Dino Schmith > Dino's Quotes

“It does little good to regret a choice. So often people say, “If only I had known,” implying they would’ve acted differently in a given situation. It is true that desires of the moment can blind one’s sight of the future. Revenge is not as sweet as the adage claims. Yet who could pass a chance to taste it? And if the chance were allowed to slip by, would the fool regret his lack of action? ”
― K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master

“George’s utterance of the nest and the trap belonged to a bigger mystery she did not yet understand. One day I will, she promised herself. She would stake her life that those last words from her son would be solved by her. They were steppingstones into… whatever the wind and the stars and the valiant trees held for her.”
― Susan Rowland, Murder on Family Grounds

“Why, if there is anything in supply and demand, life is the cheapest thing in the world. There is only so much water, so much earth, so much air; but the life that is demanding to be born is limitless. Nature is a spendthrift. Look at the fish and their millions of eggs. For that matter, look at you and me. In our loins are the possibilities of millions of lives. Could we but find time and opportunity and utilize the last bit and every bit of the unborn life that is in us, we could become the fathers of nations and populate continents. Life? Bah! It has no value. Of cheap things it is the cheapest. Everywhere it goes begging. Nature spills it out with a lavish hand. Where there is room for one life, she sows a thousand lives, and it's life eats life till the strongest and most piggish life is left.”
― Jack London, The Sea Wolf

“Duuuude,” he whispered, turning to Sade. “I think she put something in my drink, I’m sooooo fucking hiiiiiigh.” He took a huge bite again, grunting and smacking loudly. “She’s so fine bro,” he whispered. Sade grinned. “Liberty?” He nodded real big and slowly, making Sade laugh. “I thought you didn’t like her?” “I soooo liiiiied,” he shrilled. “Did you not see her in that red dress?” He lifted the material. “This one?” He put his hand on Sade’s chest, stuffing the rest of his ice cream in his mouth. “Dude,” he mumbled his cheeks full as he shook”
― Lucian Bane, No Mercy

“Everyone loves a conspiracy.”
― Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code

“Education doesn't keep a person from being a fool, and the lack of it doesn't keep a person from being intelligent.”
― Nancy E. Turner

“beautiful head. The head was that of the wildest of all wild creatures—a stallion born wild—and it was beautiful, savage, splendid. A stallion with a wonderful physical perfection that matched his savage, ruthless spirit.”
― Walter Farley, The Black Stallion

“He often took me to the studio where the movies were made and I remember it as if it were yesterday. I remember how the sun shone through all the windows. I thought it looked like a fairytale palace. One afternoon your husband appeared and shook my hand. And he told me something I never forgot. He crouched on one knee and whispered to me, "If you ever wanted to know where dreams come from when you're sleeping at night, you just have to look around you, that's where they are made.”
― Brian Selznick, The Invention of Hugo Cabret

“Someday, you will see that you are capable and strong enough to live all on your own. But for now, you needn’t worry. Your Nonna has enough snap in her, and you will stay right here where I can protect you.”
― Jennifer Wizbowski, Poinsettia Girl: The Story of Agata della Pieta

“Eve laughs. Its a laugh somewhere between laughing out loud and laughing with pity. If we live in a vulvocracy now”
― Fons Burger, 2125 - The Hibernator: What if you wake up in 100 years?

“He turned and saw Becky, crying in the doorway of her house. What was he doing here? Turning back he saw flashing blue lights at the end of the road, and realised the ringing in his ears was the sound of approaching sirens.”
― R.D. Ronald, The Zombie Room

“I am a survivor and will remain one.”
― Mark Ellis, In the Shadows of the Blitz: A deeply captivating classic crime thriller

“zravel is the epitome of expansion, connection, and discovery – both of the world and one-self”
― Anastasia Pash, Travel With Style: Master the Art of Stylish and Functional Travel Capsules

“Of course killing Iraqis for Jesus so we can get their oil...”
― Vincent Panettiere, Shared Sorrows

“Everybody needs to grow up and leave home sometimes. But sometimes home doesn't like it.”
― Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

“Reputation is an idle and most false imposition, oft got without merit and lost without deserving. You have lost no reputation at all unless you repute yourself such a loser.”
― William Shakespeare, Othello

“Privilege becomes arrogance. Arrogance promotes injustice. The seeds of ruin blossom.”
― Frank Herbert, God Emperor of Dune

“Nowadays he doesn't think of his wife, though he knows he can turn around and evoke every move of her, describe any aspect of her, the weigh of her wrist on his heart during the night.”
― Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient

“Finding that out was a blast, you know, waking up on the mortuary slab, about to be cut open after being declared dead.”
― Trevor Alan Foris, The Octunnumi Fosbit Files Prologue