Quotes About Blaylock

#1. My name Quan. Quan Nguyen. This Kim-Ly, wife. We next door. Do nails. We with Mr. Blaylock. He fight, we fight. We come here from Viet Nam. This good country, but sometimes, good people in good country have to fight.

Dan Groat

#2. How many of them were there?' Her voice wasn't joking around. Eighteen. Hundred.' Four,' Blaylock interjected. 'An honor guard of four.' What did they work you over with? Those bruises on your thighs are severe?' Crowbars. Big, massive-' Blay cut in. 'Clubs. Had to be those ceremonial black clubs.

J.R. Ward

#3. By turns the nine delight to sing

Homer

#4. Blay's head whipped around to his mate. "Really? You asked my dad?" Qhuinn nodded, then started to smile like a mother fucker. "It's my one and only shot. So I wanted to follow protocol.

J.R. Ward

#5. The most audacious thing I could possibly state in this day and age is that life is worth living. It's worth being bashed against. It's worth getting scarred by. It's worth pouring yourself over every one of its coals.

Jeff Buckley

#6. When I look at how the banking world has changed and at the role Chinese banks, for example, play today, Germany, as an export-oriented economy, should be pleased to have a major global player in its camp.

Peer Steinbruck

#7. There was a time when that kind of thing looked like the kingdom of heaven, but somewhere along the line it had lost its glow. Maybe that was just the cost of growing up. And maybe the cost of growing up was too high.

James P. Blaylock

#8. He'd given up squid merchanting when he'd found that the creatures inhabited his dreams, all leggy and cold.

James P. Blaylock

#9. If asked for an opinion we'll say what we think. And by "what we think" I mean the answer that comes to our mind first, seems most logical and requires the least amount of effort to articulate, while getting us in the least amount of trouble. Really that's what our communication boils down to.

Aaron Blaylock

#10. Ford was warm and friendly. He wouldn't embarrass a Cabinet member.

Earl Butz

#11. All that matters is that you be the very best you you can be ...
And that's something no one else can do.

Aaron Blaylock

#12. Geek cred points for trying to stump me, but sorry, you'll have to do better than that. Would you like to try anime for a hundred?" When she looked blank, he sighed. "What took it down, anime, or the Jeopardy reference?

Rachel Caine

#13. Liberalism means well, but it destroys

Dennis Prager

#14. Can somebody tell me why it is that trips to Home Depot are like potato chips, you can never have just one?

Aaron Blaylock

#15. Strange things are said to have happened in this world - some are said to be happening still - but half of them, if I'm any judge, are lies.

James P. Blaylock

#16. The male who'd just arrived laughed as he embraced Qhuinn. You have such a way with words, cousin. I would say ... trucker meets sailor crossed with a twelve-year-old.

J.R. Ward

#17. I suppose this is for the best," Blay said into his shoulder. "You can't cook."
"See? I'm so not Prince Charming.

J.R. Ward

#18. I am glad you like what I said of Mrs. Elizabeth Fry (prison and mental hospital reformer). She is very unpopular with the clergy; examples of living, active virtue disturb our repose and give one to distressing comparisons; we long to burn her alive.

Sydney Smith

#19. The thread of will-they-or-won't-they was the real driver of every word and glance and shift of body.
So ... this was a date, Blay thought. A subtextual negotiation slipcovered in talk of books read and music enjoyed.

J.R. Ward

#20. With my stepson, it is very important to me that there is no drama around the fact that he has two families.

Allegra Huston

#21. Of course the word chaos is used in rather a vague sense by a lot of writers, but in physics it means a particular phenomenon, namely that in a nonlinear system the outcome is often indefinitely, arbitrarily sensitive to tiny changes in the initial condition.

Murray Gell-Mann

#22. We've all become so conscious of how we'll be perceived and so frightened to
possibly offend someone that we've filtered ourselves to what borders on dishonesty. Sure, as my wife constantly reminds me, you don't have to say everything you think; but when did speaking plainly become such a sin?

Aaron Blaylock

#23. I love you. You are my heart beating
outside of my chest.

J.R. Ward

#24. I gotta go to the bathroom," Emby mumbles. "You should have thought of that before you left," says Hayden, putting on his best mother voice. "How many times do we have to tell you? Always use the potty before climbing into a shipping crate.

Neal Shusterman

#25. Hey, as you leave, Qhuinn wanted to say, will you do me a favor? I think my left ventricle is on the floor, so don't step on it as you pull out? Thanks. Great.

J.R. Ward

#26. One cannot make men good by Act of Parliament.

Walter Bagehot

#27. It's all about the confidence.

Denise Bidot

#28. Holy shit . . . They'd joined the war.

J.R. Ward

#29. If he set out right now to make a list of the things he had taken for granted in his life, he'd go broke buying paper.

James P. Blaylock

#30. Everybody with a helmet on is in the mix.

Mike Tomlin

#31. With a quick jerk, Qhuinn wrapped his arms around the single most important person in his life. It was not Layla, although he felt a pang at that denial. It was not John, or his king. It wasn't the brothers. This male was the reason for everything.

J.R. Ward

#32. I judge you not by the sex of whom you love ... but by how you love them.
-Layla, page 306

J.R. Ward

#33. SOONER OR LATER ALL MEN MUST DIE. EVERYTHING DIES IN THE END. I CAN BE ROBBED BUT NEVER DENIED, I TOLD MYSELF. WHY WORRY? "I too cannot be cheated," snapped Fate.

Terry Pratchett

#34. Are bacon and chocolate the foundation of a good meal? No, everybody knows
that is a deep fryer and/or gravy. However, I have long held the notion that you can't name a food that I can't improve by adding either bacon or chocolate.

Aaron Blaylock

#35. Considering the number of ghastly love poems that had been written and which seemed fairly clearly a waste of everyone's time, Jonathan couldn't help but be surprised that coffee hadn't been thus immortalized.

James P. Blaylock

#36. Anger is seldom a useful emotion, and the more self-righteous the anger, the less useful it is.

James P. Blaylock