Stefan Petrucha quotes

“Because if I smashed anything, Team Jaiden would just get me into a behavior modification program, or maybe some doctor would put be on drugs for my ADD or bipolarism or depression or whatever they're calling being alive and feeling royally screwed these days.”
-- Stefan Petrucha

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“It's toys, boy, all toys. You'll see more and more contraptions as you get older, but if I teach you anything, you'll learn that all of this is decoration. What counts is what's inside you and what you can see in others.”
-- Stefan Petrucha

Source : Stefan Petrucha (2012). “Ripper”, Penguin

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“Really, boy, unless you're ready to deal with the monster, you shouldn't go looking under the bed.”
-- Stefan Petrucha

Source : Stefan Petrucha (2012). “Ripper”, Penguin

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“Your novels show only the tiniest fraction of detective work, the brilliant crime, the tantalizing clues, the dramatic chase, the final battle atop a lofty peak with ocean waves crashing down below, and then… justice served! If they wrote about the real world, four-fifths of the story would consist of the hero sitting in a library for months and following false leads.”
-- Stefan Petrucha

Source : Stefan Petrucha (2012). “Ripper”, Penguin

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“We hope we're better. The reality is we had a pretty darn good team last year. But you can't just throw your gloves out there and be good again. We want to take that next step as a team.”

“We can see the light at the end of the tunnel. We just need to keep battling. We're a team that has stuck together through the good times and the bad times. Our reward is near.”

“No I or individual is better than the team. I've scored no goals just on my own. Every goal I've ever scored has been because of someone else on my team, their excellence, their bravery. And I'm kind of the end product of a collection of a really good vibe, and feeling, and creativity on the field.”

“I want to help my team get to the playoffs, win, and run wild.”

“When you're brown and Indian, you get offered a lot of doctor roles.”

Source : Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. June 30, 2010.

“I imagine a soul is a little perfect crystal egg floating in your chest. Somewhere deeper than where they put your heart. Somewhere so deep inside that the doctors can't find it with all their machines and microcameras.”

“One should not be happy or distressed over desirables and undesirables, knowing that such feelings are just created by the mind.”

“Indo-European peoples and Semitic peoples are today still completely different... Jews almost everywhere form a special society... Muslims (the Semitic spirit is today represented mainly by Islam) and the Europeans stand face to face like two beings of different species, having nothing common in the way of thinking and feeling...”

Source : "Naţionalitatea în artă" ("Nationality in Art") by A. C. Cuza, Bucureşti: Cartea Romaneasca, 1905.

“The only possible basis for a sound morality is mutual tolerance and respect: tolerance of one another’s customs and opinions; respect for one another’s rights and feelings; awareness of one another’s needs.”

“The pressure I put on myself is the only pressure I'm feeling once I get into the game.”