Jeannie Walker > Jeannie's Quotes

“You gotta help me get out of here! They're trying to kill me. I'm gonna die. I've got $35,000 missing. Those two women took it. They're trying to kill me. You gotta help me. Cut me loose! Cut me loose!”
― Jeannie Walker, Fighting the Devil: A True Story of Consuming Passion, Deadly Poison, and Murder

“If I wasn't sure before, I'm sure now that she poisoned him to death. I'm also fairly sure she had help killing him, and by God, I'm going to prove it, if it's the last thing I ever do.”
― Jeannie Walker, Fighting the Devil: A True Story of Consuming Passion, Deadly Poison, and Murder

“Oh, Jeannie, I am so glad you woke me. I was having the worst nightmare. I felt like I was suffocating. I dreamed the Devil was trying to choke me to death.”
― Jeannie Walker

“You gotta help me get out of here! Cut me loose! Cut me loose!
Well, Jerry, I gotta go to work, but I'll come back this afternoon and if you're not better, then we'll see about ... I'll see what I can do.
It'll be too late, Gamble. I'll be dead by then. Cut me loose! You gotta help me. You just gotta help me!”
― Jeannie Walker, Fighting the Devil: A True Story of Consuming Passion, Deadly Poison, and Murder

“Thank God! Those prayers were answered!”
― Jeannie Walker

“I know a lot of people were praying for us to find the arsenic.”
― Jeannie Walker

“Had a big trial. It was like an Errol Flynn movie.”
― Jeannie Walker, Fighting the Devil: A True Story of Consuming Passion, Deadly Poison, and Murder

“I felt it burn all the way down my throat and into my stomach. I felt like I was dying.”
― Jeannie Walker

“The sheriff peered over his eyeglasses and said, Your son is a suspect in the murder.”
― Jeannie Walker

“So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.”
― Christopher Reeve

“I want morning and noon and nightfall with you. I want your tears, your smiles, your kisses...the smell of your hair, the taste of your skin, the touch of your breath on my face. I want to see you in the final hour of my life...to lie in your arms as I take my last breath.”
― Lisa Kleypas, Again the Magic

“I think we need to have a little talk, woman to skank.”
― Jeaniene Frost

“You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
― Dr. Seuss

“He gives me one of those my-wife-needs-sex-addiction-therapy looks.”
― Laura Stamps, Still Naughty: The Life & Times of an Erotica Novelist

“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land

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

“Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones

“The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four people is suffering from a mental illness. Look at your 3 best friends. If they're ok, then it's you.”
― Rita Mae Brown

“Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.”
― Mark Twain

“Combat isn't where you might die -- though that does happen -- it's where you find out whether you get to keep on living. Don't underestimate the power of that revelation. Don't underestimate the things young men will wager in order to play that game one more time.”
― Sebastian Junger, War

“[...]the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes “Awww!”
― Jack Kerouac, On the Road

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“You are free to make your own choices, but ultimately your choices make you.”
― C. D. SUTHERLAND, The Dragoneers

“You can't run away from your problems. They will just chase you and get bigger and bigger.
If you stand and face them, they will shrivel and disappear."

Author: My mother when I was 11 and pretending to be ill to avoid a school maths test. It has been useful and accurate countless times in adult life. Thanks Mom.”
― W.H. Fordham

“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“First they came for the communists and I did not speak out - because I was not a communist.
Then they came for the Jews and I did not speak out - because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for the trade unionists and I did not speak out - because I was not a trade unionist.
Next they came for the Catholics and I did not speak out - because I was not a Catholic.
Then they came for me. And there was no one left to speak out for me.”
― Pastor Niemoeller. Political prisoner of the Nazis.

“Writers are a little below clowns and a little above trained seals.”
― John Steinbeck

“The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold onto this illusion, even though he knows it's not true.”
― John Steinbeck

“I have written a wicked book, and feel spotless as the lamb.”
― Herman Melville

“No sight so sad as that of a naughty child," he began, "especially a naughty little girl. Do you know where the wicked go after death?"

"They go to hell," was my ready and orthodox answer.

"And what is hell? Can you tell me that?"

"A pit full of fire."

"And should you like to fall into that pit, and to be burning there for ever?"

"No, sir."

"What must you do to avoid it?"

I deliberated a moment: my answer, when it did come was objectionable: "I must keep in good health and not die.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre