Bitter Legacy Quotes

“There is a difference between not being able to love, and not having the guts to try.”
― Dal Maclean, Bitter Legacy

“From the start he'd sworn to himself that the job would never make him callous. But here he was, annoyed at someone for having the gall to get murdered when he had other plans.”
― Dal Maclean, Bitter Legacy

“James felt as he always felt waiting to deliver this kind of news: like an emotional mugger, smashing into other people's calm lives, leaving agony and loss behind. The aloofness of his role built his guilt, his distance from their pain. That he could introduce himself to people to deliver news that ruined them, with no wounds of his own to show in solidarity. He was the professional, like a doctor, slicing through their existence then going back to his own clean life.”
― Dal Maclean, Bitter Legacy

“Slowly, tears began to tip over again from her swollen eyelids, leaving sad, pale trails in her ruined makeup, and as always when he made a witness cry, James felt uncomfortably like the school bully.”
― Dal Maclean, Bitter Legacy

“Because I’ve found unrequited love just makes you sad and miserable and tired.”
― Dal Maclean, Bitter Legacy

“Now though, two silent blue-flashing patrol cars disfigured the subdued wealth of the street.”
― Dal Maclean, Bitter Legacy

“You read her stuff?" Ingham looked startled.
James rubbed his nose. "Read the reviews on Amazon.”
― Dal Maclean, Bitter Legacy