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C.E. Murphy QUOTES

C.E. Murphy QUOTES

1 " All thinking things fear. Sentience, perhaps, is facing that fear and conquering it rather than succumbing. A tiger will drown in a tar pit, but a man who can clear his thoughts may survive. "

― C.E. Murphy , Hands of Flame (Negotiator Trilogy/Old Races Universe #3)

2 " Desert heat or not, the idea that my younger self was facing her last moments was a bucket of cold water in the face. I didn’t like her, but she appeared to have her shit together in a way I hadn’t for a long time, and she had, frankly, deserved better than me. I tried to wet my lips, had nothing to do it with and croaked, “Sorry.”
“Don’t be sorry. Be good. Be right. Be a hero. "

― C.E. Murphy , Raven Calls (Walker Papers, #7)

3 " Logic was puny in the face of my wrath. Logic was puny and magic was mighty: I had just gotten rebirthed, refilled and renewed, and was fast on my way to resentful. "

― C.E. Murphy , Raven Calls (Walker Papers, #7)

4 " To my embarrassment, I was crying again. Real girl tears for the second time, these ones born out of frustration. That didn't happen to me very often, but I hated it when it did. It was faulty wiring in the female body, tear ducts attached directly to the frustration meter. Trying to explain to men that no, I wasn't being manipulative, I just couldn't stop my eyes from leaking salt water, only added to the aggravation. "

― C.E. Murphy , Demon Hunts (Walker Papers, #5)

5 " I suppose I knew on an intellectual level that graves weren't especially made for getting out of. I mean, you start with a hermetically sealed casket and then you dump six feet of dirt on top of it. Over time the earth gets compacted, which can't make it easy to dig through. So even if you're a very angry and determined zombie, you've kind of got your work cut out for you just escaping from the grave.

Which was, I suppose, why we got hit with an initial wave of zombie bugs, birds and rodents. I bet some people would say if you've never picked undead mosquitoes out of your teeth, you've never lived. Under that definition, I'd be just as happy to have not lived, thanks. "

― C.E. Murphy , Walking Dead (Walker Papers, #4)

6 " friends don't threaten friends' distributor caps "

― C.E. Murphy , Urban Shaman (Walker Papers, #1)

7 " He fell ass over tea Kettle "

― C.E. Murphy , Urban Shaman (Walker Papers, #1)

8 " They're constants, aren't they?" ... "Books are. That's why we like them so much. They seem immutable. They're not, of course. Not from the author's first draft to the tenth printing, but they seem like it. "

― C.E. Murphy , Heart of Stone (Negotiator Trilogy/Old Races Universe #1)

9 " Why do airline pilots always call passengers "folks"? I don't usually take umbrage at generic terminology--I'm one of those forward-thinkers who believes that "man" encompasses the whole darned race -- but at whatever 0'clock in the mornning. I thought it would be nice to be called sometihng that suggested unwashed masses a little less. "

― C.E. Murphy , Urban Shaman (Walker Papers, #1)

10 " Nobody who loved life and new experiences that much was ever going to get old, not really. Wiser and eventually dead, maybe, but not old. "

― C.E. Murphy , Raven Calls (Walker Papers, #7)

11 " She had a body that even I coveted in a strictly Platonic sense. "

― C.E. Murphy , Walking Dead (Walker Papers, #4)

12 " I'm not a dog "

― C.E. Murphy , Urban Shaman (Walker Papers, #1)

13 " start with one true thing "

― C.E. Murphy , Urban Shaman (Walker Papers, #1)

14 " I told myself that, too. It turned out myself was a skeptical bitch and didn’t believe me. "

― C.E. Murphy , Thunderbird Falls (Walker Papers, #2)

15 " Since I didn't have any world-class fencing skills, I kicked Cernunnos in the nuts again. I didn't have to know how to use a sword to do that, and he was standing there like he was asking for it, so it seemed justified. Shock and rage filled his green eyes all over again and he doubled. I guess there must be rules that people fighting gods usually followed. Next time, maybe someone would give me a primer. "

― C.E. Murphy , Urban Shaman (Walker Papers, #1)

16 " I could kidnap your mother,” he offered. “If you need the phone records explained. "

― C.E. Murphy , House of Cards (Negotiator Trilogy/Old Races Universe #2)

17 " imagined slights could be more poisonous than real ones. "

― C.E. Murphy , Shaman Rises (Walker Papers, #9)

18 " You ever get the feeling your life is a string festooned with bells and tie4d to hundreds of others you don't know anything about? And that sometimes somebody pulls their string, and your bells ring?" Gary looked at me a long moment before rather gently saying, "Yes and no, darlin'. We all get that feeling from time to time. Difference is, with you, it could be real. "

― C.E. Murphy , Raven Calls (Walker Papers, #7)

19 " It wasn't that I didn't feel like sharing. Mostly I just figured they couldn't do anything about it, so there was no point in worrying them. I said, 'A wee little bit,' instead, in honor of being in Ireland, where one adjective was never enough if three would do. "

― C.E. Murphy , Raven Calls (Walker Papers, #7)

20 " A clean desk is a sign of a cluttered mind. "

― C.E. Murphy , Heart of Stone (Negotiator Trilogy/Old Races Universe #1)