Minyard Quotes

#1. In the face of pain there are no heroes.

George Orwell

#2. It's not the world that's cruel. It's the people in it.

Nora Sakavic

#3. Everything we go through, the good and the bad, make us who we are; why would I want to be anyone else?

P.A. Minyard

#4. If it means losing you, then no

Nora Sakavic

#5. You are a Fox. You are always going to be nothing.

Nora Sakavic

#6. It is oppression that creates sex and not the contrary. The contrary would be to say that sex creates oppression, or to say that the cause (origin) of oppression is to be found in sex itself, in a natural division of the sexes preexisting (or outside of) society.

Monique Wittig

#7. Descending thru your voice like a song, like a cascade of orchids in an afternoon, eternal falls to the Sun.

Gwen Calvo

#8. Is your learning curve a horizontal line?

Nora Sakavic

#9. If there is but one God, then why must blood be shed to prove whose God he is? Does the Father not belong to all of us as we belong to him? Do you think he'll call me a righteous man when I've killed one of his sons?

P.A. Minyard

#10. You are a most effective killer, Michel. Is it true you wept like a child when they killed your sister? That you cried out in agony as if the sword had pierced your own heart? Such compassion. Does your handiwork not bring you to tears as well?

P.A. Minyard

#11. Love isn't something you take from one to give to another. Love is to be shared among all; the more people we have in our family, the more love there will be to share.

P.A. Minyard

#12. If you have to keep asking - I'll answer it as many times as you ask. But this is always going to be yes."
"Don't 'always' me.

Nora Sakavic

#13. I have a severe addiction to 'Angry Birds.' I always tell myself, 'One more game ... ' But then there's always another and another and another.

Kevin Nealon

#14. Give your back to me.

Nora Sakavic

#15. Anytime the Foxes mentioned Andrew's upcoming sobriety or Andrew's name popped up in write-ups on the team's performance at games, the focus was on what a danger he was. People talked about his trial and how it saved them from Andrew. No one said what they were doing to save Andrew from himself.

Nora Sakavic

#16. Fear forces you to attend to matters with the utmost grace and concentration.

P.A. Minyard

#17. Evil is just . . . so harsh. I prefer ethically unfettered.

Jessica Minyard

#18. Andrew had nearly killed four men for assaulting Nicky and would have broken Allison's neck for hitting Aaron, but when it came to crimes against his own person Andrew couldn't care less. He held his life in less regard than he did anything else. Neil hated that with a ferocity that was nauseating.

Nora Sakavic

#19. Andrew kissed him like this was a fight with their lives on the line, like his world stopped and started with Neil's mouth.

Nora Sakavic

#20. Honesty suited Andrew because he was an instigator at heart and his opinions were often unpopular.

Nora Sakavic

#21. As long as matters are really hopeful," wrote Chesterton, "hope is mere flattery or platitude. It is only when everything is hopeless that hope begins to be a strength at all. Like all the Christian virtues, it is as unreasonable as it is indispensable.

Eugene H. Peterson

#22. I feel like, with myself, I ruined myself to the point where I wasn't functional enough to work for anybody, even myself. I wasn't working.

Corey Haim