The Jackal's Mistress Quotes

“The French gave it that name because it was the bullet you saved for yourself when all hope was gone. The last bullet. Death with dignity. This was the bullet that would do for you the things your wife never would: that's why they called it the mistress bullet.”
― Chris Bohjalian, The Jackal's Mistress

“Weybridge had met men like Morgan before. On the surface, they were civilized. And, perhaps, without war they would have remained that way. But war gave them permission to be who they really were, men who were comfortable killing all the kindness and magic and beauty in the world, men whose souls were bleak and, therefore, dangerous.”
― Chris Bohjalian, The Jackal's Mistress: A Novel

“men who were either just born bad or raised in such a way that they festered until their souls grew putrid. She’d seen her share. The war had allowed them to be themselves—execrable and unrepentant—”
― Chris Bohjalian, The Jackal's Mistress: A Novel