Dead Lawyers Don't Lie (Jake Wolfe, #1)

by Mark Nolan

Some men are alive simply because it is against the law to kill them. —E. W. Howe

“The late, great philosopher George Carlin boiled it down to this,” Jake said. “Here’s all you have to know about men and women. Women are crazy, men are stupid. And the main reason women are crazy is that men are stupid. That pretty much sums it up.”

In peace, sons bury their fathers. In war, fathers bury their sons.

Loyalty was why pain could run so deep. If you didn’t care very much, life wouldn’t hurt very much. People who didn’t have deep feelings never experienced deep joy or deep pain. They lived in a trivial, pale, shadow of life where nothing was ever a big deal and all that mattered was pretending to be popular.

Nietzsche said that whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster.” “And he said, if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.”

George Orwell quote that says people sleep peacefully in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.”