Dark Horse Quotes

“NEXT TIME.” The two best words in the English language. Freedom and possibility. Progress, not perfection. Just do something a little bit better than the last go-round and your place in the world would get a little bit clearer.”
― Gregg Andrew Hurwitz, Dark Horse

“How you do anything is how you do everything.”
― Gregg Andrew Hurwitz, Dark Horse

“Most husbands seek to kill their wives’ loves so we’ll love only them. They are insecure little boys.”
― Gregg Andrew Hurwitz, Dark Horse

“It has nothing to do with rough or gentle. Privileged or broke, everyone has their own path to the light. Sometimes those of us who came up hard are forced to see what actually matters. If we survive, that is. The world doesn’t allow us not to see. We are forced into understanding, into grace. It’s either that or prison, or drugs, or the cold, hard earth.”
― Gregg Andrew Hurwitz, Dark Horse

“There’d been a comfort in knowing that there was someone ahead of him on the climb, who’d seen a broader vista.”
― Gregg Hurwitz, Dark Horse

“Twenty-one stories below, constipated traffic worked its way through the infamous Angeleno congestion, automotive peristalsis encouraged by horns and expletives.”
― Gregg Andrew Hurwitz, Dark Horse

“He coughed, felt it through his entire skeleton. Pain was good. Pain told him he was still alive. No pain was not good. No pain meant he was dead.”
― Gregg Andrew Hurwitz, Dark Horse

“You can either be the center of attention or pay attention. You can’t do both.”
― Gregg Andrew Hurwitz, Dark Horse

“That is the awful, beautiful, sacrificial power of love. We sharpen ourselves against those we love in order to cut ourselves open and see what’s inside. Sometimes I wonder if wisdom is nothing more than shortening the time before you realize how ignorant you are about something.”
― Gregg Andrew Hurwitz, Dark Horse

“What we resist pursues us. What we accept transforms us. Who said that? Aren’t you listening, son? That almost-smile, the one that crinkled”
― Gregg Andrew Hurwitz, Dark Horse

“We don’t rise to the level of our aspirations, Jack said. We fall to the level of our training.”
― Gregg Andrew Hurwitz, Dark Horse

“You fit in, sure, but that’s different from belonging”
― Gregg Andrew Hurwitz, Dark Horse

“Have you ever really been seen? I don’t mean the way we act every day. I mean like someone really gets you. The real part of you?” Evan gripped the wheel, didn’t answer.”
― Gregg Andrew Hurwitz, Dark Horse

“Evan had learned that nothing in the world was more dangerous than a weak man who felt humiliated.”
― Gregg Andrew Hurwitz, Dark Horse

“Evan said, “I always figured men who have a type lack imagination.”
― Gregg Andrew Hurwitz, Dark Horse

“Aragón observed them. “All our sins and temptations at our fingertips all day. We carry them in our pocket. Our technology outweighs our character.”
― Gregg Andrew Hurwitz, Dark Horse

“Olives?” “No, thank you,” Evan said. “Not for the Polugar.” “I understand.” The single-malt rye vodka smelled like dough. A throwback to the pre-ethanol distillation process that produced the Russian breadwine enjoyed by literal and literary nobility from Ivan the Terrible and Peter the Great to Pushkin and Dostoyevsky, Polugar meant “half-burned.” The term signified the outstanding portion of liquid remaining after the excess had been burned away. Far off the beaten path in the woods of Poland, the vodka was not aged in oak barrels but triple-distilled in copper and filtrated with egg whites and birch coal.”
― Gregg Andrew Hurwitz, Dark Horse

“The Polugar, please,” Evan said. “Up. Bruise it.”
― Gregg Andrew Hurwitz, Dark Horse

“The measure of a man is how tough he can be to the world and how sensitive he can be to women.” Aragón took another sip. “Women are fucking Swiss Army knives. Throw anything at them and they figure out which part of them to use to fix it, care for it, make it better. They can hear if a baby’s cough is just a cough, can smell if something’s burning in the next room. They can see when our arrogance is serving us. And point out when it’s not.”
― Gregg Andrew Hurwitz, Dark Horse

“To lose a child, it’s not just her dying. It is the death of the future. It is the death of the entire world.”
― Gregg Andrew Hurwitz, Dark Horse

“How?” “Everyone is appraised when they share a meal. Do you belong here? Do you pay attention? Will you abide by the rules of our family? Will you show respect?” Aragón nodded toward La Tía, vigorously scrubbing a pan under steaming water. “Two times you offered to help. A man who doesn’t offer to help cannot be trusted. Two times she rebuffed you. The third time you didn’t ask.”
― Gregg Andrew Hurwitz, Dark Horse

“And yet it was related, too, in a way that was even deeper, that carried with it some great mythic importance for her that he couldn’t fully comprehend.”
― Gregg Andrew Hurwitz, Dark Horse

“We have to heal ourselves. Every day. Or else we’re just dying.”
― Gregg Andrew Hurwitz, Dark Horse

“A baby takes everything from you. Everything you were before.” She waved a hand, a ghostly flicker in the blackness. “Your time. Your figure. Your looks. They take your sleep until you don’t know how to function.”
― Gregg Andrew Hurwitz, Dark Horse

“A baby takes everything from you. Everything you were before.” She waved a hand, a ghostly flicker in the blackness. “Your time. Your figure. Your looks. They take your sleep until you don’t know how to function. But all that is just a disguise for the most important thing they take from you: your selfishness. And that’s the true gift of parenthood.”
― Gregg Andrew Hurwitz, Dark Horse

“He considered. “When you come into a situation, don’t want anything. Don’t want approval. Don’t want to scare people. Don’t want anyone to like you. Don’t need to prove anything to them or make them angry. Then you can see what’s really happening.”
― Gregg Andrew Hurwitz, Dark Horse

“You’re very close with your nephew.” “Yes. Sometimes there are special relationships like that in families, you know?” He did not. She continued, “Where there is no static in the line. You just get each other.”
― Gregg Andrew Hurwitz, Dark Horse

“Women are fucking Swiss Army knives. Throw anything at them and they figure out which part of them to use to fix it, care for it, make it better. They can hear if a baby’s cough is just a cough, can smell if something’s burning in the next room. They can see when our arrogance is serving us. And point out when it’s not.”
― Gregg Hurwitz, Dark Horse

“You are good at this. Most men are not. Or at least that’s what they tell themselves until they believe it. And so they can use incompetence to get out of work.”
― Gregg Andrew Hurwitz, Dark Horse

“In fact, South Texas and Alaska might be the last places in the country where law enforcement would want to roll up on a property and have a look-see.”
― Gregg Andrew Hurwitz, Dark Horse