Top 72 Andrew Davidson Quotes
#1. Don't be wasting your sympathy on me, kid. I did pretty damn well, I'll tell you what. You snag a woman like that, you don't ask what you did to deserve it. You just hope she never wises up and changes her mind.
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#2. It's not easy to look the way I do: in popular culture, one only sees a face like mine on the Phaontom of the Opera, on Freddie Krueger from Elm Street, or on Leatherface from deep in the heart of Texas. Sure, a burn victim may "get the girl" - but usually only with a pickax.
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#3. As in any proper fairy tale, there's a majick formula, in this case called the Rule of Nines.
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#4. You'll swoop from incredible highs when you're just glad to be alive, to those lows when you wish you were dead. And just when you start thinking that you've accepted who you are, that changes, too. Because who you are is not permanent
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#5. Just as I was beginning my drift into unconsciousness, there was an explosion. Not a movie explosion but a small real-life explosion, like the ignition of an unhappy gas oven that holds a grudge against its owner.
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#6. It was not long before I discovered that withdrawing addicts lost their composure in exactly the same manner that careless millionaires lose their money: gradually, then suddenly.
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#7. If you cannot love the pain, you can at least love the lessons it teaches
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#8. If you listen to the wind very carefully, you'll be able to hear me whisper my love for you.
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#9. The urge is always with me to retouch yesterday's canvas with today's paintbrush and cover the things that fill me with regret..
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#10. She had what I'd call a lemming ass - that is, an ass that you would follow right over the edge of the cliff.
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#11. Things should be judged by distance traveled rather than by current position.
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#12. That which abides the fire shall become clean. The water of separation shall purify. The Lord is a consuming fire. That which can't abide the fire shall go through water.
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#13. Everything burns if the flame is hot enough. The world is nothing but a crucible.
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#14. How could I protect myself? I had the Viking's scabbard, but not the sword; I had the Buddhist's robe, but not the faith.
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#15. My skin will never work like that again, so aware of the other person that I'm unsure where she ends and I begin. Never again. Never again will my skin be a thing that can so perfectly communicate; in losing my skin to the fire, I also lost the opportunity to make it disappear with another person.
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#16. This will mark the third time that an arrow has entered my chest. The first time brought me to Marianne Engel. The second time separated us.
The third time will reunite us.
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#17. Defeat itself is defeated by the embrace of defeat, and death is swallowed up in victory.
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#18. It doesn't matter how fast you move, if you never go anywhere.
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#19. Any man who believes he can describe love', I answered, 'understands nothing about it.
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#20. Coincidentally, a good age for a Japanese girl is younger than twenty five, because that's when she turns into a 'Christmas Cake'. Christmas cakes, as everyone knows, are desirable before the twenty fifth but afterward quickly become stale and are put on the shelf.
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#21. With every fragment of rock that fall from me, I can hear the voice of Marianne Engle. I love you. Aishiteru. Ego amo te. Ti amo. Eg elska pig. Ich liebe dich. It is moving across time, coming to me in every language of the world, and it sounds like pure love.
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#22. I envy all suffering, because suffering is necessary to become spiritually beautiful.
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#23. She says the problem with most Christians is that they show up once a week to pray that God's will be done- and when it is, they complain.
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#24. My first, and most lasting, addiction has always been to the obsessive study of any matter that took hold of my curiosity.
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#25. As the paramedics lifted her, my grandmother's corpulent arms swung like bat wings with the life squeezed out of them.
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#26. Accidents ambush the unsuspecting, often violently, just like love.
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#27. ... She kissed me on my thin lips and all my words were pushed back into my mouth.
"I don't want to die," she whispered, "but I need to lose the shackles of this multitude of hearts.
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#28. Perhaps there are just some things you leave behind when you choose a new life.
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#29. I could hear the hiss of various gases escaping the engine and the tires still spinning outside, above, and there was the creak of metal settling as the car stopped rocking, a pathetic turtle on its back.
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#30. I have no idea whether beginning with my accident was the best decision, as I've never written a book before. Truth be told, I started with the crash because I wanted to catch your interest and drag you into the story. You're still reading, so it seems to have worked.
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#31. What is it like to wear another person's skin?"
