The Destroyers Quotes

“analysts he pays to discover opportunities in ‘emerging markets,’ the best indicator is prostitutes.”
― Christopher Bollen, The Destroyers

“a scared kid hoping the goodness in others matches the goodness in him. Charlie can afford to be good. I’m beginning to think that duplicity is a necessity of hardship. “Real reasons,” he finally mutters. “Whatever those are.” I’ve never known Charlie to be worried about someone”
― Christopher Bollen, The Destroyers

“Europeans seemed so indifferent to their bodies, so resigned to and at peace with them. For her, the difference had become increasingly obvious: Europeans had a lifestyle; Americans had their lives.”
― Christopher Bollen, The Destroyers

“Charlie was still at the age where cheating seemed more an emblem of a dazzling personal life rather than a moral failing. He gave, as he always did, the conflicting impression of maturity and irresponsibility beneath an out-of-season tan.”
― Christopher Bollen, The Destroyers

“And the fear is not to discover one day that the world has no meaning, but that, in fact, it does. Every decision counted. Against your better judgment, all of it mattered, the steps and choices, the pauses and delays. That’s the real fear: the answerable life.”
― Christopher Bollen, The Destroyers