The Sin Collector Quotes & Sayings

Truth was, I didn't really want to die today. I was in the middle of a really good book, and being alive had always worked out for me ... — Jessica Fortunato

For my days vanish like smoke;
my bones burn like glowing embers.
My heart is blighted and withered like grass;
I forget to eat my food.
In my distress, I groan aloud
and am reduced to skin and bones.
I am like a desert owl,
like an owl among the ruins.
~Psalm 102 NIV Bible — Jessica Fortunato

Asked them if they supposed a nation of people ever existed, who, with a free vote in every man's hand, would elect that a single family and its descendants should reign over it forever, whether gifted or boobies, to the exclusion of all other families - including the voter's; and would also elect that a certain hundred families should be raised to dizzy summits of rank, and clothed on with offensive transmissible glories and privileges to the exclusion of the rest of the nation's families - including his own . They all looked unhit, and said they didn't know; that they had never thought about it before, and it hadn't ever occurred to them that a nation could be so situated that every man could have a say in the government. — Mark Twain

I was sick of the body count that existed around my family. It seemed statistically that eventually the body count would include my family. — Jessica Fortunato

Every part of life changes with every breath we take. If you don't like where your story is headin', you fight your fate with everything you have. — Jessica Fortunato

Rush hour brings out the worst in some people. They make faces, gesture, yell, call names, bump you with their car, and lean on their horn over the slightest perception that they are right and you are wrong. If you take any of these signals seriously, you can be hurt every time you drive. If you cannot crack a joke within a few minutes of rear-ending someone on the freeway, don't go out there. — Jennifer James

Her name is Emmilina. She is quite eccentric and was Thomas's best friend. — Jessica Fortunato

I thought there should in truth be heavy damages for malpractice on human souls. — Owen Wister

The U.S. army confirmed that it gave a lucrative fire fighting contract in Iraq to the firm once run by the Vice President Dick Cheney without any competitive bidding. When asked if this could be conceived as Cheney's friends profiting from the war, the spokesman said 'Yes.' — Conan O'Brien

Jokes do finish themselves. I really do see them as ongoing conversations about personal themes that I ruminate on. — Marc Maron

I thought I saw my entire future once, every moment of it, until the day of my death. I spent it in her arms. Then after twenty years, she left. — Jessica Fortunato

If the voices in your head make you cry, you're a lunatic. Put their words on paper, and you're a writer. — D. VonThaer

After everything, you still want to believe that love prevails, that in the end there will be justice. That is an illusion, and I pity you. — Jessica Fortunato

L.A. really doesn't feel like home to me anymore. — Dakota Johnson

Something peculiar is happening to my head. I remember that my father was Barnaby, but I had another named Balaton. Unless that's a lake in Albania. — Stanislaw Lem

I screeched with frustration, which in hindsight is never okay when there are people trying to kill you. — Jessica Fortunato

A rich man's faults are covered with money, but a surgeon's faults are covered with earth. — Abraham Verghese

His swearing is methodical, continuous, and apparently entirely senseless. — Mikhail Bulgakov

The main thing is not to be dead. — Robert Motherwell

Quote me as saying I was mis-quoted. — Groucho Marx