Criminy's Quotes

#1. I told him my own story, from locket to fainting. But I left out the part about how I was supposed to be Criminy's magic mail-order bride.

Delilah S. Dawson

#2. What you're seeing is pain. And you're the only one who sees it," he said more softly. "You're the only one who can cut me, and you wound me deep.

Delilah S. Dawson

#3. Whenever you become empowered,
you will be tested.

Caroline Myss

#4. Why, Criminy Stain," I said. "You're a romantic."
"Oh, no," he said with a grin. "I'm fiendish and unscrupulous, a vicious killer and a thief and a bloodthirsty monster. And maybe a little romantic. But don't tell anyone, or my reputation's shot.

Delilah S. Dawson

#5. The word WANTED slithered across the top of each image in elegant calligraphy. The drawing of Criminy was spot-on, but the one of me was more than a little imaginative. I looked like an evil seductress, some sort of vampy witch-queen.
I liked it.
I wanted a copy for my wagon.

Delilah S. Dawson

#6. I would burn down the world for you," he whispered fiercely. "Your world or my own. I would rip down the entire city with my bare hands without a second thought. I don't need to taste anything else, I don't need a comparison.

Delilah S. Dawson

#7. I do want lots of things, most of which are under your dress.

Delilah Dawson

#8. What the eye doesn't see, the heart doesn't grieve over.

Juan Gabriel Vasquez

#9. A couple of years ago, I had my DNA sequencing done, and it is all anonymous. When the results came back, my musculature type said, 'most likely to be a sprinter.'

Aimee Mullins

#10. The ultimate truth is penultimately a falsehood.

Arthur Koestler

#11. I have not watched Glenn Beck. I don't watch him.

Gary Johnson

#12. Criminy?" I asked.
"Hmm?"
"What are we doing?"
"I'm having a meal with a friend while you squirm like a child," he said serenely.

Delilah S. Dawson

#13. Presentationally, Bill Clinton is a US President to die for. The truth is, far too many have.

Jon Snow

#14. When I got close to him, he smelled clean and steamy, like a late June-rain. And I was reduced to a ridiculous, blubbering pile of melting Jell-O. Criminy.

Holly Schindler

#15. What would the world look like if we asked ourselves the following more often; are our actions helping others find a way to feel more freer, more dignified and more beautiful?

Jacqueline Novogratz

#16. Criminy. Whatever. Just do something."
"Criminy?" Than stared. "Seriously? Big, bad, Mohawk-haired demon says 'criminy'?"
"Yes, criminy." Hades rubbed his bare chest. "And, fuck off.

Larissa Ione

#17. What the great ones do, the less will prattle of

William Shakespeare

#18. It's a little scary, what you do."
As I tried to figure out how to respond, and with words as sharp and cold as the blade of a knife, Criminy said, "If you're scared of her talent, then you don't truly know what fear is.

Delilah S. Dawson

#19. Dividing an elephant in half does not produce two small elephants.

Peter Senge

#20. He sighed. Look, love, I know I seem like a tactical genius, but really, I'm just a magician who occasionally kills a bunny or drives a train.

Delilah S. Dawson

#21. Honestly," he said with a grin, "how would that have worked? Oh, hello dream lover. Would you drink some of my blud so I won't murder you in front of all these nice people?"

Delilah S. Dawson

#22. Titles are prisons of human potential

Natasha Tsakos

#23. I think we've made the collection haystack so big, no one's ever getting through the haystack to find the needle. What we really need to do is isolate the haystack into a group of suspicious people and spend enormous resources looking at suspicious people, people who we have probable cause.

Rand Paul

#24. What a grim feeling it is to come across a written line so exceptionally inspiring that your first reaction is, 'Criminy, why didn't I ever think to write that!'

Richelle E. Goodrich

#25. These weren't comforting nights, much less pleasant ones, but Espinoza discovered two things that helped him mightily in the early days: he would never be a fiction writer, and, in his own way, he was brave.

Roberto Bolano

#26. It's a tough thing-you get in a situation where you feel you have to be perfect all the time and it sucks.

Leonardo DiCaprio

#27. Dammit, woman! You're scent, your stupid bloody delicious scent lingering in every crevice of my body and my wardrobe, driving me nearly mad. Do you know what it's like to want something so badly, to have it so close, and still feel that it's out of your reach? Out of control?

Delilah S. Dawson