Parker Whalen Quotes

You just, barged in and flipped my entire world upside down," he says, voice heated. "I didn't know what to do. ~ Katie Klein

Maybe I can stalk you again sometime."
"Absolutely. ~ Katie Klein

My insides twist in a flurry of excitement, and I stifle
the laugh welling inside.
Parker Whalen knows I'm alive. ~ Katie Klein

He turns another page, and I read:
I'M NOT ETHAN ...
... AND I'M NOT GOING TO GIVE UP ...
... UNTIL I CAN PROVE TO YOU ...
... THAT YOU ARE THE ONLY THING THAT MATTERS.
He flips to the next page.
SO KEEP SENDING ME AWAY ...
... BUT I'LL JUST KEEP COMING BACK TO YOU.
AGAIN ...
He flips to the next page.
... AND AGAIN ...
And the next:
... AND AGAIN.
Goose bumps rise to the surface of my skin. I shiver, hugging myself tightly.
AND IF YOU CAN EVER FIND IT IN YOUR TO FORGIVE ME ...
... I WILL DO EVERYTHING IT TAKES TO MAKE IT UP TO YOU ...
He closes the notebook and tosses it beside him. It lands on the roof with a dull thwack. Then, lifting his index finger, he draws an X across his chest.
Cross my heart. ~ Katie Klein

Once I started I couldn't put it down. It was so addictive ... like a train wreck. ~ Katie Klein

Dying would have been so much easier. ~ Megan Whalen Turner

Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. ~ Charlie Parker

it's better to be what I am than to be failing at what I am not. ~ Robert B. Parker

We split a bottle of Norman cider. Not everybody sells Norman cider by the bottle.
"Has a European feel" Susan said.
"That sounds terrific" I said. "Can I have one?"
Susan grinned at me. "How did you ever get to be so big without growing up?" she said.
"Iron self-control" I said. ~ Robert B. Parker

Under stress, an unexercised heart will explode in frustration or fury. If the situation is especially tense, that exploding heart may be hurled like a fragment grenade toward the source of its pain. But a heart that has been consistently exercised through conscious engagement with suffering is more likely to break open instead of apart. Such a heart has learned how to flex to hold tension in a way that expands its capacity for both suffering and joy. ~ Parker J. Palmer

Punctuality was not Susan's strength. She always intended to be on time, but she seemed to have some kind of chronometric dyslexia, which thwarted her intent, nearly always. ~ Robert B. Parker

I've never been a millionaire but I know I'd be just darling at it. ~ Dorothy Parker

Mary sat, quiet and attentive and blank. It wasn't like talking to a dumb seventh-grader, it was like talking to a pancake. ~ Robert B. Parker

The secret to gaining the whole world is to keep your soul. ~ Tice Davids Aka David T. Parker

Good teaching cannot be reduced to technique; good teaching comes from the identity and integrity of the teacher. ~ Parker J. Palmer

Charles Simic, when asked what he thought of Slam Poetry events: "They are fun, but they have as much to do with poetry as Elvis Presley had to do with Charlie Parker and Thelonious Monk". ~ Charles Simic

Violet Lynn Parker, you'd better spill or I'll start bellowing 'Happy Birthday' to you in my Bobcat Goldthwait voice. ~ Ann Charles

Then James took Parker's hands, and without waiting, gave her a long, hot kiss that made her nearly forget there were a hundred people watching. Then he pulled back and smiled that full, wonderful grin, his dark eyes so happy.
"Parker," he said, "always lovely to see you. ~ Kristan Higgins

We cannot see what is "out there" merely by looking around. Everything depends on the lenses through which we view the world. By putting on new lenses, we can see things that would otherwise remain invisible. ~ Parker J. Palmer

I want my breakfast. ~ Megan Whalen Turner

Did hell open its doors and offer ice water or was there a special on burritos today? ~ Ali Parker

When you get to my age, you'll find it's fatally easy to forget to hate all your enemies all the time; and once you've slipped up and not hated one of them, it makes it almost impossibly hard to hate the rest of them. ~ K.J. Parker

Prison is a process, a succession of imprisonments. At first it operates only on a physical level, restricting your movement. Later, it extends to the psychological plane, encompassing your very perception. You come to exclude all thoughts, all visions of the free world. ~ Norman Parker

If a sky this dark can still be peppered with so much light, maybe this world can be too. ~ Amy Christine Parker

He was a stranger here. The people who might remember him would certainly not welcome him. His old gang had cast him out, along with all of the former friends and parents. The suburban landscape of hypocrisy, so hated in his youth, beheld again and with it, old feelings that motivated him through life more than he would ever admit. Every turning point in life, already decided by all the events here ~ Jaime Allison Parker

Irene-"
"Don't call me that."
"You were the princess Irene the first time we met."
"It means 'peace'," Attolia said. "What name could be more inappropriate?"
"That I be named Helen?" Eddis suggested.
The hard lines in Attolia's face eased, and she smiled. Eddis was a far cry from the woman whose beauty had started a war. ~ Megan Whalen Turner

Obviously, there's no way of making money that doesn't hurt somebody somewhere, but there are degrees of scale and immediacy. A merchant prince or a banker or a wealthy landowner isn't generally required to take responsibility for the people he cheats, screws and starves; society couldn't function if that were the case. ~ K.J. Parker

I miss you more than Michael Bay missed the mark
When he made Pearl Harbor.
I miss you more than that movie missed the point
And that's an awful lot, girl.
And now, now you've gone away
And all I'm trying to say, is:
Pearl Harbor sucked and I miss you.
I need you like Ben Affleck needs acting school
He was terrible in that film.
I need you like Cuba Gooding needed a bigger part
He's way better than Ben Affleck.
And now, all I can think about is your smile
and that shitty movie, too.
Pearl Harbor sucked and I miss you.
Why does Michael Bay get to keep on making movies?
I guess Pearl Harbor sucked
just a little bit more than I miss you. ~ Trey Parker

Scores do not reveal the most important facts about a wine. The written commentary (tasting notes) that accompanies the ratings is a better source of information than any score regarding the wine's style and personality, its quality level relative to its peers, and its relative value and aging potential. ~ Robert M. Parker, Jr.

