Mark Gimenez > Quotes

“Now we've got an entire generation of fucked-up narcissists 'cause their mamas told them they're special.”
― Mark Gimenez, The Case Against William

“when they fail at sports or school or life, it's not because they didn't work hard enough or they're just not smart enough or good enough. No, they're special, so it's got to be someone else's fault. They didn't fail. Someone made them fail.”
― Mark Gimenez, The Case Against William

“Maybe there’s no such thing as the truth. Maybe it’s all just a point of view,”
― Mark Gimenez, Con Law

“she needed someone to hold her, but she couldn’t bring herself to ask her husband, not after what she had done to him.”
― Mark Gimenez, The Abduction

“I don’t much care for intolerant right-wing Republicans, but these folks taught me I don’t much care for intolerant left-wing Democrats either.”
― Mark Gimenez, Con Law

“Are we rich?" "We're comfortable." He sometimes said things like that instead of yes or no. That's how lawyers answer questions.”
― Mark Gimenez, The Case Against William

“He had downloaded his content and uninserted his floppy;”
― Mark Gimenez, The Abduction

“Maybe at the beginning. It didn't last long.”
― Mark Gimenez, The Perk

“Thirty bucks a share makes me a billionaire—and that’s the ticket to happiness! A billion dollars buys me everything I ever wanted! … Maybe even love … Yeah, Lou, geeks need love, too.”
― Mark Gimenez, The Abduction

“Emotion had no place in the virtual world, where logical, ruthless intellect prevailed.”
― Mark Gimenez, The Abduction

“And the most dangerous creature on earth is a mother whose child has been threatened, insulted, harassed, or bullied.”
― Mark Gimenez, The Abduction

“He ran west, away from the rising sun. The wet sand glistened in the morning light and felt spongy beneath his shoes. The tide was out, and the beach sat wide, filled with a fresh assortment of seashells and sand crabs scurrying sideways and jellyfish stranded out of water. Seagulls picked over dead fish, and a pelican stood witness. The wind was down, the sea smooth, and the waves low swells instead of whitecaps. The air was fresh, and the beach was his.”
― Mark Gimenez, Accused

“Travis County District Attorney Dick Dorkin”
― Mark Gimenez, The Case Against William

“Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy; its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery”
― Mark Gimenez, End of Days: Con Law II

“Let your fear go. Release it to the wind. Open your soul. Feel the divine.”
― Mark Gimenez, End of Days: Con Law II

“80 percent humidity,”
― Mark Gimenez, The Color of Law

“We were ordered to war but not allowed to win the war. We were ordered to kill but court-martialed for killing. We were ordered to defeat Communism in Southeast Asia only to see Communism win at home.”
― Mark Gimenez, The Abduction

“Frank nodded at him.”
― Mark Gimenez, The Case Against William

“An ambitious judge is a dangerous animal.”
― Mark Gimenez, Accused

“Yep. We spread five out, shotgun, no huddle, throw fifty times a game. Call it the NASCAR offense 'cause we never slow down.”
― Mark Gimenez, The Perk

“even buying a user’s manual—The Female Orgasm—and learned to his dismay that writing twenty-five thousand lines of code was cake compared to bringing a full-grown female to orgasm.”
― Mark Gimenez, The Abduction

“to pay for pussy, there wouldn’t be enough members left in the chamber of commerce to play gin.”
― Mark Gimenez, The Abduction

“Life is not random. There are no coincidences. Human beings are more than mere molecules bouncing around life without reason. We bounce around life with a purpose. We are meant to bounce off specific other human beings during our lives, other human beings who will change the content and course of our lives. We are meant to be exactly who we are.”
― Mark Gimenez, The Abduction

“Gracie, ill-behaved cretins can thrash your user interface, frag your hardware, unplug your peripherals, uninstall your components—but dreams are proprietary technology.” “Huh?” “No one can take your dreams away.”
― Mark Gimenez, The Abduction

“cheap sunglasses, the CamelBak”
― Mark Gimenez, The Common Lawyer

“file”
― Mark Gimenez, Accused

“Why didn’t women come with a freaking Error Message box?”
― Mark Gimenez, The Abduction

“Ben had kept up with his son all this time. But his son had never returned his calls or come to visit, convinced that at his age he no longer needed a father. He was wrong.”
― Mark Gimenez, The Abduction

“Wally was so scared he felt a drop of pee drip out. He dropped his snow cone. The wild woman released him and ran toward the concession stand screaming her daughter’s name.”
― Mark Gimenez, The Abduction

“marriage, children, illness, and death were life-changing events. Everything else was just ripples in the river.”
― Mark Gimenez, The Perk