Ruckus Quotes

“Forever starts now, Baby Leblanc. With you.”
― L.J. Shen, Ruckus

“There is one hour in his life when we see a flash of utter physical action on Christ's part, an hour when this most curious of men must have experienced the sheer joyous exuberance of a young mammal in full flight: when he lets himself go and flings over the first money changer's table in the Temple at Jerusalem, coins flying, doves thrashing into the air, oxen bellowing, sheep yowling, the money changer going head-over-teakettle, all heads turning, what the...? You don't think Christ got a shot of utter childlike physical glee at that moment? Too late to stop now, his rage rushing to his head, his veiny carpenter's-son wiry arms and hard feet milling as he whizzes through the Temple overturning tables, smashing birdcages, probably popping a furious money-changer here and there with a quick left jab or a well-placed Divine Right Elbow to the money-lending teeth, whipping his scourge of cords against the billboard-size flank of an ox, men scrambling to get out of the way, to grab some of the flying coins, to get a punch in on this nutty rube causing all the ruckus...

In all this holy rage and chaos, don't you think there was a little absolute boyish mindless physical jittery joy in the guy?”
― Brian Doyle, Credo: Essays on Grace, Altar Boys, Bees, Kneeling, Saints, the Mass, Priests, Strong Women, Epiphanies, a Wake, and the Haun

“What makes you feel alive?
Dean. Dean Cole makes me feel alive.”
― L.J. Shen, Ruckus

“Let the wild ruckus commence.”
― Karen Joy Fowler, We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves

“He wasn't Sirius.
He was planet Earth.
He was oxygen.
He was everything.”
― L.J. Shen, Ruckus

“Now that I know that it can only ever be you, you're going to get better for me so Earth won't explode. Can you do that, Sirius?”
― L.J. Shen, Ruckus

“What does Miss LeBlanc have that the rest of the human population doesn't?'
'My heart, Sue,' I said. 'She has my heart.”
― L.J. Shen, Ruckus

“I always had a soft spot for this girl, and it seemed like the more she hated me, the more I wanted to prove to her that it was always us. That if I believed in that bullshit of two people who were meant to be with each other, it was because we actually were.”
― L.J. Shen, Ruckus

“The sky was full of stars against all odds. You couldn't really see shit from The Strip, but that night, you could. You could because she was there.”
― L.J. Shen, Ruckus

“There won't be a next Rosie. And there won't be another story like ours. This is it, Rose LeBlanc. And this is us. If there is no you, then there is no me.”
― L.J. Shen, Scandalous

“What makes you feel alive?
My family. My home. My men. My belly. I'm alive. And my therapist was right. I am going to live forever.”
― L.J. Shen, Ruckus