Eric jerome dickey quotes

every day a million miracles begin at sunrise!

I wish I had met you first. Before we met them.

desire is a beast that must be fed!

wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to temptation!

For a lot of people, becoming an author is a change in occupation... they are coming from something that totally has nothing to do with this. If they are expecting to come into a room full of people praising them, then they are in the wrong place.

nothings promised, not the rest of tonight, not all of tomorrow!

Its impossible to explain creativity. It's like asking a bird, 'How do you fly?' You just do.

early is on time, on time is late, and late is unacceptable!

When you start a new job or a particular journey, you really don't know what to expect. I mean, you hear about your name being on the bestsellers list, but it doesn't really mean anything. Like, really, what does that translate to?

We see what we want to see. We idealize each other with our own fantasies.

Resentment makes anything possible.

jokes are used to hide the truth!

we can do anything when we decide to win no matter what!

we shed the skins of who we used to be!

I want those young whipper-snappers to know that in days past we actually used to kill trees and make those things called books.

no expectations, no disappointments!

restrictions create frustrations!

we're all wounded in some way, im just tryin to heal!

not keeping a promise is the same as lying!

common sense is the enemy of romance

jealously lives with insecurity!

sleepin with strangers will have you waking with enemies!

intelligence is always intimidating to those who aren't!

loneliness has its own needs!

wisdom ain't seeing what's in your face, but recognizing what's about to come!

not all thoughts have to become words!

Physical attraction was about aesthetics, not sexual performance, not mental stimulation. Without a mental connection, a remarkable sexual performance yielded no lifelong guarantees. It was only lust. And lust was not love.

it takes as long as three generations of hard work, three generations of sacrifice to correct the wrong!

safety and love are both illusions!

But sometimes living in denial was the only way to keep a man from going on a killing spree.

Even the righteous man is just a sinner living in between sins.

the only perfect people are dead people, because their the only ones who can't make mistakes!

I deserved to find pleasure that surpassed my imagination, better than any I had experienced.

best way to deal with fear is to face the nightmare!

We're all living contradictions, trying to survive in a world filled with hypocrites

It’s scary telling someone you care about, someone you love who you really are.

Falling in love was a solo act. I knew that, had learned that the hard way. You just jumped and hoped your parachute opened. Sometimes you looked up and saw you were falling by yourself, the object of your desire still on the plane, not interested in jumping, watching you descend into that scary place alone.

People know your tragedies and they treat you like you’re not human. Like you’re a three-headed goat. A monster from some other planet. They keep reminding you of your pain. You see how they look at me? They’re stuck on that person I used to be. They can’t see that old life as just a moment in time that I’ve moved on from. It was a horrible life.

hate is a virus, revenge its only cure!

We tried it again and it didn't work out. Sour milk is always sour milk. When something goes bad it stays bad.You don't put sour milk in the refrigerator one day,and take it out the next and expect it to taste sweet.

I'm just trying to write a good story, strictly from imagination. People just think it's random, they don't see the rewriting, phrasing of characters, choosing the words, bringing the world to light in which the characters live in. That creates an illusion that this is real.

changing horses doesn't mean the ride'll get any better!

hate is cancer of the soul!

only a fool would argue with a fool!

a full moon is a flashlight so everyone can see your drama!

marriage is when a man stops disappointing many women and focuses on disappointing one!

i can become a new woman every day until i like the woman i become, then i can become her for a while, if not forever!

You want to put a band-aid on something that needs stitches.

can't blame a man for being human when human is all he'll ever be!

don't take many words to break a fragile heart!

As a writer, I challenge myself not to tell the same story - to tackle different characters with different issues.

you're just a side dish not the main course!

when you're honest with yourself, often times you betray someone else!

Every man kills the things that he loves. Some with a look, some with flattery, the coward with a kiss.

She’s a smart woman. I love that. Intelligence is a wonderful and powerful aphrodisiac. To me, it enhances beauty, makes an ordinary woman look like a movie star.

Love is for the soul and sex is for the body. Both cry out for satisfaction

If you're craving oatmeal cookies, apple sauce won't do.

For some of us love comes into the room, kicks her shoes off, finds the most comfortable sofa, and lies down, rests, has no intention of going anywhere. For others love walks in smoking a cigarette, checking her watch every two seconds, jittery, with one hand on the doorknob, heart rate up, always in sprinter’s position, ready to run.

Some people are just so happy to get published to, they sign anything. Next thing you know, they've signed over the rights to their book.

hate isn't healthy, it damages the hater more than the one who's hated!

love is a mental illness, an obsessive-compulsive disorder romanticized!

Once desire was turned on, combustion gave it a life of its own. Once it was turned on it became a raging wildfire, uncontrollable and uncontainable, the type of conflagration that had to be allowed to burn itself out.

Most women got this thing called compassion. It doesn't make them foolish, just more forgiving. More capable of trying and hoping things worked out.

anger and jeaously are first cousins!