Alan Russell > Quotes

“You can only get so many belly laughs out of nihilism and the price of black eyeliner.”
― Alan Russell, Guardians of the Night

“The spring is like some harlot feigning sensuality. It is not until the fall when the year gets down to its real business. I always await the Harvest Moon with enormous anticipation.”
― Alan Russell, Guardians of the Night

“skintight layer of clothing that extends from my feet to my neck that’s supposed to help improve my hypertrophic scarring. The Iron Maiden describes hypertrophic scarring as skin that exhibits the three Rs of being red,”
― Alan Russell, Burning Man

“bottle. Before setting out to his burrow, he always stashed his other meager possessions. He was more willing to lose those than his sleeping spot. Wrong always packed in and packed out. His bottle, invariably empty by the morn, went out with him. He also collected any other trash he found in the ice plant. He kept his home, such as it was, neatly maintained. Keeping low so as to minimize the chance of being seen, Wrong sidled into his space. He unrolled his bedding, an old sleeping bag, and then settled on top of it. A sigh of contentment escaped his mouth, but even that was muted. Wrong was glad he didn’t snore, or at least he”
― Alan Russell, Guardians of the Night

“screamed for revenge, but his desires were foiled by his own words, for he yelled out,”
― Alan Russell, Guardians of the Night

“Graham got a feel for how paramedics were pumped for information as they delivered their charges to the ER.”
― Alan Russell, Exposure

“Crime doesn’t pay,” I said to Sirius, “unless you’re a lawyer.”
― Alan Russell, Guardians of the Night

“With all the apps available on our cell phones, it seems to me we’re getting closer and closer to Gene Roddenberry’s vision of Starfleet tricorders.”
― Alan Russell, Gideon's Rescue

“Only those who still have hope can benefit from tears.”
― Alan Russell, Guardians of the Night

“If a kid refuses to take a nap, is he guilty of resisting a rest?’ ”
― Alan Russell, Guardians of the Night

“My walk through the flames permanently scarred my face, but it was the hidden scars that disabled me even more than the obvious ones.”
― Alan Russell, Guardians of the Night

“eyes scanned the heavens, and he found familiar”
― Alan Russell, Guardians of the Night

“The recessional of “Amazing Grace” was familiar to all. John Newton had written the hymn, and I wondered how many people in the church knew that he’d been a slave-ship captain before realizing the error of his ways and becoming an abolitionist.”
― Alan Russell, Lost Dog

“the earliest Christian services were not held in churches, but in homes.”
― Alan Russell, L.A. Woman

“wished the Citroën were an automatic. He could have put it in drive and let it commit suicide on its own. The stick meant he had to push it over the edge.”
― Alan Russell, Exposure

“directed”
― Alan Russell, Guardians of the Night

“Anna’s breath was short, her mouth dry. She managed to say, “You make it all sound so awful.” Elizabeth shook her head with regret. “I just gave you the best-case scenario.”
― Alan Russell, Shame

“You know things aren’t right in your life when you look forward to going back to war,” he said.”
― Alan Russell, Guardians of the Night

“I can resist everything but temptation,”
― Alan Russell, Burning Man

“crowded the floor and hung”
― Alan Russell, St. Nick

“ ‘A weed is just a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.’ ”
― Alan Russell, Guardians of the Night

“He took a long swallow from his bottle. As the warmth trailed down his throat, he sighed, partly out of contentment, partly out of a sense of loss. Wrong took another drink. In an hour or two everything would be all right.”
― Alan Russell, Guardians of the Night

“Know thy enemy,” a quote he lifted from Sun Tzu’s The Art of War.”
― Alan Russell, Guardians of the Night

“Hemingway said, ‘As you get older, it is harder to have heroes.’ ”
― Alan Russell, Guardians of the Night

“I’m hoping the prince prevailed and lived happily ever after.”
― Alan Russell, Guardians of the Night

“And he told me illegitimi non carborundum translates to, ‘Don’t let the bastards grind you down.”
― Alan Russell, Lost Dog

“German shepherds want to please their handlers.”
― Alan Russell, Lost Dog

“Prometheus stole fire from the gods so that humans could become like gods.”
― Alan Russell, Burning Man

“Christmas music,” said Nick, “or instruments of torture?”
― Alan Russell, St. Nick

“The race is not always to the swift.” “Nor the battle to the strong.”
― Alan Russell, Burning Man