Vaughn Forston > Vaughn's Quotes

“I’m only “in-country” for minutes when the rocket attack that kept the plane from landing resumes with a vengeance.”
― Michael Zboray, Teenagers War: Vietnam 1969

“I’m a soldier,’ Nathan said. ‘We’re all soldiers, now. Soldiers don’t leave people behind.”
― Barry Kirwan, When the children come

“When the fighter steps into the ring, she knows deep in her heart when she looks out into the crowd that there are people who wish to see her fall. Win or loose the fighter...will always get back up again.”
― Judy Prescott Marshall, Be Strong Enough

“His foot bumped into something he feared was a body. He bent to touch it. It was human. A human with a carotid pulse. He picked it up into a cradle. Probably a female, judging by the feathery weight.”
― John M. Vermillion, Pack's Posse

“I believe that one of the reasons that Christians are ineffective is because we do not take enough time with the Holy Spirit to know the will of God; and just as with Joshua and the Israelite, we make decisions with our emotions and warped moral compass.”
― Tolulope Oyewole, The Spirit of Prayer: The Believer's Authority on the Earth

“Emily’s fear of raising me—her panic at being a mother—lived in the air like an advancing lightning storm. I reminded myself how young she was, how scared. But I could only see her distress over my birth as a rejection. Her alarm was impossible not to take personally.”
― Jack Getze, Making Hearts

“Glorious Leader, we are approaching the galaxy known as the Milky Way,” reported the navigator.
“The one named after a candy bar. How silly those Earthlings are.”
― Steve Bates, Back To You

“Red is the first color of spring. It's the real color of rebirth. Of beginning.”
― Ally Condie, Matched

“But, you know, do what you like! Have a million books! I was only, like, asking. It’s still a book if you’re reading it on an iPad. Soup is soup whatever bowl it’s in.”
― Fredrik Backman, My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry

“Whoever coined the phrase 'a man's got to play the hand that was dealt him' was most certainly one piss-poor bluffer.”
― Jeannette Walls, The Glass Castle

“Scientists had been trying to keep human cells alive in culture for decades, but they all eventually died. Henrietta’s were different: they reproduced an entire generation every twenty-four hours, and they never stopped. They became the first immortal human cells ever grown in a laboratory.”
― Rebecca Skloot, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

“Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, and I took the one most travelled by. It was littered with corpses, as such roads are. But as you will have noticed, my own corpse is not among them.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Testaments

“The entire principle of a blind taste test was ridiculous. They shouldn't have cared so much that they were losing blind taste tests with old Coke, and we shouldn't at all be surprised that Pepsi's dominance in blind taste tests never translated to much in the real world. Why not? Because in the real world, no one ever drinks Coca-Cola blind.”
― Malcolm Gladwell, Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking