Hard Truth Quotes

“Breathing deep of air so dry and thin it burned her lungs, she wondered why life wasn’t enough for most people, why they had to hide in cathedrals, mosques and temples and rehearse human-born fictions of something yet to come, practice infinite subtleties of castigation of flesh and mind, as if by limiting pleasure and freedom in their one guaranteed existence they might earn kudos in another, one from which no explorers had ever returned alive.”
― Nevada Barr, Hard Truth

“In the sane world, criminals could be negotiated with, threatened, bought off. For the most part they were rational folks just suffering from poor impulse control, arrogance or lack of moral rectitude. In an insane world, what was negotiable, threatening, legal tender? Where monsters be, monsters’ rules are law and only the monster knows what they are.”
― Nevada Barr, Hard Truth