John > John's Quotes

“Help me clean up my cabinet.”
― C.G. Cooper, Disavowed

“What we humans think we know is nothing compared to what we need to believe to numb the fear and pain.”
― Jo Nesbø, The Son

“Simon closed his eyes again. He nodded slowly. “So we’re slaves to love. And who we’re given to love, that’s a lottery too. Is that what you’re saying?” “It’s brutal, but that’s how it is,” Sissel declared. “And the gods laugh,” Simon said.”
― Jo Nesbø, The Son

“A son’s responsibility isn’t to be like his father, but to be better than him.”
― Jo Nesbø, The Son

“Bear gifts if you can’t bear anything else.”
― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects

“I have never understood how people can blithely disregard the damage they do by following their hearts.”
― Paula Hawkins, The Girl on the Train

“For guys, life was nothing but one big pissing contest. It was a pure damn wonder women didn’t take over the world while men were busy trying to prove who had the biggest dick.”
― Tami Hoag, Prior Bad Acts

“The past overshadows the present foreshadows the future.”
― Tami Hoag, A Thin Dark Line

“Jann Arden singing in the background. The strange, voyeuristic lyrics of “Living Under June” touched off thoughts of her own”
― Tami Hoag, A Thin Dark Line

“Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.”
― Tami Hoag, Night Sins

“Better than cancer or Alzheimer’s, that prime horror of anyone who has spent his life making a living by his wits.”
― Stephen King, Finders Keepers

“As parents, we must accept that our children are who they are. We can’t make them into something we want, or be disappointed in them because they don’t meet our artificial expectations.”
― Lisa Unger, In the Blood

“We hate our parents for having their own lives, don’t we, for making decisions for themselves that don’t seem to take us into account. They’re not people, not really. They’re parents; how dare they live and love and die without us?”
― Lisa Unger, In the Blood

“People who kill themselves generally suffer from severe clinical depression,” I said. “Their reasons for choosing suicide are not always rational. It’s often a chemical imbalance that leads them to the choice.”
― Lisa Unger, In the Blood

“Oral sex is a dark and lonely job, but God damn it somebody’s got to do it!”
― Thomas M. Sartain, 30 Years & a Wake Up

“Life, he muses, always gives you an excuse to take what you want anyway.”
― Don Winslow, The Cartel

“Maybe, Keller thinks, I’ve become too used to solitude. Maybe I like it too much.”
― Don Winslow, The Cartel

“A man does the right thing, does his duty and does it bravely.”
― Don Winslow, The Cartel

“Then he drinks, eats, and fucks.”
― Don Winslow, The Cartel

“Keller has long believed that you have to be lucky to be good, but not good to be lucky.”
― Don Winslow, The Cartel

“Even a North American defense lawyer is right sometimes,” Aguilar says. “Like a broken clock, twice a day.”
― Don Winslow, The Cartel

“When the devil comes, he comes on angel’s wings.”
― Don Winslow, The Cartel

“Satan can only tempt you with what you already have.”
― Don Winslow, The Cartel

“There is no water to put out the fire. Mi canto la esperanza. —Carlos Santana “Maria Maria”
― Don Winslow, The Cartel

“That’s all right, Neal thought. Every one of us is at least two people.”
― Don Winslow, The Trail to Buddha's Mirror

“For whatsoever from one place doth fall,
Is with the tide unto an other brought:
For there is nothing lost, that may be found, if sought.”
― Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene

“The only thing that came after death was a black, irrevocable finality.”
― Leena Lehtolainen, My First Murder

“Neither magnificence nor majesty, neither youth nor skill may save, when thrown open is the grave. The moment of departure shall come, and all shall meet that reward. But when and how knoweth only the Lord.”
― Leena Lehtolainen, My First Murder

“What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?”
― Jo Nesbø, Blood on Snow

“She had got it into her head that we, her little family, would go on camping trips. Cook freshly caught trout beside a lake where the sun never set. I hope she got there with her drinking.”
― Jo Nesbø, Blood on Snow