One Kick Quotes

“I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times. —Bruce Lee”
― Chelsea Cain, One Kick

“What’s your name, honey?” Frank asked her. “Beth Riley,” she said. She could hear footsteps overhead as the agents stomped around her parents’ bedroom upstairs. “What’s your real name?” he asked. Her skin prickled. “Beth Riley,” she said again.”
― Chelsea Cain, One Kick

“Change your thoughts and you change your world.”
― Chelsea Cain, One Kick

“Tae kwon do required focus, strength, and endurance, but mostly it required the ability to deal with looking like an ass in public.”
― Chelsea Cain, One Kick

“Kick had a worry list. She added to it every day. By keeping track of each worry, she could put off worrying in the moment and instead do it all at once during the designated worry period she set aside before dinner.”
― Chelsea Cain, One Kick

“JAMES STILL HADN’T RETURNED Kick’s texts, which meant he was deep into programming or, more likely, playing Skyrim. Kick knew he wouldn’t deal well with this,”
― Chelsea Cain, One Kick

“one. And I hid it. And Mia Turner found it because they”
― Chelsea Cain, One Kick

“and Mr. Klugman went to the store every day and”
― Chelsea Cain, One Kick

“The chalk dust was everywhere. On her pants. All over her shirt. She looked like she’d fallen into a vat of 1980s eye shadow. It had mixed with her hand sweat and formed a kind of Smurf epoxy.”
― Chelsea Cain, One Kick