43 Quotes About Houston

My guess is her attraction to him was his power in the one universe in Houston she and Gary knew: Walker & Travis.

She read beautifully, deeply. I don't know how else to describe it.Eventually, I finally asked her what she got out of reading these books by old dead men, what the words on the page had to do with her. The kind of question an idiot asks. But she took it seriously, she pursed her lips.It's just another way to talk to the dead, she said.It's another way to make a way, she said.

Isn't the human body a miracle

Generally, you have to love someone else a lot to keep carrying on like that,I thought. To have nothing and no one but still carry on, though, that must take aneven more serious kind of faith.

I don't put much stock in remembering things. Being able to forget is a superior skill.

You're lucky you chose Houston. It's a true meritocracy here. I'm from Dallas, which is more closed. Houston is wide open. Here, you work hard, you succeed. It doesn't matter who your parents or grandparents were. Nearly all doors are open. If one isn't, you build your own door and march right through it.

You may not like what I'm saying, but the cops and these people have a sort of code. So long as the rich and powerful don't go overboard, cops give them the slack that people who live in the barrios or Third Ward or the trailer parks don't get

But let me tell you one more thing, Paddy Moran. This comes from hard experience. Be careful. This may be the fourth-largest city in the United States, but everyone knows everyone here. It's a bad place to fall.

I never understood a lot of things less complicated than why people put up with each other."-- Songs From Richmond Avenue