Grady > Grady's Quotes

“Gloria watched the swollen white orb of a hot-air balloon rising over Navy Pier and knew she had to break it off with Oliver, for he was the type who would never enjoy hot-air balloons, Van Morrison songs, or mess, whether from orgasm or otherwise. But who was she to be dreaming about mess today?”
― Andrea Kayne Kaufman, Oxford Messed Up

“Things aren't always what they appear,' he said softly, yet his voice carried a grim authority. 'I've spent my life searching for the ultimate, the best. All that is rare, unique, different, special. And of all I've experienced, people are the most disappointing.”
― Emma Darcy, The Unpredictable Man

“I learned that one person hurting another really is like a hand curling into a fist to smash the foot. And that all that really matters is family and other people. And that the purpose of life is to find the Light of God, but not the light from some old guy with a beard sitting up there judging us. The light is the love we give each other on our way back home. And that God wouldn’t mind if we spent a little less time telling him how great he is and a little more time loving each other, and not just the people we’re supposed to love, but everyone.”
― Paul H. Magid, Lifting the Wheel of Karma

“The path to enlightenment, to find out who you truly are, has to be taken alone.”
― Ghalib Shiraz Dhalla, The Two Krishnas: A Novel

“Instead of heading for a big mental breakdown, I decided to have a small breakdown every Tuesday evening.”
― Graham Parke, No Hope for Gomez!

“It's finally happened; scientists claim to have discovered the very first person in history who doesn't like french fries.

Just imagine the implications!”
― Graham Parke

“Life is nasty, brutish, and short. Death is easy.”
― Jacob M. Appel, The Biology of Luck

“I flew from Madrid, Spain, to New York, USA, from where I embarked on what would become a 6.5-years-continuous-around-the-world journey. My aim was to treat the world as a single destination, and to explore it as if it were one huge country.”
― Nicos Hadjicostis, Destination Earth- A New Philosophy of Travel by a World-Traveler

“Saving a life isn't just pulling a friend from the fire," he explains, the daredevil playing in his wet,
excited eyes. "It's thereafter keeping him from the fire. Saving a life means saving it over and over.”
― Daryl Banner, Outlier: Rebellion

“Nineteen is a strange pitstop between childhood and adulthood.”
― Nathan Bay, Freshman Fantasies 2

“They were all together now, and a voice inside assured him that things were going to work out. He just had to be brave and see it through, even when he was scared of the uncertainty, or overwhelmed by his inability to know what the next day would bring. There was only one thing Roger had ever wanted in his life, and he could feel it radiating all around him:

Love. Forever.”
― Nathan Bay, Young Forever