Live Wire Quotes

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Live Wire Quotes
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“We are often told during times of bereavement that time heals all wounds. That's crap. In truth, you are devastated, you mourn, you cry to the point where you think you'll never stop - and then you reach a stage where the survival instinct takes over. You stop. You simply won't or can't let yourself "go there" anymore because the pain was too great. You block. You deny. But you don't really heal.”
― Live Wire
― Live Wire
“With everyone else, you put up this facade so you can hide the crud and make them like you. But with real friends, you show them the crud-and that makes them care. When we get rid of the facade, we connect more.”
― Live Wire
― Live Wire
“Myron remembered something his father once told him: People have an amazing capacity to mess up their own lives.”
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― Live Wire
“We don鈥檛 pray in foxholes because we are ready to meet our Maker. We pray because we don鈥檛 want to.”
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― Live Wire
“There are two people in a tennis match. One ends up winning, one ends up losing. And I think the pleasure comes not from winning. I think the pleasure comes from beating someone.鈥 She scrunched up her face like a very puzzled child. 鈥淲hy is that something we admire? We call them winners, but when you think about it, they really get off on making someone else lose. Why is that something we admire so much?鈥 鈥淭hat鈥檚”
― Live Wire
― Live Wire
“What we so admire and call "single minded dedication" was really "obsessive self-involvement". What in that exactly is admirable?”
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― Live Wire
“Dimonte spit into the can again, trying hard to cover up his obvious body language. 鈥淲e鈥檙e still working on it.鈥 鈥淯h, let鈥檚 pretend for a brief moment that I鈥檓 not a mentally dehydrated numb nut.”
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― Live Wire
“Suzze T just stopped by,鈥 Myron said. Win nodded, jaw jutted. 鈥淚 saw her on the way out.鈥 鈥淒id she look upset?鈥 鈥淒idn鈥檛 notice,鈥 Win said, taking a seat. Then: 鈥淗er breasts were engorged.鈥 Win. 鈥淪he has a problem,鈥 Myron said. Win leaned back, crossed his legs with his customary coiled ease. 鈥淓xplain.”
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― Live Wire
“He leaned in conspiratorially. 鈥淒o you know why the fans turned on those two guys so horribly?鈥 Just to keep him talking, Myron shook his head. 鈥淏ecause those pretty boys pointed out the truth: We are all shallow. Milli Vanilli music was pure crap鈥攁nd they won a Grammy! People listened to it simply because Rob and Fab were handsome and hip. That scandal did more than rip away the fa莽ade. It held a mirror up to the fan鈥檚 face and let him see a total fool. There are many things we can forgive. But we can鈥檛 forgive those who point out our true foolishness. We don鈥檛 like to think of ourselves as shallow. But we are. Gabriel Wire looked brooding and deep but he was anything but. People thought that Gabriel didn鈥檛 do interviews because he felt he was too important鈥攂ut he didn鈥檛 give them because he was too dumb. I know I was mocked over the years. Part of me was hurt鈥攚ho wouldn鈥檛 be?鈥攂ut most of me understood that this was the only way. Once I started, once I created Gabriel Wire, I couldn鈥檛 destroy him without destroying me.鈥 Myron tried to let this information settle. 鈥淭hat鈥檚 what you meant with all that talk earlier about Suzze falling for you or falling for the music. About being Cyrano.鈥 鈥淵es.”
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― Live Wire
“He traveled back again, to when she was that adorable teenager dominating center court, and his favorite Yiddish expression came back to him in a rush: Man plans, God laughs. This was not a kind laugh. 鈥淜itty?”
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― Live Wire
“We are often told during times of bereavement that time heals all wounds. That鈥檚 crap. In truth, you are devastated, you mourn, you cry to the point where you think you鈥檒l never stop鈥攁nd then you reach a stage where the survival instinct takes over. You stop. You simply won鈥檛 or can鈥檛 let yourself 鈥済o there鈥 anymore because the pain was too great. You block. You deny. But you don鈥檛 really heal.”
― Live Wire
― Live Wire
“Suppose, Myron had asked his mother, Dad woke up only one more time. Suppose Myron missed his last chance to talk to his father. Mom had replied matter-of-factly: 鈥淲hat would you say that he doesn鈥檛 already know?”
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― Live Wire
“We think that we will always be young, that the moments and people we cherish are everlasting. But they鈥檙e not.”
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― Live Wire
“We have a tendency to believe good things will last forever. It is in our nature.”
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― Live Wire
“Good things are rare. They are to be cherished because they always leave us too soon.”
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― Live Wire
“Win Golf Credo #12: It is perfectly acceptable to stink at golf. It is not perfectly acceptable to stink slowly.”
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― Live Wire
“We all have our scars and torment and ghosts. We all walk around and smile and pretend everything is okay. We are polite to strangers and share the road with them and stand in line at the supermarket and we manage to disguise the hurt and desperation. We work hard and make plans and more often than not, that all goes to hell.”
