common enemies make enemies become friends! — Eric Jerome Dickey

When you're honest with yourself, often times you betray someone else! — Eric Jerome Dickey

safety and love are both illusions! — Eric Jerome Dickey

Best way to deal with fear is to face the nightmare! — Eric Jerome Dickey

We're all living contradictions, trying to survive in a world filled with hypocrites — Eric Jerome Dickey

A man won't buy the cow when he can get the milk for free phrase my momma used to say has popped into my head one, maybe two million times — Eric Jerome Dickey

restrictions create frustrations! — Eric Jerome Dickey

If I was going to date anybody, I had to see how they were living first. — Eric Jerome Dickey

We all give up part of ourselves to be with anyone. Relationships change our trajectories. — Eric Jerome Dickey

He looked like a brand-new heartbreak waiting to happen. — Eric Jerome Dickey

Wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to temptation! — Eric Jerome Dickey

Sleeping with strangers will have you walking with enemies. — Eric Jerome Dickey

But that's not the way love goes. You show the good, disguise the bad. — Eric Jerome Dickey

We see what we want to see. We idealize each other with our own fantasies. — Eric Jerome Dickey

A woman of European heritage sporting a preacher's collar had the opposite effect of a Muslim woman wearing a hijab. She used her privilege and the favored religion to look like a golden child. — Eric Jerome Dickey

Women were excited after sex, wired becasue in their minds the relationship was on beginning. Men went to sleep m the because for the orgasm had arrived and the relationship was done. — Eric Jerome Dickey

don't call me stupid without calling me stupid and think I'd bee too stupid to notice! — Eric Jerome Dickey

Desire is a beast that must be fed! — Eric Jerome Dickey

Some crazy man came up to me and started screaming at me about how he hated Allah, and before I could tell him that my family was part of the Catholic Church in India, he knifed me. — Eric Jerome Dickey

It is silent, an anagram for listen.
That is what I do. Listen while she remains silent. — Eric Jerome Dickey

hate is a virus, revenge its only cure! — Eric Jerome Dickey

She's a smart woman. I love that. Intelligence is a wonderful and powerful aphrodisiac. To me, it enhances beauty, makes an ordinary woman look like a movie star. — Eric Jerome Dickey