Order in the Courtroom Quotes

“Normalize not believing everything you hear. Normalize fact checking.”
― Niedria Kenny, Order in the Courtroom: The Tale of a Texas Poker Player

“Nowhere else for Jekyll to Hyde, so he crawled inside himself and died.”
― Niedria Kenny, Order in the Courtroom: The Tale of a Texas Poker Player

“I'm not the cool kids. Cool kids never speak up, they are too busy with being cool. Speaking up is for the real gangstas.”
― Niedria Kenny, Order in the Courtroom: The Tale of a Texas Poker Player

“Here I am counting my blessings, wins and successes, while the closest people to me are counting my trials, losses and curses. Same book, different page. It be your own family.”
― Niedria Kenny, Order in the Courtroom: The Tale of a Texas Poker Player

“He didn’t like how his character was written into the story but he refused to acknowledge that the character was a carbon copy of himself. So he rated the book a zero and that’s ok- because the author rated him a zero also.”
― Niedria Kenny, Order in the Courtroom: The Tale of a Texas Poker Player

“I'm an open book, but I am still a hardcover.”
― Niedria Kenny, Order in the Courtroom: The Tale of a Texas Poker Player

“As we move through the seasons we are in, we move knowing that another is always to follow and the process repeats as we move through the years.”
― Niedria Kenny, Order in the Courtroom: The Tale of a Texas Poker Player

“For the record, I am the record.”
― Niedria Kenny, Order in the Courtroom: The Tale of a Texas Poker Player

“Go with me into the book. It's safe here.”
― Niedria Kenny, Order in the Courtroom: The Tale of a Texas Poker Player

“If you stop speaking to me over something you heard I did or said, please keep that same energy when you hear that it was a lie. There are no do-overs here. Sincerely, Self-Care and Preservation.”
― Niedria Kenny, Order in the Courtroom: The Tale of a Texas Poker Player

“One of the morals to the story: Don't just study your cards... study the players.”
― Niedria Kenny, Order in the Courtroom: The Tale of a Texas Poker Player

“Some people are not worth the weight of words. I do not argue with, nor do I debate with just any ol' body. I would have to respect you before I entertain either, I will leave my comment and then I will be on my way.”
― Niedria Kenny, Order in the Courtroom: The Tale of a Texas Poker Player

“I’ve died at least three times, I know.”
― Niedria Kenny, Order in the Courtroom: The Tale of a Texas Poker Player

“Trying to translate a court order while having a 8th grade education is wild to me. Just do the job you were hired to do, Dana.”
― Niedria Kenny, Order in the Courtroom: The Tale of a Texas Poker Player

“A mix of local news, world news, and shocking headlines coupled with experience and real life scenarios coated with imagination and intimate thoughts... the ones you can't say aloud = BOOKS”
― Niedria Kenny, Order in the Courtroom: The Tale of a Texas Poker Player

“The transformation into something that can fly, is the reason I am called a butterfly.”
― Niedria Kenny, Order in the Courtroom: The Tale of a Texas Poker Player

“Dr. Datura was good. But only a certain type of woman believed him. They were usually the ones looking to be saved. The forlorn ones.”
― Niedria Kenny, Order in the Courtroom: The Tale of a Texas Poker Player

“Profits are and would be nice. However, I benefit from the healing component in writing and I’ve always taken prescribed doses when there’s an onset for the need. Writing is my superpower. Writing is my healing potion.”
― Niedria Kenny, Order in the Courtroom: The Tale of a Texas Poker Player

“The story is in the story. Not everyone reads... A few will listen. No one hears..”
― Niedria Kenny, Order in the Courtroom: The Tale of a Texas Poker Player

“Vindication is mine says the Author.”
― Niedria Kenny, Order in the Courtroom: The Tale of a Texas Poker Player

“In and out of a relationship with our ex's can be compared to that thing we go back and forth to the kitchen searching for, throughout the day or night (mostly sweets to satisfy a craving) looking each time to find that there's absolutely nothing there. Why do we do this?”
― Niedria Kenny, Order in the Courtroom: The Tale of a Texas Poker Player

“You only have one life but you can have as many transformations as you'd like.”
― Niedria Kenny, Order in the Courtroom: The Tale of a Texas Poker Player

“Writer exits stage left. In walks, HER. 'Don't mind me, I'm just getting into character.' " - Lexi Vaughn aka China Doll from The Tale of The Texas Poker Player”
― Niedria Kenny, Order in the Courtroom: The Tale of a Texas Poker Player

“Picture it! Sicily, 1922 you’re on trial for standing your ground and what you’ve written about the prosecuting attorneys shoes makes into the cross examination- and court record, I’d say you’re a legend. They have no defense. You’ve just pissed the girls off. - Freely Speaking”
― Niedria Kenny, Order in the Courtroom: The Tale of a Texas Poker Player

“If you’ve ever been taken to court over something you’ve written, you’re a legend.

If you write something legendary enough to keep you out of court, you’re powerful.”
― Niedria Kenny, Order in the Courtroom: The Tale of a Texas Poker Player

“There's this word Libel that people love to pass around when filing lawsuits against someone who accurately described them in a publication. It does not scare me because I know that the story terrifies them enough to stick to the compromise that I called it fiction”
― Niedria Kenny, Order in the Courtroom: The Tale of a Texas Poker Player

“Tell the story! Put it in a book. Call it fiction. And when the characters want to test your gangster, pull out the receipts and shut the whole house down with the recordings.”
― Niedria Kenny, Order in the Courtroom: The Tale of a Texas Poker Player

“When a man can’t accept rejection, there’s no such thing as letting him down easy. So just accept the fact that he might call you a mean, stuck up B! among other things depending on how bruised his ego is over you politely saying you’re not interested. It’s not you- it’s him.”
― Niedria Kenny, Order in the Courtroom: The Tale of a Texas Poker Player

“My favorite color? Terracotta for sure. Then they laughed and said that I never answer the color question with the basic colors, red, green, pink, white, brown, gray, blue, yellow, purple, orange, black…

I replied, never have I ever colored with regular crayons.”
― Niedria Kenny, Order in the Courtroom: The Tale of a Texas Poker Player

“Our situation and circumstances are not always the Karma that our haters and enemies would like us to think that it is. It's the manifestation of GOD's Glory and the evidence will be in the outcome. Don't let your temporary situation prematurely punctuate the end of your story.”
― Niedria Kenny, Order in the Courtroom: The Tale of a Texas Poker Player