Mortal Sin Quotes

“rusty, overloaded freighters from the Caribbean and Latin America.”
― Paul Levine, Mortal Sin

“chainlink fences topped with barbed wire, vacant lots covered with broken beer bottles, and Doberman pinschers with psychopathic personalities”
― Paul Levine, Mortal Sin

“Knowledge of self is acquired through a shattered mirror. But we can always close our eyes.”
― Paul Levine, Mortal Sin

“The sum total of our life experiences guides us in a way our conscious minds could never decipher. We make choices without realizing why and trigger events we never foresee. And always we rationalize who we are and why we act the way we do.”
― Paul Levine, Mortal Sin

“Our reputation is created out of earshot.”
― Paul Levine, Mortal Sin

“Miguel? The firm messenger?” “He can tote the mail. Now what’s so urgent?”
― Paul Levine, Mortal Sin

“In the end, we march along a path drawn by our own moral compass. The sum total of our life experiences guides us in a way our conscious minds could never decipher. We make choices without realizing why and trigger events we never foresee. And always we rationalize who we are and why we act the way we do.”
― Paul Levine, Mortal Sin

“Dandy, I thought. When it gets too hot, the earth freezes over. Makes sense, though. A perfect incongruous symmetry. If life is filled with ironies, why shouldn’t nature be? Hard work leads to coronaries, love to heartbreak of another kind, life to death. As night follows day, sorrow follows joy. The affluent, many of whom labored mightily to get there, spawn indolent children. The kid from the ghetto gets an Ivy League scholarship, then is cut down in a gang fight at home. The rich get richer, the poor get poorer, and the meek shall inherit the shit.”
― Paul Levine, Mortal Sin

“Wanda was one of the sighers and moaners, the omigod-I-never-dreamed-it-could-be-like-this-types. When she wasn't purring with cinematic sincerity, she was a warm and giving bedmate with the full complement of womanly slopes and curves and warm, tender places. Sometime around dawn, she told me I looked like Harrison Ford. Or was it Henry Ford?”
― Paul Levine, Mortal Sin