Geary Quotes

#1. Okay, I don't like it when you walk away from me, but other than that ... (Arik)
Yeah, I guess that makes sense. You transcend a dimension to come here and I brush you off. I can see where that might get annoying. (Geary)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#2. My kingdom for a gun. (Geary)
You don't have a kingdom. (Brian)
And I don't have a gun- looks like I'm shit out of luck all the way around, huh? (Geary)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#3. So how many women have you visited in their dreams? (Geary)
Is this one of those questions that if I don't answer it correctly, you get angry at me? (Arik)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#4. Oh no, if you really want to be wicked to him, nuke it first. (Geary)
Yeah, but given his reaction to the cupcake, that might overload his taste buds with pleasure and kill him. (Tory)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#5. You're going to share a Moon Pie? Now? You know you can't get any more of those until you go back to the Sates, right? (Geary)
It's for a good cause. We need more addicts. Besides, there's always Grandpa to bail me out with an emergency shipment if I get too desperate. (Tory)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#6. You were overwhelmed by my desire? What planet are you from? (Geary to Arik)
Moronia. Every full moon they teleport the Morons to earth and let them loose. Consider this your first encounter. (Solin)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#7. You've no idea ... my tongue has been known to let blood on four continents. (Geary)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#8. Love needs expression, Captain Geary, or doubts grow amid the silence. Doubts of the other and doubts of yourself.

Jack Campbell

#9. Thank you, Geary. (Arik)
For what? (Geary)
For giving me a life that is the best dream I've ever had. (Arik)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#10. But you helped me and Arik. Why would you do that if you really feel that way? (Geary)
What can I say? It's so much more enjoyable to snatch victory from the hands of the gullible. You guys make the most delightful sound of agony when you're betrayed. (Solin)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#11. Don't hurt him. (Geary)
Do you think I came all the way over here to hurt him? If I'd wanted him hurt, I'd have left him to Tweedle Dumb and Dumber. (ZT)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#12. Don't you have a girlfriend or family you'd rather be with? (Geary)
Only Solin, and honestly, he's not this soft. Even if he was, it'd be gross. (Arik)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#13. And he's just plain odd. And what is your problem that you keep putting yourself in my way? (Geary)
She's feisty, Skotos. I can see the appeal. (ZT)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#14. No. Real love takes time to build. What you feel is just infatuation. (Geary) But it doesn't feel temporary. (Arik) It never does at its onset. It's only in hindsight that we realize the difference between infatuation and love. (Geary)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#15. Vengeance only destroys the one who seeks it. (Theo- Geary's Grandfather/Acheron)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#16. This isn't a game, human. Listen to the Skotos and go. We're not bound by the laws of the Oneroi. Killing humans is nothing for us. (Dolophoni)
Well, aren't you all scary in black. Ooo. What are you two masquerading as? Evil Man and his trusty sidekick Bad Boy? (Geary)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#17. Okay, I'm dreaming. Hallucinating. Brought on by stress. I had a hard day today and this is my mind trying to protect itself from ... from stuff. Lots of stuff. (Geary)
(Arik, Trieg, and ZT stare at Geary.)
Oh, like I'm any less sane than the three of you just because I talk to myself. (Geary)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#18. I fell out of the hammock while I was sleeping. (Arik)
On your head? (Geary)
Apparently. Good thing it's hard, huh? (Arik)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#19. Yeah, and Mr. Cuddles is a jealous sort. He doesn't share us well. (Geary)
Does this mean I'll have to fight him? (Arik)
You'd never win. Mr. Cuddles cheats. You think he's just a pushover teddy bear, but he's vicious, I tell you. Vicious. (Geary)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#20. Toddlers are germ-warfare machines in a cute package
- Debora Geary

Debora Geary

#21. Like this cake. It's really very good. (Arik)
As the girth to my hips will attest. (Geary)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#22. It's a yes then? (Arik)
No. I thought I'd walk through hell to reclaim you and carry your baby just for the heck of it. Who needs marriage. (Geary)
I do! (Arik)
Good. I can let you live another day. (Geary)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#23. Perhaps I should sit up front with the driver and give you two enough space to beat the crap out of each other and settle this like grown adolescents. (Geary)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#24. How do you know all this? Jeez, Tory, you're a kid. Act like it. (Geary)
(Tory reached out and punched her on the arm.)
Ow! What was that for? (Geary)
Unexpected and irrational emotional outbursts. Isn't that what teenagers are supposed to do? Oh, and sulk. A lot. (Tory)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#25. The mind revels in conjecture. Where information is lacking, it will gladly fill in the gaps.

James Geary

#26. I believe aphorisms are best when first read in the wild, free from the confines of any categories.

James Geary

#27. They do not air 'GH' in Holland, so I don't get recognized. But the Dutch are wonderfully unimpressed with celebrity, so even if the show did play over there it probably wouldn't affect things much. It's a wonderful life and I am so blessed.

Anthony Geary

#28. Sometimes, the hardest thing of all is being tossed on the winds.

Debora Geary

#29. Uncle Marcus was going to help with training? Elorie looked around for flying pigs.

Debora Geary

#30. Heroism often results as a response to extreme events.

James Geary

#31. For the rest of her life, hope was going to smell a little bit like bacon.

Debora Geary

#32. Metaphor lives a secret life all around us. We utter about six metaphors a minute.

James Geary

#33. To walk at the side of an amazing woman is a journey all its own,

Debora Geary

#34. Metaphor creates a kind of conceptual synesthesia, in which we understand one concept in the context of another.

James Geary

#35. I've always said, I prefer the opera to the soap - those extreme characters and circumstances.

Anthony Geary

#36. Speed made things happen faster than her brain could process them.

