King City Quotes

“epiphany. His father always had a single, pat answer for every decision that he made. What’s important is what you stand for and how strong you stand for it. It defined Glenn Wade, and now it defined his son too. Wade finally understood why. It was the one thing in his life that he could control. No matter what else was happening around him, that was the one thing that nothing and nobody could change, except him. It made the world something that could be defined, managed, and understood. It had worked for his dad, out there on the lake, where life was a lot simpler and there were fewer shades of gray.”
― Lee Goldberg, King City

“Most of the time, it’s not whether or not you have a gun in your hand that matters,” his father said. “It’s what you stand for and how strong you stand for it.”
― Lee Goldberg, King City

“In his experience, only children greeted the sight of a police officer with enthusiasm and pleasure. Children like order and security. Most adults do too, but those feelings are complicated by issues of ego, dominance, control, status, and sex, all of which come bubbling up from the bog of the unconscious when you are confronted with a man with the power to take your freedom or your life.”
― Lee Goldberg, King City

“Wade didn’t understand why people would enthusiastically line up to eat something disgusting and inedible simply because it was free. Dog crap was free too, but he wasn’t going to eat it.”
― Lee Goldberg, King City

“His father taught him that standing up for what you believe in comes with a price but that backing down exacts a toll that your soul never stops paying.”
― Lee Goldberg, King City

“building and most of the city block were destroyed”
― Lee Goldberg, King City