“Anyone can do the wrong thing if they really want to.”
— S.A. Tawks
“By three in the afternoon, after one Bintang too many, I was absolutely smashed and feared that trying to stand may end badly.”
— S.A. Tawks
“There are other ways than conventional doors to get around my house, Ms Rainn.”
— S.A. Tawks
“The truth, Ms Rainn, is that advice and inspirational quotes and sayings may give you a kick start, but it’s up to you to keep that motivation alive.”
— S.A. Tawks
“A gut full of heroin and the looming possibility of bunking in an overcrowded cell in Kerobokan to await my death makes you feel a bit sorry for some of the things you’ve done.”
— S.A. Tawks
“My job had been to get the package from point A to point B and what happened after that did not need to concern me. I was just the mule.”
— S.A. Tawks
“All you young Aussies just want to fuck and get fucked up, no?”
— S.A. Tawks
“The big, bad unknown is only that until it is known. Then you look back and wonder what all the fuss and worry was about.”
— S.A. Tawks
“It was as if my rationale had a stupid friend that was always getting up to no good.”
— S.A. Tawks
“You can’t draw lines in the sand like that. Humour’s a tsunami that doesn’t care about your little lines.”
— S.A. Tawks
“The job description, like most, used complicated words that made job-hopefuls hesitant to apply because it may be out of their range of capability.”
— S.A. Tawks
“She didn’t want to alienate herself from the very wealthy man that was about to offer her a job by declining the polite offer of a drink.”
— S.A. Tawks
“I guess having one hundred and four condoms full of heroin in your guts and the thought of a firing squad in your head make will make most things seem insignificant.”
— S.A. Tawks
“The spirit of imagination smells exactly how the person inhaling it imagines it to smell.”
— S.A. Tawks
“They were completely alone on the long stretch of country road and there was no one else to share the moment with them.”
— S.A. Tawks
“If you aren’t polite when giving criticism you will come off as an awful person and if you aren’t polite when receiving criticism you will come off as an awful person.”
— S.A. Tawks
“I’d be somewhat of a lousy writer if I didn’t know what to say.”
— S.A. Tawks
“No two stories are the same. They may seem the same at first glance, but, once you take a closer look, give the story some of your time, you realise its unique qualities.”
— S.A. Tawks
“He held out a shaky and worn hand and she met it with one of her young and inexperienced ones.”
— S.A. Tawks
“I’d been exposed to alternate ways of thinking and it seriously affected the way my mother had reared me.”
— S.A. Tawks
“A misadventure is an act that has a safer, less self-detrimental, less interesting alternative. But you choose that act because you want to do something memorable and worthy of discussion.”
— S.A. Tawks
“An adventurer has a purpose. Such as finding new lands and valuable treasures. A misadventurer, besides doing it for the hell of it and for a good time, doesn’t really have a good purpose.”
— S.A. Tawks
“Misadventure asked what the harm was partaking in one more and I decided not to argue with her.”
— S.A. Tawks
“Patience, persistence and hard work lead to success and happiness. Or you can do whatever the hell you want and with a bit or a whole lot of luck you’ll stumble onto success and happiness.”
— S.A. Tawks
“What does a guy say to that? What does an inexperienced guy say to a beautiful, smart, proper girl who’s not supposed to say things like that?”
— S.A. Tawks
“Cussing like a commoner wasn’t something I was tested on. I picked that habit up outside of high school.”
— S.A. Tawks
“As academia became my identity, my fascination with firefighters became buried and, seemingly, died.”
— S.A. Tawks
“I’ll tell you what you want to hear. I mean, what I need to hear. I’ll tell the truth.”
— S.A. Tawks
“Harry and I are misadventurous misadventurers that like to partake in misadventure.”
— S.A. Tawks
“Misadventure will always cause someone to be pissed off at you, because they don’t know what degree you’re willing to go to to satisfy your need for misadventure.”
— S.A. Tawks