Quotes from Gregg Andrew Hurwitz

When you get stuck, remember that you can deal with physical issues intellectually and intellectual issues emotionally. You can work out emotional issues psychologically and psychological issues spiritually. Those are the spokes of the wheel—one breaks, you can use another to fix it.

NEXT TIME." The two best words in the English language. Freedom and possibility. Progress, not perfection. Just do something a little bit better than the last go-round and your place in the world would get a little bit clearer.

How you do anything is how you do everything.

People talk about starting over,' he said. 'But you can't start over. All you can do is change direction.

If you have to be hit over the head to learn something about yourself, you'll be someone who thinks that people only learn if you hit them over the head.

If you have to ask for respect, you're not gonna get it.

To destroy something you cannot be is to embrace your darkest heart, to yield to an ungodly desire. It is to be hijacked by what you aren't rather than nourished by what you are. Because what you are is nothing.

the same law of physics applied to any injury, physical or emotional. If you babied it, it stiffened even more, spreading the pain through you. But if you yielded, if you were willing to endure the white-hot agony of making vulnerable what you sought to protect, you had a shot at releasing it.

People are messy. Relationships aren't linear. They knock you on your ass. Make you detour, reverse, change focus. You can't be perfect unless you're alone, and then guess what? You're alone. So you're still not perfect.

You are good at this. Most men are not. Or at least that's what they tell themselves until they believe it. And so they can use incompetence to get out of work.

Most husbands seek to kill their wives' loves so we'll love only them. They are insecure little boys.

If you really want to get a job done, give it to a mutt like Joey. She didn't need no fish-and-rice, quinoa-and-chicken diet. She could do anything powered on Dr Pepper and Red Vines and look awesome doing it.

Our beliefs have no time to age.

ALPR is?" she asked. "Automated license-plate recognition," Evan said, relieved to be back on familiar turf. "Police cruisers have sensors embedded in the light bars that scan the plates of all surrounding vehicles. They can swallow numbers eight lanes across on cars going in either direction up to eighty miles per hour.

I don't like limits. Being told what is possible. By man or nature. Just like you." "No," Evan said. "You want to be everything. I want to be one thing well.

agreement—the instant bonding of the

Blood in, blood out. You kill to get in. They kill you before they will ever let you leave.

It has nothing to do with rough or gentle. Privileged or broke, everyone has their own path to the light. Sometimes those of us who came up hard are forced to see what actually matters. If we survive, that is. The world doesn't allow us not to see. We are forced into understanding, into grace. It's either that or prison, or drugs, or the cold, hard earth.

And you're outside, right? You don't know this game. You don't give a shit. But you envy them being so goddamned alive, for knowing what they care about and what they want and for trying to get at it. For being in it, man. And you're just sitting there watching.

He'd done his best to lock himself off from the past, and yet here it was again, rearing its head, threatening to buck him like a horse.

That's the thing about poker. You're not playing your hand. You're playing the other guy's hand.

worker sprayed an olive German M poster with a retrofitted insecticide atomizer while his partner sponged at a stained spot gently with Orvus soap, a pure, fragrance-free surfactant used for livestock and posters.

May we all live up to his example; may we all try to be the one who hears a new

If you have to tell people you're important," Evan said, "then you're not important.