Arvin Quotes

#1. They's a lot of no-good sonofabitches out there."
Arvin asks, "More than a hundred?"
Willard laughed a little and put the truck in gear. "Yeah, at least that many.

Donald Ray Pollock

#2. You beat death, Arvin. But you couldn't beat me.

J.J. Abrams

#3. Unless he had whiskey running through his veins, Willard came to the clearing every morning and evening to talk to God. Arvin didn't know which was worse, the drinking or the praying. As far back as he could remember, it seemed that his father had fought the Devil all the time.

Donald Ray Pollock

#4. Oh wouldn't that twist your twat if that turned out to be true!

Eric Arvin

#5. That's how the world gets you. It keeps going round until you're too dizzy to care or even think.

Eric Arvin

#6. She nodded her head in approval and hesitantly shut the book, breathing a reader's sigh. That wonderful inhale/exhale reaction one does after finishing a book that has somehow touched you. Completion. Inner peace. Separate peace.

Eric Arvin

#7. You gotta know it before you move on. You gotta recognize yourself. Understand the lessons. If you cain't make no sense of it, well then, what use was it?

Eric Arvin

#8. plate stacked high with chocolate waffles (slutty pancakes, he called them).

Eric Arvin

#9. Reading student papers, blue books, etc., a form of torture ... a matter of rubbing an iron file over one's teeth, or holding urine in one's mouth, or having the racket of a bulldozer in one's ear for an hour or two on end.

Newton Arvin

#10. It's your boy," she said. "Somebody done killed your boy." I heard Leroy's deep sobs coming from inside the house, and I saw Jimmy lose his breath. Just for a moment, I wanted to be alive again. They had loved me. I had been loved in this old world, and now love was tearing them apart.

Eric Arvin

#11. Tony rolled his green eyes

Eric Arvin

#12. I did everything young. I was always in a hurry to do everything. I had kids young and I worked young and I didn't have time to go back to school because I wasn't willing to give up anything that I had.

Stephanie Seymour

#13. It is possible to pray in such a way that one does not transcend the world, in such a way that the divine is degraded to a functional part of the workaday world ... then it is no longer devotion to the divine, but an attempt to master it.

Josef Pieper

#14. Then we all sat around; we were supposed to be awed. I was brattishly unawed.

Sandra Newman

#15. The longest piece of literature I've read lately was a tattoo on this biker I picked up last night. It said, If you're this close, you've gotta suck it.

Eric Arvin

#16. Jerry read for a good hour before he couldn't take any more of the graphic heterosexual love scenes. "Some

Eric Arvin

#17. Squee-squee-squawky-squiggly-squee.

Eric Arvin

#18. Lowell's cubicle at the office was slightly larger than a toilet stall, but no higher, and although the door said MANAGING EDITOR, Lowell always felt that the words had been printed there in the same spirit that moves service-station operators to paint KING on the door of the men's privy

L.J. Davis

#19. Loving someone didn't mean you were capable of having a relationship with them, especially if they didn't have the same level of commitment to it as you.

Lynn Raye Harris

#20. Sometimes being fooled by love is worth the price. At least you know you're alive and capable of feeling, even if all you end up with is chest pain.

Sue Grafton

#21. Great courage, Joe.

Eric Arvin

#22. If the impress on the imagination is that of a high poetic form it is not because the poetry is 'allegorically' imposed on the stuff, but because the stuff is allowed to render up its own poetic essences.

Newton Arvin

#23. And strong-looking. Like the kind of guy you feel standing next to you before you actually see him, because he's blocking so much ambient light.

Rainbow Rowell

#24. Gay angels are all the rage in heaven.

Eric Arvin

#25. For what's a writer without longing?

Eric Arvin

#26. I'm not you, Douglas. I don't look at every keyhole as a possible future sex partner.

Eric Arvin

#27. Human evil is a collapse of the moral faculty, but not an operating pursuing of the wrong.

Arvin Adriyan

#28. He [Castro] is a genius. We spoke about everything.

Jack Nicholson

#29. I collect misspellings of my last name. Jame McRoy, McGros, Legras - it's become kind of a sport.

James LeGros

#30. They didn't trademark everything back then. Now someone farts and they put a TM after it. Even Miller Lite says 'A Fine Pilsner Beer' on the label. It is a crime.

Michael Jackson