Kathy > Kathy's Quotes

“Poetry has been the longest pleasure of my life.”
― Shirley Hazzard

“Reading was my escape and my comfort, my consolation, my stimulant of choice: reading for the pure pleasure of it, for the beautiful stillness that surrounds you when you hear an author's words reverberating in your head.”
― Paul Auster, The Brooklyn Follies

“He shot me.” It just came out, a new number one on the list of the dumbest things he’d ever said.”
― James Dashner, The Scorch Trials

“Because evil waits outside our door.”
― Tracey Ward, Until the End

“Human minds are soft and easy to bend and mold. Most will just follow, never questioning. They are like sheep being led to slaughter.”
― Cameo Renae, Broken Wings

“Christmas has become his ploy. What was once a time for celebration of life and love has now become about getting the biggest and best gifts. Most mortals have become spoiled and ungracious, and fail to appreciate the things right around them. They forget that Christmas is about love, and God’s perfect, selfless gift. So, ultimately…Lucifer’s ploy is working,”
― Cameo Renae, Broken Wings

“Saint or sinner, whether I liked it or not, Hell was my next destination.”
― Cameo Renae, Broken Wings

“All is fair in love and war,”
― Barbara Devlin, Enter the Brethren

“society should not be run by a person who could not relate to its members.”
― Sarah Dalton, The Vanished

“Alone. Yes, that's the key word, the most awful word in the English tongue. Murder doesn't hold a candle to it and hell is only a poor synonym.”
― Stephen King

“Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

“This is the way the world ends Not with a bang, but a whimper.”   -- T.S. Elliot”
― Michael Soll, Scorched

“A beautiful heart can never love a dark heart. But a dark heart can crave a beautiful one, and it will. I will crave you, beauty.”
― Bella Jewel, Number Thirteen

“Nothing can hurt more than losing the only thing you’ve ever fought for.”
― Bella Jewel, Number Thirteen

“Sometimes the path we must walk is long and must be traveled alone. Even when others are by our side, there is no one with us.”
― L.J. Baker, Find Me

“It isn’t worth it if it doesn’t hurt a little.”
― A.L. Jackson, Come to Me Quietly

“Desire, it is everywhere you look. The desire to be loved. The desire to be unique. The desire to simply live.”
― Alberto Pupo, Desires

“All marriages contain secrets; of this I’m certain.”
― Greer Hendricks, The Golden Couple

“He’s the Devil, Zahra.  Well, that explains why Eve fell for his tricks. If the Devil looked half as good as Rowan, I’d eat the damn apple too. Screw the consequences.”
― Lauren Asher, The Fine Print

“But how can we appreciate the sun every morning if we don’t live through the dark?”
― Lauren Asher, The Fine Print

“Because you either bend to the will of monsters or you easily become the prey.”
― Lauren Asher, The Fine Print

“Listen to what I am going to tell you. There is a point of no return with every pandemic. Meaning it reaches a point when we can’t stop it. There is also a point where things start to go crazy, cities shut down, borders close, and people are quarantined.”
― Jacqueline Druga, My Dead World

“Ain’t that the goddamn truth with this virus? Death hurts the living.”
― Jacqueline Druga, My Dead World

“Then I saw when the Lamb broke one of the seven seals, and I heard one of the four living creatures saying as with a voice of thunder, “Come.” I looked, and behold, a white horse, and he who sat on it had a bow; and a crown was given to him, and he went out conquering and to conquer. —Revelation 6:1-2 New American Standard Bible (NASB)”
― Laura Thalassa, Pestilence

“The devil was also an angel.”
― Laura Thalassa, Pestilence

“You just have to remember the rule of threes. You can survive three minutes without air. Three hours without shelter. Three days without water. Three weeks without food. First things first, and you’ll survive.”
― Noelle W. Ihli, Run on Red

“Part of the game, for many killers, is the con of the innocent, the hiding of the monster,”
― A.R. Torre, The Good Lie

“With this glass, rich and deep, we cradle all our sorrows to sleep.” I gave a wistful smile.”
― A.R. Torre, The Good Lie

“Let’s get one thing straight. I will always treat you like the princess you deserve when we’re outside the bedroom. But when we are in here, I’m going to fuck you like a whore.”
― Luna Mason, Distance

“Cole tried, he truly did, he attempted to keep his poise, But how could he with her? All that noise, noise, noise. She was very unpleasant; he couldn’t stand her in the least. Especially after she took away his chicken parm feast.”
― Meghan Quinn, How My Neighbor Stole Christmas