Hew J. La France > Quotes

“I don’t have an inspiring story of spiraling into a drug or alcohol addiction just for God to swoop in and save me. Instead, I self-medicated my depression by shopping. I’d spend to forget the pain, get the bill, freak out, then would subsequently go shop some more. At one point, my bill got too high, and I snapped. As I fought to get out from under the debt, I prayed for God to deliver me from the crushing anxiety I felt, which was brought on by the debt and which had added to the debt.
One morning God said to me, “Get help. Get well. Be healed.”
― Hew J. La France

“Frankly, I find it to be a waste of my time. I could learn much more from reading, and school impedes my ability to read. And the tests! The ability to regurgitate facts does not make one intelligent any more than the ability to regurgitate one's meal makes him a fountain!”
― Hew J. La France

“Some sources are saying Tom Petty died. Others are saying not yet, he's just in the hospital in critical condition.
Does this mean we can refer to Tom Petty as Schrodinger's Heart Breaker?”
― Hew J. La France

“It's acceptable for John to call himself a geek. More than alright for his peers at the comic shop, who were also 'geeks' to call him that. Hell, he may have been alright if that sentence had been spoken from Kaitlin's mouth.
As soon as a guy like Alex Hudson said it, it became insulting. Derogatory. He pronounced the word with a tone which said that he believed himself to be above such things as 'nerd culture'.”
― Hew J. La France, End Turn

“The creatures may be fake, but the legends are definitely real. They'd fascinated a hundred kids before you, and they'll fascinate a hundred more after.”
― Hew J. La France

“She always seemed like a decent, reasonable woman.
However, the rumor was when she was mad at you; she came down with the full fury of an angry Gyaos. And not the clunky Gyaos of 1967's Gamera vs. Gyaos. We're talking the swift, fierce, deadly-as-hell Gyaos from Gamera: Guardian of the Universe.
Alex probably couldn't tell one from the other, but if this played out how John hoped it would, he'd get a general idea of what the Guardian of the Universe Gyaos was like.”
― Hew J. La France, A F K

“Kaitlin rested her forehead on her fist as she sighed in exasperation. "John, has it ever occurred to you that none of these relationships have worked out because you over think like... everything about them?"
The notion threw John off-guard, and he took just a moment to consider the possibility. Finally, he said, "Have you ever considered the reason these relationships never work out is because the rest of the population my age is under-thinking everything and I'm actually analyzing everything at the level a normal human should be?”
― Hew J. La France, End Turn

“Yes, there were worse vices which he could have turned to. Many times, he'd considered dabbling in them; drugs, alcohol, porn... but that wasn't his style. What happened to him during the event he
dubbed 'Operation: End Turn' was a one-time occurrence. He'd never go off half-cocked on some dangerous adventure like that again, so what use was there in submitting to temptation and risking addiction to influences more harmful than caffeine? That was for people like James Bond or John Constantine; guys who had been to Hell and back and were still knee deep in the filth of the world.”
― Hew J. La France, A F K

“Servanthood is something that always appealed to me in thought, but never in action. I would love to be that guy that everyone goes to when they need or want something; a real “yes man.” The problem is, serving the human populace typically involves going and doing (mostly things that sound the furthest from what I would classify as ‘fun’), while I’m more keen on staying and not doing.”
― Hew J. La France

“John hung up the phone, standing in the cold break room in silence. The silence spoke to him. It told him a million different things his brother might have wanted to see John about.”
― Hew J. La France, End Turn

“Both had subjects on their mind to discuss once they were out the door. The bank was comprised of a thousand ears, and those thousand ears were attached to tongues which over spoke their peace. Speaking of such matters as the two were inside the branch would be... foolish.”
― Hew J. La France, End Turn

“I lay in bed, either trying to fall asleep or having just woken up, and I contemplate the direction my life is going. Sadly, I haven’t the faintest idea what direction that is. Because, to me, I’m standing still; no steam in my engine propelling me down the rails of Life Railroad. Now, I’m not bothered by it every waking minute of every day; however, it is something that hits me from time to time. It’s an attack by the enemy, made to draw my attention away from God.
Let me tell you, it’s a darn fine attack, too. Not that it works, but boy does it take a lot to keep my mind focused on the Lord.”
― Hew J. La France

“It took me a while, but I eventually figured out that when you say, “no thank you” to God, He says, “Oh really?” in His sly sort of Morgan Freeman voice, and you end up regretting passing up the opportunity.”
― Hew J. La France

“Hope was a cold hearted mistress who promised a dozen wonderful things, and didn't deliver a single one of them.”
― Hew J. La France, End Turn

“He was expecting the Special Victim's Unit, but instead found himself in the Mayberry Police Department. All they needed now was an ignorant child to learn the lesson Sheriff Taylor needed to learn by the end of the episode and they could remake 'The Andy Griffith Show'.+ a”
― Hew J. La France, End Turn

“Life, after all, didn't have plot lines. It was periodically nice to read a work of fiction without one too.”
― Hew J. La France, End Turn

“John thought about nearly dying in Chicago and
this first time firing a gun, causing a realization to come to him; video games are not accurate depictions of real-world violence.
Were there a few fractured souls who lost their minds to the game and couldn't tell the difference between what was real and what was fake? Sure. But a sane mind could tell, and a sane mind shouldn't be able to kill in cold blood after five hours of Halo.
Those people had an underlying problem before they picked up a controller.”
― Hew J. La France, A F K

“The pick-up truck belonged to his boss's boss; a real pompous ass of a man named Alex Hudson. No one was quite sure what exactly his responsibilities were, but whatever they were, he never seemed to be doing them. Incapable of running a transaction, and unable to open or do simple maintenance on an account, the arrogant man was about as useful as a tauntaun on Mustafar.”
― Hew J. La France, End Turn