Mercedes Castilla Quotes

Detective Castilla, your Secret is safe with me." She blinked with surprise, and I groaned. "God, Holden. How long have you been waiting to use that line?"
"About three years."
"And in three years you couldn't find any room for improvment? ~ Sierra Dean

My friend Mercedes Pena made me get in touch with my emotions just before I had a breast cut off. Just as I suspected, they were awful. "How do you Latinas do this all the time in touch with your emotions?" I asked her. "That's why we take siestas," she replied. ~ Molly Ivins

There are zillions of people who say that alcoholism is a disease, but not many of them believe it. ~ Mercedes McCambridge

My second marriage had a lot to do with alcohol. ~ Mercedes McCambridge

Had she been fully white, had she been a man, Alderscroft would have had her brought into the fold and properly taught immediately. ~ Mercedes Lackey

Healer Myrim made no attempt to conceal the fact that Orthallen's treachery had not surprised her. Nor did she conceal that his demise gave her a certain grim satisfaction. But then, she might well be forgiven such uncharitable thoughts; she was one of the four Healers who were tending Talia's wounds. ~ Mercedes Lackey

The car rolled slowly along the deserted corniche, headlights cleaving its way through Beirut by night. In gentle swerves to avoid potholes, the Mercedes waltzed along a straight road in a dance of death. Sick palm trees and parched grass divided the tarred road of civilization. The sea alone was testimony to God's beautiful creation. But in its belly, corpses, limbs, garbage, and ordnance mingled with a sea life on the verge of extinction. ~ Dana K. Haffar

Always seeing a child as the innocent left you open to not seeing when the child was scheming to take you down. It ~ Mercedes Lackey

Learn the wisdom of the Hound. Always rest, eat, and play when you can, because the universe conspires to keep you from doing any of these things nearly as often as you would like. ~ Mercedes Lackey

Not forgiving someone hurts you worse than it hurts him ... even if he doesn't deserve to be forgiven ... Not forgiving someone is like not pulling a thorn out of your foot just because you weren't the one who put it there. ~ Mercedes Lackey

Lucy Mercedes Martinez, my mother, was probably my first mentor. She really tried to take care of me in spite of myself, and in spite of her own struggles with alcohol. She was an immigrant who had never finished school. But she was also a Renaissance woman who read voraciously. She spoke several languages. ~ Richard Carmona

There are more nasty things in pretty packages in the world than most people would believe. ~ Mercedes Lackey

I think I know why you never married, Sarah."
"Well, and I reckoned if I wanted something that'd come and go as he pleased, take me for granted, and ignore me when he chose, I'd get a cat. And if I wanted something I'd always have to be picking up after, getting into trouble, but slavishly devoted,
I'd get a dog. ~ Mercedes Lackey

The left-hand lane is exclusively for the use of Porsches, BMWs and Mercedes. Dark-coloured vehicles only please. If you're driving a white or silver car please stick to the middle lane at all times and moderate your speed. Loser! ~ Cathy Dobson

what Mr. Bishop talked to Tomas about was living with them and controlling them, as if the ability to start fires with his mind was some kind of large dog Tomas had accidentally adopted and was now going to have to learn to take care of properly, like it or not. He ~ Mercedes Lackey

Do you mind," he asked politely, "if I slide my blade under your skin, just a little? ~ Mercedes M. Yardley

The U.S. Open is the only place in America where you can't trade in your Mercedes-Benz for a hamburger. ~ Bud Collins

Teams like Ferrari, McLaren and Mercedes are going to be very, very motivated to go for the titles. ~ Sebastian Vettel

If you think about jeans or phones or television, we are used to new brands popping up right and left. But in the car industry, we grew up with Mercedes, BMW, General Motors, and Ford, and nobody can remember during his or her upbringing a new car brand coming to life. ~ Henrik Fisker

Or, as Nikolas had said, in tones of admiration, She can tell you to go to hell in a way that will send you running of to pack your bags. ~ Mercedes Lackey

The demonic love the taste of little girls. ~ Mercedes M. Yardley

Everybody out on the sidewalk is a pedestrian Mercedes, wallowing in entitlement - colliding, snarling, shoving ahead without even the hollow-to-begin-with local euphemism Excuse me. ~ Thomas Pynchon

