Crouch's Quotes

#1. I know it's crazy, but I'm holding tight to the idea that a small act of kindness can have real resonance.

Blake Crouch

#2. it's a troubling paradox -i have total control, but only to the extent i have control over myself.

Blake Crouch

#3. Popular culture tells you that schools and parents don't know what's going on, the police are dogs, politicians are all liars and scum, and any crime that's not committed by the Mafia is done by the CIA.

Stanley Crouch

#4. I'm a special agent with the United States Secret Service." "You mean those guys who guard the president?" "That's only one of our duties.

Blake Crouch

#5. Because remember, that's what writers do: they write, and they keep writing. Then they write some more. Even when the terrain is tough and the words seem elusive, they don't stop. They don't turn around. They don't give up.

Erica Crouch

#6. Sometimes when God brings things into an individual's life, it makes them totally depend on Him.

Andrae Crouch

#7. It's like we get so set in our ways, so entrenched in those grooves, we stop seeing our loved ones for who they are. But tonight, right now, I see you again, like the first time we met, when the sound of your voice and your smell was this new country.

Blake Crouch

#8. We're a part of something here, Mr. Burke. Something that matters. All of us." "Here's the thing, Marcus, and I don't want you to ever forget it. Nobody fucking asked me or anyone in that valley if we wanted to be a part of this.

Blake Crouch

#9. Eventually Theo would pick up their daughter, kiss the top of her head, and carry her to an old spruce stump. He'd crouch down, gather up the beach glass that was still scattered there, and whisper in her ear. "Let's build a fairy house.

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

#10. Uncertainty is a very good thing: it's the beginning of an investigation, and the investigation should never end.

Tim Crouch

#11. Nature doesn't see things through the prism of good or bad. It rewards efficiency. That's the beautiful simplicity of evolution. It matches design to environment.

Blake Crouch

#12. When I see Kaede nod her head in Tess's direction, I rise up from my crouch. This trot's going to choose Tess. Oh, hell no. Not while I'm watching. Not if Kaede wants to live.

Marie Lu

#13. The sting and the shame of all he's put her through are still raw. He can't say for certain, but he suspects that if she'd done the same to him, he'd already be gone.

Blake Crouch

#14. When I was a boy, I passed a homeless man, drunk and begging on a street corner. My father, sensing my disgust, said something I never forgot, that I think of every time I see your face on the news or in the paper- That man was once someone's little boy.

Blake Crouch

#15. Of course it's for you. But it's also so those little diseased children don't become dracula snacks. We need to get them safe so they can be sick and die in peace.

Blake Crouch

#16. It's important to love someone."
"Even if you can't have that person?"
"I think caring for someone is never a bad thing, even if the situation you idealize doesn't happen for you ... I think that anything that gets people through the day is a good thing."
"Like God?"
"Like God.

Katie Crouch

#17. Jessica's smile makes Ron slide his hand over the console, let it work down between her blue-jeaned thighs.

Blake Crouch

#18. What's the demographic?" "Men. Women. Children." "High-velocity GSWs?

Blake Crouch

#19. For every perfect little town, there's something ugly underneath. No dream without the nightmare.

Blake Crouch

#20. It's terrifying when you consider that every thought we have, every choice we could possibly make, branches off into a new world.

Blake Crouch

#21. When I finish a song, I thank God for bringing me through. You have to press on and know your calling. That's what I've been doing for all my life. I just went forward.

Andrae Crouch

#22. He's fantastic on the ground but obviously he is very tall.
(on Peter Crouch)

Michael Owen

#23. They haven't been unhappy these last few years, quite the opposite. But it's been a long, long time since she felt that sense of giddy love that effervesces in the pit of your stomach and spectacularly upends the world.

Blake Crouch

#24. Blake Crouch, Chicago's deputy chief, and says, "I don't know." Crouch resembles a mole, with a long, sharp nose and tiny black eyes.

