Walker Quotes

“C’est moi, c’est moi,’tis I,' I told him. It seemed appropriately melodramatic, though I didn’t know if he’d catch the reference. I shouldn’t have worried.
Unexpectedly, he laughed. “Trust you to quote Lancelot rather than Guinevere.”
― Patricia Briggs, Moon Called

“He couldn’t say the words, had spent too long in Silence, but he’d learned other ways to speak. Taking the paperweight she’d knocked off her desk out of his pocket, he put it in her hands. “It’s fixed. As long as you don’t mind more than a few scars.”
― Nalini Singh, Kiss of Snow

“One of my professors once told me that the last official act of the British monarchy was when Queen Victoria refused to sign a law that made same-sex acts illegal. It would have made me think more highly of her, except the reason she objected was because she didn’t believe women would do anything like that. Parliament rewrote the law so it was specific to men, and she signed it. A tribute to enlightenment, Queen Victoria was not. Neither, as I have observed before, are werewolf packs.”
― Patricia Briggs, Moon Called

“Holding Hawke’s gaze in a way that not many men could, Walker said, “You will be good to her.” Not a statement, but an order.
Hawke’s wolf stirred. “Do you think I’d be otherwise?”
“If I did, you’d be dead.”
― Nalini Singh, Kiss of Snow

“I love to walk. Walking is a spiritual journey and a reflection of living. Each of us must determine which path to take and how far to walk; we must find our own way, what is right for one may not be for another. There is no single right way to deal with late stage cancer, to live life or approach death, or to walk an old mission trail.”
― Edie Littlefield Sundby, The Mission Walker: I was given three months to live...

“What she lacks in poetry she makes up for in venom”
― Sarra Manning

“Given the way his night had been going so far, he didn't have time to go to jail.”
― Christine Warren, She's No Faerie Princess

“If you make your own rules in life, rather than going by those laid down by others, you find that it becomes a lot more enjoyable.”
― Neil Walker, Drug Gang

“As long as you show that you’re willing to take it further than them, they’ll tend to back off, whoever they may be.”
― Neil Walker, Drug Gang

“Why waste yourself doing something pointless, when you can spend your life being productive in your own eyes?”
― Neil Walker, Drug Gang

“Thank God genuine video phones hadn't been invented. I hadn't even grabbed a towel. Ford Prefect would despair of me.”
― C.E. Murphy

“Black and white, good and evil, is just a way to simplify life and make it easier for people to deal with. People love it too; that’s why so many people go to church on a Sunday.”
― Neil Walker, Drug Gang Vengeance

“How can you escape from your own conscience, the reality of your own actions?”
― Neil Walker, Drug Gang

“Self-loathing was on the agenda for the foreseeable future and he found it hard to imagine a way past it.”
― Neil Walker, Drug Gang

“Sometimes if you hold back on someone, they mistake your kindness for weakness. Sometimes you’ve got to go all out, to show people that you mean business.”
― Neil Walker, Drug Gang Vengeance

“Strength, confidence and invincibility had to exude from him at all times. Any vacuum in power could lead to injury, betrayal or death.”
― Neil Walker, Drug Gang Vengeance

“Don’t get me wrong, we’re not the fucking Partridge family or anything. We don’t all go on picnics and hold hands.”
― Neil Walker, Drug Gang

“This time I am on a mission of no mercy.”
― Neil Walker, Drug Gang Vengeance

“You are from Belfast; are you sure that was your first time holding a gun?”
― Neil Walker, Drug Gang

“Jim Morrison had star quality and he’s dead. Star quality’s no good to you when you’re dead.”
― Neil Walker, Drug Gang

“This is where he had ended up, lying on his back, trying to forget himself.”
― Neil Walker, Drug Gang

“If you want to live life exactly the way you want to, rather than following convention, then you’ve got to defy convention to finance that lifestyle.”
― Neil Walker, Drug Gang

“This was it, his life of crime and recreation about to officially start.”
― Neil Walker, Drug Gang

“Tashi dice que quiere enfrentarse al pelotón de fusilamiento vestida de rojo. Le recuerdo que su sentencia está siendo apelada. También cabe la esperanza de que los Estados Unidos hagan valer la ciudadanía norteamericana de Tashi. Es igual, quiero ir de rojo, dice, pase lo que pase. Estoy harta del blanco y el negro. Ninguno va primero. El rojo, el color de la sangre de mujer, los precede a ambos.
De modo que cosemos.”
― Alice Walker, Possessing the Secret of Joy

“If I’ve learned anything from facing death, it is that life is not meant to be survived. Life is the greatest adventure there is. And why stop your adventuring when someone says the end may be near? The truth is, we never know when the end will actually come. None of us will avoid it forever. What’s the point in trying? Live fearlessly!”
― Edie Littlefield Sundby, The Mission Walker: I was given three months to live...

“Acceptance of death and cancer did not mean I intended to give up, just the opposite. I was prepared to fight cancer not out of fear of dying, but out of joy of living.”
― Edie Littlefield Sundby, The Mission Walker: I was given three months to live...

“There is life in walking, but death in running.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Time to Save Medicine

“Through the Grace of God and His medicine I am healed.” The prayer was accompanied by a vision straight out of Braveheart, a line of Scottish Highland warriors in kilts with huge shields and long spears marching in brave unison and attacking and killing the cancer. They were advancing, towards the cancer, striking and killing it with strong accurate thrusts from their sharp spears. The vision was so strong I could hear marching feet, and visibly see the cancer in me dying. “Through the Grace of God and His medicine I am healed,” became my constant prayer. The prayer awakened with me each day, coming on the wings of the morning. It followed in my heart through the day, and was on my lips as I drifted to sleep at night.”
― Edie Littlefield Sundby, The Mission Walker: I was given three months to live...

“When I put down Lance Armstrong’s book, I understood something profoundly. Edie, if you can move, you’re not sick. I decided right then and there that no matter what cancer did to me I would continue to move. Movement was what the physical body was designed to do; it was how it coped and functioned. Movement was vitality. It was life.
I would move. Always. No matter what. Until my last breath, I would move.”
― Edie Littlefield Sundby, The Mission Walker: I was given three months to live...

“In Search of El Dorado by Stewart Stafford

A meandering mountain path awaits,
Build a bonfire of remembrance,
With crunching staff on gravel,
Certainty slowly becomes a stranger.

The funereal pace of the brand-new,
Is reborn in accelerating steps,
In concert with liberation's adrenaline,
And a cooling breeze through the brim.

Startled young fox on a crag,
A hawk circles overhead,
Sage standing stones keep counsel,
Their shadows pointing the way forward.

Sheep stare and chew in nearby wet fields,
Occasionally bleating confused directions,
A pillar of black smoke stretches into the sky,
A beacon on the horizon.

A ridge around a corner,
The crêpe shop comes into view,
Relief exhaled upon reaching El Dorado's gates,
Golden sustenance and home via the car park.

© Stewart Stafford, 2021. All rights reserved.”
― Stewart Stafford