Mchenry Quotes & Sayings

In vain, without the Bible, we increase penal laws and draw entrenchments around our institutions. — James McHenry

Conservatives need to know how important it is to fill out the census. It is one of the only things our Constitution specifically asks of U.S. citizens and boycotting will just help liberals expand government even further. — Patrick McHenry

It's often difficult for conservatives to separate overall government intervention from a question as simple as the census. — Patrick McHenry

Her hand is close to my arm. My options are limited. I can't run away. I can't handle this.
I lose myself in food.
The rich, wet texture of melting chocolate. The way good aged goat cheese coats your tongue. The silky feel of pasta dough when it's been pressed and rested just enough. How the scent of onions changes, over an hour, from raw to mellow, sharp to sweet, and all that even without tasting. The simplest magic: how heat transforms. — Jael McHenry

Innocence isn't a set of house keys. You don't just up and lose it one day. It's a process. — Jael McHenry

It's a French technique. Soups get screened, and sauces. Forced through a tamis or a chinois. Everything that comes out is smooth and all the rough parts get left behind, thrown away. I don't want to be screened. — Jael McHenry

I let myself relax into the pattern of the recipe. — Jael McHenry

It preoccupies me until it's time to leave. It seems such the right expression of grief. I am sad, so in whatever small way I can, I will tear myself apart. They've taken what's on the inside and made it visible. If I thought it wouldn't be inappropriate I'd do it myself. — Jael McHenry

If you stop one terror attack in the U.S., it may be connected to multiple other plots out there that are connected. If you reveal that you stopped one plot, it may tip our hand. — Patrick McHenry

Panic, panic, can't panic. Think of food. Think of sugar. I am a sugar cube in cold water. I won't dissolve. Precise edges. Made up of tiny, regular, secure parts. If the water were hotter I would worry, but it's cold. I stay together. Precise. Clean. Surrounded, but whole. — Jael McHenry

I think we need to start with Philadelphia and make sure that we actually get some election reform in Philadelphia. Actually, a recent election was thrown out by a federal judge because of corruption with the voting process in Philadelphia. — Patrick McHenry

All the emotions she had bottled up in the last year came spilling out in that kiss. She had forgotten how it felt to be held and wanted. It was as if someone had opened her heart and let out some of the pain. — D.P. McHenry

Time, Ms. McHenry," Townsend said. "It can be a cruel, cruel thing — Ally Carter

I'm terrified of Elena's ghost, but at the same time, I feel strongly that it's the right thing to do. I can help, and I said I would, so I will. Besides, love is a powerful force. More powerful than reason. Even if that love, as strong as it is, isn't yours. — Jael McHenry

I tell myself I'm fine on my own, but am I? No friends to fall back on, no relationships, no support. Left to my own devices, I have no devices. — Jael McHenry

Getting stuck is reactive, getting unstuck is proactive. — Sherene McHenry

Alone doesn't just mean without people. It can mean without anything else. And maybe, even without putting a word on me, she's found a way to take away things I thought were mine. If this is the start I have no way to know when it will stop. — Jael McHenry

My world had turned upside down again and again, which should mean it's right side up now, but it isn't. Everything's different, everything's the same. — Jael McHenry

I want them to bite into a cookie, and think of me, and smile. Food is love. Food has a power. I knew it in my mind, but now I know it in my heart. — Jael McHenry

How Not to Break Into Sublevel Two
(A list by Cameron Morgan, with help from Macey McHenry)
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-Teleportation: Sure, Liz says she has an excellent working theory, but she doesn't have a prototype yet. And without a prototype it's pretty much a moot point.
-That thing Bex's parents did in Dubai with liquid nitrogen, an earthquake simulator, and a ferret: Because we don't have a ferret. — Ally Carter

She's not quite making sense, but no one does all the time. — Jael McHenry

Heartbreak is stupid and impossible. Hearts don't break. Hearts squeeze, they wrench, they ache, they shrivel. Hearts pull apart in wet chunks like canned tomatoes. — Jael McHenry

You look disappointed to see me, Zach," Macey teased. "Don't you like my jacket? — Ally Carter

In my life I've had good days and bad days. Miserable days. Painful days. And no matter how bad the bad ones get, there's a mercy in them. Every single one of them ends. — Jael McHenry

Difficult, but not impossible. I am not impossible. — Jael McHenry

I find the title How to Be Good. Curious, I open it up. I'm disappointed to find it's fiction. — Jael McHenry

This is home, it's the only place I want to be, but at the same time everything familiar feels strange. It's the same as it ever was except without the people who most belong here. — Jael McHenry

Letting someone down is not criminal action. — Patrick McHenry

Keep your focus on the things you can actually control. Choosing to center on anything else will either stop you in your tracks or significantly slow you down. — Sherene McHenry

Marginal tax rates are the lowest they've been in generations, and all we can talk about is tax cuts. — Patrick McHenry

But I can't force everything into the arrangement I'd like. I can't use denial to make everything simple. — Jael McHenry

Please disrobe at once. — Ransom Riggs

When the woman took the earbud, he didn't ask another question. She was a woman on a mission as she placed the tiny device in her ear and said, This is Special Agent Abby Cameron. Let me talk to Macey McHenry. — Ally Carter

All I have besides food is grief. — Jael McHenry

I love it," I say. "So I learned it." It's an explanation that leaves a lot out. But I learned a long time ago that people don't really want explanations. — Jael McHenry

