The Kill Clause Quotes

“He parked several blocks away and strolled around the corner. Chipped-stucco houses rose humbly behind cheap metal fences. Two kids with basketball players’ numbers shaved into the backs of their heads zipped past on elongated skateboards”
― Gregg Hurwitz, The Kill Clause

“Both sides of the street were lined with garment sellers’ stalls”
― Gregg Hurwitz, The Kill Clause

“We were all invincible once. And smarter.”
― Gregg Hurwitz, The Kill Clause

“They say it’s better for one hundred guilty men to go free than for one innocent man to be put to death. How long does that sententious bullshit bear weight? After the one hundred guilty men commit one hundred more murders? A thousand?” “No,” Tim said. “It holds weight when the one innocent man is you.”
― Gregg Hurwitz, The Kill Clause

“They say it’s better for one hundred guilty men to go free than for one innocent man to be put to death. How long does that sententious bullshit bear weight? After the one hundred guilty men commit one hundred more murders? A thousand?”
― Gregg Hurwitz, The Kill Clause

“They say the worst cynics are frustrated idealists,” Tim said.”
― Gregg Hurwitz, The Kill Clause

“It wears you down,” Robert said”
― Gregg Hurwitz, The Kill Clause

“I’ve learned not to expect much from life. If you never expect things to go right”
― Gregg Hurwitz, The Kill Clause

“When someone is mugged”
― Gregg Hurwitz, The Kill Clause

“Everyone thinks they can own justice, but you can’t.”
― Gregg Andrew Hurwitz, The Kill Clause

“You don’t ask why clarity comes, you just hope it does.” Tim”
― Gregg Hurwitz, The Kill Clause

“Expert witnesses are like whores, but more expensive.” Rayner”
― Gregg Hurwitz, The Kill Clause

“There was a cheapness to the killing; it lacked righteousness. It was like gaining a fortune through inheritance. Lane”
― Gregg Hurwitz, The Kill Clause

“Every time he thought he’d familiarized himself with its contours, grief surprised him; it was ever bountiful, ever yielding.”
― Gregg Hurwitz, The Kill Clause

“Never give up the personal—it will return as a weapon wielded against you. He”
― Gregg Hurwitz, The Kill Clause

“Tim felt like a buyer annoyed with the salesman’s pitch but still interested in the car.”
― Gregg Hurwitz, The Kill Clause

“Closure’s a sham invented by talk-show hosts and self-help authors.”
― Gregg Hurwitz, The Kill Clause

“The perforated men and the women with square heads left Tim with the strong impression that the government should stick to issuing budgets, not art. Frankie”
― Gregg Hurwitz, The Kill Clause

“In daylight her death had taken on a reality. It lived in the house with them, in the dust on the floors, the blankness of the ceilings, the soft, unanswered noises of his movement past her room. After”
― Gregg Hurwitz, The Kill Clause

“He didn’t just remember his grief, he relearned it.”
― Gregg Hurwitz, The Kill Clause

“•The next forty-eight hours passed tediously and painfully, like a jagged kidney stone.”
― Gregg Hurwitz, The Kill Clause