Rob Thurman > Quotes

“I have people in my life, of course. Some write; some don't. Some read; some don't. Some stare vacantly into space when I talk the geeky talk and walk the geeky walk, but they make killer chocolate chip pancakes and so all is forgiven.”
― Rob Thurman

“When life gives you lemons. . . You might as well shove 'em where the sun don't shine, because you sure as hell aren't ever going to see any lemonade.”
― Rob Thurman, Nightlife

“Pick up your clothes. I am not your maid. How do I know this? A maid cannot kill you with a tube sock. I can. ”
― Rob Thurman

“We all have our security blankets in this world. Some are just sharper than others.”
― Rob Thurman, Nightlife

“Memories - you can't escape them, but you can't let them rule you either.”
― Rob Thurman, Deathwish

“Why is it always the world? Why is it never just half a block? Or Jersey? You know, something we could live without?”
― Rob Thurman, Roadkill

“Most kids don't believe in fairy tales very long. Once they hit six or seven they put away "Cinderella" and
her shoe fetish, "The Three Little Pigs" with their violation of building codes, "Miss Muffet" and her
well-shaped tuffet—all forgotten or discounted. And maybe that's the way it has to be. To survive in the
world, you have to give up the fantasies, the make-believe. The only trouble is that it's not all
make-believe. Some parts of the fairy tales are all too real, all too true. There might not be a Red Riding
Hood, but there is a Big Bad Wolf. No Snow White, but definitely an Evil Queen. No obnoxiously cute
blond tots, but a child-eating witch… yeah. Oh yeah.”
― Rob Thurman, Nightlife

“What're you still doing up? You know all good little ninjas should be in bed, visions of homicidal sugarplums dancing in their heads.”
― Rob Thurman, Nightlife

“Pooh hater,' I muttered under my breath.
'Winnie-the-Pooh was not a koala--why am I even arguing about this with you?”
― Rob Thurman, Blackout

“I'd be a monster fighter who rode the bus. It didn't get any more bad-ass than that.”
― Rob Thurman, Deathwish

“I am your brother. I was supposed to be your brother before either of us was born. Karmic debt. It appears I was Vlad the Impaler or Genghis Khan in a past life.”
― Rob Thurman, Blackout

“You're so very good at that. The temper, the scowl. You must drink shots of testosterone in your morning coffee.”
― Rob Thurman, Deathwish

“He tried to turn me into a buffet?” I gritted my teeth. “Before he killed me? He couldn’t kill me first and then eat me? That’s just fucking rude.”
― Rob Thurman, Blackout

“Look at the ex-demon with his big boy pants on now.”
― Rob Thurman, Trick of the Light

“At least that's what his note said, along with a scathing reminder that dishes didn't wash themselves and the fungus in the bathroom was one day away from evolving into sentient life. I folded the note into an airplane and sailed it across the room. It ended up perched jauntily on top of the ancient television. It looked good there and I left it as a tribute to freedom-loving fungi everywhere.”
― Rob Thurman, Nightlife

“Good Samaritans: Truth, justice and the American way–for them it wasn't only a comic book code; it was a way of life. it was admirable, courageous, and inconvenient as shit. -Stefan, CHIMERA”
― Rob Thurman, Chimera

“Snap judgments? I'd gotten over those about the time I was toilet trained. Swore off diapers and faith in the human experience all in one week.”
― Rob Thurman, Nightlife

“People--stupid when they lived; potentially stupid when they died.”
― Rob Thurman, Roadkill

“I raised another shot. "That sound you hear is the heads of moral conservatives spontaneously exploding in the distance.”
― Rob Thurman, Trick of the Light

“Fall leaves are brilliant with gold and red. You can cup them in your hand and wonder at them, be amazed at their uniqueness and glory. But eventually they are gone, brown, crumbling, scattered on the wind. But the tree remains. The tree is what is important. The tree lives on. That was a difficult knowledge to bear, and an even more difficult life to live. Of course, being the leaf wasn't exactly desirable either.”
― Rob Thurman, Deathwish

“They don't have to choose either/or. They can have their cake and mutilate it too.”
― Rob Thurman, Deathwish

“You're the little spoon, aren't you?”
― Rob Thurman, Trick of the Light

“No, you're not like me. You're better. A better person, a better goddamn everything. Now, eat your breakfast. And if you open your mouth to say you aren't everything I know you are, I'll stuff that bagel in it. Plain. Without cream cheese.

Healthy food--the ultimate threat.”
― Rob Thurman, Basilisk

“If there is no trust, there is nothing. Trust is all.”
― Rob Thurman, Deathwish

“Home is where the heart is or where you bury the ones you want to eat later.”
― Rob Thurman, Doubletake

“He touched my little brother—I stopped his heart.
It was a fair trade.”
― Rob Thurman, Slashback

“It is now. It is always now. Now is good. Now could be the best. My name is Catcher. My name was Catcher.
My name...my name...
I am...
I am lost, I am found and then I am free and I am happy.
When I jump over that edge, someone leaps with me, shoulder to shoulder. I smell kinship on him. Kinship is all. I'm not alone.
Never alone.
I land, earth below me, moon above. I am wolf. We are pack.
And that is all I need.”
― Rob Thurman, Roadkill

“Niko caught my hand and slapped it lightly down on the bar. “Pistol whipping elderly women isn’t precisely our mission statement, Cal.”
I hadn’t been going to pistol-whip her. Yell at her a little more, then pick her up and toss her out into the street. Some risk of a broken hip there, but that wasn’t pistol-whipping… unless she tried to come back in.”
― Rob Thurman, Roadkill

“Most kids don't believe in fairy tales very long. Once they hit six or seven they put away "Cinderella" and her shoe fetish, "The Three Little Pigs" with their violation of
building codes, "Miss Muffet" and her well‐shaped tuffet—all forgotten or discounted.And maybe that's the way it has to be. To survive in the world, you have to give up the fantasies, the make‐believe.”
― Rob Thurman, Nightlife

“All of his life had been about making sure I kept mine.”
― Rob Thurman