Julia DeBarrioz > Julia's Quotes

“Marriage, in my view, should be a balanced stalemate between equal adversaries.”
― Elizabeth Peters, The Mummy Case

“Old enough to know better, pissed enough not to care. (Jaden)”
― Sherrilyn Kenyon, Bad Moon Rising

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

“Nothing in life is fair. Fair is a dirty word and I'll thank you not to use that language around me.”
― Jeff Lindsay, Dexter in the Dark

“What to wear? I could think of no guidelines on what we were wearing this season to a party forced on you to celebrate an unwanted engagement that might turn into a violent confrontation with a vengeful maniac. Clearly brown shoes were out, but beyond that nothing really seemed de rigueur.”
― Jeff Lindsay, Dearly Devoted Dexter

“...she forced herself to relax her shoulders and affect a tone of bored insouciance that the Widow would have approved, and said, "I shall need a map. And a pistol.”
― Donna Thorland, The Turncoat

“I advise you against following my example. Don’t take up with a man who will die for you. Find one who will kill for you instead.”
― Donna Thorland, The Turncoat

“Do you know how embarrassing it is when you drop your purse and a grenade rolls out? People don’t like that sh*t, it scares them.” –Dakota del Toro, Cazadora”
― Julia DeBarrioz, Cazadora

“However, as far as cynics went, Dakota wasn’t stellar. She always hoped for a happy ending, a silver lining, an above average individual, even when she knew better.”
― Julia DeBarrioz, Cazadora

“Dakota stroked the grip of the Beretta at her hip like some people touch a cross. She didn’t much believe in God these days, but she did believe in finely manufactured Italian firepower.”
― Julia DeBarrioz, Cazadora

“You are cruel, my lady. Cruel, beautiful, terrible…and I am going to kiss you now.” -Diego de Gama, Cazadora”
― Julia DeBarrioz, Cazadora

“For so long, she had remained the sleeping volcano, her passion and pain and anger roiling quietly as lava within. She’d buried her love deep within her core; with heat and pressure she made diamonds of it all, gemstones precious and beautiful, glittering and indestructible and of no use but to be hoarded in her heart.”
― Julia DeBarrioz, Cazadora

“Funny, he didn’t seem to make such jokes when she was carrying her gun." Dakota on Diego”
― Julia DeBarrioz, Cazadora

“I’m just asking for a fair shake.”
At times Diego would have welcomed the opportunity to take her by the shoulders and do just that—however, undoubtedly it would not end well for him.”
― Julia DeBarrioz, Cazadora

“Are you implying I am outdated?” Diego parried, a small smile pulling the corners of his lips.
“Not outdated. More like…a classic,” Dakota assured him with a cheeky grin.”
― Julia DeBarrioz, Cazadora

“I speak of the human heart, not a logic puzzle." -Diego de Gama”
― Julia DeBarrioz, Cazadora

“Stubborn. Brazen. Intelligent. Beautiful. And too brave for your own good. Yes, it’s a compliment, estrella.” -Diego de Gama, Cazadora”
― Julia DeBarrioz, Cazadora

“Ire, like an atom bomb, could clear the field but came with consequence.”
― Julia DeBarrioz, Cazadora

“A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.”
― George Bernard Shaw

“America does not have a health-car system. We have a sick-care system... It's a stretch to use the word "system" to describe, as this word denotes organization.”
― Peter Bach pulmonologist at Memorial Sloan-Kettering

“In any age when people pervert goodness, love, and obedience and set up a god small enough to fit their shrunken souls...Anything is evil,...It lies on the other side of the line you draw around what you will accept as good. Some people's lines are awfully narrow.”
― Zenna Henderson, The People: No Different Flesh

“Morning is wonderful. Its only drawback is that it comes at such an inconvenient time of day.”
― Glen Cook, Sweet Silver Blues

“Words are not the only way we communicate, you and I. They never were.”
― Meredith Duran, The Duke of Shadows

“Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn't carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life.”
― Stephen King

“I know they say that a stiff dick has no conscience, but I tell you now that some cunts have teeth...”
― Stephen King

“If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.”
― Stephen King

“If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”
― Stephen King

“God works in mysterious ways, thought the coyote for a second, but he gets really fucking weird when it comes to poor people and dangerous places.”
― Gabino Iglesias, Coyote Songs

“To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering one must not love. But then one suffers from not loving. Therefore, to love is to suffer; not to love is to suffer; to suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love. To be happy, then, is to suffer, but suffering makes one unhappy. Therefore, to be happy one must love or love to suffer or suffer from too much happiness.”
― Woody Allen