The Locals Quotes

“Mark watched him through the window; he climbed into the black SUV—the driver’s side—and rolled out of the lot. A tad bit full of himself, Mark thought. But clients’ egos could be gold mines. And there was something else about Hadi specifically—an obliviousness, like an anti-charisma—that Mark felt paradoxically drawn to as well. These were the guys who ruled the world. They didn’t care what anybody thought of them. Maybe that was part of what separated Mark from that class of man: he knew he lacked a certain ruthlessness, but maybe it was even simpler than that, maybe he just put too much stock in the idea that everybody had to like him.”
― Jonathan Dee, The Locals

“wanted to be changed, but change was very hard, so hard that even one of the major events in the history of the entire world was ultimately no match for the pettiness and impatience inside you, the mundane frustrations that ruled your average day, the tiny, aggravating reflexes that at some indeterminate point had just made your life what it was doomed to be.”
― Jonathan Dee, The Locals