The Sins of the Fathers Quotes

“Something I learned long ago. It is not necessary to know what a person is afraid of. It is enough to know the person is afraid.”
― Lawrence Block, The Sins of the Fathers

“We turned out to be good for each other. For a stitch of time all the hard questions went away and hid in dark places.”
― Lawrence Block, The Sins of the Fathers

“Dangerous thing, giving humanity the knowledge of good and evil. And the capacity to make the wrong choice more often than not.”
― Lawrence Block, The Sins of the Fathers

“Everybody has mean little places inside himself.”
― Lawrence Block, The Sins of the Fathers

“Take care. It seems to me that people have only been saying that phrase on parting for the past few years or so. All of a sudden everyone started to say it, as if the whole country abruptly recognized that ours is a world which demands caution.”
― Lawrence Block, The Sins of the Fathers

“Booze and tobacco and lots of sex. It keeps a lad young.”
― Lawrence Block, The Sins of the Fathers

“Cain said he wasn't Abel's keeper. Are those our only choices, keeper or killer?”
― Lawrence Block, The Sins of the Fathers

“WHEN you hit a gay bar in the middle of a weekday afternoon you wonder why they don’t call it something else.”
― Lawrence Block, The Sins of the Fathers

“I was surprised the drugs were still around. Cops are apt to pocket them, and men who would not take loose cash from the dead have trouble resisting the little pills that pick you up or settle you down. I took the Seconal and the Dex along with me.”
― Lawrence Block, The Sins of the Fathers

“For my own part, I'd never live with anyone, male of female. I have trouble enough living with myself.”
― Lawrence Block, The Sins of the Fathers

“Earlier you made her sound like a victim. Now she sounds like a villain.” “Everybody’s both.”
― Lawrence Block, The Sins of the Fathers