Debbie P > Debbie's Quotes

“Dynamite is loyal to the one who lights the fuse.”
― Dean F. Wilson, Skyshaker

“When writing, there are some scenes that are emotionally overwhelming. They completely overcome the author, and only when they do this can they cause a similar reaction in the reader.

Through this, the author gets to experience multiple lives. If a character's life flashes before their eyes, it flashes before the author's eyes too, and he or she remembers it as his or her own.

With reading, we get to live other lives vicariously, and this is doubly so with writing. It is like a lucid dream, where we guide the outcome. In this, we don't merely write *about* a character -- we momentarily *become* them, and walk as they walk, think as they think, and do as they do. When we return to our own life, we might return a little shaken, likely a little stronger, hopefully a little wiser.

What is certain is that we return better, because experiencing the lives of others makes us understand their aims and dreams, their fears and foils, the challenges and difficulties, and joys and triumphs, that they face. It helps us grow and empathise, and see all the little pictures that make up the bigger one we see from the omniscience of the narrator.”
― Dean F. Wilson

“That was the trouble with explaining with words. If you explained with gunpowder, people listened.”
― Dean F. Wilson, Dustrunner

“Nox didn’t say a word. He waited, counting the seconds in his mind. Sometimes you counted bullets and sometimes you counted time. Either one could kill you.”
― Dean F. Wilson, Rustkiller

“The silence just allowed the echoes of the question to play out in Nox’s mind, reminding him of his own unwinnable war against the never-ending tide of conmen and criminals. He was trying to clean up these parts, but every time he rubbed away a stain, he found another layer of dirt beneath. So, you could give up—or you could keep on scrubbing.”
― Dean F. Wilson, Coilhunter

“Happiness surrounds those who are happy.”
― N.N. Light, Princess of the Light

“Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart bigger.”
― Ben Okri

“It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.”
― Noël Coward, Blithe Spirit

“Shit travels a long way, but wherever it lands it smells the same. - Colonel Franklin Brickland”
― Jon Land, The Walls of Jericho

“Death had come to be treated too often like lost points in a video game.”
― Jon Land, The Tenth Circle

“Sometimes you had to accept the impossible,
because nothing else made any sense.”
― Jon Land, Strong to the Bone

“Like most bad ideas, it started with alcohol.”
― Cy Wyss, Polygraph

“The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness – Joseph Conrad”
― J.T. Hunter, The Vampire Next Door: True Story of the Vampire Rapist and Serial Killer

“I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright, Who art as black as hell, as dark as night” Shakespeare -- Sonnet CXLVII”
― J.T. Hunter, Devil in The Darkness: The True Story of Serial Killer Israel Keyes

“Magic is not the solution to every problem, but it sure helps in eleven out of ten cases.”
― Patrick Thomas, Fairy Rides The Lightning: Terrorbelle Book 2

“Sometimes it’s not worth questioning authority because it usually won’t know the answer.”
― Patrick Thomas, Rites Of Passage: The Department of Mystic Affairs Casefiles of Agent Karver (featuring Detective Bianca Jones): Mystic Investigators Book 6

“I recently got my wife to take me back, which is good because I don’t like to work and she supports me when we’re together.”
― Patrick Thomas, Dear Cthulhu: Good Advice For Bad People

“cast not others on the devil's side of heaven lest you be cast in with them”
― Roger Peppercorn, On The Devil's Side of Heaven

“think we should break the swing in slowly, don’t you? After all, it’s so new to being used for romantic purposes.” “More like breaking me in slowly. I’m not used to being kissed like that.” “That makes two of us. I guess now would be a good time to tell you that I’m kind of old-fashioned. I believe physical intimacy is more than sharing one’s body with someone; it’s a connection with another person’s heart and soul. When the two people involved love each other to the exclusion of everyone else, the experience can be unique, unlike anything else. It can transcend the visceral and create a bond that nothing on earth can break. To me, it’s something worth waiting for.”
― Delaney Cameron, Team Mom

“Love wasn’t anything like she imagined in her girlish daydreams. It was vast, intricate and complicated, not easily understood or controlled. It was a force that ignored common sense. Love operated outside the lines and defied convention.”
― Delaney Cameron, Team Mom

“Eric reached over and put his hand on Jordan’s shoulder. “Don’t be ashamed of showing emotion. A man who can’t be moved isn’t much of a man.”
― Delaney Cameron, Team Mom

“Sweetheart, I have no intention of denying you a thing.”
― Rebecca Brooks, Make Me Stay

“A day older than yesterday, a day younger than tomorrow. Beyond that, I don’t think much about it.”
― Jon Land, Pandora's Temple

“Don’t make deals with your food. It may come back to haunt you.”
― P.D. Alleva, The Rose Vol. 1

“Vampires, nothing more than cockroaches scattering in fear at the first sign of the light.”
― P.D. Alleva, The Rose Vol. 1

“Vampires…always so overdramatic.”
― P.D. Alleva, The Rose Vol. 1

“Humans, nothing more than food…for us cockroaches.”
― P.D. Alleva, The Rose Vol. 1

“America…land of the slaves, home of the depraved.”
― P.D. Alleva, The Rose Vol. 1

“This isn’t some sick sci-fi novel.”
― P.D. Alleva, The Rose Vol. 1

“And Here We Go!”
― P.D. Alleva, The Rose Vol. 1