Andrew E. Kaufman > Quotes

“For me, reading was adventure,but most of all, reading was escape-”
― Andrew E. Kaufman, The Lion, the Lamb, the Hunted

“What you have -- excuse my Polish -- is a bona fide cluster-fuck.”
― Andrew E. Kaufman, While the Savage Sleeps

“Because beneath the layers, life is all about contrasts and perspectives.”
― Andrew E. Kaufman, Twisted

“the past is a lot like a shadow on the ground behind you. Just because you can’t see it doesn’t mean it’s not still there.”
― Andrew E. Kaufman, While the Savage Sleeps

“Together we would breathe, and together everything would feel better. All the fear, all the worries in our lives melting away, the two of us becoming one.”
― Andrew E. Kaufman, Twisted

“it’s not about what you see, but what you choose not to.”
― Andrew E. Kaufman, Twisted

“I’ve worked too damned hard to build trust, and fast as that trust can build, it can just as easily come tumbling down without warning or provocation.”
― Andrew E. Kaufman, Twisted

“That’s the most tragic thing about child abuse and its effects—they never leave, just take on another form. The abuser goes on living as if nothing has ever happened, while the victim pays the price.”
― Andrew E. Kaufman, The Lion, the Lamb, the Hunted

“and it bothers me that psychiatric hospitals have become a dumping ground for polluted minds. Stowing them away like rat poison for the safety of the community isn’t the answer. Furthering their psychological torment isn’t the answer, either.”
― Andrew E. Kaufman, Twisted

“A woman who believed she could manipulate reality simply by ignoring it. A woman who preferred to avoid the complexities of life rather than live in the messy parts.”
― Andrew E. Kaufman, Twisted

“It would be difficult for any psychologist to hear a story like Donny Ray’s and not feel affected by it. We are, after all, human. We have emotional vulnerabilities just like everyone else, and while we’ve been trained to compartmentalize in order to help others, every so often a patient comes along who holds up the mirror to us. When that happens, it can be difficult to ignore what’s looking us in the face.”
― Andrew E. Kaufman, Twisted

“Even after I’m gone, my love will still be with you. You’ll always feel it deep inside your heart.”
― Andrew E. Kaufman, Twisted

“When I catch up to her, I throw my arms over her shoulders, press my body against hers and my lips against the back of her neck. I close my eyes and breathe in her scent, then I spin her around for a deep, passionate kiss. She reciprocates with a helpless moan, locking her hands behind my neck, pulling my mouth harder against hers. I can taste her, smell her, feel her—I can’t get enough of her. I want to stay here forever, wrapped up with her: connected to her. I realize this is how it is meant to be. How we are meant to be.”
― Andrew E. Kaufman, Darkness & Shadows

“For me, reading was adventure, but most of all, reading was escape—escape from a life I never understood. Opening a book felt like taking a trip someplace else. Someplace better.”
― Andrew E. Kaufman, The Lion, the Lamb, the Hunted

“Why are you taking my son away from me?”
― Andrew E. Kaufman, Twisted

“I spend most of my night riding the Insomniac Express, bouncing between brief periods of turbulent sleep and wakeful, agitated tossing and turning.”
― Andrew E. Kaufman, Twisted

“Life is precious…and short. You don’t realize that until you no longer have it. One life lost is enough. Stop throwing yours away.”
― Andrew E. Kaufman, While the Savage Sleeps

“Losing track of time is a problem.”
― Andrew E. Kaufman, Twisted

“away”
― Andrew E. Kaufman, Twisted

“For me, reading was adventure, but most of all, reading was escape—escape from a life I never understood. Opening a book felt like taking a trip someplace else.”
― Andrew E. Kaufman, The Lion, the Lamb, the Hunted

“That’s the most tragic thing about child abuse and its effects—they never leave, just take on another form. The abuser goes on living as if nothing has ever happened while the victim pays the price. And that’s the biggest lie.”
― Andrew E. Kaufman, The Lion, the Lamb, the Hunted

“And right now we are moving deeper into its cavernous underbelly, a subsurface passageway that dead-ends at a high-security plaster box called Alpha Twelve. Home to the worst of the worst. The killers. The rapists. The dark souls with an incurable addiction to evil.”
― Andrew E. Kaufman, Twisted

“She wonders whether she’ll ever be able to fit her square-peg self into this round-holed world instead of constantly having to fake it.”
― Andrew E. Kaufman, What She Doesn't Know

“To die, to sleep, To sleep, perchance to dream; Aye, there’s the rub, For in that sleep of death, what dreams may come, When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause.”
― Andrew E. Kaufman, Twisted

“Still looking, squinting,”
― Andrew E. Kaufman, The Lion, the Lamb, the Hunted

“He was respectful of his elders—that’s rare these days. Kids don’t have manners no more.”
― Andrew E. Kaufman, While the Savage Sleeps

“Life moves too fast. It’s only later that you can begin untangling the chain of events and applying any sort of logic to them.”
― Andrew E. Kaufman, While the Savage Sleeps

“altruism by any other name is still altruism, fueled by many different motivations.”
― Andrew E. Kaufman, Twisted

“toward me, her lips tight around her”
― Andrew E. Kaufman, The Lion, the Lamb, the Hunted

“you are my everything.”
― Andrew E. Kaufman, Twisted