Quotes
Authors
Erin McCarthy
"You need to decide whether you're willing to risk being hurt, plain and simple. You can go for it and have a wonderful relationship. Or you might go for it and crash and burn brilliantly. It's up to you if you want to take that risk, up to you if it's worth it or not." --
Source : Erin McCarthy (2009). “Hard and Fast”, p.210, Penguin
Erin McCarthy
#Hurt Quotes
#Simple Quotes
#Risk Quotes
“Casual to me implies a lack of care or thought.”
“In [The New Poetry] I had attacked the British poets' nervous preference for gentility above all else, and their avoidance of the uncomfortable, destructive truths both of the inner life and of the present time.”
Source : Al Alvarez (2013). “The Savage God: A Study of Suicide”, p.40, Bloomsbury Publishing
“When my pals in high school were starting to drink, it always looked unappealing to me. I would be at a big party and see one of the popular girls or football players completely wasted and puking and acting a fool, and think to myself, there is nothing cool about that. I never wanted to be that out of control.”
“Alcohol may pick you up a little bit, but it lets you down in a hurry.”
“Martial arts was something that I wanted to do for the rest of my life, and I wasn't getting what I needed from college. When I realized that I could fight for money and have it be part of my learning experience as a martial artist, it made perfect sense for me to dive into fighting.”
Source : Source: www.esquire.com
“For intellectual authority, the appropriate version of Descartes 's cogito would be today: I am talked about, therefore I am.”
“They were like English teachers who took the fun out of a perfectly good book by breaking it down into themes and sentence structures”
“Editors and their authors seldom form deep friendships for the same reason that psychiatrists and their patients keep their distance: The relationship requires candor that mixes poorly with intimacy.”