Aric Davis > Aric's Quotes

“I just need to accept that some bad things happened and that I can move past them. I need to learn to be thankful for the time I had and not be so angry about the time I lost.”
― Aric Davis, A Good and Useful Hurt

“A tattoo is an energy exchange that can be addictive for both client and practitioner, and those two tattoos with ashes carried wild energy—lightning crackling and popping on clear-skied days—and made Mike’s hands wobble in a way they hadn’t wobbled in twenty years. His breath was high and greedy in his chest, and just the emotion, the connection of it, was unreal.”
― Aric Davis, A Good and Useful Hurt

“Some mornings, good memories and cereal are all you have to help you get by.”
― Aric Davis, Tunnel Vision

“There were dead kids on the news all the time and school shootings and jealous boyfriends and abusive parents and texting and driving and a million other things,”
― Aric Davis, Tunnel Vision

“All I want is a neck above water and a head below the radar.”
― Aric Davis, Tunnel Vision

“I never got over that blunt feeling that life really will catch up with you.”
― Aric Davis, Tunnel Vision

“Some people see things in shades of gray, and some in black and white. I see mainly black, and while I have my reasons for that, it doesn’t mean it’s an accurate view of the world.”
― Aric Davis, Tunnel Vision

“He smiles because he’s afraid, thought Betty, but for him, there is joy in being afraid. What fire forges someone like this?”
― Aric Davis, Tunnel Vision

“Remembering you came from nothing and every day is a blessing is a fine place to be, especially in times like this.”
― Aric Davis, Tunnel Vision

“right now being online is like Indian country back in the Wild West.”
― Aric Davis, Weavers

“There were two types of people at Morton: those the guards favored and the rest of us.”
― Aric Davis, Tunnel Vision

“He had spent enough time in bars just like this, drinking and waking up drenched in those odors like he’d been dunked in a tank of Chanel Number Shit. There”
― Aric Davis, Weavers

“I don’t care if I die—all of us owe God a death—but I want the men who did this to us to die first.”
― Aric Davis, Weavers