Caspary Quotes

#1. Vera Caspary wrote thrillers - but not like any other author of her time, male or female. Her specialty was a specific type that she pioneered - the psycho thriller.

M.J. Rose

#2. Why should I care about keeping my life on a perfectly straight course when it kept throwing wild curves at me?

R.S. Grey

#3. I'm glad I am crazy, it keeps me trying. I despise trendies, I know they're lying.

Iggy Pop

#4. Long afterwards I realized why some men, racing drivers and their like, become addicted to speed. There are those of us who never see death ahead, but eternally behind: in any moment that stops and thinks.

John Fowles

#5. My wife's family lives up in South Carolina, so we go back and forth quite a bit up there.

Jon Lester

#6. Life itself is contradictory. Only death is consistent.

Vera Caspary

#7. If the dreams of any so-called normal man were exposed ... there would be no more gravity and dignity left for mankind.

Vera Caspary

#8. Doubtless the most miserable of men, under the most oppressive government in the world, if allowed the ballot, would use it, if they could see any chance of thereby ameliorating their condition.

Lysander Spooner

#9. The cat crossed the street daintily, pointing his feet like a ballet dancer, lifting them high as if his feet were too good for the pavement.

Vera Caspary

#10. A smile couldn't be brought into court as evidence. You couldn't arrest a man because he had trembled. Brown eyes had stolen a peep at gray eyes, so what? The tone of a voice was something that died with a word.

Vera Caspary

#11. Because I was moved by the sorry spectacle of a conventional young man thinking that he had become radically unconventional.

Vera Caspary

#12. Money can be more of a barrier between people than language or race or religion.

Vera Caspary

#13. My mind was clear and penetrating at the time, for it was midnight, the hour at which I am most brave and most free.

Vera Caspary

#14. Werewolves did not consider wolves one of their own; in fact, wolves were inferior. They were hunters, strong and ravenous like them, but they weren't as big or as intelligent.

Janiera Eldridge

#15. There are a lot of people who haven't got the brains for their educations.

Vera Caspary

#16. Love is eternal. It has been the strongest motivation for human actions throughout history. Love is stronger than life. It reaches beyond the dark shadow of death.

Vera Caspary

#17. I wouldn't ask too much of her," I ventured. "You can't repeat the past."
"Can't repeat the past? he cried incredulously. "Why of course you can!

F Scott Fitzgerald

#18. It's when you have friends that you can afford to be lonely. When you know a lot of people, loneliness becomes a luxury. It's only when you're forced to be lonely that it's bad.

Vera Caspary