Joe Quotes
She stared at her face in the mirror, feeling everything around her slipping away. The face stared back, and she wondered who was looking at her.
Finally, mercifully, the spasms subsided, as the old man’s head lolled back, his mouth hanging open, taking in deep, ragged breaths of stale, recirculated air.
Fred Ruskin barreled through the rain down Buchanan Street in his battered Pacer, the jar his dead wife had directed him to retrieve from his nephew’s coffin bouncing in the seat beside him.
Eighteen and stupid happens to everyone, I guess. If you survive it, it's probably half luck, and half having the right people in your life to watch out for you.
They had been Vince's brothers in a way, and Race was his son, and you couldn't drive a man's family to the earth and expect to live.
The lowly have small ambitions, and are satisfied with small indulgences. They need not get fair treatment. They need only think that they do...
If you have read 6, 000 books in your lifetime, or even 600, it's probably because at some level you find 'reality' a bit of a disappointment
People with looks are lovely. People with brains are witty. People with cash are wealthy. But people with God are truly happy.
People tend to raise the child inside of them rather than the child in front of them.
That's sounds right. Another $5, 000 went to dress up the Little League park where he had played so many games. Seems like he paid off the MORTAGE on his parents' home, which wasn't that much.
Dogma is a defence against the brain’s capacity for free thought based on the fear that such thought might lead to a scary place.
A faith so weak that it is not sufficient unto itself but requires that others tiptoe around it for fear of hurting it, knows deep down that it is a lie.
The Inquisitor waited for silence. "Do you believe in anything?""Not if I can help it. Belief alone is nothing to be proud of, Inquisitor. Belief without evidence is the very hallmark of the savage.
Efficient self-destruction is what it is. Clean and neat. Almost surgical in its precision.
Life isn't easy but if you don't try to improve it then it'll just get worse and worse till your no longer living.
It’d be a mistake, ” Lee said. “I think maybe you have to make a few, ” Merrin said. “If you don’t, you’re probably thinking too much. That’s the worst mistake you can make.
I wouldn't underrate the power of regret. It doesn't feel good... But it's hard to learn anything important without it.
One way at a time I'll try to lend these broken hands of mine give my strength, be my light.
A man can forgive all manner of faults in beautiful women that in ugly men he find entirely beyond sufferance
The gods hate those who plan badly, and help those with good friends, good swords, and good sense.
You can always make enemies of your friends, ' said Sumael. 'Making friends of your enemies is harder labor.
Integrity is not just a smart and moral way to navigate your personal life. It’s also part of your professional branding, and it will inevitably affect your business success.
Serenity is a very elusive quality. I've been trying all my life to find it.
A dream may encourage us, but at the end of the day, it's just a dream. We should also learn how to make a move.
Why don't these translation books just include general phrases that could be applied in a variety of situations like, "Say nothing unless it's in English"?
But you know what they say - old milk turns sour but old scores just get sweeter.
Hell had been his Vietnam. It had stamped its mark on him for all eternity, and no amount of denial or self-imposed ignorance was going to change it. Ever.
...heaven wouldn’t be like this earth, this tormented earth ruled by evil forces that tossed humanity to and fro like a slow clown in a two-bit rodeo.
But time heals, as they say, or more to the point, fresher wounds help us to forget the old scars.
Thus, hanging around in our towels (and those weird disposable underpants) was no big deal.
He believed in his own decency with all his heart. So it was with every true monster, Vic supposed.
I wanted to explore this idea that the bogey man in the closet is scary, but being a mother is scarier.
Saul's vitals were not human, but familiar:he never told me he was from another world:I never told him I was from his future.