Aric Davis > Quotes

“Some mornings, good memories and cereal are all you have to help you get by.”
― Aric Davis, Tunnel Vision

“I've kept alot of secrets from a lot of people that i never should have, but the ones I kept from myself stung a lot worse than any of those”
― Aric Davis

“I just need to accept that some bad things happened and that I can move past them. I need to learn to be thankful for the time I had and not be so angry about the time I lost.”
― Aric Davis, A Good and Useful Hurt

“Art wasn't war at all - it was beauty and love and death. Art was everything, and it was eternal.”
― Aric Davis, A Good and Useful Hurt

“Cars in the driveway that run on prayers instead of gasoline. The American Dream in the darkest light possible.”
― Aric Davis, Nickel Plated

“I don’t care if I die—all of us owe God a death—but I want the men who did this to us to die first.”
― Aric Davis, Weavers

“He smiles because he’s afraid, thought Betty, but for him, there is joy in being afraid. What fire forges someone like this?”
― Aric Davis, Tunnel Vision

“I never got over that blunt feeling that life really will catch up with you.”
― Aric Davis, Tunnel Vision

“He had spent enough time in bars just like this, drinking and waking up drenched in those odors like he’d been dunked in a tank of Chanel Number Shit. There”
― Aric Davis, Weavers

“stories can be hard to find when you go looking for one, rather then letting one find you.”
― Aric Davis, Rough Men

“They did what they were told, kept their noses clean. Civilians, nothing wrong with it, but if they only knew that they could choose, is that what they would have picked. Would they pay taxes, work for a system that could discard them liked yesterday's trash? The collapse of the auto industry should have been a heads-up---good guys can loose when rich men play with money. If it was a sign, nobody saw it.”
― Aric Davis, Nickel Plated

“Remembering you came from nothing and every day is a blessing is a fine place to be, especially in times like this.”
― Aric Davis, Tunnel Vision

“There were dead kids on the news all the time and school shootings and jealous boyfriends and abusive parents and texting and driving and a million other things,”
― Aric Davis, Tunnel Vision

“All I want is a neck above water and a head below the radar.”
― Aric Davis, Tunnel Vision

“right now being online is like Indian country back in the Wild West.”
― Aric Davis, Weavers

“I had stuff that needed doing. It wasn’t my fault that none of it mattered.”
― Aric Davis, Nickel Plated

“Some people see things in shades of gray, and some in black and white. I see mainly black, and while I have my reasons for that, it doesn’t mean it’s an accurate view of the world.”
― Aric Davis, Tunnel Vision

“There were two types of people at Morton: those the guards favored and the rest of us.”
― Aric Davis, Tunnel Vision

“A tattoo is an energy exchange that can be addictive for both client and practitioner, and those two tattoos with ashes carried wild energy—lightning crackling and popping on clear-skied days—and made Mike’s hands wobble in a way they hadn’t wobbled in twenty years. His breath was high and greedy in his chest, and just the emotion, the connection of it, was unreal.”
― Aric Davis, A Good and Useful Hurt

“Mike wasn't religious, but it was pretty cool to imagine a superghost carrying you when shit got a little too real.”
― Aric Davis, A Good and Useful Hurt

“You could learn a lot from a man who knew how to say please and thank you, yes sir and yes ma’am. People worry about leopards and elephants and tigers being endangered, but we all watch as rudeness butts its way into normal conversation.”
― Aric Davis, Nickel Plated

“It’s amazing how a smile and a kind word can fix even a ruined heart.”
― Aric Davis, Nickel Plated

“The little bit of adult in me was screaming that freaks hid in normalcy,”
― Aric Davis, Nickel Plated

“If spring is birth, summer is life, and winter is death, then the fall is dying.”
― Aric Davis, Nickel Plated

“I’m sure it was inconvenient that my little project woke somebody up, but seriously, calm down; it’s just a pipe bomb.”
― Aric Davis, Nickel Plated

“He felt like God’s hammer, a man who had finally been given a reason to live.”
― Aric Davis, Breaking Point

“Why would an adult be so shitty at being an adult? It just didn't make any sense. His dad's leaving made no sense, and now Luke's mom, Emma, made no sense. It almost made him question adulthood in general. What if they're all just faking it? What if none of them has the slightest idea what they're doing?”
― Aric Davis, The Fort

“I ride through the city and into suburbia—just as many eyes, but twice the secrets.”
― Aric Davis, Nickel Plated

“Endless thoughts boiling my brain in cruel waters. I didn’t sleep well.”
― Aric Davis, Nickel Plated