David Johnson > David's Quotes

“Nobody can do life on their own. There ain’t nothing wrong with asking for help. As a matter of fact, a man told me one time that the best gift you can give someone is the opportunity to help you.”
― David Johnson, April's Rain

“Signs are my food, drink are my tears; Clinking of fetters such music would crave; Stink and close air, away my life wears Innocency is all the hope I have. —Sir Thomas Wyatt”
― David Johnson, April's Rain

“So, here’s how it’s going to be,” she continues. “The doctor says I’ve only got a few months to live.” Tucker’s mouth flies open and panic distorts her features. She rises slowly from the couch and stumbles toward the front door. Opening it, she goes into Ella’s front yard. Ella makes a move to go after her when suddenly she hears a cry from outside that makes her blood turn cold. It sounds as if someone has taken the scream of a screech owl and the howl of a coyote and mixed them in hell. Ella has a memory of reading The Hound of the Baskervilles as a child and trying to imagine what the eerie howl of the hound must have sounded like. Now she is certain she knows what it sounded like and why even the intrepid Sherlock Holmes was unnerved upon hearing it.”
― David Johnson, An Unexpected Frost

“Getting stuck on the past will weigh you down and looking into the future will only create worries.”
― David Johnson, An Unexpected Frost

“The only advice I can give you,” Smiley says, “is that you ought to do what you think God would want you to do.  ‘Cause if you do that, you won’t go wrong.” Turning”
― David Johnson, Who Will Hear Me When I Cry

“My idea of listening to his voice is that he will show me how to overcome the obstacles in my path, not that he will remove them from my path. And it’s the end of the journey that I’m interested in, the one that comes after the final obstacle—death.”
― David Johnson, April's Rain

“And he speaks best that hath the skill when for to hold his peace. —Thomas, Lord Vaux”
― David Johnson, April's Rain

“used to wonder what feelings are If they were something other people kept in a jar Then, reaching in, they would choose whatever feeling they wished. Today I learned the truth about feelings – You don’t choose them; they choose you. They grab you, HARD, and don’t let go until they decide to. I think I liked it better when I didn’t know what feelings are.”
― David Johnson, Who Will Hear Me When I Cry

“don’t ever let your focus be so much on the one cloud in the sky that you miss noticing the unending expanse of beautiful blue and the brilliant, shining sun all around.”
― David Johnson, An Unexpected Frost