Keith Houghton > Quotes

“No matter which way you dice it, self-preservation is selfish.”
― Keith Houghton, Crossing Lines

“My soul was made in heaven, but my spirit has been forged in hell.”
― Keith Houghton

“Sometimes standing still is all that stops us from falling down.”
― Keith Houghton, Crossing Lines

“We all harbor secrets. Some are so dark even light doesn’t intrude.”
― Keith Houghton, No Coming Back

“Sometimes people are just wired wrong upstairs and they do crazy stuff. You can’t decode crazy.”
― Keith Houghton, Don't Even Breathe

“Fix what’s fixable and make the most of what’s not.”
― Keith Houghton, No Coming Back

“Survival isn’t instinctive; it’s reactive”
― Keith Houghton, Before You Leap

“I never saw my grandfather cry, not ever. Unlike my grandmother, who had cried for them both. I”
― Keith Houghton, Before You Leap

“No conversation. No eye contact lasting more than a second. Body language full of expletives.”
― Keith Houghton, Killing Hope

“Sometimes I am my own worst enemy. I”
― Keith Houghton, Killing Hope

“The kid put the twenty in his pocket. “My mouth is considered closed. Long live capitalism.” Frowning,”
― Keith Houghton, Crossing Lines

“God bless Levis. No one would believe just by looking me over that I’d survived a mudslide and a dance with death. Finally,”
― Keith Houghton, Taking Liberty

“Arguing against a mother’s logic is like stoking a fire with your finger and expecting not to get burned. It”
― Keith Houghton, Killing Hope

“While men bury themselves in their own crap, women see right through it. I”
― Keith Houghton, Crossing Lines

“protected. Breast-fed on capitalism at the teat of success. From the moment I came into this world, mine was a birthright to the big time, and no one was going to keep me from striding along my golden path. Some people call it leading a charmed life. But to me it was all I knew, and it shaped me. At my pinnacle, I had my whole brilliant future mapped out in every detail. I knew where I was headed. I knew how to avoid the pitfalls, and I knew which shortcuts would get me where I needed to be. In short, I was aiming high, with the sweet spot clearly in my sights. I thought I had everything. I thought I was happy. I thought I was invincible. Then I met Cassie.”
― Keith Houghton, Crash

“One of those dilapidated faces that looked like several hapless tenants had lived in it.”
― Keith Houghton, Crossing Lines

“You see any signs of trouble, anything at all, you turn yourself around and you run as fast as you can in the opposite direction. You got a boat load of baggage now. Dragging it behind you like a ball and a chain. People notice something like that, and they don’t take kindly to it; they see you for what you are, which in their eyes is nothing short of trouble. You thought life was hard on the inside. It’s ten times harder out here. In the real world you’re as good as dead meat. Worthless. I’m not kidding with you. It’s tough. You need to put in ten times the effort. Anything less and you won’t make it. The world will eat you up and spit you out.”
― Keith Houghton, No Coming Back

“When we lose someone close, that’s what we do. A personal inquisition.”
― Keith Houghton, No Coming Back

“Survival isn’t instinctive; it’s reactive. That’s what grief does: It makes us think illogically, irrationally. It turns us temporarily insane. Thankfully,”
― Keith Houghton, Before You Leap

“The thing about age is, the older we get the more we make a point of getting to the point. We learn that time is too precious a commodity to waste on formalities.”
― Keith Houghton, Taking Liberty

“Biologically, the average human brain only truly matured in its midtwenties. Until then, it simply didn’t possess the mental connections to think like an adult. And that was why the average teenager”
― Keith Houghton, Don't Even Breathe

“Contrasts. My life, in a nutshell. The eternal struggle between good and evil. Was it possible to be deliriously happy and dangerously bitter, both at the same time? I”
― Keith Houghton, Taking Liberty

“Coincidences are for people who think the universe is cute. It isn’t. Something”
― Keith Houghton, Killing Hope

“this guy is so fucked up in the head he believes McCartney wrote better songs than Lennon.”
― Keith Houghton, Killing Hope

“A problem shared isn’t always a problem halved. I”
― Keith Houghton, Before You Leap

“Our choices define us. They make us who we are.” He”
― Keith Houghton, Taking Liberty

“Well-wishers will tell you that wounds heal over time. Don’t believe them. The”
― Keith Houghton, Before You Leap

“time is no solace. Time is a sentence on the soul,”
― Keith Houghton, No Coming Back

“In life, a conscience is God’s fail-safe, stopping superselfish people from committing the vilest acts. The trouble with people disconnected from their conscience is they never consider consequences. I”
― Keith Houghton, Before You Leap

“Bandage it up any way you like, I have a healthy aversion to hospitals.”
― Keith Houghton