Dead Aim Quotes

“much as he had liked the outside of the house.”
― Thomas Perry, Dead Aim

“It had seemed to him that going into another business was so unnecessary that it amounted to an absurdity, an indefensible vanity, like French aristocrats pretending to be shepherds and shepherdesses while real peasants starved.”
― Thomas Perry, Dead Aim

“She had found the ultimate pleasure, the power to simply look at someone and think, I can easily kill you.”
― Thomas Perry, Dead Aim

“What you want isn’t possible to get in one lifetime. It’s omniscience. That’s why people read books.”
― Thomas Perry, Dead Aim

“I know I’m being self-indulgent.” “If you know, then why are you doing it?” “I think it’s because I realized that for the first time in my life I actually could. I’ve seen things happen to other people, had things happen to me. I don’t think I ever really understood why most of them happened. This one I saw coming. I knew what she was trying to do, but I still didn’t understand what she was thinking, why she was doing it. I don’t, even now. This seems to me to be a chance to find out one thing that matters.”
― Thomas Perry, Dead Aim

“Running a bath for him wasn’t a normal thing for a suicidal girl to do,”
― Thomas Perry, Dead Aim

“Mallon was old enough now to have noticed that the human program of transforming the world into a poisoned desert sometimes suffered setbacks and delays.”
― Thomas Perry, Dead Aim