Stealing Phoenix Quotes

#1. Some women
the good ones
are like a breath of fresh air, amusing and different and invigorating. The trouble is that it is damnably difficult to capture air and hold it for any length of time.

Karen Hawkins

#2. How am I going to help you?"
"You are going to jump."
"Ha."
"You are."
"Have you done this before?"
"Yeah, with fruit." That was Xav.
"And why am I not reassured?

Joss Stirling

#3. Somehow it seems wrong to photograph a blind person. It's like stealing something valuable they don't even know they own.

Chuck Palahniuk

#4. Writing is work. It takes a lot of contemplation, concentration, and out-and-out sweat. People tend to romanticize it, that somehow your work appears by benefit of some mystical external force. In reality, to be a writer, you have to sit down and write. It's work, and often it's hard work.

Wendelin Van Draanen

#5. Nice. Like the new look. He didn't sound as if he liked it one tiny bit. He sounded fit to be tied down and given a dose of sedatives.

Joss Stirling

#6. Glancing in through the open door to Xav's room, I saw Zed stretched out on the queen mattress, his arm hugging a pillow as if he felt Sky's absence at his side.

Joss Stirling

#7. Just, in future, an 'I'm-not-going-to-get-myself-killed' note would be appreciated.

Joss Stirling

#8. [I]n order to raise a soul to the highest perfection, He allows it to pass through dryness, brambles, and combats, causing it thereby to honor the times of weariness in the life of His Son, Our Lord, who suffered various kinds of anguish and abandonment.

Vincent De Paul

#9. Kneel down to pray. Step up to serve. Reach out to rescue. Each is a vital page of God's blueprint to make a house a home and a home a heaven.

Thomas S. Monson

#10. Life is a means of extracting fiction.

Robert Stone

#11. I watched 'Rocky' and 'Raging Bull' and 'Taxi Driver' over and over again. They spoke to you, man.

Paddy Considine

#12. Xav tugged Yves off me and handed me the call button. You'll be needing this, Phee, when my irritating little squirt of a brother bothers you again. Just press and the nurses will come running. One of them looks like a pro-wrestler, so she'll make short work of him.

Joss Stirling

#13. Xav bounded out behind him. Yeah, Phee equals You-She squared. I've been working on that one: like it?

Joss Stirling

#14. So, Zed, isn't this a killer outfit?"
"Certainly a killer, baby."
"Good, because I've bought another five just like it."
"You horrible, teasing fairy. If you really have more of those fashion disasters in your bags, I'm gonna hang you on top of the family Christmas tree in December.

Joss Stirling

#15. So you got Phoenix back," declared Karla, clapping her hands in delight. "That's lovely."
"I'm more on loan," I muttered.
"Yeah, my little library book.

Joss Stirling

#16. You ... you want me to argue with you? I thought you wanted me to understand you.

Joss Stirling

#17. What changed in the United States with Hurricane Katrina was a feeling that we have entered a period of consequences.

Al Gore

#18. I'm so pleased you're such a quick judge of character. You've got him tagged."
"Yep, toe-tagged, in the freezer, then buried six feet under.

Joss Stirling

#19. I revised my opinion that the girl was timid. She appeared to have her giant well under control and a disturbing ability to know what I was feeling.

Joss Stirling