A Cold and Broken Hallelujah Quotes

“and the way life is really just a series of losses, one after another after another, and how the moment we realize that is the moment we begin to die.”
― Tyler Dilts, A Cold and Broken Hallelujah

“The truth doesn’t set you free. More often than not, it does just the opposite. It weighs on you.”
― Tyler Dilts, A Cold and Broken Hallelujah

“No one without sociopathic or psychotic tendencies can be glad at the news of another person’s death, but there is a kind of surge of adrenaline and sense of purpose that can be very powerful. It is without doubt a dark and complicated feeling, shared with firemen and soldiers and paramedics and emergency-room workers, that comes from knowing that you can only be at your best and only really achieve any kind of fulfillment when what is at stake is literally life and death.”
― Tyler Dilts, A Cold and Broken Hallelujah

“There's a darkness in the world, and that sometimes we know that our only real purpose is just to bear witness to it so that no one else has to.”
― Tyler Dilts, A Cold and Broken Hallelujah

“If someone dies of anything other than extreme old age and natural causes, and often even then the death leaves a great void in the lives of the survivors, an emptiness like an abandoned mine that can never be filled. A deep chasm. If you're lucky, you might be able to cover it with plywood and rebar, to surround it with chain link and "Danger" signs, but at best, these are only ever temporary remedies, patches that might briefly hold up to the storms that will come and come again until the ground around the chasm grows so weakened and diminished that to approach the emptiness becomes ever more dangerous. And that's if you're lucky. If you're not, then the loss leaves a void as dark and desolate as a black hole, with a gravity so great that no light can escape.”
― Tyler Dilts, A Cold and Broken Hallelujah

“But the town of Bishop was far less memorable. It was one of those places that I only ever think of being on the way to someplace else. Like Baker or Barstow or Bakersfield. We have a lot of those that start with Bs.”
― Tyler Dilts, A Cold and Broken Hallelujah

“not unlike the unspoken shared knowledge that many cops have with one another, that there’s a darkness in the world, and that sometimes we know that our only real purpose is just to bear witness to it so that no one else has to.”
― Tyler Dilts, A Cold and Broken Hallelujah

“fought against that tendency, against the idea of The First Forty-Eight—the mistaken popular notion that if a murder case isn’t closed in the first two days, then it’s unlikely to be closed at all.”
― Tyler Dilts, A Cold and Broken Hallelujah

“Seeing my Camry next to Benny’s Jaguar gave me a pleasantly smug feeling of superiority. It probably did the same for him. “Let’s”
― Tyler Dilts, A Cold and Broken Hallelujah

“One of the great challenges of my life was attempting to subvert my own deep desire to figure certain things out.”
― Tyler Dilts, A Cold and Broken Hallelujah

“We try to make each other laugh so we won’t get lost in the darkness.”
― Tyler Dilts, A Cold and Broken Hallelujah

“life is really just a series of losses, one after another after another, and how the moment we realize that is the moment we begin to die.”
― Tyler Dilts, A Cold and Broken Hallelujah

“Most people don’t sweat the details the way I do.”
― Tyler Dilts, A Cold and Broken Hallelujah

“The most recent arrest had been in Oxnard in ’96.”
― Tyler Dilts, A Cold and Broken Hallelujah

“What had once been a charming neighborhood of small, quaint bungalows had metastasized over the decades into a nearly seamless mass of bloated, multistoried architectural ejaculations that left me feeling claustrophobic and depressed.”
― Tyler Dilts, A Cold and Broken Hallelujah

“hadn’t checked my personal e-mail in days, and I remembered Patrick mentioning”
― Tyler Dilts, A Cold and Broken Hallelujah

“It is without doubt a dark and complicated feeling, shared with firemen and soldiers and paramedics and emergency-room workers, that comes from knowing that you can only be at your best and only really achieve any kind of fulfillment when what is at stake is literally life and death.”
― Tyler Dilts, A Cold and Broken Hallelujah

“The squadroom was empty, as it usually was early on mornings after no one got murdered. I had the place to myself for more than an hour.”
― Tyler Dilts, A Cold and Broken Hallelujah

“You're all eco-friendly now," he said, "but wait until the first time you try to wash the conditioner out of your hair.”
― Tyler Dilts, A Cold and Broken Hallelujah

“Was I really that much more mature than I had been in college, or was I only more bleak and weary and desperate to understand a man who I could never really know?”
― Tyler Dilts, A Cold and Broken Hallelujah

“Most of the unhappiness and the sometimes-severe depression I've dealt with throughout my life have come not from the losses and injuries I have suffered but rather from my incessant, bone-deep need to make sense of the suffering.”
― Tyler Dilts, A Cold and Broken Hallelujah

“A few miles later, he said, "Did you ever check out that link I sent you?"

"No, not yet. It got pushed way down in my e-mail and I forgot about it."

I was never as good at managing my personal e-mail as I was with my work account. It happened a lot, and I was always apologizing to people.

"Sorry."

"You should be sorry. It's going to change your life."

"Really? Must be quite a link."

"Remember who you're talking to. How many shitty links have I ever sent you?"

"Good point.”
― Tyler Dilts, A Cold and Broken Hallelujah

“Generally, I agree with Stephen King that hope is a dangerous thing. And also that the road to hell is paved with adverbs.”
― Tyler Dilts, A Cold and Broken Hallelujah

“I spent one more hour in bed thinking about my dead feather who'd been shot responding to a routine domestic disturbance call and my dead wife who may or may not have known she was pregnant at the time of her accident and the way life is really just a series of losses, one after another after another, and how the moment we realize that is the moment we begin to die. I fucking hate poetry.”
― Tyler Dilts, A Cold and Broken Hallelujah

“Without my razor-sharp wit, I'm nothing."

"That's what you base your self-worth on?"

"Yes. That and the number of 'likes' my status updates gets on Facebook.”
― Tyler Dilts, A Cold and Broken Hallelujah

“COLEMAN SLEEPING BAG: LIGHTWEIGHT, LIME GREEN W/ BEIGE INTERIOR, WELL USED, ZIPPER BROKEN. 22 T-SHIRTS, SEVEN: ASSORTED BRANDS, COLORS, AND STYLES. 23 ENERGIZER LED FLASHLIGHT (NO BATTERIES). 24 SCARF: GRAY/BLUE STRIPED ACRYLIC FABRIC, FRINGE MISSING ON ONE END.”
― Tyler Dilts, A Cold and Broken Hallelujah

“There”
― Tyler Dilts, A Cold and Broken Hallelujah

“if Pedro is talking?” Ruiz didn’t say anything. “They might be tracking his cell. The hitter”
― Tyler Dilts, A Cold and Broken Hallelujah

“supposed to do that?” I could see the smile in Jen’s eyes in the rearview”
― Tyler Dilts, A Cold and Broken Hallelujah

“together that, unless I wanted to trespass and”
― Tyler Dilts, A Cold and Broken Hallelujah