The Fourth Monkey Quotes

“We're going to have such fun, you and I.”
― J.D. Barker, The Fourth Monkey

“A wise man once said, “To measure your own IQ, to attempt to label your intelligence, is a sign of your own ignorance.”
― J.D. Barker, The Fourth Monkey

“Mizaru significa «no veas el mal», Kikazaru significa «no escuches el mal», e Iwazaru significa «no pronuncies el mal».”
― J.D. Barker, El cuarto mono

“Maybe we should flip for it. I had to open the last one.” “No, I insist. I saw Seven — if Gwyneth’s head is in there, the image will be stuck in my mind for months. This is all you. Be a man.”
― J.D. Barker, The Fourth Monkey

“They eat trash and carry more diseases than a Kardashian at Mardi Gras,”
― J.D. Barker, The Fourth Monkey

“Shizaru,” I said. “His name is Shizaru.” “He stands for do no evil,” Father said. “And that, of course, is the rub. Should someone see or hear evil, there is little one can do. When someone speaks evil, there is fault to be had, but when they do evil . . . well, when they do evil there is no room for forgiveness.”
― J.D. Barker, The Fourth Monkey

“The life cycle carving at the Tosho-gu Shrine is made up of eight panels in all. The monkeys appear in the second panel. Can anyone tell me their names?” I, of course, had the answer, and I raised my hand earnestly. If Mrs. Carter also knew, she chose not to participate. Father looked to me, then Mrs. Carter, and back to me. “Well, you did get your hand in the air first. Why don’t you tell us their names?” “Mizaru, Kikazaru, and Iwazaru.”
― J.D. Barker, The Fourth Monkey

“The four monkeys comes from the Tosho-gu Shrine in Nikko, Japan, where a carving of three apes resides above the entrance. The first covering his ears, the second covering his eyes, and the third covering his mouth, they depict the proverb “Hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil.” The fourth monkey represents “Do no evil.”
― J.D. Barker, The Fourth Monkey

“Porter knew they were able to estimate age through the carbon dating of material in the eyes; it was called the Lynnerup method. The process could narrow the age down to within a year or two.”
― J.D. Barker, The Fourth Monkey

“The ear had been washed clean of blood and rested on a blanket of cotton. Just like the others.”
― J.D. Barker, The Fourth Monkey

“When you have a child, life ceases being about you and becomes wholly about them. You’ll do anything for them.”
― J.D. Barker, The Fourth Monkey

“You need to talk to someone. That’s how we heal. Keeping it bottled up isn’t healthy. It’ll grow in you like a cancer if you keep it all inside.”
― J.D. Barker, The Fourth Monkey

“Real life doesn’t work that way. I’ve seen more lives end than I can count, and they all seem to hold that same expectation at the end, their eyes glancing at the door, waiting for their savior to arrive. He doesn’t, though. In real life, the only true savior is oneself.”
― J.D. Barker, The Fourth Monkey

“Mizaru means see no evil, Kikazaru means hear no evil, and Iwazaru means speak no evil.”
― J.D. Barker, The Fourth Monkey

“Wyobrażasz sobie, jakie brudne byłoby miasto, gdyby szczury nie zjadały śmieci? Jeśli pytałbyś mnie o zdanie, prawdziwą plagą są ludzie.”
― J.D.Barker, 4MK

“- Bycie seryjnym zabójcą to dziwne hobby, jeśli ktoś ma lęki.”
― J.D.Barker, 4MK

“Women were perfectly capable of handling pain but not emotion. Men handled emotion but not pain.”
― J.D. Barker, The Fourth Monkey

“Porter knew little about golf. The idea of hitting a little white ball, then chasing after it for hours on end, did not appeal to him. While he understood it was challenging, he did not consider it a sport. Baseball was a sport. Football was a sport. Anything you could play at eighty years old while toting your oxygen tank and wearing pastel slacks would never be a sport in his book.”
― J.D. Barker, The Fourth Monkey

“No, I insist. I saw Seven—if Gwyneth’s head is in there, the image will be stuck in my mind for months. This is all you. Be a man.”
― J.D. Barker, The Fourth Monkey

“He imagined he appeared as uncomfortable as a priest returning the hug of an altar boy with the eyes of the congregation upon him.”
― J.D. Barker, The Fourth Monkey

“Anything you could play at eighty years old while toting your oxygen tank and wearing pastel slacks would never be a sport in his book.”
― J.D. Barker, The Fourth Monkey

“They eat trash and carry more diseases than a Kardashian at Mardi Gras,” Nash replied.”
― J.D. Barker, The Fourth Monkey

“which made for some epic selfies.”
― J.D. Barker, The Fourth Monkey

“We’re not thieves,” Father said.”
― J.D. Barker, The Fourth Monkey

“Women were perfectly capable of handling pain but not emotion. Men handled emotion but not pain. The differences were sometimes subtle, but they were there nonetheless.”
― J.D. Barker, The Fourth Monkey

“There it was again, that incessant ping. I turned the ringer off. Why am I hearing text notifications? Why am I hearing anything? Apple’s gone to shit without Steve Jobs.”
― J.D. Barker, The Fourth Monkey

“He loved TV Guide. He never watched television, didn’t need to—he got everything he needed from the magazine”
― J.D. Barker, The Fourth Monkey

“television had lost its luster when they canceled The Incredible Hulk in May of 1982.”
― J.D. Barker, The Fourth Monkey

“Mizaru means see no evil, Kikazaru means hear no evil, and Iwazaru means speak no evil.” Father”
― J.D. Barker, The Fourth Monkey

“Father once told me there was a sweet spot to life between the age of fifteen and sixty-five when you were fully visible to the world—any older and you fade from sight, dimming to obscurity. And”
― J.D. Barker, The Fourth Monkey