The Killing Lessons Quotes

“All fear was, in the end, fear of death. Once you knew you were dying, there was nothing left fear. It gave you the last great gift, infinite courage.”
― Saul Black, The Killing Lessons

“It made leaving bearable, knowing I'd had that kind of love in my life. Knowing I'd had the best thing.”
― Saul Black, The Killing Lessons

“Your whole life could turn out to be nothing but you waiting to meet your own giant stupidity.”
― Saul Black, The Killing Lessons

“Better to laugh at your intensity than weep at your mediocrity.”
― Saul Black, The Killing Lessons

“The world was a wonderful place. Full of nightmares.”
― Saul Black, The Killing Lessons

“It’s a great thing to be able to tell the truth, darling. But there is such a thing as gentleness for the people you love. Just because a thing is true doesn’t mean it can’t be used cruelly. Be careful with your talents.”
― Saul Black, The Killing Lessons

“He was the kind of good human being whose goodness derived from knowing the precise degree to which he was a shitty human being but not letting it cancel out the degree to which he wasn”
― Saul Black, The Killing Lessons

“The apathetic snow had given up. Now rain purred against the windows.”
― Saul Black, The Killing Lessons

“Murder HQ—and maybe Claudia Grey, if she was even still alive—could be anywhere from here to Logan, two hundred miles north.”
― Saul Black, The Killing Lessons

“promiscuous intelligence that in the wrong mood could do damage you wouldn’t walk away from,”
― Saul Black, The Killing Lessons

“The word "unbearable" makes a liar of you unless it's followed by your death.”
― Saul Black, The Killing Lessons

“Here it is. Je vais chercher un grand peut-être, as Rabelais had said. I go in search of a big perhaps.”
― Saul Black, The Killing Lessons

“It's a great thing to be able to tell the truth, darling. But there is such a thing as gentleness for the people you love. Just because a thing is true doesn't mean it can't be used cruelly. Be careful with your talents.”
― Saul Black, The Killing Lessons

“generally continuing the war inside herself between the conviction of her own potential greatness and the terror that she was just another too-smart girl who’d terminally lost the plot.”
― Saul Black, The Killing Lessons

“Give every woman a gun and a badge and watch the rape stats fall.”
― Saul Black, The Killing Lessons

“Die Welt war ein wunderschöner Ort voller Alpträume.”
― Saul Black, The Killing Lessons

“Wenn die Welt endete, würde das letzte Zeugnis der menschlichen Gegenwart auf der Erde - wie der Geruch von verbranntem Pulver nach einem Feuerwerk - ein Dunsthauch von Ironie sein.”
― Saul Black, The Killing Lessons

“Die Schlucht war zwanzig Meter entfernt, und jenseits von ihr kletterte der Wald den westlichen Berghang hinauf, gleichförmige Nadelbäume wie eine Überdosis Weihnachten.”
― Saul Black, The Killing Lessons