G.M. Ford > Quotes

“I will never understand why anybody who’s having so precious little fun here on earth is so damned intent on living forever.”
― G.M. Ford, Cast In Stone

“I don’t have a drinking problem,” I said. “I have a stopping problem.”
― G.M. Ford, Who In Hell Is Wanda Fuca?

“Don’t lose sleep over it, Jed. Only the mediocre are at their best all the time.”
― G.M. Ford, Who In Hell Is Wanda Fuca?

“Where’s Nadine?” “She went out for a walk the other day and didn’t come back.” “Really.” I tried to sound surprised. “No sweat,” he said. “Pussy may well be the only true renewable resource, Leo. I’ve got another one lined up for when I get back.” I had to admire a man with that kind of insight and planning.”
― G.M. Ford, Who in Hell Is Wanda Fuca?

“His longterm aspirations were not a subject upon which he allowed himself to dwell. Not because they were in any way bad or bizarre, but because he had come to realize he didn't have any. Nothing specific anyway. He'd never pictured himself as anything in particular. Just a situation where he made enough money doing something... anything... enough to have whatever he wanted. A nice new Dodge pickup. A boat or maybe a little house someplace. The kind of things people wanted.”
― G.M. Ford, Red Tide

“Buddy eyed me closely. His eyes were filigreed with red. I watched as he went through one of those instantaneous mood swings that only drunks and menstruating women can manage.”
― G.M. Ford, Who in Hell Is Wanda Fuca?

“Only the mediocre are at their best all the time.”
― G.M. Ford, Who In Hell Is Wanda Fuca?

“Wow . . . she’s gotten older”—a realization that somehow never includes me, as if I am for some reason immune to aging. It isn’t until I pass by a mirror and catch sight of my own composting carcass that I’m forced to fess up to reality. Hate when that happens.”
― G.M. Ford, Soul Survivor

“The minute you become something they don’t want to look at, they stop looking at you. It’s that simple. You join the void. That much I’m sure of.”
― G.M. Ford Who in Hell is Wanda Fuca

“Living in Seattle is like being married to a beautiful woman who's sick all the time.”
― G.M. Ford, Thicker Than Water

“I sat staring at the carpet for the longest time, trying to put everything I’d learned into some sort of meaningful order, but it was like reading late at night, where three minutes in you realize you’ve read the same paragraph six times and still don’t have any idea what it’s about.”
― G.M. Ford, Thicker Than Water

“They’ll be threatening to murder one another by Wednesday. As I understand it, it’s all part of being sisters.”
― G.M. Ford, Cast In Stone

“I spent the ride wondering why some people were inclined to surrender their lives to prophets and gurus, as if the responsibility for making their own decisions was simply too much for them to bear, and the only way they could go on living was to become pawns in their own games, willing to believe . . . in something, in anything, as long as the weight of personal choice was lifted from their sagging shoulders and placed elsewhere.”
― G.M. Ford, Salvation Lake

“a petri dish in the ocean of life.”
― G.M. Ford, Thicker Than Water

“When I was younger, I used to drive like this all the time. Today I expected to be pulled over, pummeled, and summarily arrested at any moment. I felt old and stodgy.”
― G.M. Ford, Who In Hell Is Wanda Fuca?

“I’ve got to jump in the shower.” “I’ll Uber home,” I said. “Do you realize you just made a noun into an intransitive verb?” I wiped my mouth. “Story of my life,” I said.”
― G.M. Ford, Salvation Lake

“another pull on the Bushmills. Shrugged. “I guess they figured”
― G. M. Ford, Threshold

“Every form of refuge has its price.”
― G.M. Ford, Family Values

“That was before the new puritans took over the city. Before political correctness became the rage and melted all of us into a single amorphous dung heap.”
― G.M. Ford, Thicker Than Water

“I’ve always been of the opinion that if people could just bring themselves to say “I don’t know” when they don’t know, we’d all live longer and have to listen to a whole lot less bullshit. But that’s not how people are. People hate to say “I don’t know.” They’ll speculate, gesticulate, and just plain make up shit to avoid saying the words out loud.”
― G.M. Ford, Family Values

“The minute you become something they don’t want to look at, they stop looking at you. It’s that simple. You join the void. That much I’m sure of.”

Ford, G.M. (2012-07-17). Who In Hell Is Wanda Fuca? (A Leo Waterman Mystery) (Kindle Locations 2431-2432). AmazonEncore. Kindle Edition.”
― G. M. Ford

“I’m one of the latter, a live-and-let-live guy all the way. You do your thing; I’ll do mine. The twain don’t have to meet. Don’t get me wrong: if you’re about to step in front of a bus, I’ll stick out my am, but that’s about it. Otherwise, you’re pretty much flyin’ solo, as far as I’m concerned. As long as whatever you’ve got in mind involves other consenting adults, I say go for it. When it comes to kids, however, I get downright medieval. I fall right into line with penitentiary convicts, who consider it to be full-time open season on child molesters.”
― G.M. Ford, Family Values

“Our memories are filled with the hundreds of people who have walked through our lives, touched us in some way, and then seemingly disappeared from the face of the earth. Time erodes our willingness to promise once again to keep in touch, and without willing it so, the Kleenex promises of youth give way to the carefully chosen holiday cards of”
― G.M. Ford, Slow Burn

“suffers fools,”
― G.M. Ford, Thicker Than Water

“Some things in life you just have to erase. If you’re going to go on with your existence, you have to drop them into a deep dark well somewhere in your soul, and trudge onward as if they never happened.”
― G.M. Ford, Thicker Than Water

“frigging badly would be gone in an instant. Two Bells owner Jeff Lee cleaned glasses and”
― G.M. Ford, Chump Change

“serious”
― G.M. Ford, Who In Hell Is Wanda Fuca?

“These guys had names for every conceivable drinking situation. They liked to have a little eye-opener to get themselves going in the morning, a midmorning bracer before attempting anything serious, a few modest cocktails at lunch, followed by the obligatory afternoon pick-me-up, which segued neatly right into happy hour and ended with a little one just to help them sleep. For purely medicinal purposes, of course.”
― G.M. Ford, Who in Hell Is Wanda Fuca?

“They could hang around all day and nobody paid them any mind because society has trained itself not to see the poor and the destitute. That way, we don’t have to think about how the richest society on earth allows so many of its citizens to live in the streets like stray dogs.”
― G.M. Ford, Family Values

“numbed brain a few seconds to process the information.”
― G. M. Ford, Threshold