Debora Geary

#37. Winter comes to balance the warm glow of summer and to teach us to cherish it. A few minutes outside in the cold helps me to remember that.

Debora Geary

#38. I worked with Dalton Trumbo, who served time for refusing to give up names of people that were accused of being Communists. I've always admired him.

Anthony Geary

#39. Words have power. And when you put them out there, it makes them real for other people, and maybe it changes the world a little." He shrugged. "Or maybe it changes you."

Debora Geary

#40. By bringing together what we know and what we don't know through analogy, metaphorical thinking strikes the spark that ignites discovery,

James Geary

#41. Usually, new producers and writers want to put their stamp on a show. They don't want to continue what's working. They want to reinvent the wheel. It's an ego thing.

Anthony Geary

#42. Aphorisms are literature's hand luggage. Light and compact, they fit easily into the overhead compartment of your brain.

James Geary

#43. You only really discover the strength of your spine when your back is against the wall.

James Geary

#44. The roads are filled with armed robbers, and murders for mere plunder are of daily occurrence.

John White Geary

#45. A simile is just a metaphor with the scaffolding still up.

James Geary

#46. I have barely time to give you a brief statement of facts as I find them.

John White Geary

#47. There is no aspect of our experience not molded in some way by metaphor's almost imperceptible touch.

James Geary

#48. Metaphor matters because it creates expectations.

James Geary

#49. Do not be alarmed by the minor inconsistencies in the syntax. They are meant to heighten your level of attention and thereby make you a better programmer.

David Geary

#50. Only two bags, huh?" Helga was eighty, feisty, and the fastest knitter Elsie had ever seen. "We'll have to work on that. It's not a respectable stash until it has its own room.

Debora Geary

#51. I'm pretty good at most things where immaturity is an asset.

Debora Geary

#52. In soaps, people come back from the dead all the time, to the point where death is just a bus stop.

Anthony Geary

#53. Sometimes truth was the most brutal weapon of all. And the greatest gift.

Debora Geary

#54. Metaphor is not just the detection of patterns; it is the creation of patterns.

James Geary

#55. The pain I'm feeling now will fade, too. One day and soon. It has to. For us to keep on living, loving, being who we are, we have to forget how badly the worst parts hurt us. We have to heal. We

Valerie Geary

#56. Roses are red, violets are blue,
This room's a psycho shopping zoo.
The fashion's a disaster, the mirrors are large,
And somebody left a crazy lady with needles in charge.

Debora Geary

#57. Aphorisms are food for thought - like sushi, they come in small portions that are both delicious and exquisitely formed. And, like sushi, I can never get enough.

James Geary

#58. Vero collapsed in a chair, overtaken with delicious giggles. The child had bought underwear to match a plastic frog. An act of perfect silliness.

Debora Geary

#59. Magic would always have a place in the world as long as those hints of reverence continued to exist.

Debora Geary

#60. I have friends in France who are artists. I go to gallery openings and things like that.

Anthony Geary

#61. People say 'Why would you learn Dutch? Nobody speaks it. Why not French?' Even the Dutch say that to me! I say because I want to live here, I think it's only common courtesy that I speak the language.

Anthony Geary

#62. The greatest impediment to women's liberation is dumb commercials.

Debora Geary

#63. I usually get up not before 9. I have a huge library - I'm a big fan of Scandinavian crime fiction - so I'll usually take a book and go off to one of my favorite bistros for a cappuccino or espresso or maybe I'll have some lovely smoked salmon for breakfast.

Anthony Geary

#64. "I'm pretty sure if it weren't for you, I'd have spent the rest of my life terrified of crowded places. I can't thank you enough.

Debora Geary

#65. History shows us a window into our past. Historical fiction can take us by the and and lead us into that world.

Judith Geary

#66. Mistakes are always paid for in casualties and troops are quick to see any blunder made by their commanders. - DWIGHT DAVID EISENHOWER

Geary A. Rummler

#67. It's like parenting. The hardest, most intensive time comes at the very beginning. We still love those babies as they grow into daredevil children, recalcitrant teens, and parents setting eyes on their own babes for the first time. We just get a little more sleep while we do it.

Debora Geary

#68. I tried to think the same thought in as many different religions as possible, so the thought itself wouldn't be limited by any particular way of reasoning, the way words restrict
the whole eskimo-seventeen-words-for-snow idea.

Patricia Geary

#69. In isolated or country places no man's life is safe.

John White Geary

#70. Men of authority have employed all the destructive agents around them to promote their own personal interests at the sacrifice of every just, honorable, and lawful consideration.

John White Geary

#71. Metaphors hide in plain sight, and their influence is largely unconscious. We should mind our metaphors, though, because metaphors make up our minds.

James Geary

#72. I was a terrific liar as a child, and I believe my lies. So it's a natural step into acting.

Anthony Geary

#73. The point is to learn to live with roots inside yourself, instead of a thousand stupid rules to guide your day. Who are you without your rules, Elsie? Who would you find if you had the guts to just lie still and let go?

Debora Geary

#74. Advice is given freely because so much of it is worthless.

James Geary

#75. Metaphor impinges on everything, allowing us - poets and non-poets alike - to experience and think about the world in fluid, unusual ways.

James Geary

#76. In the margin for error lies all our room for maneuver.

James Geary

#77. They never used three words where one would do.

Debora Geary

#78. Sometimes, you need a door slammed in your face before you can hear opportunity knock.

James Geary

#79. I rode Caro's bike down a hill with no hands, and then I went sock shopping because I was sad to say goodbye to Alfred, and the socks were cute, but there was this purple lace bra." She ground to a halt, cheeks steaming. "It was the same color as Alfred.

Debora Geary

#80. I think that it's only natural that readers become writers. You can only learn so much before you have to share it with others.

Geary Davis