Corey Cucuzza > Corey's Quotes

“It was God’s will. We were created in His image to enjoy marvelous physical pleasure. My calling is to teach the children as many of those pleasures as possible. God demands this of me. I’ve done nothing wrong.”
― Mark M. Bello, Betrayal of Faith

“The same moment the hiker comes upon them, rounding the bend in the trail, Harlan knows the man will die. He takes no pleasure in the thought. So far as Harlan is aware, he has never met the man and has no quarrel with him. This stranger is simply an unexpected contingency. A loose thread that, once noticed, requires snipping.”
― Hank Quense, The King Who Disappeared

“Every night I dream a lot. Every day I live a little.”
― Max Nowaz, Get Rich or Get Lucky

“The verdict got both the fish and me off the hook.”
― Gabriel F.W. Koch, Death Leaves a Shadow

“I just worry you may pay too much attention to what you’re running from to see what you’re running to.”
― Marie Montine, Mourning Grey: Part One: The Guardians Of The Temple Saga

“The Mind—Satan’s Battlefield Let me bring you into the enemy’s kingdom and the strategy of the devil in a deeper way. The first thing the enemy attacks is your mind. The enemy knows that the battle is in the mind, and he knows if he can capture the territory of your mind, your thoughts, and the way you operate, he’s got you in a stranglehold. The next move he makes will be to attack your soul. This includes your mind, will, and emotions. Once he’s got a person’s soul, he will paralyze that person and bring them down to nothing.”
― John Ramirez, Unmasking the Devil: Strategies to Defeat Eternity's Greatest Enemy

“A psychiatrist would diagnose Jolene—and possibly every member of Cade Chase’s team—as having a benign form of psychosis. Benign, because she had not experienced a psychotic break. She was far short of being psychotic, but only because her brain and soul allowed her to manage her dissociative behavior well. The unconscious guides such people.”
― John M. Vermillion, Awful Reckoning: A Cade Chase and Simon Pack Novel

“Fading, fading: strength beyond hope and despair climbing the third stair. Lord, I am not worthy Lord, I am not worthy but speak the word only.”
― T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land and Other Poems

“Why am I a loser? She sat very still.

Because it pleases my father.”
― Louise Fitzhugh, Nobody's Family is going to Change

“I don't want this life to end," said Alexander. "The good, the bad, the everything, the very old, to ever end.”
― Paullina Simons, The Summer Garden

“Cyril, you remember Peter and Ruth, don't you?' she said.
'Of course' I replied. 'Happy Christmas. Nice to see you both again.'
'Happy Christmas to you,' said Peter, an enormous man bursting out of an extra-large shirt. 'And may the blessings of Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior be with you on this momentous day.'
'Fair enough,' I said 'Hello, Ruth.”
― John Boyne, The Heart's Invisible Furies

“At my time of life, one knows that the worst is usually true.”
― Agatha Christie, Murder at the Vicarage