Terry > Terry's Quotes

“People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.”
― George Orwell

“Deb was funny and smart, and regarding her looks, she was funny and smart. Tall, skinny, with a long nose, she had a distinctly bony presence. But her smile was warm, and she was unfailingly polite, qualities that go a long way in the world.”
― Terry Maggert, The Forest Bull

“Liz had the desperate beauty of a fancy guest soap that had been used too often but whose original features still stubbornly remained.”
― Terry Maggert, The Forest Bull

“Finally, she told Lev that she could not go on, and he sat heavy on her bed with the breath crushed out of him by five decades of memories.”
― Terry Maggert, The Forest Bull

“Only the bones remain, Ring, and they pave the continent with the residue of sorrow, each death piling on the last in a tower of loss that would scratch at the heavens if it were made real.”
― Terry Maggert, The Forest Bull

“Rarely is investigative work quite as engaging as being surrounded by gyrating naked women. It’s a sacrifice I make for the good of our team and for the children. Or something like that.”
― Terry Maggert, The Forest Bull

“I am, or I should say, was prideful, a terrible sin, to be so, but now, I feel myself losing depth, like an echo or a reflection of a man. The beasts here are unaware of my presence, anymore. My time for challenging and changing is past. I only hope, rudely, for my own benefit, to recover some of what once was.”
― Terry Maggert, The Forest Bull

“Her straight brown hair rarely covered her trademark earrings, which ranged from spoon-like appendages covered in sequins to hoops that a parrot could roost in. Today, she had selected a demure pair of feathers plucked from some species of bird that took mating rituals very seriously, as no fewer than ten shades of greens and blues created a pattern that could cause a seizure disorder if one stared at them too long. ”
― Terry Maggert, The Forest Bull