Truth Like the Sun Quotes

“The word he used was coup, and I'm not speaking French just to arouse you.”
― Jim Lynch, Truth Like the Sun

“Don't get me wrong. Most of the force is made up of brave and honorable officers protecting us as I speak. And Mr. Shelton was apparently driving erratically before he was pulled over, and he did have an outstanding warrant on a weapons charge." He quieted the grumbles by raising a hand. "Regardless of what actually happened, I think it's fair to ask if he'd been a white man driving erratically in Laurelhurst or Broadmoor, do you think he would've been shot?" He was talking over a chorus of unh-uhhs now. "I don't think so either, and that's not right.”
― Jim Lynch, Truth Like the Sun

“Know something though,” Teddy says on the inhale. “Been meaning to tell you this: enough is never enough with you. And it’s not healthy. It’s like an addiction. “
“To what?”
“To more.” Smoke flares out of his nostrils. “You can’t get enough of anything.”
Roger rubs his cheeks and averts his eyes, wondering if it’s that obvious he’s increasingly driven half-mad by the limitations of having only one life. All the things he’ll never see or do or understand. All the people he’ll never know. “Whatever you say,” he finally says.”
― Jim Lynch, Truth Like the Sun