Minette Walters Quotes

It was a slaughterhouse, the most horrific scene I have ever witnessed ... ~ Minette Walters

When I re-read the Odyssey, it felt like I was reading PD James or Minette Walters - you feel that you are sharing in something that hundreds of millions of people have read with love, and I think that this is worth holding onto. It is not a matter of canonical texts or elitism, which the universities are trying to make us wary about. It is about shared language and metaphor and experience and imagery and that is all good. ~ Robert Dessaix

Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.' Eric Hoffer ~ Minette Walters

We all know it's safer to beat up on people who won't retaliate,' he told her, 'but it's a quick way to lose friends. You need to find ways of dealing with confrontation when it happens. ~ Minette Walters

Just think life's too short to get hung up on maybes. ~ A Meredith Walters

Educating young people about the harms of drugs is essential. ~ John Walters

I'm sorry if I pissed you off.I'm sorry if I acted like a fucker.But I'm not sorry for chasing off that pansy ass that used to have what's mine.Because you're my girl now and I won't have that asshole sniffing around where he doesn't belong. ~ A. Meredith Walters

Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake. ~ J. Donald Walters

I knew you were for all time, even as there is no time. ~ Louise Walters

I know I'm with Olivia. I know that was a deal breaker for you. But goddamn it, I don't want to be with her. I only want you. It has only been you from the moment you walked into Barton's. ~ A Meredith Walters

I'm upset, Ellie! Because you won't talk to me! Because you always hurt me! You make it so hard to love you! ~ A Meredith Walters

God, Maggie." He whispered, leaning forward, capturing my mouth with his. "I love you more than anything. With everything that I am." He answered me. Okay, I was done for. ~ A Meredith Walters

I won't leave you, Imi, not ever. You and me, we're a definite. I don't have anything if I don't have you. You have to believe that. ~ A Meredith Walters

If the interview was done in the studio, Frank McGee would automatically do it. But if I went out and got it, then the interview was mine. So I was considered a pushy cookie, because I would get the interview. ~ Barbara Walters

Come home with me tonight. Please. Let's figure all this out ... together ~ A Meredith Walters

Life takes turns that we don't expect and even the best of us can end up in a place we never expected. ~ A Meredith Walters

Fucking hell, Clayton! Yes, this sucks, but it's not forever. And I swear to God if you try this whole I'm letting you go because I love you too much line of crap again, I will smack the crap out of you! ~ A Meredith Walters

I don't want to give up acting - it's what I am. ~ Julie Walters

I wanted above all else not to be like my mum. ~ Julie Walters

Because it was the dishonesty on his face that intrigued me. I appreciated the ghosts that haunted him. The phantoms that shadowed his eyes even as they danced and danced and danced. ~ A Meredith Walters

Life is short, so enjoy it to the fullest. ~ John Walters

Because you are the product of an educational system which recycles historical facts written by the victors whose perceptions are often skewed and self-serving. ~ Ednah Walters

I have lived long enough to see real, significant changes made for the good...and I have been fortunate enough to have participated in some of them...One person can make a difference!
(Father Ted Hesburgh, C.S.C., quoted in our book, God's Icebreaker by Jill A. Boughton and Julie Walters) ~ Jill A. Boughton

When would I stop being second choice? Would I ever be number one to the person I cared most about in the world? ~ A Meredith Walters

Stage is the most exciting. Film is lovely, because it's like a family. ~ Julie Walters

Every love song I write now is because of you. Every song I will ever write for the rest of my life will be because of you. ~ A Meredith Walters

My feelings for Maxx were causing me to make decisions I never would have made in the past. I was forgetting about everything that had mattered to me, potentially throwing it all away to save a boy I was pretty sure didn't want to be saved.
Love made us stupid.
Love made us blind.
Love could incapacitate us and leave us powerless.
And love could also make everything better.
I couldn't let myself think anything less. ~ A Meredith Walters

Daniel Lowe. My savior. My perfect guy. The boy who would never love me the way that I loved him. ~ A Meredith Walters

It wasn't the highs and lows of mania anymore, just the constant drone of pessimism and paranoia that were making it hard to focus on anything else. ~ A. Meredith Walters

They are more inclined to think you're innocent if you sound like Barbara Walters," Rita said.
"You think Barbara would be a good date?"
"Oh, oink," Rita said. ~ Robert B. Parker

He was gorgeous, he played in a band, he was a freaking frat boy and he had the whole tattoo, piercing thing going on. I was very aware of what he was, without knowing any more than that. ~ A. Meredith Walters

I do find it therapeutic, writing about stuff that was frightening and painful as a child, and managing to see it from an adult's point of view. To get it out of the closet onto paper, metaphorically speaking, is therapeutic. ~ Julie Walters

Along the way I have been able to choose some themes which ask questions - not necessarily force a message on anyone, but at least invite the audience to question things: jury service, dignity in dying, Ireland - and not least because they force me to ask myself questions. Where do I stand? ~ Julie Walters

You are everything good in my life. Even when I thought all I had was the darkness, you were there. And you gave me something to live for. I couldn't let you go. No matter how hard I tried. I know now that's because to lose you would be losing the very best part of myself. ~ A Meredith Walters

Maybe I naively subscribed to the foolish notion that my love could save him. Whatever the reason, I entered the room and sank to the carpet beside that sad and broken boy. ~ A Meredith Walters

I've made great friends through acting. When I'm with Victoria Wood and Julie Walters, we have grand fun. We can make each other howl with laughter because we know each other so well. ~ Celia Imrie

Chapter One: Lady Maitland England, 1793 The Earl of Warren let his mind drift as his younger sister rambled on in a cheerful voice. Wilhelmina - or Minette, as everyone called her - could carry on a conversation for hours, no matter if the other person participated in the exchange. He had the questionable fortune to be sharing a carriage with her on a day-long journey to a friend's home in Hertfordshire. "Will we be there soon?" Minette perched on the edge of her seat, craning to look out the window. ~ Annabel Joseph

Love shouldn't make you feel like that. It should be as natural as breathing. It should happen between two people because it grew there out of something beautiful. ~ A Meredith Walters

Everything is an accident. ~ Jess Walters

You've got to be fucking kidding me!" The words are out of my mouth before I can put my brain into gear.

He must have felt the pain from five pairs of eyes burning straight into the side of his head. Red hot, radioactive beams buzzing onto his temple as he quickly turns his attention to the group of people staring at him. Then his eyes fall on me. Yet again, I melt on the spot at the chocolate pools looking at me. ~ A.J. Walters