"I don't have a good answer for that," I said. "It hurts."
"Can you remember their stories? Can you feel the love that they felt?
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#32. It doesn't matter how fast you move, I learned, if you never go anywhere.
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#33. The problem with people like us is that we don't die properly.
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#34. Only a man unable to handle the actual world would create another one in which to hide.
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#36. You are mine,I am yours; you may be sure of this. You've been locked inside my heart, the key has been thrown away; within it, you must always stay.
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#37. All history is just one man trying to take something away from another man, and usually it doesn't really belong to either of them.
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#38. So when you didn't mention marriage again I assumed that you had been talking idly, the way men do when they're feeling romantic.
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#39. He was evidently a most captivating good-time Charlie, quick with his dick and quicker to split.
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#41. The serpent tries to engulf my head. No, not a snake, an oxygen mask.
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#42. You're scared and I understand that. I know it's difficult because you want to imagine the ending but you can't even imagine the beginning. But everything will be ok. It just takes time.
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#43. These day's I like to imagine that if a man were to enter through the slash on the book's cover, as if it were a door, he could walk right into the heart of the Inferno.
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#44. your mind becomes a supercomputer capable of calculating the gyrations of your car, multiplying that by the speed of the fall over the angle of descent, factoring in Newton's laws of motion and, in a split second, coming to the panicked conclusion that this is gonna hurt like hell.
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#45. Coffin,why no lid? Too antiseptic for Hell, and could the roof of heaven really be made of gray metal?
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#46. Every Good Friday, this anchored but ever-changing anniversary of my accident, I go to the little creek that saved my life and light one more candle. I offer thanks for two facts: that I am one year older, and that I am one year closer to death.
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#47. Vanity is both a great motivator and a great deceiver.
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#48. If you're going through hell, keep going
[as stolen from Winston S. Churchill]
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#50. Everyone's past, I try to rationalize, is nothing more than the collection of memories they choose to remember.
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#51. Morphine is like a religious zealot on a mission; it searches for body parts to convert, offering milk-and-honeyed dreams to flow sluggishly through your veins.
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#53. How deep was the grim sorter of the dark and the foul going to send me?
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#54. I do not believe," whispered Father Sunder, "in any God that considers love to be a sin.
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#55. Talking with the mouth of a beast won't ease your pain.
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#56. He recoils at the sight of me. Are they suppose to do that?
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#57. I am not a hero in soul and never will be, but I am better than I was before. Or so I tell myself; and for now that is enough.
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#58. Personally, I believe it's a poor idea to tell a seven-year-old girl that God's tremendous plan is to incinerate her lungs.
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#59. Scatology was strictly out, as nowhere in my psyche do I harbor the desire to shit on someone and even less do I have the inclination to be shat upon. And if I a a snob for not participating in films that involve sex with animals, then so be it; I am a snob.
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#60. While it is true that outside the library I have lived a life of wickedness, inside it I've always been as devoted to knowledge as a saint to his Bible.
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#61. But the truth is that I dislike most men as much as I dislike women. If anything, I am an equal opportunity misanthropist.
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#62. When I answered that I did not pray, he sternly rebuked me. "You're in Hell. You'd better start".
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#63. That kind of love was a thing to be snatched up and crushed in the jaws of real life.
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#64. Hell is a choice because salvation is available to anyone who seeks it.
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#65. Some day soon," Lance said, "you'll walk out of here and have to decide how you're going to live the rest of your lives. Will you be defined by what other people see, or by the essence of your soul?
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#66. There's the smell of the devil's mischievousness, a pitchfork in your ass and sulfur in your mouth. The Bastard's there, all right, don't doubt it.
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#67. There I lay, wearing dead people as armor against death.
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#68. My flesh began to singe as if I were a scrap of meat newly thrown onto the barbecue, and then i could hear the bubbling of my skin as the flames kissed it.
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#69. Didn't anyone ever tell you that the mouth is the front gate of all misfortune?
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#70. Who would have guessed that the monster of fraud was a democracy?
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#71. The burn unit is often the most distant wing of a hospital, because burn victims are so susceptible to infection that they must be kept away from other patients. More important, perhaps, is that the placement minimizes the chance of visitors stumbling across a Kentucky Fried Human.
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