Top 100 Kincaid's Quotes
#1. When you get to Lady Kincaid's house, don't leave until you've had a chance to talk to the man, even if you have to drag him by the ear. It may take a bit of persistence."
Sophie grinned, feeling better already. "That I have in abundance.
Karen Hawkins
#2. No wonder the sky had to be blotted out by advertisements. The stars drowned with lights. If everyone could see beyond Coalition horizons, perhaps they'd see the titans of humanity for what they were: tiny creatures, smaller than insects, and in the scale of things, every bit as insignificant.
S.J. Kincaid
#3. At long last, she gasped out, "It's Seth."
"What happened?" I demanded. "Is he okay?"
"He ended it." Her crying renewed. "He broke the engagement and told me it was over.
Richelle Mead
#4. Oh, and I died horribly at your hands. Gruesome murder is always a foundation for a beautiful friendship!
S.J. Kincaid
#5. You're a spelling bee champ, aren't you, White Fang? How do you spell, 'If I don't learn to speak to my betters with more respect, I'm going to get my face smashed in'?"
Tom laughed, unable to resist. "That one's easy. It's K-A-R-L.
S.J. Kincaid
#6. Race is not particularly interesting to me. Power is. Who has power and who doesn't. Slavery interests me because it's an incredible violation that has not stopped. It's necessary to talk about that. Race is a diversion.
Jamaica Kincaid
#7. Come on, Beamer! I beheaded you for your own good.
S.J. Kincaid
#8. People think if you describe someone with glistening brown skin you're writing about race, as if the whole of the African diaspora is in someone's brown skin.
Jamaica Kincaid
#9. Life has a truth to it, and it's complicated - it's love and it's hatred.
Jamaica Kincaid
#10. He purred the words, as if his tongue was lazy and had all the time in the world to wrap around each and every syllable. She wondered if his tongue would be so thorough on a woman's body.
Blue Kincaid
#11. It's not that I'm a very good person. It's that I think I should at least look at the ways in which I am not a good person, the ways in which I so readily become the person who would not notice that the wonderful clothing I'm wearing someone is probably dying for.
Jamaica Kincaid
#12. I would never never read a work of fiction and want to know about the person's life.
Jamaica Kincaid
#13. We all have moments of weakness. It's how we recover from them that really counts.
Richelle Mead
#14. If there was a horse and the horse looked like you, I would find that horse attractive.
S.J. Kincaid
#15. I know this is asking a lot, but try to stop humiliating yourselves.
S.J. Kincaid
#16. Race as a subject only comes about because of what I look like. If I say something truthfully, people say "Oh, she's so angry." If I write about a married person who lives in Vermont, it becomes "Oh, she's autobiographical."
Jamaica Kincaid
#17. I looked at the stone, fragmented and cratered by my rage and jealousy. So this was a visual representation of a Diabolic's affection, then: an ugly, broken, blood-spattered stone.
S.J. Kincaid
#18. Son, you are now a man,' then he gave me a scented candle and told me how babies are made.
S.J. Kincaid
#19. What's being crazy like?" Wyatt blurted.
"That depends, Enslow. What's being tactless and completely inappropriate like?
S.J. Kincaid
#20. The photograph of my brother that is in this album shows a young man, beautiful and perfect in the way of young people, for young people are always perfect and beautiful until they are not, until the moment they just are not.
Jamaica Kincaid
#21. Some might call us a monstrous pair, and they would be right. Tyrus and I were both scorpions in our way, dangerous creatures crossing the most treacherous of rivers together. Together we might sting - but we also would float.
S.J. Kincaid
#22. Are you guys seriously messing around with real weapons?" she exclaimed. "It's like you want Darwin Awards!"
Tom flushed, and set his gun back on its hook. "It's not like we were going to start a dynastic war or something."
"Yeah," Vik said guiltily, returning his own weapon.
S.J. Kincaid
#23. There's something to be said about a slightly plump person - you have just enough of too much.
Jamaica Kincaid
#25. I was at Peter's fondue party,before that was at the mall. Peter's tell me about Peter's, Did anything weird happen there? I was at a fondue party at a vampires everything about that is weird.