J.A. Konrath

#25. I ask, "You think you'd ever forget it entirely? Your world?" "I don't know. I could see it getting to the point where it didn't feel real anymore. Because it isn't. The only thing that's real in this moment is this city. This room. This bed. You and me." -

Blake Crouch

#26. Well if that's the way you feel," he said climbing onto the window ledge in a crouch.
Before I had time to react or say anything he fell from the window and out of my life.

Micalea Smeltzer

#27. Unchecked power, driven by self-interest, scarcity, grandiosity and aggression, is deadly to God's original fruitful purposes.

Andy Crouch

#28. I suppose there's a time in life when a garden of roses and lavender fails to blind a girl to the true shabbiness of a place. I myself had not reached that moment of clarity.

Katie Crouch

#29. I'm a pastor. I say, 'Let the church say amen,' and that settles it. Everything has been said, you know; it's like we have to agree with God.

Andrae Crouch

#30. Letty had barely touched her food. Javier stared down at her through a pair of aviator sunglasses. "You forgot something," she said. "What's that?" "My name. Who will they be expecting?" "Selena Kitt. S-E-L-E-N-A K-I-T-T. But you won't be carrying any identification.

Blake Crouch

#31. I'm eradicating the word Protestant even out of my vocabulary.. I'm protesting anything.. it's time for Catholics and non-Catholics to come together as one in the Spirit and one in the Lord.

Paul Crouch

#32. That prick's still your copyeditor?" "Yep. He's such a dick. He was giving me

Blake Crouch

#33. Sure, I flip people off in traffic on occasion, but that's just Chicago. My

Blake Crouch

#34. Don't do that."
"Don't do what?"
"Sneak around."
"Do you mean walk around? Because that's what I actually did. I usually crouch more when I sneak - and then I kill someone.

G.A. Aiken

#35. Every day, we hear that somebody got saved to our music from all over the world. The music reaches people. It can encourage them. I feel like I have to do it because there's somebody out there who needs to hear the gospel.

Andrae Crouch

#36. Theolonious frowned. "So is a werewolfskunkdeer a person who changes into something that's a wolf, skunk, and deer all at once, like it has fur and Bambi eyes and sprays skunk spray, or is it a person who can change into a wolf or a skunk or a deer?

Blake Crouch

#37. People leave. They die. Their dwellings crumble. That's the storyline, the only plot there will ever be.

Blake Crouch

#38. I think he's trying to preserve our way of life." "For who? Us or him?

Blake Crouch

#39. Everybody has to be reminded that there's another way to be. Another more mysterious, unpredictable way to be that's not necessarily based upon contrivances.

Stanley Crouch

#40. Do you know how a gun works?" "They hurt you." "They can. I shot a bullet into the back of Molly's head so she wouldn't be sick or sad anymore." "Did it hurt her?

Blake Crouch

#41. Unfortunately, I'm not a person that's always capable of living up to the Boy Scout philosophy.

Stanley Crouch

#42. There's something horribly lonely about a place that's almost home. From

Blake Crouch

#43. If you can't prove it in words, it ain't gospel. Soul music is just an expression of the mind, but your spirit has to be made alive - that's the real part, the part that God speaks to.

Andrae Crouch

#44. Louis Armstrong, who learned to be in exquisite dress, came from the bottom, and he's not a trash can.

Stanley Crouch

#45. Art is a subjective thing, and it should be a subjective thing. And the difficulty of subjectivity is that it becomes hugely problematized when you start applying large sums of money to art objects. That's where it all starts to get a bit sticky.

Tim Crouch

#46. It's quite rare for a group of people to come together for a live event that isn't loud music. A live event that enables thinking to take place, to take place collectively. It's unique to theatre. It's a quality I never want to see diminished.

Tim Crouch

#47. I'm sure that's just what Mr. Worthington was thinking as Luther Kite butchered him. 'Boy, I'm glad I have this faith.'"

