The Gray and Guilty Sea Quotes

“The swath of fiery orange along the horizon was like a crack in a potter's kiln.”
― Jack Nolte, The Gray and Guilty Sea

“The trouble with having no troubles, he'd learned, was that if you didn't have them, you didn't have anything. No troubles, no life. It”
― Jack Nolte, The Gray and Guilty Sea

“After the body was carted away, the bloodstains on his linoleum looked like an abstract painting by Jackson Pollock.”
― Scott William Carter, The Gray and Guilty Sea

“Most scholars believe he wasn't talking about God personified, but instead about the shared cultural belief in God, something that bound people together until the Enlightenment. He was mostly concerned that that shared belief helped create a moral foundation for mankind, and without it, something would have to take its place or man's worst nature would run rampant”
― Scott William Carter, The Gray and Guilty Sea

“She's not really that rude. She tells me she acts that way 'cause she's a nihilist. I don't know what that is exactly, but I figure it's like having the cramps all the time.”
― Scott William Carter, The Gray and Guilty Sea

“This was a woman who had been hurt, and she wore her grins and her smirks and all her witty remarks as an armor that kept people from seeing the bruises.”
― Jack Nolte, The Gray and Guilty Sea

“was divided into two parts—the front”
― Jack Nolte, The Gray and Guilty Sea

“bulldozer”
― Jack Nolte, The Gray and Guilty Sea

“animal magnetism,”
― Jack Nolte, The Gray and Guilty Sea

“But people often surprised Gage. It was one of the things that kept life tolerable. From”
― Jack Nolte, The Gray and Guilty Sea

“A plan sprang up in Gage's mind, one that would give him a chance, a tiny sliver of a chance, and it depended on everything going just right.”
― Jack Nolte, The Gray and Guilty Sea

“The thought of staking out a possible murderer hadn't fazed him the slightest, but thinking how to get through to a teenage girl brought up all kinds of dread.”
― Jack Nolte, The Gray and Guilty Sea

“Sex appeal was confidence and mystery and allure, none of which had anything to do with clothing—or the lack of it. The”
― Jack Nolte, The Gray and Guilty Sea

“two”
― Jack Nolte, The Gray and Guilty Sea

“rude. She tells me she acts that way 'cause she's a nihilist.”
― Jack Nolte, The Gray and Guilty Sea

“the idea I'm lesbo or nothing," she explained. "I just ain't ever gotten around to taking 'em down. Willie passed two years ago—shot himself with that Smith and Wesson right there." She nodded to the case mounted on the wall. "I'm sorry to hear that.”
― Jack Nolte, The Gray and Guilty Sea

“enough,”
― Jack Nolte, The Gray and Guilty Sea

“doing it all along. The Bugle's modest headquarters was a one-room”
― Jack Nolte, The Gray and Guilty Sea