Quen's Quotes

#1. [Jenks]"I think you're all screwy in the head," he said when Bis nodded his encouragement. "But go ahead. I've got Quen's number in my phone. I'll call him if you both explode in a flash of black underwear and money so I won't have to fly all the way home.

Kim Harrison

#2. I am the biggest technophobe of all time.

Elton John

#3. We had talked about taking a bus to Cincinnati on your eighteenth birthday. It was the only connection any of the three of us had to anywhere and we knew we needed to leave town. He probably didn't even have time to tell you that plan.

Mia Sheridan

#4. Yeah. A feeling. Like the whole point of my life from the alleys in Bangkok to the yachts and private island to coming here like a crazy person trying to fly a helicopter like all of it from birth to here point A to point Z was all some big cosmic trick to get me to meet you. - Sanjit to Lana

Michael Grant

#5. Inequality of rights and power proceeds from the very Author of nature ...

Pope Leo XIII

#6. It ain't about how hard ya hit. It's about how hard ya can get hit and keep moving' forward.

Someguy

#7. We all watched Al open the door. Turning, he waved to us, then passed the threshold. The door shut behind him. I waited for something to happen.
Nothing did.
"This isn't good," Quen said.
I choked back my burst of laughter, knowing it would come out sounding hysterical.

Kim Harrison

#8. Recipe for a Worry

Take one pound morbid preoccupation and mix vigorously with one cup overactive imagination. In a separate bowl, add one part hypersensitivity to three parts increased hormone activity. Fold together and let stew for hours on end.

Emily Colas

#9. Avoiding me, Quen downed a swallow of wine. "Trent is a fine young man," he said, watching the remaining wine swirl.
"Yes ... " I drawled, cautiously. "If you can call a drug lord and outlawed-medicine manufacturer a fine young man.

Kim Harrison

#10. Pain and suffering are like weights and pushups to the human spirit - adversity only makes it stronger.

Toni Sorenson

#11. The one unchangeable certainty is that nothing is certain or unchangeable.

John F. Kennedy

#12. His attitude, though always bad, has changed since he helped me prep the Pandora charm for Morgan. He thinks I'm falling for her, as ridiculous as that sounds, and he might be tempted to take matters into his hands.

Kim Harrison

#13. I am often drawn to what appear at first to be 'dark' or 'difficult' subjects, but which, upon further examination, are always and only reflections of the ways human beings attempt, however clumsily, badly, or well, to connect with others.

Marya Hornbacher

#14. What I voice, I voice though my art, if that's not too vainglorious a word. But I don't think it is.

Brendan Gleeson

#15. The art of making love, muffled up in furs, in the open air, with the thermometer at Zero, is a Yankee invention.

John Quincy Adams

#16. A man must pay the fiddler. In my case it so happened that a whole symphony orchestra often had to be subsidized.

John Barrymore

#17. No," he admitted, and my instincts sang out at his reluctance. "That's across the hall."
Crutch swinging, I started for the door, almost pushing Quen out of my way. "Just over there, you say?" I said,

Kim Harrison

#18. Moreover, the accomplishment of Russia's aims has been greatly simplified by the fact that we have heretofore offered the world no practical antidote for the Russian poison.

James Forrestal

#19. Did something happen to the sanctity of your church again?"
My eye twitched. "Newt broke it so she could look in my closet." Again.

Kim Harrison

#20. I like people who are being normal and being themselves.

Callan McAuliffe

#21. A prison! heav'ns, I loath the hated name,
Famine's metropolis, the sink of shame,
A nauseous sepulchre, whose craving womb
Hourly inters poor mortals in its tomb;
By ev'ry plague and ev'ry ill possess'd,
Ev'n purgatory itself to thee 's a jest.

Tom Brown Jr.

#22. It is not always what we do, Sa'han, but who we love that makes us who we are. Quen

Kim Harrison