Blake Crouch

#48. The world's a stage, and all the men and women merely

Blake Crouch

#49. Oh, you mean so we can coexist? What kind of let's-hold-hands hippie shit are you suggesting?

Blake Crouch

#50. Faith came by just believing God's word and taking Him up on His word.

Andrae Crouch

#51. The Winans have been some of my favorite people, and Marvin certainly has a real anointing when he preaches and sings; he's a great interpreter of my music.

Andrae Crouch

#52. Which is all to say maybe it's just being alive at a baseball game on a fall day in the heart of her city.

Blake Crouch

#53. A question repeated in the back of Theresa's mind as she washed the purple stains from her hands. How did they finally break you?

Blake Crouch

#54. That's not the way the human heart works. I can't just amputate what I feel.

Blake Crouch

#55. He'd been filling up his Suburban - a feat that required a small business loan at current prices - and had missed Shanna's call.

Blake Crouch

#56. Nighttown, because the Pit's inverted, and the bottom of its bowl touches the sky, the sky that Nighttown never sees, sweating under its own firmament of acrylic resin, up where the Lo Teks crouch in the dark like gargoyles,

William Gibson

#57. was a quiet flight, Ethan's attention divided between staring out his window and glancing back through

Blake Crouch

#58. Children's laughter - carefree, giddy, maniacal - filled the woods. A nightmare version of some game from his youth.

Blake Crouch

#59. But I'll tell you what I do wish. Wish we could live twice, take a different path each time. That at the end of all this, when I finished serving God in the West, I could go back to that day on the beach, put a ring on Eleanor's finger instead.

Blake Crouch

#60. Yes, Hell is very serious business. That's why no one ever smiles down there.

Erica Crouch

#61. Very few institutions thrive when they are left solely to "professionals," people who have made it their life's work to master a given domain of culture.

Andy Crouch

#62. YESTERDAY IS HISTORY. TOMORROW IS A MYSTERY. TODAY IS A GIFT. THAT'S WHY IT'S CALLED THE PRESENT. WORK HARD, BE HAPPY, AND ENJOY YOUR LIFE IN WAYWARD PINES!

Blake Crouch

#63. I love a song that will usher in the very presence of God. Then there's no Andrae; there's no fabulous band, there's no greatness of ours. I've had hundreds of concerts like that, and that's what I try to achieve.

Andrae Crouch

#64. Life's short. Don't be mad. It's a waste of time.

Blake Crouch

#65. Just the way my voice sounds now, it's always had this little hoarse thing to it. And I'd have to do vocal exercises to make my voice clear.

Andrae Crouch

#66. I watched, hoping she wouldn't come out too broke. It's all you can do for people sometimes, no matter how much you love them.

Katie Crouch

#67. The discussion of ideas as opposed to the American narcissistic obsession with what's going on with the self, that's the general thing people are talking about.

Stanley Crouch

#68. Almost fifteen months he's been gone, and every day I wake up, I still don't believe this is really happening.

Blake Crouch

#69. What might have been and what has been Point to one end, which is always present. Footfalls echo in the memory Down the passage which we did not take Towards the door we never opened. - T. S. Eliot, "Burnt Norton

Blake Crouch

#70. She put her hand on my shoulder, and her eyes let me know, just crouch down, hold tight, there's a little bit of pain for you, but not too much.

Rebecca Lee

#71. Don't you see?" she says. "I want your life to be better than mine. That's all any parent wants.

Katie Crouch

#72. I cannot separate the man you are now from the boy you were then, and it's killing me.
I wanted everything for you, son.
I still do.

Blake Crouch

#73. It's important to find characters that share sympathy with a young audience, not just in the story but their role in the world.

Tim Crouch

#74. On more than one occasion David, in his urge to explore the darker corners of the bookshelves, had found himself wearing strands of spider silk in his face and hair, causing the web's creator to scuttle into a corner and crouch balefully, lost in thoughts of arachnoid revenge.