Richelle Mead
#26. The Emperor wishes me to send my innocent little lamb to the slaughter. No. Instead, I'll send him my anaconda.
S.J. Kincaid
#27. Sorry, Tim," Yuri said, regret in his voice. "Normally I would not push you around, but I must because you have become such a pansy.
S.J. Kincaid
#28. The Holocaust happened in Europe, and that's important to how it is viewed. Had Europeans done such a thing in the far corners of the earth, rather than on their own doorstep, it might not be mentioned in the history books.
Jamaica Kincaid
#29. People spoke so reverently of affection. For me, it seemed a torment. I couldn't believe people enjoyed these feelings. How could someone relish this excruciating need to secure a claim on another human?
S.J. Kincaid
#30. I think life is difficult and that's that. I am not at all - absolutely not at all - interested in the pursuit of happiness. I am not interested in the pursuit of positivity. I am interested in pursuing a truth, and the truth often seems to be not happiness but its opposite.
Jamaica Kincaid
#31. They'd taken everything. Everything, and people simply had let them. People had meekly surrendered the world to them in hopes those CEOs would finally have enough, finally have reason to leave them be. But Tom knew better.
S.J. Kincaid
#32. The ruby landed at the baron's feet. "Repayment, Baron, from Lady Kincaid.
Julie Garwood
#34. If I actually ran the world, I'd do it from the kitchen. It's not anything deliberate or a statement or anything, that's just how I understand things. It's arranged along informal lines.
Jamaica Kincaid
#35. Everyone believed Diabolics were fearless, but in my earliest years, all I knew was fear.
S.J. Kincaid
#36. I had come to feel that my mother's love for me was designed solely to make me into an echo of her; and I didn't know why, but I felt that I would rather be dead than become just an echo of someone.
Jamaica Kincaid
#37. She was bored with simply being straight-A's Claudia Kincaid. She was tired of arguing about whose turn it was to choose the Sunday night seven-thirty television show, of injustice, and of the monotony of everything.
E.L. Konigsburg
#38. I don't feel I'm angry. I feel as though I'm describing something true. If I had stabbed my husband, I could understand being called "angry." If I had an affair with my husband's best friend and written about that experience, I could see the anger. But I'm not doing that.
Jamaica Kincaid
#39. He had to live out the entirety of his life as Dalton Prestwick. It was really a worse fate than anything Tom could inflict on him.
S.J. Kincaid
#41. She needs a proper supervillain name. Man Hands isn't doing it for me."
"You're right. How about 'Evil Wench from the Darkest Reaches of Mordor'?
S.J. Kincaid
#42. Who's chasing you?
Genghises. Large, angry Genghises.
S.J. Kincaid
#43. And he'd definitely never expected to ever have to tell someone, "All right, no killing and eating me, okay? I'm ready to go.
S.J. Kincaid
#44. What's so funny?" he asked.
"You'll just think I'm silly."
"I already think you're silly, so you might as well tell me."
"Batman," she breathed.
"What?
Elena Kincaid
#45. What distinguished my life from my brother's is that my mother didn't like me. When I became a woman, I seemed to repel her.
Jamaica Kincaid
#46. That smile of hers could seriously crash planes.
S.J. Kincaid
#47. I was just looking at moving to Cambridge, and a house I was looking at cost a million dollars. Because somehow, that's what a house costs. And I was thinking, "How can it be?" And I was thinking, "What am I doing? Am I going to be Niall Ferguson, that horrible man?
Jamaica Kincaid
#48. What's wrong?" asked Seth, seeing my frown.
"That new drummer. Alec. He hit on me earlier, and now he's moving in on Casey. I think he's one of those guys who thinks plying girls with liquor is the only way to get laid."
"Wait. I thought I was the only guy who knew that secret.
Richelle Mead
#49. Is that the only way?" Tom asked her. "Vik and I tried net-sending with a thought interface during Programming once, but I couldn't concentrate on just one thing at a time."
Vik nodded. "His programming questions were always like, 'Vik, how do steak boobs function?
