Testimony Quotes

“And so a person can never promise to love someone forever because you never know what might come up, what terrible thing the person you love might do.”
― Anita Shreve, Testimony

“A single action can cause a life to veer off in a direction it was never meant to go. Falling in love can do that, you think. And so can a wild party. You marvel at the way each has the power to forever alter an individual's compass. And it is the knowing that such a thing can so easily happen, as you did not know before, not really, that has fundamentally changed you and your son.”
― Anita Shreve, Testimony

“I guess that's the point of drinking, to take all the feelings and thoughts and morals away until you are just a body doing what a body will do.”
― Anita Shreve, Testimony

“If one has a good reputation and trusted, the rules can be bent to accommodate.”
― Anita Shreve, Testimony

“I discover that it is possible to be angry with someone who has died. It is possible to hate yourself for being angry with someone who has died. It is possible to believe that you will die from grief, that somehow your breathing will catch itself up and simply stop. It is possible to believe that you could have stopped the terrible thing that happened at any time, if only you had known.”
― Anita Shreve, Testimony

“You reap what you sow.”
― Anita Shreve, Testimony

“His arrival detonated two sheepdogs that began barking even before they emerged at a dead run from behind the garage. ”
― Anita Shreve, Testimony

“Life, of course, is full of people you discover you like a lot and then never see again.”
― Scott Turow, Testimony

“If you suspect a problem, there is a problem. Don’t let them get away with even the very first lie. Be vigilant.”
― Anita Shreve, Testimony

“The lying started in the eighth grade. Possibly it had begun earlier, and I simply hadn’t noticed.”
― Anita Shreve, Testimony

“That was the self-deception that Layton Merriwell or Bill Clinton or hundreds of other men had practiced, and the reason people mocked them: The”
― Scott Turow, Testimony

“over the brick, is now home to some of the most famous paintings in the world, including Vermeer’s Girl with a Pearl Earring and Carel Fabritius’s The Goldfinch, which are coincidentally displayed in the same tiny room.”
― Scott Turow, Testimony

“Only when my marriage ended another decade later did I tumble to the recognition that my sister was happy, far happier than many other people who arrive in their middle years, including me.”
― Scott Turow, Testimony

“But in the moment, how can you turn away when Someday can suddenly be real?”
― Scott Turow, Testimony

“Evil of that magnitude was like a dead star, sucking all the light out of life.”
― Scott Turow, Testimony

“He was now the CEO of Distance Communications, a hi-tech manufacturer of the electronic components for various weapons systems, part of that immense gray world of military contracting where billions were made and little was publicly known.”
― Scott Turow, Testimony

“Personally, I had virtually no firsthand experience with the US military, since I was of that social class which, in my time, didn’t get involved in defending their country, much like the five-hundred-plus members of Congress who had voted to authorize the invasion of Iraq and then as a group sent a single child to fight there when the war started.”
― Scott Turow, Testimony

“A friend of mine, an older woman, once told me that every man is in love for an hour before and after each orgasm.”
― Scott Turow, Testimony

“Whatever it is that will occur between a man and a woman is more than half done the first time their lips meet in earnest. The wall that separates us from everyone else dissolves, and from then on, the two stand on different ground. And so we did. About ten that night I woke with Nara layered against my side in my bed.”
― Scott Turow, Testimony

“For me, becoming a parent completely changed my idea about what it means to walk on this planet. Most people would say the same thing. It’s as if the world has gone from flat to 3-D.”
― Scott Turow, Testimony

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― Scott Turow, Testimony

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― Scott Turow, Testimony

“were going to be released, for fear of compromising Special”
― Scott Turow, Testimony

“lawyer by training, Kajevic had the same talent as Hitler, making his gargantuan self-importance a proxy for his country’s and his rantings the voice of his people’s long-suppressed rage.”
― Scott Turow, Testimony

“Like every other hypocrite alive, he was very good at applying unyielding standards to others. Bozic”
― Scott Turow, Testimony

“There is nothing like the plumbing fixtures to remind you that you’re not in Kansas anymore. By”
― Scott Turow, Testimony

“For all of my success, in looking back I couldn’t identify a moment when, at core, I had felt fully at home with myself. My”
― Scott Turow, Testimony

“offering silent tribute to the unwillingness of any bureaucracy to go out of business. By”
― Scott Turow, Testimony