Mercer And William Quotes & Sayings

When he went to go get groceries, though, he asked Mercer to come. 'There's no one I'd rather get stuck in a snowdrift and freeze to death with,' William said. — Garth Risk Hallberg

I don't regret not coming out early. A lot of people felt that I could have been a lottery pick, but we'll never know. — Michael Finley

And as he reached for William's leg, the way a small child will reach for its mother's, there welled up through a small hole in the bottom of Mercer's soul a relief surpassing any he'd ever known in waking life. — Garth Risk Hallberg

He was a priest now, pagan, half-naked in the night, performing obscure rites of interment. Or he was the lead player in his own novel, or in one of those new arcade games William loved, compelled to repeat some totemic motion until he got it right. Only once did he feel, as he had on New Year's Eve, that someone was standing among the trees, watching. Well, let him watch, damn it. Something was being enacted here, as if it had been this deeper mission calling Mercer home all along. And now that he'd completed it, maybe he would be allowed to advance through to the next level, to a world where no one got shot. — Garth Risk Hallberg

I made up my mind not to care so much about the destination, and simply enjoy the journey. — David Archuleta

A sense of an impending disaster is a warning that if acted upon can be averted. This sense of the future, which is part of one's intuitive faculty, acts not only as a mechanism for self-preservation, which is stronger in most women than in most men as it happens, but also acts as a guiding mechanism. — Laith Doory

William loathed his family,' Mercer said. 'With cause. — Garth Risk Hallberg

To begin living like you've never lived before, begin living like you've never lived before. — Mike Dooley

The way to Christ is first through humility, second through humility, and third through humility. If humility does not precede and accompany and follow every good work we do, if it is not before us to focus on, it it is not beside us to lean upon, if it is not behind us to fence us in, pride will wrench from our hand any good deed we do at the very moment we do it. — Saint Augustine