Kurt Protano > Kurt's Quotes

“You won’t throw up. Unless you’re allergic to lemon root… but let’s not worry about that now.”
― S.G. Blaise, The Last Lumenian

“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

“We have a right to write our own script even if it disagrees with those who planted us where we are. In fact, if we do not share our personal stories, they will eventually be forgotten or told by someone else. See, I believe our soul wants the life of us to be remembered by at least one, or two, maybe more. In order for people like us to obtain social equality, we need to fill the worldwide web with realistic adoption stories—stories that can convince the mainstream that we should have access to personal documents that pertain to us, birth certificates, and papers that reveal our true identities.”
― Janine Myung Ja, Adoption Stories

“Bodies’, she said. ‘Lots of them’. She glanced over her shoulder to where Sally was hidden, then back to Nathan, and whispered. ‘Small ones’.”
― Barry Kirwan, When the children come

“In spiritual matters, the Church has jurisdiction and so does the individual Christian. Understanding this truth will help the Christian and the Church understand when to make decrees and when to make petitions.”
― Tolulope Oyewole, The Spirit of Prayer: The Believer's Authority on the Earth

“He could tell a storm was coming, he smelt it in the air and saw it in the way the clouds moved. He relished the rain to come; it had a purity about it as if it could wash away all his doubts, all his intentions and quell his sense of guilt when hard choices had to be made.”
― Tony Debajo, In the Shadow of Ruin

“Jack, this is Vance McGruder. I couldn’t find your cell number so I’m taking a chance on reaching you at the cottage. It’s Monday afternoon and I need you here as soon as possible. I’ve arranged for a one-way, first-class ticket on Delta Air Lines on their 3:15pm flight tomorrow afternoon to Atlanta and connecting on to LAX. I’ll have a car and driver at LAX to pick you up. Call me as soon as you get this message.”
― Behcet Kaya, Body In The Woods

“Leadership begins and ends with relationships”
― Andrew Wyatt, Pro Leadership: Establishing Your Credibility, Building Your Following and Leading With Impact

“Nothing. Nothing makes me happy. I like nothing," I tell her.”
― Bret Easton Ellis, Less Than Zero

“Someone has to write all those stories: why not me?”
― Elizabeth Gilbert

“I hated him for as long as I could. But then I realized that loving him...that was a part of me, and one of the best parts. It didn't matter that he couldn't love me, that had nothing to do with it. But if I couldn't forgive him, then I could not love him, and that part of me was gone. And I found eventually that I wanted it back."

({Lord John, Drums of Autumn}”
― Diana Gabaldon, Drums of Autumn

“The fear that lies at the heart. Only this can keep you from what is yours. Conquer the fear in your heart and you may have anything that you desire.”
― Chuck Dixon, Batman: Vengeance of Bane #1

“In reality it is far less prejudicial to witness the immorality of the great than to witness that immorality which leads to greatness.”
― Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America: Volume 1

“he wanted to do, to be, to feel- and could not; he wanted sense, he wanted purpose- in Freud's words, 'Work and Love'.”
― Oliver Sacks, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales