Death On a High Floor Quotes

“Five Rules for Leaving a Room in Anger": One: Do not pick up your books or papers. Leave them there. They will serve as a perfect reminder that you are gone. Two: Do no shove your chair back for the table while you are still sitting in it. Push it back as you are standing up. Three: Do not try to put your jacket on as you leave. Don't even fling it over your shoulder. You'll never be Jack Kennedy. Leave it on the chair back. Four: Do not announce that you are departing. Say nothing. Just go. Five: Never...ever look back.”
― Charles Rosenberg, Death on a High Floor

“I have never been very good at trying to comfort people who are crying. Maybe I lack the gene for it. Usually, I just sit there and wait for it to stop.”
― Charles Rosenberg, Death On a High Floor

“There are a lot of dots out there. If you automatically connect all the stray facts you hear to all the available dots, the next thing you know, the chaotic vagaries of the world will have you believing that the United Nations operates a fleet of black helicopters based in Wyoming and that Osama bin Laden is living secretly in the Lincoln Bedroom.”
― Charles Rosenberg, Death On a High Floor

“There are apparently no so-sorry-you’re-a-person-of-interest cards in the stores, so people had had to make do with short, hand-written messages penned inside those blank, no-message cards”
― Charles Rosenberg, Death on a High Floor

“Better to have a guy inside the tent, pissing out, than outside the tent, pissing in.”
― Charles Rosenberg, Death on a High Floor

“Once distrust begins it quietly twines its little vines around everything.”
― Charles Rosenberg, Death on a High Floor

“Did you know you can date nuns now?” “No. Really?” “Yes, as long as you don’t get into the habit.”
― Charles Rosenberg, Death on a High Floor