J.D. Barker > Quotes

“Books are like puppies, they wait for you with unconditional love and welcome you back whenever you return.”
― J.D. Barker

“Sometimes the most frightening of thoughts can be found hiding among the shadows of our own minds.”
― J.D. Barker, Forsaken

“At one point, all authors are unknown until the day they are not.”
― J.D. Barker, Forsaken

“Sometimes our deepest fears are the ones we keep closest to our hearts.”
― J.D. Barker, Dracul

“Just when I think I have nothing to say, the characters start to speak. Writing is funny like that.”
― J.D. Barker, Forsaken

“We're going to have such fun, you and I.”
― J.D. Barker, The Fourth Monkey

“You can't play God without being acquainted with the devil”
― J.D. Barker (author), The Fifth to Die

“Writing can take you to places you’ve never been, introduce you to people you’ve never met, take you back to when you first saw those shadows in your room, when you first heard the sounds mumbling ever so softly from your closet, and it can show you what uttered them. It can scare the hell out of you, and that’s when you know it’s good.”
― J.D. Barker

“I’ve been told I write literary popcorn, and I’m fine with that. I always have been. When you read one of my books, you’re never going to find some deep-seated social message or moral code…. I literally get paid to make shit up. Do you really want to take advice from me?”
― J.D. Barker, A Caller's Game

“Writing can take you to places you’ve never been, introduce you to people you’ve never met, take you back to when you first saw those shadows in your room, when you first heard the sounds mumbling ever so softly from your closet, and it can show you what uttered them. It can scare the hell out of you, and that’s when you know it’s good.”
― J.D. Barker

“If you don't try, you've already failed.”
― J.D. Barker

“Self-preservation and fear are two of the strongest instincts of the human condition. Porter wasn’t sure he wanted to meet the man who possessed neither.”
― J.D. Barker, The Fifth to Die

“A wise man once said, “To measure your own IQ, to attempt to label your intelligence, is a sign of your own ignorance.”
― J.D. Barker, The Fourth Monkey

“Growing up, my parents wouldn’t allow a tv in the house. Instead, we took field trips to the library. I remember being eight years old and looking up at all those shelves and wondering how long it would take to read everything. The idea of new worlds, places, and people in every single book all stacked neatly and waiting made the place seem magical.”
― J.D. Barker

“Forget your eyes—sight is a deceitful mistress—it’s only when you trust your other senses equally that you truly learn to see.”
― J.D. Barker, The Sixth Wicked Child

“Le han quitado tantos trozos de cerebro que podría dedicarse a la política.”
― J.D. Barker, The Fifth to Die

“Mizaru significa «no veas el mal», Kikazaru significa «no escuches el mal», e Iwazaru significa «no pronuncies el mal».”
― J.D. Barker, El cuarto mono

“Con cada día que pasan ahí dentro con otra persona al volante de sus vidas, se vuelven un poco más dependientes de la estructura y se les apaga otro poquito de la chispa de su libre albedrío”.”
― J.D. Barker, The Fifth to Die

“Hello”
― J.D. Barker, The Fourth Monkey

“The wind howled in defiance as viscous clouds suffocated the moon, taking the night as their own.”
― J.D. Barker, Forsaken

“Father once told me there was a sweet spot to life between the age of fifteen and sixty-five when you were fully visible to the world—any older and you fade from sight, dimming to obscurity. And”
― J.D. Barker, The Fourth Monkey

“Maybe we should flip for it. I had to open the last one.” “No, I insist. I saw Seven — if Gwyneth’s head is in there, the image will be stuck in my mind for months. This is all you. Be a man.”
― J.D. Barker, The Fourth Monkey

“When you have a child, life ceases being about you and becomes wholly about them. You’ll do anything for them.”
― J.D. Barker, The Fourth Monkey

“Porter knew little about golf. The idea of hitting a little white ball, then chasing after it for hours on end, did not appeal to him. While he understood it was challenging, he did not consider it a sport. Baseball was a sport. Football was a sport. Anything you could play at eighty years old while toting your oxygen tank and wearing pastel slacks would never be a sport in his book.”
― J.D. Barker, The Fourth Monkey

“A veces es bueno acordarse de lo malo. Hace que otras cosas no parezcan tan terribles.”
― J.D. Barker, The Fifth to Die

“That seems much easier than running around Satan’s waiting room, checking names.”
― J.D. Barker, She Has a Broken Thing Where Her Heart Should Be

“Mizaru means see no evil, Kikazaru means hear no evil, and Iwazaru means speak no evil.”
― J.D. Barker, The Fourth Monkey

“You can't play God without being acquainted with the devil.”
― J.D. Barker

“No, I insist. I saw Seven—if Gwyneth’s head is in there, the image will be stuck in my mind for months. This is all you. Be a man.”
― J.D. Barker, The Fourth Monkey

“Me encontré con que era muy guapa.
“Eso lo puedo reconocer ahora, aunque no creo que padre estuviese complacido. Él diría que su belleza me nublaba el juicio. Hace ya varios años que me dijo que la belleza tenía la costumbre de vaciar de sangre el cerebro, y que la razón se iba con ella. “¿Por qué intentó cruzar el hombre la carretera? -me preguntó él-. Para llegar hasta una mujer guapa -respondió él mismo antes de que yo pudiera contestarle-”
― J.D. Barker, The Sixth Wicked Child