Tim Healy > Tim's Quotes

“I believe that anyone who claims to know what's going on will lie about the little things too.”
― Neil Gaiman, American Gods

“Mary sat, quiet and attentive and blank. It wasn't like talking to a dumb seventh-grader, it was like talking to a pancake.”
― Robert B. Parker, Widow's Walk

“Jimmy looked back over at his wife, and Celeste could feel the tenderest of aches in the look. She could feel another teardrop piece of Jimmy's heart detach and free-fall down the inside of his chest.”
― Dennis Lehane, Mystic River

“I think the truth is always simple. It has pretty much got to be. It needs to be simple enough for a child to understand. Otherwise it'd be too late. By the time you figured it out it would be too late.”
― Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men

“Charles did not hear the door close, yet he knew that he was alone. Though he might not always see her coming, he could always tell when he had been left behind. So simple, really. He kept getting hit by the same damn train.”
― Carol O'Connell, It Happens in the Dark

“...no matter how much you think you love somebody, you'll step back when the pool of their blood edges up too close.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters Remix

“When we held Owen Meany above our heads, when we passed him back and forth - so effortlessly - we believed that Owen weighed nothing at all. We did not realize that there were forces beyond our play. Now I know that they were the forces that contributed to our illusion of Owen's weightlessness; they were the forces we didn't have the faith to feel, they were the forces we failed to believe in - and they were also lifting up Owen Meany, taking him out of our hands. O God - please give him back! I shall keep asking You.”
― John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany

“Don't be silly," said Coraline. "I'm going back for them because they are my parents. And if they noticed I was gone I'm sure they would do the same for me.”
― Neil Gaiman

“Because,' she said, 'when you're scared but you still do it anyway, that's brave.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

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

“Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth.”
― Lee Child, The Affair

“I lie to myself all the time. But I never believe me.”
― S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders

“I have lived through war, and lost much. I know what's worth the fight, and what is not. Honor and courage are matters of the bone, and what a man will kill for, he will sometimes die for, too. And that, O kinsman, is why a woman has broad hips; that bony basin will harbor a man and his child alike. A man's life springs from his woman's bones, and in her blood is his honor christened. For the sake of love alone, I would walk through fire again.”
― Diana Gabaldon, The Fiery Cross

“What I mean by an educated taste is someone who has the same tastes that I have.”
― Edward Albee

“It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.”
― Philip K. Dick, VALIS