Crane Quotes

“Daja: "He and Rosethorn work together? They hate each other."
Lark: "I didn't say they liked it.
- Daja and Lark referring to Rosethorn and Crane's cooperation on finding the cures for new diseases”
― Tamora Pierce, Briar's Book

“He saw that it was an ironical thing for him to be running thus toward that which he had been at such pains to avoid.”
― Stephen Crane

“Don’t do that? This is your sage advice?”
“Yeah.” He burped and blew it out the side of his mouth. “Sorry, the burritos we had for lunch are kinda comin’ back on me.”
― Mary Calmes, Honored Vow

“It was wrong to do this," said the angel.
"You should live like a flower,
Holding malice like a puppy,
Waging war like a lambkin."

"Not so," quoth the man
Who had no fear of spirits;
"It is only wrong for angels
Who can live like the flowers,
Holding malice like the puppies,
Waging war like the lambkins.”
― Stephen Crane, The Complete Poems of Stephen Crane

“A man feared that he might find an assassin;
Another that he might find a victim.
One was more wise than the other.”
― Stephen Crane

“Dinner, as friends. Where I don't expect you to pay or hold doors and you don't expect make-up or sex."
"I'll be rude, and you'll be purposely homely. It'll be magical," Noah laughed.”
― Stacey Rourke, Crane

“Writing is your soul on paper”
― Isabelle Crane

“-"Death walks, and talks, and occasionally whisks you in a gruesome waltz." -”
― Stacey Rourke, Crane

“The La Brea Tar Pits of asshole-ism." Noah pressed his lips into a thin line and gave a mock sympathetic nod. "They claim many each year.”
― Stacey Rourke, Crane