Rusty Clift > Rusty's Quotes

“I uncover hidden truths, I don’t pander to other’s notions of how the events of the world should come out.”
― Isabeau Vollhardt, The Casebook of Elisha Grey

“The fat friar arrived several minutes later, carrying a number of sweet rolls in his pudgy hand. He must have been interrupted during an important meeting with his breakfast.”
― Gary Edward Gedall

“For each of these women, the fear of the unknown — of leaving a marriage and casting off alone — may have bound them to a marriage where there is insensitivity, neglect, or even outright abuse. People learn intimacy at home, and when those early standards are set too low, a wife may second-guess her judgment about when and whether she should leave.”
― Anne Michaud, Why They Stay: Sex Scandals, Deals, and Hidden Agendas of Eight Political Wives

“Normally, the author retains copyright of their work unless he is hired or employed by some other person to create the work, in which event the employer is the owner.”
“You mean to tell me Dresden held the copyright on the entire Trade Secrets series?” Iris asked.
Mathew grabbed a slice of pizza and bit it in half. “I never liked that man.”
― Diane L. Kowalyshyn, Double Cross

“I knew Dad was concerned about my past associations. I was from the Trash Alley. It was my community. I hung out with thugs from the Frog Bottom, the Burns Bottoms, the Red Line, the S-Curve, the Sandfield, the Morning Side, and a bunch of other places that shall remain nameless. I knew all of the “Legends of the Hood”: Sin Man, Swap, Boo Boo, Emp-Man, Cookie Man, Shank, Polar Bear, Bae Willy, Bae Bruh, Skullhead Ned, Pimp, Crunch, and Goat Turd (just to name a few). I thought maybe Dad had summoned me as a “show and tell” for the kids in his neighborhood—the hardliner to scare those wayward suburban brats back into reality.”
― Harold Phifer, Surviving Chaos: How I Found Peace at A Beach Bar

“A voice said, Look me in the stars
And tell me truly, men of earth,
If all the soul-and-body scars
Were not too much to pay for birth.”
― robert frost

“Strength is the capacity to break a chocolate bar into four pieces, and then eat just one of the pieces.”
― Judith Viorst

“A man can suffocate on courtesy.”
― Henry David Thoreau

“And said the Guide, 'One am I who descends
Down with this living man from cliff to cliff,
And I intend to show Hell unto him.”
― Dante Alighieri, Inferno

“Ah but Art never fails anyone, magic and medicine may certainly fail, but never Art.”
― Jim Fergus, One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd

“A heart’s a heavy burden”
― Diana Wynne Jones, Howl’s Moving Castle