The Night Bird Quotes

“everything in life came down to memories. The good. The bad. The real. The imagined. Put them all together, and that was the person you were.”
― Brian Freeman, The Night Bird

“Once you saw someone die, you were never the same. A body always left its mark. Katie”
― Brian Freeman, The Night Bird

“However, memories—unlike reality—aren’t fixed. With every recollection, we reshape what we saw. Our memories of an event are influenced by how we want a situation to be, how we perceive our role in it, what people tell us, and even by what we hear or read about what took place. After a while, our brains can’t distinguish between reality and our reconstruction of reality.”
― Brian Freeman, The Night Bird

“Our memories of an event are influenced by how we want a situation to be,”
― Brian Freeman, The Night Bird

“You do what you have to do. You make the tough choices, because no one else will.”
― Brian Freeman, The Night Bird

“Don’t ask for help. Don’t need anyone else, because they won’t be there for you.”
― Brian Freeman, The Night Bird

“What chances are you willing to take to get what you want? What dangers do your choices create for other people?”
― Brian Freeman, The Night Bird

“My characterization influences your brain.”
― Brian Freeman, The Night Bird

“In other words, reality happens once, but memory happens over and over,”
― Brian Freeman, The Night Bird

“Someone’s praying for my soul again.” “Well, you and me need all the help we can get,” Virgil replied. “I figure I’m on the smite list if God gets bored.”
― Brian Freeman, The Night Bird

“It was too easy to follow the path you were on, rather than looking for cross-trails that might take you somewhere scary.”
― Brian Freeman, The Night Bird

“I told him I was sorry that the woman was gone, that it was brave of him to want to protect her, but there was nothing he could do anymore.”
― Brian Freeman, The Night Bird

“For the first time in a long time, she had nowhere to go and nothing to do. Her life was a white room. She felt like one of her patients who came out of her treatments and suddenly had an emptiness in their brain where something horrible had been. They’d faced their fears, but they always asked her what to do next. She told them: the hardest part is to start over by building something new.”
― Brian Freeman, The Night Bird

“The drunk Gen Xers danced fast, as if they were still young, but she knew they’d wake up, roll out of bed, and groan at the ache in their knees.”
― Brian Freeman, The Night Bird

“She told them: the hardest part is to start over by building something new.”
― Brian Freeman, The Night Bird

“You know what they say about psychiatrists, Frost. They only go into the business to find someone crazier than they are.”
― Brian Freeman, The Night Bird

“everything in life came down to memories. The good. The bad. The real. The imagined. Put them all together, and that was the person you were. Would you ever want to change that?”
― Brian Freeman, The Night Bird

“I remember things that I know are false, and I forget things that I know really happened.”
― Brian Freeman, The Night Bird

“Jason hadn’t made things better. Another man might have tried to crack her shell and draw her back to him. Jason didn’t. He buried himself in his lab and waited for her to fix herself.”
― Brian Freeman, The Night Bird

“His friend smiled. “You know what they say about psychiatrists, Frost. They only go into the business to find someone crazier than they are.”
― Brian Freeman, The Night Bird

“Some spyware programs have ambient listening features. They can turn on the microphone of your phone without you knowing it and without leaving any record.”
― Brian Freeman, The Night Bird

“was strange how you could live inside your skin and still see someone you didn’t know in the mirror. For”
― Brian Freeman, The Night Bird

“eyes.”
― Brian Freeman, The Night Bird

“No.” She bit her lip and played with her hair in a flirty way, but she wasn’t really good at flirting. He knew she was attracted to him. He liked her, too, but for different reasons. There was something real about her, and he met a lot of people in San Francisco who weren’t real at all. It didn’t matter what she said; he just liked listening to her talk. “What about you?” he asked. “What’s the Lucy Hagen story?” She blushed and looked away. “Oh, that’s a boring story.” “I doubt it. Everybody’s got a story. Did you grow up in the city?” “No. Out in Modesto. I went to SF State and wanted to stick around after college. Nobody was hiring business majors, so I applied at Macy’s. I had”
― Brian Freeman, The Night Bird

“Jess had pulled the trigger tonight. No cop did that without going through hell. It didn’t matter who was on the other end of the bullet.”
― Brian Freeman, The Night Bird

“Redbeard pirate look only worked for Ed Sheeran because he was Ed Sheeran.”
― Brian Freeman, The Night Bird

“Lock it down,”
― Brian Freeman, The Night Bird

“weirdness was the coin of the realm in San Francisco.”
― Brian Freeman, The Night Bird

“westbound lanes of the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge. Two hundred feet above the frigid waters off Yerba Buena Island, the car horns, bangs, and skids of a chain-reaction”
― Brian Freeman, The Night Bird

“radio blared”
― Brian Freeman, The Night Bird