A.Z. Black Quotes

I got bored, " he says. "Besides, you know what's creepier than walking around your dead brothers' apartment? Sitting alone in a hearse in front of his apartment.

A mafia could never kill an alliance. That’s how you become safe from the enemy, you befriend them.

There are only two people in your life, they will either give you a negative feeling, or a warm feeling, when you think of them.

The problem with having problems is that ‘someone’ always has it worse.

Black man cleans the streets but mustn't walk freely on the pavement

There are no gods, only men.

And only men could have invented the idea of a king.

A woman needs a man, more than a man needs a woman. We can thank prostitutes for that.

Yes, women have always had secrets and always will. I'm afraid men would be very distressed to learn what their darlings were thinking. Frankly, I don't think men are strong enough to bear the shock.

If he's like any other man I've ever met, it's not my smile he's going to be looking at.

A decision is only as strong as the belief standing behind it

Every second vibrates within our Present moment, our now. In one split second of awareness, we can create a Life full of Light, Joy, and Love.

Watch out for your daughters.The man is coming.He’ll promise you the world.But if you accept, there’s no turning back.Watch out for your daughters.Because here comes Jack.

I don’t want Dane to die, but if I had to pick, I want you...with me forever!” - Christian Stone

Yes, Daisy. Feel it, ” he murmured against her mouth. “Feel what’s in my heart for you.” His hand slipped under the covers... - Christian Stone

See, I didn’t turn into a monster. You’re safe here with me, Daisy. I control that part because I don’t allow it like he does.

Yes, Daisy. Feel it, ” he murmured against her mouth. “Feel what’s in my heart for you.” His hand slipped under the covers...

I'm going to take off your gag. And if you try to bite me or grab me or anything, I'll hit you with this thing as hard as I can as many times as I can. Understood?

That was seven years ago. The doctors told her father the memory would fade, like the big messy scar on her arm, but neither ever did.

The past informs the present. Memory makes the map we carry, no matter how hard we try to erase it.

You'd think hindsight would do us some goodBut all it does sometimesIs add glass to the kaleidoscope

Better to leave him with the memory of their being a pair of monsters, wrapped in each other's arms.

To be left with only the trace of a memory is to gaze at an armchair that's still molded to the form of a love who has left never to return: It is to grieve, dear reader, it is to weep.

Magic gives you a lot of choices, " Grandad says. "Most of them are bad.

Magic was merely the unknown, a wild thing undefined by logic or reason. By that thinking, surely she was not Bad Luck, but Good, undefined.

Magic was merely the unknown, a wild thing undefined by logic or reason.

There are many forms of magic in this world, High Lord. Some come in large packages, some in small. Some work with fire and strength of body and heard ... and some work with revelation.

These hoes ain't loyal

The God of Romans 9–11 finds ways to show mercy, even when the facts clamor for judgment. This doesn’t sound much like Calvinism to me, but it does sound a whole lot like Jesus.

...there was a difference between killing for nourishment and killing for curiosity or sport.

I suppose that every wanderer started in a garden somewhere. So few of us are born into motion.

[E]very journey is played out between standstill and flight.

There are many hostelries in his report, which is the true account of an expedition.

Successful people don't have a limit whereas unsuccessful people often draw a line of limit

Loneliness is a state when you have not yet grown to love yourself enough.

Stories are our gifts to a world that doesn't see us.

The only way to get to where you want to go is to ruthlessly evaluate your where you are now. The key here is that your biggest obstacle in life is always yourself—not external factors.

Ghosts are everywhere, not just the ghost of Momma in the woods, but ghosts of us too, what we used to be like in those long summers.

One's own yesterday is a ghost that will not be laid down.

He was a phoenix of blood, rising from the ashes of those who had fallen and suffered before him.

I walked out. I left. Andy Jankowski had taught me how.

to live asubstance-freelife under thepressures ofthe daily grindis state-sponsoredsuicide

I hate forcing myself to go to bed to avoid committing suicide.

Suicide isn't really about death, though. It's about change. Release.

So easy to go sailing off this road. A wonder more folks didn't. All that space, waiting.

We hunger in earnest for that which we cannot consume.

There can be no god without desire.

He [Harry Bosch] defined good company not by the conversation but by the lack of it. When there was no need to talk to feel comfortable, that was the right company

You don’t like what you see out your window, you put up a wall.

Trust no one. You may be working with the last honest cop in Mexicali, but why bet your life on it?