J.R. Stewart > Quotes

“Nobody is the best at anything for very long. There is always somebody who can beat you. The magic is in avoidance.”
― J.R. Stewart, Ochoco Reach

“There is a difference between lonely and alone," I said. "Sometimes, you can get loney in a room full of people.”
― J.R. Stewart, Ochoco Reach

“Fear is considered a bad thing, but fear is one of our best friends. It kept me alive through some very serious business. Acknowledging it, accepting it, and managing it make up whatever secret there is to avoiding panic.”
― J.R. Stewart, Ochoco Reach

“The butterflies were doing complex gymnastics in both my head and my gut. I welcomed them. They meant I was still very much alive.”
― J.R. Stewart, Ochoco Reach

“How'd you get him to talk?"

"We savages can be very persuasive." He grinned. "I told him I was going to bury him alive in an ant hill and put wasps in his ears."

"You sure that didn't come from your Irish half?”
― J.R. Stewart, Ochoco Reach

“It was true that neither of us did what we did just for the money - we had what we considered to be noble motives - but the end result was often that people died.”
― J.R. Stewart, Ochoco Reach

“I also knew that I was number one on the Yankees Cap hit parade. That settled me down. There's nothing like immident death to sharpen a guy's outlook.”
― J.R. Stewart, Ochoco Reach

“What did you hit me with?" I let go of his hand. "Vietnam and a lifetime of practice.”
― J.R. Stewart, Ochoco Reach

“It's always the regular people who suffer the most in a war. Soldiers have a job, and it keeps them on some kind of a track, however tenuous. The general population doesn't have squat in a war zone. They're just in the way, and they die, often simply at the whime of fate.”
― J.R. Stewart, Ochoco Reach

“We are all the composite of our stories. It is who we are. Our stories carry the tracks we leave during our lifetimes. The most important of those tracks are in the hearts of our friends and our enemies.”
― J.R. Stewart, Ochoco Reach

“Death is easy for the dead but much harder for the living.”
― J.R. Stewart, Ochoco Reach

“Some things are meant to live and die with an artist”
― J.R. Stewart