S.J. Kincaid
#50. Not just in America. When I left my primary school, my father said, 'Son, you are now a man,' then he gave me a scented candle and told me how babies are made." Vik fought to keep his lips from twitching.
S.J. Kincaid
#51. We are all of us bust stardust shaped into conscious being.
S.J. Kincaid
#52. There's not a person in history who achieved greatness without choking back some pride, without ever smiling at someone they despised, without playing along even if they hated the very idea of it
S.J. Kincaid
#53. For me, writing isn't a way of being public or private; it's just a way of being. The process is always full of pain, but I like that. It's a reality, and I just accept it as something not to be avoided.
Jamaica Kincaid
#54. I'm unhappy doing just mole stuff. What's wrong with me? Why couldn't I look forward to digging my own burrow?
Mary T. Kincaid
#55. As an aside, Hop got gold stars because he had buttermilk available for pancakes. These stars started shining when he told me pancakes weren't worth making without buttermilk and, since this was the God's honest truth, I took it as happy indication that Hopper Kincaid and I might just be soul mates.
Kristen Ashley
#56. Writing is not a profession. It's a calling. It's almost holy.
Jamaica Kincaid
#57. At the door I planted a kiss on Paul's mouth with an uncontrollable ardor that I actually did feel-a kiss of treachery, for I could still taste the other man in my mouth.
Jamaica Kincaid
#58. Ow, that hurts! It hurts like being in Connecticut!
S.J. Kincaid
#59. That's not fair," I said.
"Georgina," he said simply. "We're in Hell.
Richelle Mead
#60. No matter how much falls on us, we keep plowing ahead. That's the only way to keep the roads clear.
Greg Kincaid
#61. When I moved out here to California, I became obsessed with geology. It's impossible not to be interested in the earth if you live in a place like this. I started to read a lot of geology, much to the horror of my friends.
Jamaica Kincaid
#62. Our ancestors sought knowledge, but we, their descendants, glorify ignorance.
S.J. Kincaid
#64. We thought you fell down a hole and died somewhere."
"Close. I was with Blackburn.
S.J. Kincaid
#65. I hope you had an entertaining time following me around." I took my keys out.
"You should be a reality show," he said. "It's that good. And you know, I might be a totally unstable former assassin, but man. You manage to shock even me.
Richelle Mead
#66. It's terrifying to realize your own decisions are shaping your destiny.
S.J. Kincaid
#67. Kincaid, evidently exhausted himself, drew a gun, took the safety off, placed it on his chest, and went to sleep too.
"It's cute," I whispered to Murphy. "He has a teddy Glock.
Jim Butcher
#68. He began to understand suddenly what friends were for: they reminded you that things weren't so bad after all. Reminded you never to stop laughing at yourself.
S.J. Kincaid
#69. I think a woman is powerless if she cannot freely claim the right to her reproductive capacity. Society can talk about anything it likes, except a woman's reproductive existence.
Jamaica Kincaid
#70. Whenever he closed his eyes, he still saw her flying, fighting with ferocious genius. He still remembered that kiss.
S.J. Kincaid
#71. The thing about writing in America is that writers in America have an arc. You enter writing as a career, you expect to be successful, and really it's the wrong thing. It's not a profession.
Jamaica Kincaid
#72. I had only two goals going forward: to fool people into thinking I was Sidonia, and of course, to try not to die.
S.J. Kincaid
#73. Is there a way to to contact someone's computer with yours?"
"Yes. It's called email," Wyatt replied.
S.J. Kincaid
#74. It's too easy to say this or that is "race," and that has been a vehicle for an incredible amount of wrong in the world.
Jamaica Kincaid
#75. If I describe a person's physical appearance in my writing, which I often do, especially in fiction, I never say someone is "black" or "white." I may describe the color of their skin - black eyes, beige skin, blue eyes, dark skin, etc. But I'm not talking about race.
Jamaica Kincaid
#76. There really was nothing firm, nothing certain. Even here, even at this place where he thought he'd found something permanent - everything could change in a day. Everything could be lost so quickly.
S.J. Kincaid
#77. I would not just disappear into a void as though I'd never existed. I would not accept that I was less than these people just because they'd designed me that way.
