Risa Hinnenkamp > Risa's Quotes

“There was nothing ordinary about Ossie May. She was tall, sexy, smart, and pretty. Her looks and personality were her drawing cards. The flip side was her temperament. She was beauty and rage sandwiched together, and she must have invented cussing. She would unload swear word after swear word in rapid succession. There had to be a law against such offensive language.”
― Harold Phifer, Surviving Chaos: How I Found Peace at A Beach Bar

“People absorbed in a task, especially when it aggrandizes them somehow, are numb to the world at hand.”
― Isabeau Vollhardt, The Casebook of Elisha Grey

“This is Detective Ashford Ishikawa. Who am I speaking with?”
“My name is Jack Ludefance. I’m a private investigator from Santa Rosaria and I’ve been retained by Cindy Hastings through her lawyer, Mr. Hooks, to investigate her father’s murder. Is there way we can get together to talk?”
“Why? What are we going to talk about, Mr. Ludefance?”
“As I said, Detective Ishikawa, I’ve been hired to investigate the case. I’ve read the police reports. My hat is off to you. Very thorough work.”
“Just doing my job. If you’ve read them, and I won’t ask how you got them, I’ll ask you again, what is there for us to talk about?”
“Detective, I’m not trying to do your job and I’m not asking you to do my job. This is of mutual interest to both of us. The sooner we solve the crime the better, yes? Think of it this way. I’m your helper.”
― Behcet Kaya, Appellate Judge

“Everything is so fast and awful, isn't it, Noah?"

"The world has become like that.”
― Lee Matthew Goldberg, Slow Down

“Imagination is not bound by possibilities. The creative mind will always break the shackles—making the impossible, possible.”
― C. Toni Graham

“Donde, he offered a piece of candy to a little
   boy.”
― Kyle Keyes, Under the Bus

“the realities”
― Frederick Forsyth, The Deceiver

“vexation, yet filled with unconscious regret for the terrible unknown things that might have, but had not, happened (23)”
― Émile Zola

“How could I be sleeping with this particular man.... Surely only true love could justify my lack of taste.”
― Margaret Atwood, Lady Oracle

“Jag talar inte om din bok nu, men se hur många böcker som redan skrivits om Förintelsen. Till vilken nytta? Folk har inte blivit annorlunda...

Dom kanske behöver en ny Förintelse, en ännu värre...”
― Art Spiegelman, The Complete Maus

“Okay," I said. "Just a normal afternoon and two normal people."
She nodded. "And so...hypothetically, if these to people likes each other, what would it take to get the stupid guy to kiss the girl, huh?"
"Oh..." I felt like one of Apollo's sacred cows-slow, dumb, and bright red. "Um...”
― Rick Riordan, The Last Olympian

“strip a city of its leaders, journalists, and cultural examples and you will control an ignorant and vulnerable population. Do you understand now?”
― Jana Petken, The Vogels: On All Fronts

“Busy is good, isn't it? Busy means we're hard at it, achieving our ends or "goals." Haven't had time to stop, or look around or think. That's considered the sign of a life well lived. Although people complain of it - another year gone, where did that one go? - tacitly, they're proud. Otherwise they wouldn't do it: you put your time where your priority is.”
― Sebastian Faulks, Engleby

“Leave the problems of God to God and karma to karma. Today you’re here and nothing you can do will change that. Today you’re alive and here and honored, and blessed with good fortune. Look at this sunset, it’s beautiful, neh? This sunset exists. Tomorrow does not exist. There is only now. Please look. It is so beautiful and it will never happen ever again, never, not this sunset, never in all infinity.

Lose yourself in it, make yourself one with nature and do not worry about karma, yours, mine, or that of the village.”
― James Clavell, Shōgun

“I used to think it was immoral to be unhappy.”
― Joseph Heller, Catch-22

“Once a guy stood all day shaking bugs from his hair.”
― Philip K. Dick, A Scanner Darkly

“She was a woman who let life happen to her without troubling her mind about things more than was necessary.”
― Diane Setterfield, Once Upon a River

“Selfless suffering feels good for short crusades, but as a way of life, it’s unsustainable.”
― Max Brooks, Devolution: A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre

“You are a nobody! An It!”
― David Pelzer, A Child Called "It"

“But we know that just because we want something does not mean that we will get what we want,”
― Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time

“our cognitive abilities as adults are heavily influenced by the social environment that we experienced during childhood, making it hard to discern any influence of preexisting genetic differences.”
― Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

“Standing beside the river, realizing that the water of earth is recycled forever, she deeply understood this: that there are two "presents." One is of the moment. The other is of a longer moment - the "moment" that includes the history and knowledge one knows. So that, she mused, if the tears shed by the mother of Isis are now part of this river then I am somehow connected to her in this longer "present" that I am able to envision and that contains both of us.”
― Alice Walker, Now Is the Time to Open Your Heart

“Fortune favors those who dare.”
― Virgil

“Well he didn't treat my mother very well. He did some horrible things."
"Like..." I hesitated. "Blood-whore things?"
"Like beating-her-up kinds of things" he replied flatly.
"Oh God," I said "That's horrible. And she...she just let it happen?"
"She did." The corner of his mouth turned into a sly, sad smile. "But I didn't"
"Tell me, tell me you beat the crap out of him"
His smile grew, "I did.”
― Richelle Mead, Vampire Academy

“If I tell you will you go?"

"What? I don't get. What do you mean?"

"I love you, Kotohiki. I've loved you for a real long time.”
― Koushun Takami, Battle Royale

“There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man." ~ 'The Black Cat.”
― Edgar Allen Poe

“Оркестр - это отображение человеческого общества, потому что здесь, как и там, те, кто безоговорочно выполняют самую дерьмовую работу, сверху донизу презираются всеми остальными.”
― Patrick Süskind, El contrabajo