Eric Jerome Dickey Quotes

Love ain't never been a rational beast.

hate is a virus, revenge its only cure!

She's a smart woman. I love that. Intelligence is a wonderful and powerful aphrodisiac. To me, it enhances beauty, makes an ordinary woman look like a movie star.

Like she said, love wasn't a switch that could be turned off. It was more like a battery, had to run until there was no more energy left.

We tried it again and it didn't work out. Sour milk is always sour milk. When something goes bad it stays bad.You don't put sour milk in the refrigerator one day,and take it out the next and expect it to taste sweet.

We're all wounded in some way, im just tryin to heal!

The only perfect people are dead people, because their the only ones who can't make mistakes!

The most jealous and insecure are the ones who are guilty of betrayal. The ones who are the angriest are those who are pulling cons themselves, only to find out they're being conned as well. A thief hates to be robbed, and a cheater always wants you to be loyal while they are being unfaithful. When suspicions arise and the questions start, they are always defensive, always volatile. A thief takes being robbed personally, the same way a player falls apart when he finds out he is being played.

The mouth that you love to feel sucking you. The mouth that makes your toes curl, the mouth that makes you ache and moan.

The next thing I knew, I was falling. I dreamed I was being thrown into an open grave, but jerked awake and landed on a bed.

Wisdom ain't seeing what's in your face, but recognizing what's about to come!

Losing your job is like having your identity stolen, like having what defined you run through a paper shredder. After a while the despair gets you, and it gets you good.

Marriage is hard work, and you have to show up in hard hat and boots every day of every year.

no expectations, no disappointments!

We shed the skins of who we used to be!

Chiquita was dancing with a brother who was so old I'd bet he used to baby-sit God.

It's scary telling someone you care about, someone you love who you really are.

Sleepin with strangers will have you waking with enemies!

Some crazy man came up to me and started screaming at me about how he hated Allah, and before I could tell him that my family was part of the Catholic Church in India, he knifed me.

Nothings promised, not the rest of tonight, not all of tomorrow!

the most painful good-byes were the ones that were never said, never explained

Put a hat on the soldier. The soldiers don't need to have an egg for breakfast, unless you want to buy breakfasts, lunches, and dinners for the next eighteen years. Let's have fun, but keep it safe.

Denial is a defense mechanism, all about self-preservation.

For some of us love comes into the room, kicks her
shoes off, finds the most comfortable sofa, and lies down, rests, has no intention of going anywhere. For others love walks in smoking a cigarette, checking her watch every two seconds, jittery, with one hand on the doorknob, heart rate up, always in sprinter's position, ready to run.

don't take many words to break a fragile heart!

I'm just trying to write a good story, strictly from imagination. People just think it's random, they don't see the rewriting, phrasing of characters, choosing the words, bringing the world to light in which the characters live in. That creates an illusion that this is real.

The path to love wasn't a smooth road. Love would show up while you were busy with another love, leaving you to decide.

People know your tragedies and they treat you like
you're not human. Like you're a three-headed goat. A monster from some other planet. They keep reminding you of your pain.
You see how they look at me? They're stuck on that person I used to be. They can't see that old life as just a moment in time that I've moved on from. It was a horrible life.

Desire is a beast that must be fed!

Ownership, even in love, is an illusion. No woman owned any man and no man owned any woman.

We all give up part of ourselves to be with anyone. Relationships change our trajectories.

A man's ego is a fragile thing; as fragile as a woman's heart

Can't kill something that doesn't have a heart.

Intelligence is always intimidating to those who aren't!

For a lot of people, becoming an author is a change in occupation ... they are coming from something that totally has nothing to do with this. If they are expecting to come into a room full of people praising them, then they are in the wrong place.

When you're honest with yourself, often times you betray someone else!

He dropped his towel. He showed me what I had gotten myself into, what wanted to get into me.

A man won't buy the cow when he can get the milk for free phrase my momma used to say has popped into my head one, maybe two million times

anger and jeaously are first cousins!

Keep a woman broke, keep her under control. Give her just enough to get by. She won't starve to death, but she'll never be able to afford to leave. That's from the handbook on how to be a pimp.

That's what sex does: it starts relationships and it verifies the end of relationships.

A woman of European heritage sporting a preacher's collar had the opposite effect of a Muslim woman wearing a hijab. She used her privilege and the favored religion to look like a golden child.

When you start a new job or a particular journey, you really don't know what to expect. I mean, you hear about your name being on the bestsellers list, but it doesn't really mean anything. Like, really, what does that translate to?

Inside every pause lived a contemplation

I told Chiquita if a man hadn't made a date with her for a Saturday night before Saturday night, he didn't want to be bothered with her on a Saturday night.

YOLO - you only live once.