S.J. Kincaid
#78. Those are some of the most powerful people in the world, and you swamped them in sewage! If you had real friends, they'd have told you that you're an idiot for even thinking about doing that!"
Tom bristled, indignant. "My friends do tell me I'm an idiot. All the time!
S.J. Kincaid
#79. He felt like anything was possible around her, like his life meant more, like he meant more.
S.J. Kincaid
#80. That missleproof glass might as well have been electrified fence and barbed wire. No one could fashion a prison so perfect, so complete, as the one the masters of humanity had created for themselves.
S.J. Kincaid
#81. Tom finally understood why his father saw humanity as worthless. It was hard to see much fundamental value in anything when the bad guys always won.
Maybe this was simply what it was like to grow up.
S.J. Kincaid
#82. What's a treaty? It's a piece of paper. An agreement means nothing in itself. It's the power to force others to comply with that agreement - that's all that counts. That's the sham of this whole thing."
- General Marsh
S.J. Kincaid
#83. I write a lot in my head. The revision goes on internally. It's not spontaneous and it doesn't have a schedule.
Jamaica Kincaid
#84. However, an artist is limited only by his own skill and imagination. He's in total control of his art. Whereas nature is the artist here, and I merely try to interpret and manage her design.
Crit Kincaid
#85. Tom just stood there, sword in hand, a huge grin on his lips. He stared at Medusa and Medusa stared at him, and in this moment that made his dreams come true, Tom could only think of one thing to say.
"How's it going?
S.J. Kincaid
#86. Children like their mothers especially to be standing still and watching them, even if they are sleeping. At least that's how I felt. There's nothing wrong with the self-interest of children; it's just the way they are.
Jamaica Kincaid
#87. Everything I do is because of writing. If I go for a walk, it's because I'm thinking of writing. I go look at flowers, I go look at the garden, I go look at a museum, but it's all coming back to writing.
Jamaica Kincaid
#88. I liked that sentence then and I like that sentence now but then I had no way of making any sense of it, I could only keep it in my mind's eye, where it rested and grew in the embryo that would become my imagination
Jamaica Kincaid
#89. Someone who knew me well once accused me of being unromantic. And that's probably true: I don't trust romance.
Jamaica Kincaid
#90. That was when I realized for the first time that Sidonia Impyrean - meek, fearful, shy, and gentle - could be indomitable.
S.J. Kincaid
#91. Exactly," said Maddie. "What's your favorite flavor?"
"I bet I can guess," said Simone. "Chocolate."
"Strawberry," said Maddie.
Losers. It was vanilla.
"Vanilla," said Seth.
Richelle Mead
#92. A Diabolic is ruthless. A Diabolic is powerful. A Diabolic has a single task: Kill in order to protect the person you've been created for.
S.J. Kincaid
#93. But then, I've always believed love is the most volatile substance in the universe. It erupts, it incinerates, and then it simply flames out. . . .
S.J. Kincaid
#94. Seth's quote from his book:
"And if I only could
I'd make a deal with God and I'd get Him to swap our places"
-"Running up that Hill" by Kate Bush
Richelle Mead
#95. Perhaps scorpions were the only ones who could save each other.
Whatever lay ahead, it would always be the two of us above the rest of the universe, and woe to any who dared step in out path.
S.J. Kincaid
#96. Nah. I'm a consultant, of course. Everyone's favorite nondescript yet well-paid white-collar job.
Richelle Mead
#97. Love. Comfort. I didn't know what those were, but I wanted them. I would have them. I closed the distance and snapped the man's neck.
As the third corpse dropped to the floor at my feet, the Matriarch smiled.
S.J. Kincaid
#98. There's a difference between bravery and rash stupidity.
Jamaica Kincaid
#99. People kill over money and power and love, but no one kills over gnomes.
S.J. Kincaid
#100. [Unhappiness] comes to you. You come into the world screaming. You cry when you're born because your lungs expand. You breathe. I think that's really kind of significant. You come into the world crying, and it's a sign that you're alive.
Jamaica Kincaid
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