― Live Wire
― Live Wire
“Life is like a river and when you change its course, you鈥檙e responsible for where it goes.”
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― Live Wire
“The great thing about the Internet: It gives everyone a voice. The bad thing about the Internet: It gives everyone a voice.”
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― Live Wire
“Win was still in hiding. Myron had only gotten one message from him in the past six weeks鈥攁n e-mail with a short, simple message: You are in my heart. But Yu and Mee are in my pants. Win. Terese,”
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― Live Wire
“The biggest of the beefy bruisers鈥攈e had to be six-seven, three hundred pounds鈥攌nocked on Win鈥檚 window with his ring. Win rolled down the window. 鈥淢ay I help you?鈥 鈥淕et a load of this.鈥 Beefy looked at Win like he was something that had just dropped out of a dog鈥檚 behind. 鈥淪o you鈥檙e the famous Win.鈥 Win smiled brightly. 鈥淵ou don鈥檛 look like much,鈥 Beefy said. 鈥淚 could offer up several clich茅s鈥攄on鈥檛 judge a book by its cover, big things come in small packages鈥攂ut really, wouldn鈥檛 that just go over your head?鈥 鈥淵ou being funny?鈥 鈥淓vidently not.鈥 Beefy”
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― Live Wire
“Win unfastened his seat belt and walked over to Evan Crisp. He handed him the satellite phone. 鈥淚 need you to call Herman Ache. Tell him we will meet him at his Livingston residence within the hour.鈥 Crisp offered up skeptical. 鈥淵ou鈥檙e kidding, right?鈥 鈥淚 am indeed a mirthful fellow. But no.鈥 鈥淗e won鈥檛 let you in armed.鈥 鈥淭hat鈥檚”
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― Live Wire
“We are going to pay dearest Herman a visit,鈥 Win said to him. 鈥淭he four of us will sit down, perhaps over a nice latte. We will all cooperate. We will reveal all. And then we will work out a mutually beneficial understanding so that no one gets harmed.鈥 鈥淢eaning?鈥 鈥淒茅tente. Have you heard of it?鈥 鈥淚 have,鈥 Crisp said. 鈥淚鈥檓 not sure Herman has.鈥 Myron鈥檚 thought exactly. But Win seemed untroubled. 鈥淗erman is a sweetheart, you will see,鈥 Win said. 鈥淚n the meantime, what happened to Myron鈥檚 brother?鈥 Crisp frowned. 鈥淭he guy married to Kitty?鈥 鈥淵es.鈥 鈥淗ow the hell would I know?鈥 Win sighed. 鈥淐ooperate. Reveal all. Remember?鈥 鈥淚鈥檓 serious. We didn鈥檛 even know Kitty was around until she contacted Lex. I don鈥檛 have a clue where her husband is.鈥 Myron”
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― Live Wire
“They pushed Crisp into a seat. Win wrapped him in restraints. Crisp was still blinking through the tranquilizer. Win had used a diluted form of Etorphine, a sedative normally used for elephants and potentially fatal to humans. In the movies, sedatives work instantaneously. In reality, it鈥檚 hardly a guarantee. In”
― Live Wire
― Live Wire
“Both boys giggled at that one. Then growing more somber, Blakely said, 鈥淏ut man oh man, what a total Babe Lair.鈥 鈥淟ove Nest.鈥 鈥淗erpes Haven.鈥 鈥淧enile Palace.鈥 鈥淏eaver Trap.鈥 Myron tried not to sigh. It was like hanging out with a really annoying thesaurus. He turned to Win and asked what the plan was. 鈥淔ollow”
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― Live Wire
“During the car ride Myron asked for details. Kitty sat up front next to him. In the back, Mickey ignored them. He stared out the window, white iPod earbuds in place鈥攑laying the part of a petulant teenager, which, Myron surmised, he was. By”
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― Live Wire
“Yes. In the meantime, arm yourself.鈥 鈥淚鈥檒l pick up a gun when I get back,鈥 Myron said. 鈥淣o need to wait. There is a thirty-eight under your seat.鈥 Terrific. Myron reached under his seat, felt the bump. 鈥淎nything else I need to know?鈥 鈥淚 birdied the last hole. Shot two under par for the round.鈥 鈥淭alk about burying the lead.鈥 鈥淚 was trying to be modest.鈥 鈥淚”
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― Live Wire
“Esperanza sat back and looked at him for several beats. 鈥淒o you remember when Suzze won the US Open?鈥 鈥淥f course. What does that have to do with anything?鈥 鈥淪he鈥檇 cleaned up her act. She focused solely on her tennis, and bam, right away, Suzze wins a major. I never saw someone want something so badly. I can still see that final cross-court forehand to win, the look of pure undiluted joy on her face, the way she threw her racket up in the air and turned and pointed at you.鈥 鈥淎t”
― Live Wire
― Live Wire