Doucette Quotes

#1. The vibration of his cell phone broke his reverie. "Doucette," he answered. "Meet me at the Lamothe House," Sassy replied. "Sassy, I told you I'm not that kind of girl." "Very funny, Mr. Smart Ass. Looks like we have another body." "I'm almost there," Michel said quickly, then hung up.

David Lennon

#2. [D]espite the patina of civility coating most of modern society, underneath it is a thick layer of savagery.

Gene Doucette

#3. Karyos's people adopted an ingenious, if somewhat perplexing attitude that life was a circle. Not like Disney's circle of life thing, which was really just a nice way to say, "death is normal, children, so suck it up.

Gene Doucette

#4. With every moment of heart ache,
I get a little closer to 'Acceptance' somehow,
Denying to expect what's best,
But to approve it's the best for now!

Somya Kedia

#5. If you touch me, Charles will hunt you down and eat your marrow while you are still alive to scream." She called upon her two acting classes and let her mouth turn up. "I'll be happy to watch." She licked her lips. The smile dropped off his face, and he growled.

Patricia Briggs

#6. [K]nowing one's fate never made a whit of difference, except it made the fated a tad more anxious.

Gene Doucette

#7. Sex was the first dove.

Parker Tyler

#8. Religious fanatics are the worst. They're basically impossible to bargain with, they accept no outside opinion about anything, and they departed from reality well before you met them.

Gene Doucette

#9. Vader made most of the naval officers he encountered uncomfortable. To them, he was a towering dark figure outside their chain of command who had emerged from nowhere and possessed powers they did not understand.

Paul S. Kemp

#10. I was suicidal for two solid centuries once. That was during the early part of what they now call the Dark Ages, in medieval Europe. Suicidal tendencies were de rigueur at the time, and I'm nothing if not trendy.

Gene Doucette

#11. They've tried to manufacture other Marilyn Monroes and they will undoubtedly keep trying. But it won't work. She was an original.

Billy Wilder

#12. [T]he truth is the percentage of vampires that are also evil killers is about the same as the percentage of normal people who are also evil killers.

Gene Doucette

#13. Religion is still the very best way to get someone to accept something unabashedly ridiculous.

Gene Doucette

#14. Morning conversations should be between very close friends or lovers, and otherwise avoided entirely.

Gene Doucette

#15. Let's make this clear: I do not hate anybody.

Tyson Fury

#16. New York is the one place in the world that actively encourages rudeness, because that's the only way to get past the fake bag carriers, homeless people, newspaper thieves, Jesus freaks, and everyone else who wants something and isn't afraid to ask for it, repeatedly, at close range.

Gene Doucette

#17. Life is but a mask worn on the face of death. And is death, then, but another mask? 'How many can say,' asks the Aztec poet, 'that there is, or is not, a truth beyond?'

Joseph Campbell

#18. When I was growing up, I was obviously gay, and I got heckled every day of my life. The only way I knew how to survive was to make people laugh. If I could make them laugh, I wouldn't get hung in a locker for two hours. That's a blessing.

Carson Kressley

#19. Impending death makes one run faster. I think that's probably why they fire a gun before track meets.

Gene Doucette

#20. Happy thoughts bring happiness, love, and success.

Debasish Mridha

#21. Maui reminded me of San Diego: beautiful, but crowded.

Larry Ellison

#22. To ward off these disasters, they spent a whole lot of time trying to keep their gods happy via a number of complex rituals, many involving copious amounts of sex ("the gods wish us to have sex" is the oldest pickup line in the world).

Gene Doucette

#23. Most every old civilizations looks at others--members of the same species but not of the same tribe--as wild men. It's a common rationalization, because when you reduce someone else to a level of something like an animal, it makes them easier to kill.

Gene Doucette

#24. Step One is about recognizing our brokenness.

Bill W.

#25. The thing is, we all have a little animal in us, and if you ask us to, we can do a very good job of behaving like one.

Gene Doucette

#26. It's hard to grasp how much generosity
Is involved in letting us go on breathing,
When we contribute nothing valuable but our grief.
Each of us deserves to be forgiven, if only for
Our persistence in keeping our small boat afloat
When so many have gone down in the storm.

Robert Bly

#27. form light and create darkness; I make well-being and a create calamity; I am the LORD, who does all these things.

Anonymous

#28. [M]ost of the people I have ever met who claim not to care about money already have more than they could ever need.

Gene Doucette

#29. It's the human condition, Kitten. The unknown isn't something that sits well. They'd rather push it away-not completely, but just enough that it's not always shadowing their every thought and action.

Jennifer L. Armentrout