Jack Odedra > Jack's Quotes

“Webster said, ''Time them skeeters get done with that old man, his French blood will be all gone and he will speak American as good as we do.”
― Peter Matthiessen, Shadow Country

“Around about now, young John Owen comes out of the shack lugging my old musket from the War. At six years of age, our youngest boy already knew his business. Not a word, just brings the shooting iron somewhat closer so's he don't waste powder, then hoists her up, set to haul back on the trigger. I believe his plan was to shoot this feller, get the story later.”
― Peter Matthiessen, Shadow Country

“Good man and bad man with money goes a long ways." ~ Amunhotep El Bey”
― Amunhotep El Bey, The Quotations Book of life and Death

“Shit down your computer, and restart.”
― Claire Chilton

“Ish #21 "Stop saying the only meat you eat is chicken. It's still meat!”
― Regina Griffin

“Ish #109 "If MapQuest says make a right, go straight. You'll get there quicker.”
― Regina Griffin

“The na at the end of banana annoys me as much as it would you if it were bananana.”
― Lance Manion

“Ish #1 "It's not your mama's macaroni and cheese if you used spaghetti noodles.”
― Regina Griffin

“Ish #153 "Artificial plants grow best in artificial light.”
― Regina Griffin

“Ish #303 "It's a street food vendor! Stop asking for the health score rating.”
― Regina Griffin

“Love is relentless, and so am I ;)”
― Keisha Keenleyside

“If you want breakfast in bed, you have to concider sleeping in the kitchen>”
― Foster "Raul" Mkhabele

“Hey! When he dug into it, rifling through her things, she snapped, "Go Yoda someone else's supplies, asshole.”
― Kresley Cole, Demon from the Dark

“I want to write my own eulogy, and I want to write it in Latin. It seems only fitting to read a dead language at my funeral.”
― Jarod Kintz, I Want

“I can tell if two people are in love by how they hold each other’s hands, and how thick their sanitation gloves are.”
― Jarod Kintz, This Book is Not for Sale

“Love is what you make it. Unfortunately, I can’t make it today, as I have a doctor’s appointment.”
― Jarod Kintz, This Book is Not for Sale

“Whether you live to be 50 or 100 makes no difference, if you made no difference in the world.”
― Jarod Kintz, Great Listener Seeks Mute Women

“I want my kids to have the things in life that I never had when I was growing up. Things like beards and chest hair.”
― Jarod Kintz, I Want

“What does it mean to be the best? It means you have to be better than the number two guy. But what gratification is there in that? He's a loser—that’s why he's number two.”
― Jarod Kintz, This Book is Not for Sale

“Discipline allows magic. To be a writer is to be the very best of assassins. You do not sit down and write every day to force the Muse to show up. You get into the habit of writing every day so that when she shows up, you have the maximum chance of catching her, bashing her on the head, and squeezing every last drop out of that bitch.”
― Lili St. Crow

“It's been nice knowing you, Clara.'

Huh? My brain still a bit shell-shocked.

'Say a prayer for me, will you? He gives me a shaky grin. Because I'm pretty sure my parents are going to kill me”
― Cynthia Hand, Hallowed

“Slap-stick comedy is really funny, unless you're the one getting slapped with the stick.”
― Carroll Bryant

“What the heck kind of name was Sir?”
― Cherise Sinclair, Club Shadowlands

“When pointing out the flaws in others, people always end up talking about themselves.”
― Claire Chilton

“Writers don't get mad they get even in their novels.”
― Candace Bowen Early

“I suppose the latest thing is to sit back and let Mr. Nobody from Nowhere make love to your wife.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“Well, then, Otter, of course I don’t like Bundt cake. It has eggs in it. Baby chicken eggs. You don’t see chickens standing outside of maternity wards waiting to get our babies to make their Bundt cake, do you?”
― TJ Klune, Who We Are

“My God, no wonder people like being tied up.”
― Cherise Sinclair, Dark Citadel

“Ish #19 "If your diet soda has zero calories, zero sugar and zero fat, what the hell are you drinking?”
― Regina Griffin

“How can you stand touching her?” my sister blurted, staring at our clasped hands. “Doesn’t that hurt?”
I seized on the change of topic. “These gloves are specialized rubber. They block the current.”
Gretchen’s gaze traveled over Vlad, disbelief still stamped on her features. “Yeah, but how do you two do anything else, unless he has a special, currentrepelling
glove for his—”
“Gretchen!” my father cut her off.
My cheeks felt hot. Don’t say a word, I thought to Vlad, seeing his chest tremble with suppressed laughter.
“He has a natural immunity,” I gritted out.”
― Jeaniene Frost, Once Burned