Quintana Quotes

#1. There could be no snakes in Quintana Roo's garden.
Only later did I see that I had been raising her as a doll.

Joan Didion

#2. How could I have ever been ashamed of loving Dante Quintana?

Benjamin Alire Saenz

#3. Quintana of Charyn's body was a map of hatred.

Melina Marchetta

#4. How is it that she spoke to you of such things?" Quintana asked.
"Oh, you know. She opened her mouth and words came out.

Melina Marchetta

#5. Part of Quintana had left this world and Froi knew that part of him was gone as well.

Melina Marchetta

#6. Quintana had known Tubbs since high school; Tubbs had been one of the slightly nerdy intellectuals on the edge of the popular clique, while Quintana had been metal shop and a football lineman.

John Sandford

#7. There it was. Suddenly the strangeness of Quintana of Charyn's face made sense. Because it was a face meant for laughing, but it had never been given a chance. It robbed Phaedra of her breath.

Melina Marchetta

#8. He could hardly breathe at the though of his son and Quintana in Sorel with no one to protect them.

Melina Marchetta

#9. It's not that I like you least [ ... ] it's that I feared you most. The reginita taught me to like you. There was a strange joy to her that lifted my spirits. But you, Quintana of Charyn, you made me love you.

Melina Marchetta

#10. He took her face in his bloody hands. I'll come and find you wherever you are. I'll not stop breathing until I do. So you're going to have to promise me that you won't lose hope. That you will keep yourself alive.

Melina Marchetta

#11. Above all things, dragons are loyal. Perhaps that is what makes us to amenable to life with sticks. Our characters are larger than their shortfalls.

H. Leighton Dickson

#12. Men, gay or straight, can get beauty and lewdness into one image. Women are forever softening, censoring, politicizing. ?

Camille Paglia

#13. A man who has no fire,
is an unfurtunate man

Anton Quintana

#14. When I hear real faithful people - whether it's a real Christian, or a real Buddhist, or a real Muslim - I hear them use the language I use for a friend. So my metaphor for God is friend.

Patch Adams

#15. No one knows if I'm dying to laugh or to cry
So my verse has
this almost imperceptible thrill
Life is sad, the world is crazy!
Not worth killing yourself for it
Not for anyone
For no love
Life goes on, indifferently!

Mario Quintana

#16. I wonder if he'd been as beautiful as Dante. And I wondered why I thought that.

Benjamin Alire Saenz

#17. Life is a Gamble sometimes you won something and sometimes others.

Udayveer Singh

#18. I heard your song the moment we were born. And years later, it dragged me back from the lake of the half-dead when all I wanted to do was die. Each time someone tried to kill me, it sang its tune and gave me hope.

Melina Marchetta

#19. What would people think of a tradesman, that was to give a ball in his shop, hire performers, and hand refreshments about, with a view to benefit his business?

Jean-Baptiste Say

#20. The key to humanity is simple. Live your life with purpose. They need goals to strive for.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#21. When a man writes on a wall, his instinct leads him to write above the level of his own eyes.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#22. To pray shows a lack of faith. Our Lord, supposedly, knows what He's doing

Mario Quintana

#23. Here we have the great irony of modern nutrition: at a time when hundreds of millions of people do not have enough to eat, hundreds of millions more are eating too much and are overweight or obese.

Marion Nestle

#24. I also believe, without any supporting evidence, that cats are evil.

Evan Mandery

#25. Don't let something like the simple word "No" stop you from doing anything!

Wendy Noriega-Quintana

#26. Every sensible man, every honorable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror.

Voltaire

#27. Housework's the hardest work in the world. That's why men won't do it.

Edna Ferber

#28. Books don't change the world, people change the world, books only change people.

Mario Quintana

#29. The worst thing about our problems is that nobody has nothing to do with them

Mario Quintana

#30. You say you're a writer but you're depressed. Not an excuse; write from there. Write some depressing sh*t. Believe me. You will have plenty of readers who can relate. Remember writers write.

Stanley Christopher

#31. I love California. I love Hollywood.

Dwight Henry

#32. If poems very different from my own bring pleasure to a group of readers, who am I to say that the poems should have been written differently?

James Arthur

#33. Don't waste your time chasing butterflies. Mend your garden, and the butterflies will come.

Mario Quintana