Redemption Road Quotes

“It is in suffering that we are withdrawn from the sway of time and mere things, and find ourselves in the presence of profounder truth.”
― John Hart, Redemption Road

“Are you familiar with the word inspiration? The meaning of it? Where it comes from?...In the Dark Ages no understood the things that made some people special. Every soul in that dark, difficult time faced the same limitations, every soul except a precious few who saw things differently, the poets, inventors, artists, stone masons. Regular folks didn't understand how a person could wake up one day and see the world differently. They thought it was a gift from God. Thus the word "inspiration." It means breathed upon...breathed upon by God himself.”
― John Hart, Redemption Road

“It was a paradox of life behind walls, that where any day could end in blood, every morning contrived to start exactly the same. A man woke and, for two beats of his heart, didn’t know where he was or what he’d become. Those few seconds were magic, a warm flicker before reality walked across his chest, the black dog of remembrance trailing at its feet.”
― John Hart, Redemption Road

“as dark did with light and weakness with strength. Nothing was simple or pure;”
― John Hart, Redemption Road

“Even in a place like this, there are dark corners.”
― John Hart, Redemption Road

“But childhood was not all good, nor were its lessons. Good came with the bad, as dark did with light and weakness with strength. Nothing was simple or pure; everyone had secrets. What”
― John Hart, Redemption Road

“If”
― John Hart, Redemption Road

“After a moment, the void gathered itself into a low-ceilinged, dim space with sconces in the walls, a stairwell to the left, and closet doors broken from their hinges.”
― John Hart, Redemption Road

“She wore peacefulness as if it were a blanket she’d decided to wrap around her shoulders.”
― John Hart, Redemption Road

“The fall could have taken her all the way down, so deep she would not have come back the same or even close. He was going to pound her into the dark and leave her there.…”
― John Hart, Redemption Road

“She kept her eyes on Channing when she could; saw the wounded blankness of all who are ruined young.”
― John Hart, Redemption Road

“On the forever days in the forever dark, Eli’s voice had held Adrian together.”
― John Hart, Redemption Road

“Now, she lived with her dogs in a small house by a creek in the country, and her life had become a simple thing.”
― John Hart, Redemption Road

“not everyone could walk into the dark and make the hard choice.”
― John Hart, Redemption Road

“The last word smelled of desperation,and the old lawyer sighed. 'I can tell you that the law is an ocean of darkness and truth, and that lawyers are but vessels on the surface. We may pull one rope or another, but it is the client, in the end, who charts the course.”
― John Hart, Redemption Road

“flogging every”
― John Hart, Redemption Road

“furtiveness maybe, or shame. “May I?”
― John Hart, Redemption Road

“Tomorrow is soon enough to contemplate the multitude of your sins.” He”
― John Hart, Redemption Road

“Because some things should never be forgotten.” He smoothed the girl’s unruly hair. “Not if we hope to live better lives.” *”
― John Hart, Redemption Road

“Then let me tell you a thing I’ve learned in my eighty-nine years. This house, the friends and memories—I’d trade it all for a chance to do what that young woman just did: a noble act, freely undertaken. How many of us have such a chance? And how many the courage to take it?”
― John Hart, Redemption Road

“Tell me from the beginning.” “It needs to be privileged.” “Very well. Consider me your attorney.” “You’re not licensed.” “Then consider me a friend.”
― John Hart, Redemption Road

“bereft. I leave this letter in hopes you’ll discover it when you”
― John Hart, Redemption Road

“Like her, he cared more for the future than the past, more for hope than anger.”
― John Hart, Redemption Road