When I grew up, the thing boys would do during the summer is work tobacco because it was a cheap product back then. I didn't want to do that. From an early, early, early age, I was like, 'I like music. This performing thing comes easy.' And perhaps that's how I ended up doing what I'm doing today. Being a musician. ~ Maceo Parker

Somebody needs to be in charge! They may not always like what you're doing,
but press on! ~ Deborah L. Parker

You don't want a general houseworker, do you? Or a traveling companion, quiet, refined, speaks fluent French entirely in the present tense? Or an assistant billiard-maker? Or a private librarian? Or a lady car-washer? Because if you do, I should appreciate your giving me a trial at the job. Any minute now, I am going to become one of the Great Unemployed. I am about to leave literature flat on its face. I don't want to review books any more. It cuts in too much on my reading. ~ Dorothy Parker

I always said your best palate is your own, not mine. I'm a guidepost. ~ Robert M. Parker, Jr.

She wasn't going there again. Ever. Nope, she needed transparency from a man. And Parker, for all his bad-boy, cowboy 'tude and cocky swagger, wasn't anything close to transparent. At all. And that made him downright dangerous to her. ~ Jill Shalvis

People Who Do Things exceed my endurance;
God, for a man that solicits insurance! ~ Dorothy Parker

The premise of Nossiter in 'Mondovino' would have been a lot more accurate when I started writing about wine in 1978 than when the movie was made in 2003. When I started, I was enormously critical of California wines, and I thought the entire wine industry was on a real slippery slope. ~ Robert M. Parker, Jr.

After all, what is truth but the consensus of memories of reliable witnesses? ~ K.J. Parker

It comes down to whether or not you're ready to die today. I'm not. If the world ends, we can't fight it, but we can fight one man. We can choose to live this day and every day after it that we have left. ~ Amy Christine Parker

We have our share of accidents at nap time. However, the one thing we never do is shame the child, or use blaming words. ~ Jean Parker

Leadership is a concept we often resist. It seems immodest, even self-aggrandizing, to think of ourselves as leaders. But if it is true that we are part of a community, then leadership is everyone's vocation, and it can be an evasion to insist that it is not. When we live in the close-knit ecosystem called community, everyone follows and everyone leads. ~ Parker J. Palmer

I want her with me," I said, "and more than that, I want her to want to be with me. ~ Robert B. Parker

Four things I am wiser to know: Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe. ~ Dorothy Parker

earthquake
society has a way of bending you until you break, no matter how strong you think you are or how hard you try to fight back. it will try to fold you on top of yourself and shape you into something new - something prettier, smaller, less you and more them. but it doesn't realize that by doing so, it's creating a warrior out of you, one strong enough to sink mountains and raise tides. strong enough to reach inside the earth and shake it to its very core. strong enough to leave your mark on what's tried to leave its mark on you. ~ Cyrus Parker

If she has given you children remind yourself every day of the second, third, fourth, fifth, and sixth words in this sentence. If you hurt her in ways that are irreparable I will send out people to hurt you back, sorry, but it has to be like that. Yes, you may have had a difficult childhood, but please allow me to introduce myself: Hello, I am the woman who doesn't give a shit. Make her something warm to drink in the mornings and give her time to begin speaking; only rush at her with an embrace or a gemstone. Wildflowers. A love note. Yeats. ~ Mary-Louise Parker

You have to love what you do. And in order to do that, you have to search your soul to find out what it is that you really are about. And then when you find it, if you're lucky enough to be in a position to do what it is that you love, it becomes easy. I'm blessed that I ended up doing exactly what I wanted to do. ~ Maceo Parker

You could try being pleasant and malleable," she suggested. "I'd probably find it a complete turn-off. I didn't realize I had this penchant for militant men. It's giving me whole new insights into my personality."
"Militant?"
"I thought it sounded more polite than 'bossy.' No?"
"I'm not bossy."
He actually sounded like he believed that.
"Okay, Captain Von Trapp. Keep telling yourself that."
She'd broken the stern director facade again. He was grinning. ~ Lucy Parker

The sin forgiven by Christ in HeavenBy man is cursed alway. ~ Nathaniel Parker Willis

This is the stupidest plan I have ever in my career participated in," Xenophon said.
"I love stupid plans," said Eugenides. ~ Megan Whalen Turner

Sean Penn's really the only one stupid enough to put anything down on paper. ~ Trey Parker

The firsts go away - first love, first kiss, first baby. You have to create new ones. ~ Sarah Jessica Parker

I'll tell you now before you can speak: strength is a myth. It's not what it is, when it looks like what it is. It's usually what it is when it looks like something else. It takes bravery to admit that you're petrified and keep soldiering on despite it. Oh,and, "easy"? Also a hoax! If it existed it would be sold for the same as you got it for- nothing! Ha! ~ Mary-Louise Parker