Surrender, New York Quotes

“Revenge is a kind of wild justice; and the more man turns to it, the more the law ought to weed it out.’ ” Nodding”
― Caleb Carr, Surrender, New York

“What we see depends mainly on what we look for.”
― Caleb Carr, Surrender, New York

“scythe on”
― Caleb Carr, Surrender, New York

“leviathan that”
― Caleb Carr, Surrender, New York

“ ‘Stronger than lover’s love is lover’s hate. Incurable, in each, the wounds they make…’ ” Mike”
― Caleb Carr, Surrender, New York

“The country that manufactures nothing, ran the old saying in such towns, eventually becomes nothing;”
― Caleb Carr, Surrender, New York

“(simplified Hegelian dialectical reasoning, with its thesis-antithesis-synthesis framework)”
― Caleb Carr, Surrender, New York

“All of which would have been merely comical, had it not also reflected a very serious reality: most such officials, in their zeal to treat every criminal event as a chance to display supreme control of social order, had forgotten that lawbreakers most often operate quietly and in the shadows, places where men wearing body armor and military helmets not only were out of place, but made the task of investigating the dark deeds that take place in those shadows all the more difficult.”
― Caleb Carr, Surrender, New York

“Stronger than lover’s love is lover’s hate. Incurable, in each, the wounds they make…’ ”
― Caleb Carr, Surrender, New York

“But my cognitive brain fought back hard, telling me that I knew these scenarios were unlikely, that whatever rationalizations she might have for the staging of the four deaths we knew of, to say nothing of her manipulations of other people, including me, would prove inadequate. I even tried the habit that Mike and I consistently warned our students against, listening to my gut; but all my gut told me was that I had fallen in love with a girl who had brought me out of years of torment, however briefly, yet who was still involved in something beyond shady. Had it not been me, had it been just another actor in a different case, I would have called the behavior common enough. But it didn’t feel common; not from the inside…”
― Caleb Carr, Surrender, New York

“Roxy Music’s “More Than This.”
― Caleb Carr, Surrender, New York

“What we see depends mainly on what we look for. —SIR JOHN LUBBOCK THE BEAUTIES OF NATURE AND THE WONDERS OF THE WORLD WE LIVE IN, 1892”
― Caleb Carr, Surrender, New York