Erin Bowman > Quotes

“Second chances are not the same as forgiveness.”
― Erin Bowman, Taken

“No matter how obvious something may seem, there are two sides to every story.”
― Erin Bowman, Taken

“The human brain can only be stretched so far before it breaks.”
― Erin Bowman, Taken

“For some reason, this is the moment I know I’m gonna be all right; that the hurt might never fade, and my heart might always long for a stubborn cowboy with squinty eyes, but I’ll make do. Sure as the sun will rise.”
― Erin Bowman, Vengeance Road

“People have all sorts of pasts, sometimes dark or dreary, but perhaps the actions they choose in the present are the ones that carry the most weight.”
― Erin Bowman, Taken

“Gold makes monsters of men.”
― Erin Bowman, Vengeance Road

“Maybe I felt something because I'm always looking for feelings. Without them, I don't know how to act.”
― Erin Bowman, Taken

“When I were first learning to shoot a rifle, Pa told me that nearly every battle people face is in their heads.”
― Erin Bowman, Vengeance Road

“I'm trying to say that I think doing what you feel can't always be easy, but at least you're being true to yourself.”
― Erin Bowman, Taken

“Money’s supposed to fix problems, not give you more, but I guess life ain’t that straightforward.”
― Erin Bowman, Vengeance Road

“Life don't care 'bout sorry's," Will says. "Bad things happen, and you can't let 'em harden you. Whatever happened to yer pa, it ain't yer fault, Nate, and you gotta let it go.”
― Erin Bowman, Vengeance Road

“People don't gotta like the same stuff. If they did, life would be pretty boring.”
― Erin Bowman, Vengeance Road

“When I were first learning to shoot a rifle, Pa told me that nearly every battle people face is in their heads. If you think you can't do something, you won't. If you believe you can, it's only a matter of time before you will.”
― Erin Bowman, Vengeance Road

“Sure, sometimes you gotta let things go, but other times you can't till you set things right. And I know darn well it ain't worth arguing with a preacher. The only truths they believe are their own words.”
― Erin Bowman, Vengeance Road

“Hell, I'll be safest pretending I'm a boy the rest of my life. The frontier ain't for the faint of heart, and it certainly ain't kind to women. Sometimes I think the whole world's 'gainst us.”
― Erin Bowman, Vengeance Road

“Everything's simpler without constraints.”
― Erin Bowman, Taken

“It is funny how the things we hate are the things we miss most when they are gone”
― Erin Bowman, Vengeance Road

“Jesse finishes paying for his drinks and turns. It takes only half a second, but his eyes burn a trail from my dress's neckline to its hem and back again. "The dress'll do," he says.”
― Erin Bowman, Vengeance Road

“She was finally beginning to understand what her mother had meant––how opening up can make you vulnerable.”
― Erin Bowman, Stolen

“She was suppose to be mine. I hers. We were suppose to be like the birds.”
― Erin Bowman, Taken

“Secrets are like bullets. Ditto the dark, personal stuff. Folks say they'll take'em off yer hands, share the burden, but really they just load 'em into their own weapons so they can use 'em against you later.”
― Erin Bowman, Retribution Rails

“A strong drink can numb the soul as good as any prayer”
― Erin Bowman, Vengeance Road

“...and I need to hear that there are situations where logic and reason don't apply, that sometimes an ugly action is a necessary one.”
― Erin Bowman, Frozen

“Maybe he kept the act going as long as possible, till a faked death were the only way to keep my memory of her pure and clean and something worth loving.”
― Erin Bowman, Vengeance Road

“Sooner or later we're all gone, so no one bothers getting attached.”
― Erin Bowman, Taken

“He sips his drink and it leaves his handlebar mustache dripping like a cattle dog come outta a river.”
― Erin Bowman, Vengeance Road

“Truth is, if someone doesn't see you before sex, they definitely don't see you any more after.”
― Erin Bowman, Forged

“That word. I would have given anything to hear her say it over the summer, to have had the chance to say it back, but now, more than ever, I understand its true power. How it can make you ache as much as it can make you soar. How it shouldn't be said in return unless you mean it as deeply as the speaker. And that's not something you can ever know. Not truly. There's too much blind faith involved and that word is always, always a risk. You'll get hurt. Or the other person will. You'll stomp on someone's heart without meaning to. Loving is foolish and risky, like trying to raise a building in a bog. Emotions don't make strong foundations.”
― Erin Bowman, Frozen

“We were suppose to be like the birds.”
― Erin Bowman, Taken

“[His eyes] gleaming like a demon done the devil's work”
― Erin Bowman, Vengeance Road