W. E. B. Griffin Quotes
I can write about all of these bizarre and funny characters in my book, "Diggin' Elroy, " because I know them better than anyone else. I have a little bit of all of them in me.
What at one time one refuses to see never vanishes but returns, again and again, in many forms.
We be light, we be life, we be fire! We sing electric flame, we rumble underground wind, we dance heaven! Come be we and be free!
...for life is magic, magic is life, the left-over life we don't even notice we're living.
Ish #19 "If your diet soda has zero calories, zero sugar and zero fat, what the hell are you drinking?
Whatever happened next, good or bad, it would be wonderful finding out.
Your blanks have been filled in far differently from those of a child grown up in the filth and poverty
We fill too many gutters while we argue unimportant points and confuse issues.
Some people don't care if they live or they die.Some people want to know what it feels like to fly.They gather their courage and they give it a tryAnd fall under the wheels of time going by.
To live in a world where men do not love, where they cheat and are callous, is to sink into a preoccupation with death, and to see the futility of anything except virtue.
A law is not good merely because the legislature wills it, but the legislature has the mortal duty to will only that which is good.
She could go on asking herself why roses had thorns or she could be thankful that thorns had roses.
All the courtesies in the world do not cover up the one vital and massive discourtesy.
She rose and she remembered, remembered and rose, until she had gone too far for fear to snatch her back.
Write what you want to write and would like to read, not for any invisible audience. Your readers will find you.
If the judgement makes the law and not the law directs the judgement, it is impossible there should be such a thing as an illegal judgement given.
She needs to make one phone call, and she wishes she could make it into her past. Into last year. Or two years ago.
Peter and Jessie were like Romeo and Juliet. Have you ever seen that old movie? Starring Leonardo Dicaprio?
She has to live, Eliott. I owe her a lifetime of apologies.”“Sometimes I think that’s all we owe our parents.
Never feel like you need to visit him, ever?" "I see him every morning in the mirror. I think of him as the ghost version of me. And who needs to visit your own ghost?
I wanted to tell her secrets I hadn't even told myself yet.
Curiosity may have killed the cat, but paranoia was what tied it up in a sack and buried it in wet concrete.
Perfection is something everyone strives for, but it’s elusive and may be an illusion.
I won't cry. When the guilt is this heavy, you can't. It just settles and stays with you, and it's cold.
Thank you for stitching me up" I say."I seem to have a talent for it.
I always thought about you. From the night I took you home. I never really stopped thinking about you.
Will leans forward, pulls off his mask, and kisses my forehead. "I'm glad I was the one to save you this time" he whispers.
We refuse to let our knowledge, however limited, be informed by your ignorance, however vast.
I'm annoyed by those who love mankind but are discourteous to people.
A love for his child was so profound, it spilled over to all humanity.
Everything that happened to me happened by mistake. I don't believe in fate. It's luck timing and accident.
I found out that colonels can stay until they drop dead or get a walker and being a critical medical specialty as an Army trained emergency room doctor, I could stay until age 67.
I think we actually punish children out of their relationship with their bodies... we categorically separate mind and body and emotion and intellect.
We don't have a good legal justification for breaking up the banking system. But if I could wave a magic wand, I'd break up the banking system.