Jimmy Hailler Quotes & Sayings

He remembers the times they'd walk toward him in the playground with that same look on their faces, but double in number with Siobhan and Tara. "It's the four horsewomen of the apocalypse," Jimmy Hailler would say. "They're going to make us do something we don't want to do." "We're not going to give in," Tom would say. But they did. Always. — Melina Marchetta

It's obvious which one you are,' Jimmy Hailler tells me as we walk through Hyde Park. 'If it's so obvious why can't I see it.' 'Because you live in your own world and can't see anything.' 'Then which one am I?' 'You're all four. You're constantly bitching things under your breath, you come across bloody stupid because you don't speak, on a particular angle in that uniform on an overcast day with your hair up, you've got that stocky butch thing happening, plus you're pashing other girl's boyfriends which makes you a slut. — Melina Marchetta

We approach the house and I wave at Jimmy.
"And if he thinks he's eating with us, he's got another thing coming," my dad says.
Jimmy approaches us and takes the shopping bags from me, looking inside them.
"Lamb roast. Am I invited? — Melina Marchetta

Thomas Mackee and Jimmy Hailler grasp each other's hands, one of those brothers-in-arms-we-fought-in-Nam-together grips, but outside this room I don't think they relate. — Melina Marchetta

Here's a secret: fictive text doesn't necessarily flow easily. Most of the time it's more like cutting a highway through a mountain. You just have to keep working with your pick, chipping away at the rock, making slow progress. — Piers Anthony

We've all been put to sleep by somebody who's told us all these wonderful facts that didn't matter because information without emotion is not retained. — Tony Robbins

We are always getting ready to live but never living. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Do you want to hang out? At your place or something?" Hanging out with Jimmy Hailler will mean that I have to say hello to him every day. I'm not ready to say hello to him every day. Too much commitment. It's bad enough that I'm sharing chocolate brownies swith him. I shake my head. "Not today. — Melina Marchetta

We only get one life. Wasting someone's time is the subtlest form of murder. — Lindy West

It just seemed like I would. I mean, I didn't know him on a daily basis
far from it. But, in a way, I don't even feel right being here without him. It's so difficult to really believe he's gone. I still talk about him like he's still here, you know. I can't figure it out. It doesn't make any sense. — Eddie Vedder

Romance always involved a bit of deceit. — Paul Russell

I do think voters are ready for a change in Olympia and after 28 years of one party rule, they are ready to put a new team on the field and bring a new approach to state government. — Rob McKenna

Lesbians and gays ... they still have to fight, even inside. It's not that simple, even if they seem to be accepted. — Catherine Deneuve

OMG, I am a married woman! — Brooke Burns

No man can bare his heart quite naked; there always will be something held back, something false ostentatiously thrust forward. — Charles Baudelaire

He was so close to her then that they owned every molecule of air in the tiny room and the air grew heavy with their desire and worked to move them together. — Ann Patchett

Great children's books are wisdom dipped in words and art. — Peter H. Reynolds

If you let social activities take precedence over your academic activities, then you will soon lose your basketball activities. — John Wooden