Jason Parent > Jason's Quotes

“Imagination is a quality that was given to man compensate him from whats not. The sense of humor was given to console him from what is.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Garden of Eden

“We were all the same, it seemed to me, all of us dented and scratched and damaged, held together with pins and duct tape, the walking wounded making one last stand in the dark before giving in to the inevitable".”
― Greg Gifune

“From childhood's hour I have not been. As others were, I have not seen. As others saw, I could not awaken. My heart to joy at the same tone. And all I loved, I loved alone.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

“My heart's in the Highlands, my heart is not here;
My heart's in the Highlands a-chasing the deer;
A-chasing the wild-deer, and following the roe,
My heart's in the Highlands wherever I go.”
― Robert Burns

“Pregnant women shouldn’t be lifting dead bodies.”
― Jeff Strand, Stalking You Now

“Someone once said to me that if you want to make God laugh, just tell him your plans. Just tell him who you are.”
― Jack Ketchum, Peaceable Kingdom

“After years of having a dog, you know him. You know the meaning of his snuffs and grunts and barks. Every twitch of the ears is a question or statement, every wag of the tail is an exclamation.”
― Robert R. McCammon, Boy's Life

“All stories are about wolves. All worth repeating, that is. Anything else is sentimental drivel.

All of them?

Sure, he says. Think about it. There's escaping from the wolves, fighting the wolves, capturing the wolves, taming the wolves. Being thrown to the wolves, or throwing others to the wolves so the wolves will eat them instead of you. Running with the wolf pack. Turning into a wolf. Best of all, turning into the head wolf. No other decent stories exist.”
― Margaret Atwood

“Love isn't an act, it's a whole life.”
― Brian Moore

“Her life was like walking on a tightrope through a hurricane”
― Jason Parent, Seeing Evil

“Everything is set with steadfast accuracy. Everything has its place. Everything, except for the blood.”
― Jason Parent, Seeing Evil

“I’ve heard that some people can imagine alternate realities, even create fictional second lives, as a means to escape the real world.”
― Jason Parent, Seeing Evil

“Death had always danced around him, never asking him to be its partner.”
― Jason Parent, Seeing Evil