Brooks Wehe > Brooks's Quotes

“Just a middle-age man with all the privilege that unasked for gift affords. When in truth it seems, we see suffering as the province of children, mothers, wives and lovers. Broken, struck by the hand of a man’s blind ambition, brutish strength. What of the gentle-man with the soft voice…”
― Peter B. Forster, More Than Love, A Husband's Tale

“The old stereotypes of fantasy and science fiction are dead. What was once considered foolish is now trending. Thank you internet age.”
― Christian Warren Freed

“You cannot be afraid, Read the book. Smile at it. It's a great book-the greatest book you've ever read.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

“Screw this. He’d blown his shot at nice-and-easy, which only left quick-and-brutal—my favorite way to play.”
― Rachel Vincent, Rogue

“I mean a fat, ugly man can still be funny and lovable and successful,” continued Jane. “But it’s like it’s the most shameful thing for a woman to be.” “But you weren’t, you’re not—” began Madeline. “Yes, OK, but so what if I was!” interrupted Jane. “What if I was! That’s my point. What if I was a bit overweight and not especially pretty? Why is that so terrible? So disgusting? Why is that the end of the world?”
― Liane Moriarty, Big Little Lies

“It is very difficult, if not impossible, to relinquish and attach at the same time.”
― Elin Hilderbrand, Summer People

“المدينة تصير عالمًا عندما تحبُ أحد سكانها
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والقاهرة مدينة باهتة الألوان
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مليئة بالتناقضات والمصاعب والعيوب”
― محمد فرحات

“[P]eople only make decisions based on what they know. You can have everyone in the country vote freely and democratically and still come up with the wrong answer - if the information they base that decision on is wrong.

People don't want the truth [when] it is complicated. They don't want to spend years debating an issue. They want it homogenized, sanitized, and above all, simplified into terms they can understand...Governments are often criticized for moving slowly, but that deliberateness, it turns out, is their strength. They take time to think through complex problems before they act. People, however, are different. People react first from the gut and then from the head...give that knee-jerk reflex real power to make its overwhelming will known as a national mandate instantly and you can cause a political riot.

Combine these sins - simplification of information and instant, visceral democratic mandates - and you lose the ability to cool down. There is no longer deliberation time between events that may or may not be true and our reaction to them. Policy becomes instinct rather than thought.”
― Tracy Hickman, The Immortals

“The only time you seem honest is when you’re insulting someone!”
“The only honest things I can say to you are insults.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Words of Radiance

“You like me, Josie Moraine. You just don't know it yet.”
― Ruta Sepetys, Out of the Easy

“Get to part B, Daniel. Think fast. Patience is a virtue, and you know how Cam feels about those.”
― Lauren Kate, Fallen

“I am interested, for the first time in ages, in something other than my own misery. I have purpose. Or at least, I have a distraction.”
― Paula Hawkins, The Girl on the Train

“But Dally, heaters kill people!
Ya' kill 'em with switchblades to, don'tcha?”
― S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders

“All our life, so far as it has definite form, is but a mass of habits,” William James wrote in 1892.prl.2 Most of the choices we make each day may feel like the products of well-considered decision making, but they’re not. They’re habits. And though each habit means relatively little”
― Charles Duhigg, The Power Of Habit: Why We Do What We Do In Life And Business

“Oh, I was lucky, you know, to get anyone. I was what they called an old bride of twenty-six. Of course I married him. Everyone needs to keep something private from their family.

Like a shutter in a rainstorm, banging against the window, I venture forth, retreat back, try afresh, retreat again. Nothing changes in my life and yet nothing is the same.

That did not help, Ed knew as the words hung between them and he had that all-too-familiar sensation of wanting to claw them from the air and stuff them back in his mouth.

We were all in small pieces that didn't fit together, too many countries, too many scars, too many secrets inside us.

How do you make a stranger so intimate when they could easily destroy you?”
― Tracy Chevalier, Reader, I Married Him: Stories Inspired by Jane Eyre

“But, what if it's not a mistake? What if it's true?"

"Well then, my angel... you'll be a very rich woman indeed.”
― Lisa Jewell, The Family Upstairs

“And in the late nineties, two women sued Hopkins, claiming that its researchers had knowingly exposed their children to lead, and hadn’t promptly informed them when blood tests revealed that their children had elevated lead levels—even when one developed lead poisoning. The research was part of a study examining lead abatement methods, and all families involved were black. The researchers had treated several homes to varying degrees, then encouraged landlords to rent those homes to families with children so they could then monitor the children’s lead levels.”
― Rebecca Skloot, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

“He was determined to be the most touristy tourist who had ever touristed,”
― John Scalzi, The End of All Things

“But if something was really important, fate made sure it somehow came back to you and gave you another chance.”
― Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever

“That’s what I imagined, a giant game park with comfortable lodges and roads. At a minimum, roads. According to the website, there’d be “bush camping” involved, but I pictured lovely big tents with showers and flush toilets. I didn’t think I’d be paying for the privilege of squatting in the bushes.”
― Tess Gerritsen, Die Again

“...the materials of genre - specifically the paired genres of horror and the fantastic - in no way require the constrictions of formulaic treatment, and in fact naturally extend and evolve into the methods and concerns of its wider context, general literature.”
― Peter Straub (Author), Poe's Children: The New Horror