Ripley Patton > Quotes

“Marcus looked down. “Ah, man! This was my favorite shirt. Who tore it?” he asked, trying to pull the ragged edges together.”
― Ripley Patton, Ghost Hand

“My dad was nothing but a bingo call.”
― Ripley Patton, Ghost Hand

“...but I’d learned a long time ago that the worse things are, the more people lie about them.”
― Ripley Patton, Ghost Hand

“You know,” he said, “P.S.S. Piss Camp.”
“Yeah, I get it,” I said, “It’s just not funny.”
― Ripley Patton, Ghost Hand

“Marcus, even in this darkness, I try to swim back to you.
I swear, I do.”
― Ripley Patton, Ghost Hold

“Let’s just say, there’s not much of a moon out tonight,” Nose continued anyway, “but if Yale joined us, there would be.”
― Ripley Patton, Ghost Hand

“I think you've had a very hard life," Passion said calmly, "and you see everyone and everthing through a lens of mistrust." - Passion to Marcus”
― Ripley Patton, Ghost Hold

“Sometimes there is a darkness you can hear, a swallowing of your senses that blots out everything going on in the world around you, leaving only the chaos colliding and exploding in you own head. -- Olivia”
― Ripley Patton, Ghost Hold

“Do you only think you love me? Are you pretty sure you love me? Or are you absolutely positive?” I asked. “Because it’s kind of an important distinction.”
“I think I’m pretty positive I love you.” He grinned down at me.”
― Ripley Patton, Ghost Hold

“Money talks. And throwing that money around shuts everyone else up.”
― Ripley Patton, Ghost Hold

“But can’t we do that with our clothes on?”
“We could,” he said, giving me that cocky grin of his. “But where’s the fun in that?”
― Ripley Patton, Ghost Hold

“I Sat back in the chair, surveying the view in front of me like some savvy superhero, safe in her secret lair.
& that's when I saw it; a shadow slipping across the lower corner of camera seventeen.”
― Ripley Patton, Ghost Hold

“You know when someone says, 'no offense,' I pointed out to him, 'the thing they say directly after that is always offensive”
― ripley patton, Ghost Hold

“After all, eyes are the windows to the soul. But Renzo had a bit too much soul in his eye.”
― Ripley Patton, Ghost Hold

“I know babe" he said, wrapping me in his arms. I could hear the loudly thu-bump of his heart as he picked me up and carried me like a child. And he called me Babe.”
― Ripley Patton, Ghost Hand

“niggling”
― Ripley Patton, Ghost Hand

“I think of myth and magic as the hieroglyphics of the human psyche. They are a special language that circumvents conscious thought and goes straight to the subconscious.

Non-fiction uses the medium of information. It tells us what we need to know.

Science fiction primarily uses the medium of physics and mathematics. It tells us how things work, or could work.

Horror taps into the darker imagery of the psychology, telling us what we should fear.

Fantasy, magic and myth, however, tap into the spiritual potential of the human life. Their medium is symbolism, truth made manifest in word pictures, and they tell us what things mean on a deep, internal level. I have always been a meaning-maker. I have always been someone who strives to make sense of everything and perhaps that is where my life as a storyteller first began. Life doesn't always make sense, but story must. And so I write stories, and the world comes right again.”
― Ripley Patton

“Gone was the insignificant, defective girl. I was some kind of f**king comic book vigilante & it felt amazing! ”
― Ripley Patton, Ghost Hand

“Oh, gee, I'm sorry, did I mess up your diabolical plans to rule the world? They must not have been very f-ing good if one girl could mess them up so easily.”
― Ripley Patton, Ghost Heart

“Instead, I just sat there crying, hoping he’d come find me, which made me cry even harder.”
― Ripley Patton, Ghost Hand

“I deserved some pain.”
― Ripley Patton, Ghost Hand

“Old habits die hard.”
― Ripley Patton, Ghost Hand

“Don’t think about that. Don’t think about him.”
― Ripley Patton, Ghost Hand

“Come home to the Dome!”
― Ripley Patton

“Los viejos hábitos son difíciles de eliminar.”
― Ripley Patton, Crónicas Del Pss 1: Mano Fantasma

“Was he just humouring me? Just giving me the illusion of control while he manipulated me into doing what he wanted with his overwhelming proximity?”
― Ripley Patton, Ghost Hand

“What do you feel when you reach into yourself? Your own strength, and weakness, and humanity. Your own frailty and might.”
― Ripley Patton, Ghost Heart