Colin Harrison > Quotes

“I sell mayhem, scandal, murder and doom.”
― Colin Harrison

“You couldn't live other people's lives―you could only fight for your own and struggle to survive.”
― Colin Harrison, Manhattan Nocturne

“Yes. I was, I see now, an asshole who wanted to roll the dice.”
― Colin Harrison

“If you live long enough in New York City, there are places you avoid.”
― Colin Harrison, The Havana Room

“I have found in my years as a reporter that people don't seem disturbed by genuine surprises as much as by events that they themselves have created. The occurrence that is unforeseeable cannot really be regretted, whereas the occurrence that one has helped to author can cause remorse or anger indefinitely.”
― Colin Harrison, Manhattan Nocturne

“She was ready for him and didn't mind if anyone knew it. They were desperate, I could see, in their own ways, but desperate people have a way of matching frequencies and finding each other before the end comes.”
― Colin Harrison, The Havana Room

“The city's children were traumatized enough by the World Trade Center attack. They don't need to see all the panhandlers with seeping sores, the crazies and subway shitters. You hope to keep them segregated and supervised. Not loitering or dwaddling or drifting, because to linger long the path home is to invite bad possibilities. The child snatcher, the pervert, the mob of taunting adolescence wielding box cutters. In Manhattan all monsters are proximate, it's not by geography, then by imagination.”
― Colin Harrison, The Havana Room