And payment exacted for the crimes and weaknesses of a lifetime. Her hands shook, and tears prickled at the back of her eyes, but she couldn't even cry. Something horrible was going to happen to her, and she knew she deserved it, but she couldn't help shrieking inside that it wasn't fair, that she hadn't known what would happen back when she could still change things, back while it would have done any good. And now, nothing she could do could ever make up for what she'd done. She didn't think she could do good if she tried. ~ Mercedes Lackey

I've always had facility with the German accent. ~ Mercedes Ruehl

the coolest playas and foulest heart breakers in the world, God gets us back, he makes have precious little girls. ~ Mercedes Taylor

If you read about quantum machine-learning applications that solve some conventional machine-learning problem with a fantastic speedup, always be sure to check whether they return a quantum output. Quantum outputs, such as amplitude-encoded vectors, limit the usage of applications, and require additional specification of how to extract practical, useful results. ~ Mercedes Gimeno-Segovia

We focused on getting popchips into the hands of tastemakers and influencers wherever they were, from the fashionistas at Mercedes Benz fashion week to the passengers on Virgin Airlines. ~ Keith Belling

So her safe little world would never be safe again ... She knew that the nurturing hand also held the knife, and that was very unsettling. ~ Mercedes Lackey

Was a glimpse of his cock worth a Mercedes? ~ Edmund White

I'm tired of having to struggle for what seems to come easily to everyone else. ~ Mercedes Lackey

You are eccentric when you have enough money to not be considered crazy, ~ Mercedes Lackey

These "doyennes of society" were no different at bottom than the leading dames among the gossips of her own village. Within that little "society," their word was law, and the law was respectability. ~ Mercedes Lackey

If you don't look after your fellow man, if you think that what you want is always more important than what anyone else wants or needs, you're not human, and that's that. ~ Mercedes Lackey

I'm not out to disturb anybody's faith. I happen to be happy and comfortable with a belief system that has a dual deity and operates on a lunar schedule. It suits my needs. If you happen to be happy and comfortable with a belief system that features a single masculine deity and operates on a solar schedule, fine. I don't give a fat damn. What matters is what you do, not who's name you do it in. ~ Mercedes Lackey

She just dropped it and ran!! ~ Mercedes Lackey

We're given a choice in our lives, to make things better, or worse, or merely endure like sheep. I choose to make things better, as much as I can. ~ Mercedes Lackey

So, that's okay. It's not like you're turning into an Endarkened or something, like Kellen's evil stepbrother Anigrel the Black. ~ Mercedes Lackey

Success is not only one thing. It's not only having a nice house in Beverly Hills and driving a nice Mercedes. ~ Malik Bendjelloul

On the way out to the car, Philip turns to me. "How could you be so stupid? I shrug, stung in spite of myself. "I thought I grew out of it." Philip pulls out his key fob and presses the remote to unlock his Mercedes. I slide into the passenger side, brushing coffee cups off the seat and onto the floor mat, where crumpled printouts from MapQuest soak up any spilled liquid. "I hope you mean sleepwalking," Philip says, "since you obviously didn't grow out of stupid. ~ Holly Black

The hatched chick cannot go back to the shell, the falcon who has found the sky does not willingly sit the nest. ~ Mercedes Lackey

Life is an adventure, and if you can't live them – write them! ~ Mercedes Keyes

Fourteen preteen girls, a tableful of werewolves - there were certain monstrous similarities. ~ Patricia Briggs

He told her what Bryony looked like and the almost tinkling sound of her voice, and her habit of standing on the balls of her feet when she gets nervous because somehow that puts her in touch with the earth a little bit more. "You'll love her, Ma, you'll love her," he said, and promised to bring her by soon so they could meet. He was afraid, however, that the second his mother saw Bryony, her face would fall. He imagined her brown eyes clouding over ~ Mercedes M. Yardley

Peri went to the window, gesturing out at the dragons, perched and flying, everywhere. Safe, true, but how boring! How confining! How sad! How could that compare with this? And what is safe? You were not safe on your little farm. War came to you and took all your safety away! If I am to be in this world, I want more than to be a hound upon the game board, tucked away in a corner until the jackals come and sweep all away! ~ Mercedes Lackey