H.D. Gordon > Quotes

“A Searcher, a Wolf Son and a Warrior,” she announced. I suppressed a laugh. I almost expected her to say “walked into a bar.”
― H.D. Gordon, Blood Warrior

“As writers, we feel things deeper than other people, we hurt more, we love bigger, we cry harder and we smile wider. This is the essence, the fuel, to what we do.”
― H.D. Gordon

“If God had called me up to heaven, and told me that I was allowed to build a man to belong to me, I would have built myself a Kayden.”
― H.D. Gordon, Half Black Soul

“Do not allow yourself to be full of hate, princess. Hate is a heavy thing. It weighs us down, chaining us in a dark place. You focus on your love. If you want to be free of this heavy darkness you feel, focus on your love. Love is a chariot with a skeleton key to the chains which hate can wrap around you. To love is to be free.”
― H.D. Gordon, Shooting Stars

“What, did I just step into the twilight zone?”
― H.D. Gordon, Blood Warrior

“There is no feeling that is comparable to that of being truly lost. I don’t mean lost in the woods, or desert, but lost in the way that only can happen internally. Lost to the deepest,
blackest pit of your soul, clinging to ghosts of past times, when you thought you knew who and
what you were. When this happens, you have two choices; you can give in to your darkest inclinations,
and accept what you are, or you can fight, knowing that it is a losing battle, that the good half
of your soul is strong, but can never erase the bad part.”
― H.D. Gordon, Half Black Soul

“Maybe I should punch myself in the face and see if you scream.”
― H.D. Gordon, Redemption

“In the end, we all die. This is not of question. Inarguable. No mystery lay here. The mystery dwells in two questions: How long will our story be, and of what will the pages read?”
― H.D. Gordon, Redemption

“I stepped out of the circle of his arms with reluctance and patted him on his butt. “That’ll do, donkey,” I said, in my best Scottish accent.”
― H.D. Gordon, Redemption

“Did you skip your medication or something?”
― H.D. Gordon, Redemption

“Why do I always have to remind you to look to where the danger waits, Warrior. Sheesh, what would you do without me?

“Uh, not be a murderous psycho?”

Very funny.”
― H.D. Gordon, Redemption

“You can't be brave if you're not scared.”
― H.D. Gordon, Half Black Soul

“I hate it when you do that,” he said.

“What?”

A pause. “Put clothes on.”
― H.D. Gordon, Redemption

“Where are my manners? We haven’t been properly introduced. I’m Surah.”
― H.D. Gordon, Redemption

“We both know exactly how you make me feel, Kayden … I would wager I make you feel the same way.”
― H.D. Gordon, Blood Warrior

“I didn’t think it wise to show disrespect in front of all these people. It’s always better to be rude behind closed doors.”
― H.D. Gordon, Blood Warrior

“Oh, Warrior. Please don't cry every time I kiss you.”
― H.D. Gordon, Half Black Soul

“Survival of the fittest, motherfucker.”
― H.D. Gordon, Joe

“People react to fear, not love. They don’t teach you that in Sunday School, but it’s true. –Richard Nixon”
― H.D. Gordon, Joe

“If we manage to live long enough, everyone is bound to encounter events in life so monumental that from then on, and forever after, they are changed. They are no longer the same person as they once were, fundamentally different from when they started out in this world.”
― H. D. Gordon, White Sheets

“As children we have no trouble adopting the extraordinary into our world.”
― H.D. Gordon, Joe

“Evil is not just a thing of fairytales. Evil is real and it walks among us. Evil is jealousy and hate and fear and fire.”
― H.D. Gordon, Joe

“that which we cannot understand, we fear.”
― H.D. Gordon, Joe

“No one wants to watch the beast as it slowly approaches, its glistening jaws snapping and its head lowered and stomach growling.”
― H.D. Gordon, Joe

“It’s always easier to pick up the pieces as a knee-jerk reaction, as something blindsides us, when we don’t see it coming over the horizon. That is how life was supposed to work. No one wants to watch the beast as it slowly approaches, its glistening jaws snapping and its head lowered and stomach growling. Most of us know this. We know that when things happen—and things do happen—they come from nowhere. At least from nowhere our eyes can see. But we ignore this hard fact of life. Which is fine. Which is good. Which is right.”
― H.D. Gordon, Joe

“But that’s life, baby, and that shit ain’t always fair.”
― H.D. Gordon, Joe

“if looks could kill.”
― H.D. Gordon, The Halfling

“Because that was the thing about learning the hard way, if one wasn’t careful, it could lead straight to a dead end.”
― H. D. Gordon, White Sheets

“lipstick and high heels.”
― H.D. Gordon, The Halfling

“When you become aware of people’s natural inclinations and limitations, you can understand them, and if you don’t expect from them what their nature doesn't give, you'll never be disappointed.”
― H.D. Gordon, Joe