Mo Hayder Quotes

“Wine?" said Zoe. "At two in the afternoon?""I've decided to become an alcoholic. Just for the duration of my middle years." She filled a glass and rested it on the edge of the washbasin. "That's yours.”

“I'm not very good at knowing what other people are thinking, but I do know that you can see tragedy, real tragedy, sitting just inside a person's gaze. You can almost always see where a person has been if you look hard enough.”

“I'm a post-menopausal woman who's lived in a man's world for twenty years. A more cynical, cruel creature it's hard to find.”

“I had an overwhelming sense of the lonliness of this city - a trillion souls in their bedrooms, high in the cliffs of windows. I thought of what was underneath it all - I thought of the electricty cables, steam, water, fire, subway trains and lava in the city's guts, the subterranean rumbling of trains and earthquakes. I thought of the dead souls from the war, concreted over.”

“Who say mo'?You say mo'?I say mo'Mo' what?Mo' who?Mo' when?More Jesus. Right Now!To stop the fightingBackbiting, interrogatingPropagating, disruptionCorruption and eruption!Disseminate the man...Which man?The man called Jesus.The Son of GodThe MessiahThe Prince of PeaceThe Good ShepherdEmmanuelLord of lordsKing of all kingsAnd Ruler of Everything.So you say mo?Yes I say mo'We all say mo'More of the man called Jesus.”

“Ang great love mo, hindi mo makakatuluyan. Ang makakatuluyan mo ay yung correct love.”

“Kung matatakot kang harapin ang totoo at sabihin ang talagang nararamdaman mo dahil baka masaktan ka, isa lang ibig sabihin noon: ipinagkait mo na sa sarili mo ang pagiging masaya at kinarir mo ang magpakatanga.”

“Makakapili ka ng lugar na uupuan mo, pero hindi mo mapipili ang taong uupo sa puwang sa tabi mo... Ganyan ang senaryo sa bus. Ganyan din sa pag-ibig... Lalong 'di mo kontrolado kung kelan siya bababa.”

“Who’s a** is this?” Mo asked...“Mine!” Mykel shouted.Mo stilled and then laughed. Mykel thought about what he said and then felt his face heat up from embarrassment. “I mean yours.” “God, I love you,” Mo said...”

“Being with you is like standing next to the sun. It's so hot you die if you don't move.”