In my two book series The Rise and Fall of Skye Wright I precede each chapter with a quote, rather than titles or numbers. Many of the quotes are from song lyrics, and a lot of quotes are from musicians, but some quotes are from authors or famous people. Here they are in order, starting with the quotes from the first book The Rise and Fall of Skye Wright and finishing with all of the quotes from The Return of the Dynamite Chicks.
I quote people like David Bowie, Bob Dylan, John Madden, and even Richard Nixon. I also quote a lot of notable writers such as Dani Dassler, CE Hoffman, and thee Simon Warwick Beresford!
A lot of quotes are song lyrics. Let me know if you know the band. Extra credit if you already know the song!
Dirty hair and a laugh that’s mean
Her neighbors call her an evil machine
L7 – Fast and Frightening
And I absent-mindedly counted myself.
Bobbie Ann Mason – Shiloh and Other Stories
Whoever wrote that one hadn’t a clue.
A day is a fuckin’ eternity
Roddy Doyle – From the novel Paula Spencer
Just want to ride on my motorcycle
Arlo Guthrie – Motorcycle Song
Mark Twain
You make me feel strong, make me feel strong,
Feel like nothing’s wrong
Descendents – Thank you
Mahatma Gandhi
Were all equally broken, damaged,
And clueless individuals
Dani Dassler – PR
Du bist bei der Polizei
Und wir werden uns bestimmt bald wieder seh’n!
Das Untergangskommando – Punk und Polizei
That in itself would be an identity crisis to me.
Mitski
We’re getting older but we’re still crazy
I’m so glad that I have these friends o mine
Bowling for Soup – Friends O’ Mine
Nena – 99 Luftballons
Rise above! We’re gonna rise above!
Black Flag – Rise Above
America has lost its soul;
now it’s trying to save its body.
George Carlin
Is sometimes forced to be drunk
To spend time with his fools.
Ernest Hemingway
The question is: What are we busy about?
Henry David Thoreau
That beareth up things light and swollen,
And drowns things weighty and solid.
Sir Francis Bacon
Knocking knocking should we let him in
Should we lock the door and throw away the key
Pinhead Gunpowder – Landlords
“No one knows anything about art.”
The Marvelous Mrs Maisel
And old friends like-wise.
Charles Kingsley
Richard M Nixon
Her hair was every shade of purple,
piled in buns and hanging in braids,
and all of it sprinkled with gems like stars.
Brenda Cooper – Edge of Dark
Herman Melville – Moby-Dick
Bob Ross
Than it would have been if it had never shone.
John Steinbeck – The Winter of Our Discontent
Be a man or a mouse
Waste those who make it tough to get around
Devo – Through Being Cool
And one foot in the grave
Built by corporate record companies
As they steal your soul away
Spitboy – Fences
The Replacements – Bastards of Young
Is having someone to wonder where you are
When you don’t come home at night.
Margaret Mead
Too fiercely, their swift and sudden absence
Could chill you to the soul.
Kristin Hannah – On Mystic Lake
How you gonna come?
With your hands on your head
Or on the trigger of your gun?
The Clash – Guns of Brixton
That inside you will pass through its walls
And hang pictures on the air.
Pablo Neruda
Everything in the world is pointed against him.
Jack Kerouac
Your life is out of your control
Tomorrow’s just another day
Another chance to throw away
Crimpshrine – Another Day
I’ve learned to make
Bad situations my friend
It starts all over
Just when it should end
Yeah yeah I’m stuck here again
L7 – Stuck Here Again
The narrow bed,
Now I am bereft.
All my pretty hates
Are dead,
And what have I left?
Cobalt 60 – Wail
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If there’s nothing in it
And you’ll ask yourself
Where is my mind?
Pixies – Where is My Mind?
Motel rooms don’t make homes
You can’t turn water into wine
You can’t make a rock from a rolling stone
Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson – Rocks from Rolling Stones
Than alone in the light.
Helen Keller
Douglas Adams – The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
Or his football scarf, now stained red?
Or the broken bottle in his hand?
You will never understand!
Blitz – Someone’s Gonna Die
From the misery of life — music and cats.
Albert Schweitzer
You shall perhaps not do it tomorrow;
Best, while you have it, use your breath;
There is no drinking after death.
Ben Jonson
Like my feelings left to rot
I’d give nearly anything
To have it back
That poem I forgot
Simon Warwick Beresford – The Lost Poem
Charles Bukowski
What you say or do doesn’t matter;
Only feelings matter.
If they could make me stop loving you
That would be the real betrayal.
George Orwell – 1984
Almost to the dignity of manual labor.
Oscar Wilde
It grows in the same way we do as human beings
And if it doesn’t, it dies.
Nick Cave
“you get good at finding your way home.”
Emily Henry – A Million Junes
With dread in private,
She would never show fear
Before her questioners or her guards.
Jeane Westin – His Last Letter
Rik – The Young Ones
wasteland I like to call my home.
Green Day – Paradise
Lovers use them as secrets to reveal.
A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh.
Leonard Cohen
Dead memories rush back to life;
Nights and days wind flattered my face,
As free as anyone could be
CE Hoffman – Sluts and Whores
John Madden
Duke – Repo Man
Two chords are pushing it.
Three chords and you’re into jazz.
Lou Reed
Bob Dylan
Wanna go on Solid Gold
Wanna date a millionaire
Wanna make people stare
I wanna be on TV!
Fang – I Wanna be on TV
I danced all night
I drank 16 beers
And I started up a fight
Dead Kennedys – Too Drunk to Fuck
I just chug-a-lug-o my coffee mug
I don’t need your kiss and hug
I just chug-a-lug-o my coffee mug
Descendents – Coffee Mug
“I’m someone who reads the same authors you do.”
Lemony Snicket – When Did You See Her Last?
Just look at the people he gave it to.
Dorothy Parker
People will forget what you said,
People will forget what you did,
But people will never forget
How you made them feel
Maya Angelou
Stiff little Fingers – Nobody’s Hero
they couldn’t play rock ‘n’ roll.
Joan Jett
I’ve got the brains,
Let’s make lots of money.
Pet Shop Boys – Opportunities
In the very books
Where they tell us to despise fame,
Inscribe their names.
Cicero
Putting up a circus tent.
Pat Benatar – On the subject of touring
It’s not supposed to wave back.
Terry Pratchett
desperate, vicious form of expression
it has been my misfortune to hear.
Frank Sinatra
Human beings, for one reason or another,
May hide their feelings, but a cat does not.
Ernest Hemingway
Euripides
but I promise it won’t be boring.
David Bowie
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Stella Maris is the sequel to my previous novel. Even though it can be read by itself, check out what Skye was up to before her adventures in Stella Maris!
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