Women were excited after sex, wired becasue in their minds the relationship was on beginning. Men went to sleep m the because for the orgasm had arrived and the relationship was done.

I mean, I am human, got feelings and desires, and might ultimately want the same thang, but can I get a moment of mental stimulation first?

the things we crave, our silent desires, out little addictions!

Can't blame a man for being human when human is all he'll ever be!

beauty is the currency of betrayal!

Lust is a master showman who disguises himself as love, and love is a mythical creature who keeps habitat with the Easter Bunny, Santa Claus, the Tooth Fairy, and other lies we have been fed.

A woman can plan. A woman thinks she needs a man for nothing in this world but soon realizes she is wrong. The same way every black- owned business has to acquire goods from a white distributor, women have to do business with men, be it professional or personal, to achieve too many of our goals.

Preacher pulled her gun to her lap, the trigger aimed toward the stranger. . . . He stared at her like he was ready to dial 911, until he saw she was of European heritage, saw her clerical collar, saw the Bible on the dashboard. White, blond, and Christian. Trifecta. The man's shoulders relaxed and he smiled, waved, and kept going.

with attachment comes pain!

not all thoughts have to become words!

If I carried Catherine to the top of Mount Corcovado and placed her before the statue of Christ the Redeemer, Jesus would close his eyes and turn his back on her. If she touched his feet, the six million stone tiles that covered the religious figure would catch fire and fall like fiery rain,

Hate isn't healthy, it damages the hater more than the one who's hated!

Hard to save anybody when you're locked up, when you're too busy trying to fight to save yourself. When you've made yourself a prisoner.

I read this book, it said a woman should think of her virginity like it's a window. And every time you sleep with a guy, it's like letting him put his fingerprints on your window. Staining your glass.

Number two is just the leader for the rest of the leaders

He was old enough to know you can't make people love you. But I suppose when you're wounded, logic ain't logical.

not keeping a promise is the same as lying!

All I wanted was you. I tore down my wall for you. Now it's been rebuilt.

Hate is cancer of the soul!

I was erotic. I was beautiful. I was powerful.

jealously lives with insecurity!

don't call me stupid without calling me stupid and think I'd bee too stupid to notice!

She returned to consciousness only to find herself in an unescapable nightmare.

Most women got this thing called compassion. It doesn't make them foolish, just more forgiving. More capable of trying and hoping things worked out.

jokes are used to hide the truth!

What I Wish, this I do not practice, but what I hate is what I do.

We're all living contradictions, trying to survive in a world filled with hypocrites

Soon-Bok Kim closed her eyes, said rapid prayers in castellano, beat the steering wheel, begged God to save her and her stupid husband, said they would become better Christians.

Resentment makes anything possible.

A full moon is a flashlight so everyone can see your drama!

we take on the impossible and fell miserably!

Trojan is a no-blow-job- condom. The flavor is horrible. Someone should come up with a barbecue-flavored condom for the hood. But greedy bitches would probably start chewing dicks.

Wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to temptation!

And we all know when a sistuh gets mad, a sistuh gets athletically creative.

Early is on time, on time is late, and late is unacceptable!

The heart define whom we are were attracted to. I was attracted to him, sexually, mentally and maybe even spiritually. And the heart decided for how long that inner madness would last.

I want those young whipper-snappers to know that in days past we actually used to kill trees and make those things called books.

I said, "This is what happens when you find Gideon." Eyes

You want to put a band-aid on something that needs stitches.

Every man kills the things that he loves. Some with a look, some with flattery, the coward with a kiss.

Love is a mental illness, an obsessive-compulsive disorder romanticized!

only a fool would argue with a fool!

People pray for rain, then complain about the flood. They pray for it to stop raining, then bitch about the drought.

He says, "Your husband fucked my wife."
We look at each other and this time it's different. Now I know him.
"My husband didn't fuck your wife." My voice is soft. Not amorous, but the tone of a bewildered child. "They had a relationship, then came home and fucked us.

Tonight I was stealing the time of another woman.

His sexual movements were smoother than warm butter, creative, musical, and right away he became a conductor who directed the performance and moans of his one-woman orchestra with his dick. I sang like a choir.

you had to have happiness to miss happiness!

If I was going to date anybody, I had to see how they were living first.

It is silent, an anagram for listen.
That is what I do. Listen while she remains silent.

The gun was in Mrs. Jones's left hand. She put her right hand behind her, between my legs, then held on to my cock like it was a leash.

Once desire was turned on, combustion gave it a life of its own. Once it was turned on it became a raging wildfire, uncontrollable and uncontainable, the type of conflagration that had to be allowed to burn itself out.

We can do anything when we decide to win no matter what!

We see what we want to see. We idealize each other with our own fantasies.

If you're craving oatmeal cookies, apple sauce won't do..