Cape Fear Quotes

“If the law can’t protect us, then I’m dedicated to a myth, and I better wake up.”
― John D. MacDonald, Cape Fear

“He patted her hand. “Now brace yourself, Carol-bug. This may be only in my mind. I hope so. But this is what has been chewing on me. You remember that I was late on Thursday. Cady used up a half hour. I had a lot of chance to observe him. And the more I listened, the more a little warning bell rang, louder and louder. You don’t have to be a trained psychoanalyst. Somehow, when a person is different, you know it. I suppose we all run in a pack, in a sense. And there are always little clues to the rogue beast. I don’t think Cady is sane.” “My God!”
― John D. MacDonald, Cape Fear

“. If the law can’t protect us, then I’m dedicated to a myth, and I better wake up.”
― John D. MacDonald, Cape Fear

“Our three are...they're all people...And making people is a special thing. It's a special and a frightening responsibility.”
― John D. MacDonald, Cape Fear

“Because I know that everything we have is balanced on such a delicate web of incidence and coincidence.”
― John D. MacDonald, Cape Fear

“He’s such a male little male.”
― John D. MacDonald, Cape Fear