C.E. Murphy Quotes

United States, Author
June 1, 1973

C. E. Murphy (born June 1, 1973) is an American born author who writes in the fantasy and romance genres. She is the author of the Walker Papers series, The Negotiator Trilogy, and the Inheritor's Cycle as well as The Strongbox Chronicles which were written under a pseudonym. She has also written the graphic novel Take a Chance.

Thank God genuine video phones hadn't been invented. I hadn't even grabbed a towel. Ford Prefect would despair of me.

C.E. Murphy
- God
Nobody who loved life and new experiences that much was ever going to get old, not really. Wiser and eventually dead, maybe, but not old.

C.E. Murphy
- Life

She had a body that even I coveted in a strictly Platonic sense.

C.E. Murphy
- She
friends don't threaten friends' distributor caps

C.E. Murphy
- Friends
I'm not a goddamned faith healer! I don't talk to God! I'm a mechanic and her goddamned engine was broken! --Joanne

C.E. Murphy
- God
- Faith
- Broken
One forgets the fear of heights when one cannot fall

C.E. Murphy
- Fear
- Fall
start with one true thing

C.E. Murphy
- True
Why do airline pilots always call passengers "folks"? I don't usually take umbrage at generic terminology--I'm one of those forward-thinkers who believes that "man" encompasses the whole darned race -- but at whatever 0'clock in the mornning. I thought it would be nice to be called sometihng that suggested unwashed masses a little less.

C.E. Murphy
- Why
- Nice

Don’t be sorry. Be good. Be right. Be a hero.

C.E. Murphy
- Good
- Hero
- Sorry
They're constants, aren't they?" ... "Books are. That's why we like them so much. They seem immutable. They're not, of course. Not from the author's first draft to the tenth printing, but they seem like it.

C.E. Murphy
- Why
- Author
Music, unleashed, can uplift and create and destroy, stripping away pretenses and leaving raw, exposed vulnerability behind.

C.E. Murphy
Logic was puny in the face of my wrath. Logic was puny and magic was mighty: I had just gotten rebirthed, refilled and renewed, and was fast on my way to resentful.

C.E. Murphy
- Magic
- Logic