You're late." Kat said as soon as Hale put the phone to his ear. She wasn't the kind of girl to wait for hello.
"What can I say? Macey McHenry has been throwing herself at me ... "
"See, that's the kind of thing that would make me jealous if she weren't way out of your league."
"You know, if I had feelings, that might have hurt them. — Ally Carter

We absolutely need to reform the Congressional budget-writing process. — Patrick McHenry

The people's desires have changed, but we're still stuck in our old issue set. — Patrick McHenry

The scene is most beautiful without people in it. People just screw things up. Forget the whole thing, the world, all the living people, I tell myself, and it has a ring of truth to it. The dead are better, aren't they? The dead don't betray or harm. They've already done all they can do. I can't figure out what people mean or who they are or whether they can be trusted, so, forget them. Don't even try anymore. For now at least, forget the living. — Jael McHenry

He has a key and could come back in, but I doubt he will. He doesn't want to be here any more than I want him here. We've failed. I've failed. I made a promise that I couldn't, didn't, keep. — Jael McHenry

Bibles are strong entrenchments. Where they abound, men cannot pursue wicked courses, and at the same time enjoy quiet conscience. — James McHenry

We all have our own patterns, I guess ... And whether we like it or not, they persist. — Jael McHenry

I got into the race and people literally laughed. They thought I had no chance of winning. — Patrick McHenry

There is something intriguing about knowing how things are going to turn out, but being constantly surprised about how they'll get there. — Jael McHenry

Covert Operations Report
At approximately 0900 hours on Saturday, October 14, Operative Morgan was given a stern lecture by Agent Townsend, a tracking device by Agent Cameron, and a very scary look from Operative Goode. (She also got a tip that her bra strap was showing from Operative McHenry.)
The Operative then undertook a basic reconnaissance mission inside a potentially hostile location. (But it wasn't as hostile as Operative Baxter was going to be if everything didn't go according to plan.) — Ally Carter

She thought she was only seeing him because she wanted to see him ... It's a by-product of very dramatic kissing. — Ally Carter

His voice is muddy, that's what it is. Dark and brown and muddy. A note to it like coffee left too long on the burner. And unsweetened, bitter chocolate. But there's dirt in it too, deep, dark dirt, like the garden in October. — Jael McHenry

Oh, to survive
thirty-seven years on just a particle of dew!
To need exactly nothing. To sprout
weapons from your own fibrous flesh.
To bloody those
who hover in to feed you.

From, "Nature Conservancy, Spring — Kristen McHenry

You might think being the target of an international terrorist organization, an amnesiac, and a girl with hair dyed in the middle of the night by Macey McHenry would make people stare at you. Well, try walking into the Grand Hall with seriously puffy eyes while holding hands. With a boy. — Ally Carter

Everybody struggles with this stuff, you know. With social discomfort and grief and fitting in. People with syndromes, people with disorders, people with diagnoses, and without. People who would be classified as neurotypical. Idiots and geniuses, maids and doctors. Nobody's got it all figured out. — Jael McHenry

This is the way I've always been. I think of the answer long after the person asking the question has lost interest and walked away. — Jael McHenry

As strange as my life gets, it's just my life. I'm still in it. Whatever happens, I'm going to have to find a way to get by. — Jael McHenry

Public utility pleads most forcibly for the general distribution of the Holy Scriptures. — James McHenry

There is no normal. There's only what's right for you and being honest. — Jael McHenry

I preferred to think of myself as a cat. If I think of my behavior as cat behavior instead of people behavior, it pretty much always makes sense. — Jael McHenry

I will take a new approach to death, because what is important about death is not the dead. It's the living. Those of us left behind. — Jael McHenry

So I hear we get to go to town this weekend. Want to catch a movie or something?
Z
P.S. That is, if Jimmy doesn't mind.
Translation: This weekend might be a good chance for us to see each other outside our school in a social environment, free of competetiton. I do not view other boys as threats, and I enjoy making them seem insignificant by calling them the wrong names. (Translation by Macey McHenry) — Ally Carter

HOW TO BREAK INTO BLACKTHORNE (A list by Operatives Morgan, Baxter, Sutton, and McHenry) Step 1. Become slightly crazy. Step 2. So crazy you actually volunteer to go over a fifty-foot waterfall. Step 3. Swallow a lot of very cold river water. Step 4. Cough and gag. Step 5. Repeat Step 4 until it feels like maybe your lungs aren't inside your body anymore. Step 6. Remember that a really cute boy is beside you, so try to cough in a far more attractive manner. Step 7. Be grateful you're still alive. — Ally Carter

Food has power. Nonna knew that. Ma did too. I know it now. And though it can't save me, it might help me, in some way. All I have besides food is grief. — Jael McHenry

If you don't know how to deal with emotion, other people's feelings can hit you like a drug. — Jael McHenry

Contact.
When someone touches me wrong it isn't a feeling. It isn't hate or fear or pain. It is just blackness and a chant in me: get/out/get/out/get/out. — Jael McHenry

Never give up on horses, they are the only humans that don't speak. — Melissa McHenry

One of my professors in college used to say As the wise man said, Do or do not, there is no try, but the advice columns generally say the opposite. If someone promises to try, and you're happy with that, don't push. It can backfire. You can get yourself in a lot of trouble asking for too much. — Jael McHenry