George Wier > Quotes

“There is no greater thrill in life than to find that you are not only useful, but that you can help, and that your help matters.”
― George Wier, The Last Call

“in the dry, North Texas climate, and the room’s only permanent occupant, seated in the rocking chair, grinned vacantly in the dark, waiting”
― George Wier, The Last Call

“After a lifetime spent in earnest earnest then what? After chasing after just such, it would have grinned even wider, if old corpses could… but then?”
― George Wier, The Last Call

“Back during the early 1920s the Carpin brothers ran the small slapped-together oil boomtown a few miles east of Stinnett in what was little more than a den of bootleggers, gamblers and other criminals of low order. During those days of the roaring twenties, men on the far side of the law either rose to the top of the heap or got stomped under. For a brief time the Carpins were on the top of that heap. When Signal Hill was cleaned out by the Texas Rangers in 1927, the former boomtown imploded and the Carpins, who had managed to avoid arrest and capture, had dispersed.”
― George Wier, The Last Call

“alive had valued human life slightly less than they valued”
― George Wier, The Last Call

“the dark in my underwear. Outside? No good. Bathroom!”
― George Wier, The Last Call

“cardboard square, put it down flat on a small pedestal”
― George Wier, The Last Call

“down quick. My idiot heart stopped, then resumed a full three”
― George Wier, The Last Call

“some”
― George Wier, The Last Call

“while times change and mankind appears to progress, there are some who still abide in the dark and heed no law except the grim laws of survival and revenge.”
― George Wier, The Last Call

“And somehow, the moment, like all moments that had come and gone before, passed right on by.”
― George Wier, The Last Call

“The less seen, the less said,”
― George Wier, The Last Call

“interior lights came on as Julie opened the passenger door”
― George Wier, The Last Call

“A spring, a week, a day of pure hell and beauty. I suppose that when I was a kid, I must have held a fervent wish that my life would go just the way it was going, and to that kid, if he were watching, all this must seem about perfect.”
― George Wier, The Last Call

“slightly dim. We passed a table that had an old box of dominoes”
― George Wier, The Last Call

“my exterior, there was a magma chamber burning hot. If I got just the wrong jolt at just the wrong time,”
― George Wier, The Last Call

“Behind me, ahead of me, behind. I didn't turn my head. Not even once. But then she came right alongside. My exit lane was coming up, but suddenly I wasn’t taking it. I had bigger”
― George Wier, The Last Call

“market has corrected itself since last I looked, you might”
― George Wier, The Last Call

“There’s nothing quite as liberating as not knowing one’s own limitations.”
― George Wier, The Last Call

“No woman I had ever known had thus far been able to penetrate my armor with the simple expedient of tears. But it was not only this that drew me to”
― George Wier, The Last Call

“and looked like none of its neighbors. We drove by slowly. Hank”
― George Wier, The Last Call

“My life is not very exciting. I don’t like excitement. I don’t even watch exciting movies. I like things nice and calm. You put in your day of work, you watch the sun fade from the sky and you draw your dollar. But sometimes you have to move quickly.”
― George Wier, The Last Call

“I found myself wondering whether or not I'd died and gone someplace I couldn't begin to deserve. Her sunglasses lay not an inch from my right hand, which held the scalding cup of coffee from which I sipped.”
― George Wier, The Last Call

“described as the largest small town in the world. I think that”
― George Wier, The Last Call

“parts of an old carburetor laid out on a large piece of torn cardboard, waiting for re-assembly at some”
― George Wier, The Last Call

“I don't like the feeling of being 'had'.  Nobody does.  It has long been my inclination to take the people I meet at face value, and I believe that I tend to grant others the kindness and attention I would ask of them.  I'm not so full of myself that I'm not aware when I have failed to live up to this creed, but when I see the same failing in others, particularly when it is through malice, I get a little... peeved.”
― George Wier, Slow Falling

“sunglasses”
― George Wier, The Last Call

“Outside, above, lightning flashed and thunder boomed. Inside, the dust that had for a brief moment stirred, slowly settled back down.”
― George Wier, The Last Call

“How can I help you?” “Mr. Travis. I’m not sure you can. I’m not sure anybody can.” I’d heard this before. A few times it’s been true. It’s a marvel to me the whole spectrum of trouble that human beings can get themselves into. I suppose I’ve seen most everything.”
― George Wier, The Last Call

“Blackjack” Johanssen.”
― George Wier, The Last Call