Kindle Notes & Highlights
By my reckoning, maybe 15 percent of the suffering of life is unbidden sickness and disaster, the rest we bring on ourselves.
The past shapes your desires and your desires lead you back into the past.
In fact, it’s a good comparison because, as with the devil himself, you only saw the effects of her while she remained invisible.
If uncles like me were the rebels and artistes of the force—the “dope smokers and faggots,” as Monahan poetically put it—investigators like him were usually big, meaty, Irish, or spiritually Irish, guys who didn’t need uniforms to look like cops.
But drink does take the soul out of a person. Literally. It wraps itself around him like strangling vines and chokes the image of God right out of him.