John Connolly

#75. Pope smiled. "You're thinking all wrong, boy. There's no such thing as law or government inside this room. It's just you and me. I am the one and only authority in your little world, whose borders are these walls. I could kill you right now if I wanted to.

Blake Crouch

#76. If he did this to you, he would have rationalized it somehow. That's how decent people justify bad behavior. In

Blake Crouch

#77. She suggested we 'crouch' buck nekkid on the bed or a dresser and leap out at him from the shadows.
Now, my husband can't see all that well in the dark. I think if he comes into a darkened bedroom and finds 140 pounds of cellulite hurtling through space at him, he's going to run like the devil.

Celia Rivenbark

#78. Perhaps once he had been a good clown. A noble clown. But he'd stolen Randall's chainsaw, and had to die.

Blake Crouch

#79. I've always said Crouch is special. He's tall and that makes him special but he is special because he has good feet as well

Sven-Goran Eriksson

#80. You've killed a hundred and thirty people, and you're getting squeamish at sticking your finger up a girl's ass? Some people pay to do it.

Blake Crouch

#81. It is an almost precise inversion of Lord Acton's observation: the more power we have over our children, the more we are willing to sacrifice for them. Love transfigures power. Absolute love transfigures absolute power. And power transfigured by love is the power that made and saves the world.

Andy Crouch

#82. I've seen so many versions of you. With me. Without me. Artist. Teacher. Graphic designer. But it's all, in the end, just life. We see it macro, like one big story, but when you're in it, it's all just day-to-day, right? And isn't that what you have to make your peace with?

Blake Crouch

#83. Lorn passed a hand over her eyes, then staggered back a step and reeled into the alley's shadows behind her. She slid down one wall into a sagging crouch.

Steven Erikson

#84. You're going to have to go beyond yourself to keep him. That's a tiring thing.

Katie Crouch

#85. All your life you're told you're unique. An individual. That no one on the planet is just like you. It's humanity's anthem.

Blake Crouch

#86. Are we standing in a physical location?" "I think it's a manifestation of the mind as it attempts to visually explain something our brains haven't evolved to comprehend.

Blake Crouch

#87. If there's an intellectual highway, there's also an intellectual subway.

Stanley Crouch

#88. It's important for me, politically, to see that theater isn't just about the powerful.

Tim Crouch

#89. My life is great. It's just not exceptional. And there was a time when it could have been." "You killed your ambition, didn't you?" "It died of natural causes. Of neglect.

Blake Crouch

#90. He dismounts his albino steed, the horse's pinked nostrils flaring, dirty mane matted with ice.

Blake Crouch

#91. Under popular culture's obsession with a naive inclusion, everything is O.K.

Stanley Crouch

#92. I hate clowns!" "That's not a real clown," another boy said. "That's just some guy dressed up like a clown!

Blake Crouch

#93. The most dangerous adversary you'll ever face is an opponent who's skilled with a knife. Avoid these confrontations at all costs.

Blake Crouch

#94. That's all I want in life is to be remembered as a guy that really loved God.

Andrae Crouch

#95. Theatre can be so patronising. So often, it's just proselytising for the theatre.

Tim Crouch

#96. My mother's father was Jewish, so she was very conservative. She liked little, pretty music-orchestral-type things.

Andrae Crouch

#97. So we all embark wondering what lies over the horizon, what's around the next bend. And isn't that, in the end, what drives us?

Blake Crouch

#98. But sometimes, like tonight, she feels plugged in to the raw emotion of it all, a closed circuit, and if she doesn't keep it at arm's length, it still has the power to break her.

Blake Crouch

#99. Like the first day of any new thing, it has been a long one, and he's glad to see it end.

Blake Crouch

#100. It's not hard to figure out who has the power in any large gathering in our mediated culture: they are the ones with a microphone, their image projected larger than life above the crowd.

Andy Crouch