Quotes from Theresa Weir

Next time a rattlesnake bites you, or you crack a rib, or find some whore with a sliced-up arm, don't call me. Call somebody who doesn't care." ~0~

Fear can keep us from living our lives the way they should be lived," Eddie said. "Don't ever let somebody else live your life." He

Is there anything else I should know about you?" she asked in a voice that was both serious and teasing, her emotions fragile. "Any other surprises?" "Sometimes I watch Dukes of Hazzard reruns." She

She didn't know how, but she understood that he needed to keep people at a distance, that he didn't want to know them, or see them, not really see them. Somewhere along the line, he'd been hurt. Deeply. And he was going to make sure it didn't happen again.

I can't explain it. It's so, I don't know. Fleeting. Ephemeral." "You're analyzing sex?" He sounded amused. "Why not?" "Women analyze to death. Sometimes it's better not to think about things too deeply." She

Is that the way you get through life? By not thinking?" she asked. "Works for me." She couldn't imagine living like that. Just existing. For her, life was analyzing things. Life was reactions. And emotions. She

At the same time, she couldn't help but feel sad about his admission of a studied shallowness, a penchant for the one-dimensional. It made her long all the more for her midnight man. Eddie

It's hard when something you love turns into something you hate.

Pop-Tarts would be nice. Pop-Tarts and Tang.

Maybe because heroes to her weren't the guys who flexed their muscles and went to battle. No, for her, the real heroes were the artists, the poets, the men who were brave enough to voice their emotions. It took courage to be honest. It took courage to face your demons head on with words, to go beyond the hunter-gatherer thing. The world needed the action hero, but it also needed the quiet hero, the poet. Rick

The air was heavy and still, smelling sweet, like clover, and pungent, like the catnip that made Hemingway go nuts.

Through the screen was a carved oak door, a door that, barring a tornado or fire, would outlast the house.

Her brain issued the command. Her feet, miraculously, obeyed. She tore down the steps. In her blind panic, she snagged the toe of her sneaker on a clump of tangled vines.

I'm sorry," Rose repeated as she kicked the fridge door closed with a bare foot and carried a carton of orange juice to the counter. She was dressed in folded up jeans, boots, and a black tank top. Her eyes were puffy; she hadn't been awake long either.

She didn't leave an imprint, not as much as a single impression behind. She

And this time the house didn't look ramshackle, it looked charming. It no longer looked abandoned and run-down; it looked more a product of carefully cultivated neglect. The

For the first time in years, she felt a sense of belonging, of amazing lightness. She

You may not know it, but then again, maybe you do, but your sister is a prostitute." "And that makes a difference?" He looked at her in a speculative way, as if he wondered what she did for a living. "My sister is a person. She deserves the same attention you would give anybody.

She was living in another dimension. It was lonely there. She

Someone once told her she was ever-morphing. That wasn't it at all. She revealed too much. And most people, she'd come to realize, didn't want that much reality. Maddie

Another truth in life. People change when you have something they want.

For a cat, he had very few aspirations. He didn't like the outdoors. Didn't like the way the grass felt on the pads of his feet. He was scared to death of birds. A severe case of over-domestication. Give

He and I have come full circle, except that now he's the child and I'm the adult. This time, he's begging me to stay and I'll soon be the one walking out the door. The cruelty of my next thought shames me: You reap what you sow.

It was her fault. All these theorists talk about how she hired a hit man. Some even say she pulled the trigger, but that's bullshit. She poisoned him with herself, that's what she did. That's what I'm talking about.