Traci L. Slatton > Quotes

“Boy, the solid things you can hold in your hands are never all you've got. They're the least of what belong to you. The qualities inside you, those are what you've really got to defend yourself with.”
― Traci L. Slatton, Immortal

“Don't men read books and take from them what is already in their own hearts?”
― Traci L. Slatton, Immortal

“See ya,” I said and turned to hightail it. “Wait!” he grabbed my arm. “Don’t you have a faint sense, a vague feeling, that we’ve met before?” “Nope,” I lied, warily. “You must,” he said. “Because reality is non-local, and once two particles have interacted, they’re forever intimately connected in some way.”
― Traci L. Slatton, The Love of My (Other) Life

“Whatever he learned from me, I learned well from Leonardo that teaching is a matter of drawing out from men what is already in their hearts, and that men learn only what they want to.”
― Traci L. Slatton, Immortal

“Anytime you can learn for yourself, experience for yourself, apprehend directly and with no intermediary, you must do so.”
― Traci L. Slatton, Immortal

“After all the years of med school and internship and residency and specialization, my life was about to start. I was going to have a golf membership and a six-bedroom house and a Jaguar, and a blonde wife who was very pretty and very, very useless.”

Slatton, Traci L. (2011-07-12). Fallen (After Book 1) (p. 28). Parvati Press. Kindle Edition.”
― Traci L. Slatton, Fallen

“So here I was, about to put a bullet in my own sweet little daughter’s head. I looked at her through the white mists, which seemed to press memories into my head: Mandy dressed as Christopher Columbus at her preschool play, running offstage into the audience to hug her big sister Beth. Mandy as a toddler, drawing on the wall with lipstick. Mandy as a nursing infant. We’d shared a blissful bond. I’d spent hours holding her, sniffing her cotton-candy-sweet hair. Her life meant more to me than my own.”
― Traci L. Slatton, Fallen

“You have a self without them, don’t you? Who are you without them?” he asked, a little tartly. “Can’t you be her, the woman you are within yourself, for a little while right now, with me?” He laid the strappy thing in my hand. “I’ve been so lonely.” “Well, you know, darling, it’s been a lonely apocalypse,” I snapped.

Slatton, Traci L. (2011-07-12). Fallen (After Book 1) (p. 38). Parvati Press. Kindle Edition.”
― Traci L. Slatton, Fallen

“The rogue band attacked at dawn. By then we had hidden the children in the top limbs of the tallest trees we could find and sent out a group to hide, a group which included half the Russians. The plan was for them to flank the attackers. Jeannie and Robert led them; that was their honeymoon, I guess.

Slatton, Traci L. (2011-07-12). Fallen (After Book 1) (p. 206). Parvati Press. Kindle Edition.”
― Traci L. Slatton, Fallen

“-"I want to know everything!" he said intensely, "I want to explore and examine and investigate everything, I want to find out the secrets of life and death and the earth and nature and everything!" he leaped to his feat and his shapely hands gestured with passion. "I want to understand how the eye sees, how a bird flies, and how gravity and levity work, and what the nature of force is, and what the sun and moon are made of, and the exact internal structure of a man's body, and the experience of nothingness--"
"I understand!" I held up a hand. "You want to know everything!"
"Except Latin.”
― Traci L. Slatton, Immortal

“Men laugh because God laughs, and right now, God is laughing at you.”
― Traci L. Slatton, Immortal

“Welcome home! You look like shit!” Laurette said happily.

Slatton, Traci L. (2011-07-12). Fallen (After Book 1) (p. 165). Parvati Press. Kindle Edition.”
― Traci L. Slatton, Fallen

“I belong to myself.” I wanted to snap at him, but it came out soft, like a kitten’s purr. I sort of hated myself for that.”
― Traci L. Slatton, Fallen