Th1rt3en Quotes

“The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist.”
― Steve Cavanagh, Thirteen

“You have to ignore the wreckage and look beyond it for the monster.”
― Steve Cavanagh, Th1rt3en

“Whatever good things you’ve heard about me probably aren’t true. Whatever bad things you’ve heard are probably just the tip of the iceberg,” I said.”
― Steve Cavanagh, Thirteen

“Words never weigh so much as when they’re spoken for somebody else.”
― Steve Cavanagh, Thirteen

“I think I'll stick around as a defense attorney for a while yet,' I said.
'Why? Look at all this has cost you, Eddie. Why do it?'
I wasn't even looking at Harry, but I could sense be already knew the answer.
'Because I can. Because I have to. Because there will always be the Art Pryors and Rudy Carps of this business. Somebody's gotta do the right thing.'
'It doesn't always have to be you,' said Harry.
'What if everyone said that? What if nobody stood up for anyone because they expected the other guy to do it? Somebody has to be standing on the other side of the line. And if I fall, somebody will have to come along and take my place. All I have to do is keep standing for as long as I can.”
― Steve Cavanagh, Th1rt3en

“THERE’S NO SUCH THING AS a bad case. Only a bad client. Judge Harry Ford, my mentor, had taught me that a long time ago. He’d been proven right. Time and time again. Sitting in a leather chair beside Bobby Solomon, I was reminded of Harry’s advice.”
― Steve Cavanagh, Thirteen

“She’d brought her stenotype machine in a portable bag and, judging by her expression, she was carrying around a big bag of resentment for being hauled out of her bed to come here at two in the morning.”
― Steve Cavanagh, Thirteen

“Walking past a person with dirt on their face, and no food, and no money, was part of everyday life in New York.”
― Steve Cavanagh, Thirteen

“I like the lighting in here. It’s … atmospheric,” said Rudy. The lighting was so atmospheric I had to use the glare from my cell phone screen just to read the menu. It was in French. I decided to order whatever Rudy was having and be done with it. The place made me uncomfortable. I didn’t like ordering from a menu that refused to display prices beside the food. Not my kind of place.”
― Steve Cavanagh, Thirteen

“The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist.”—from the motion picture screenplay The Usual Suspects, by Christopher McQuarrie”
― Steve Cavanagh, Thirteen

“Si haces algo con mucha frecuencia”
― Steve Cavanagh, 13

“¿Y si nadie se levantara en defensa de los demás esperando que otros lo hagan? Tiene que haber alguien al otro lado de la raya.”
― Steve Cavanagh, 13

“En el mundo de los policías corruptos, la mafia y prácticamente cualquier operación de crimen organizado, nada es más mortal que te detengan.”
― Steve Cavanagh, 13

“Las palabras nunca pesan tanto como cuando se dicen por otra persona.”
― Steve Cavanagh, 13

“nuestro subconsciente, el número tres equivale a una especie de verdad o hecho.”
― Steve Cavanagh, 13

“solo como recordatorio a los candidatos que se han presentado a servir como jurado: tal y como expliqué al principio, un acusado no tiene que demostrar nada. Si un acusado decide no testificar, está en su derecho. Ustedes no deben deducir nada de esa decisión.”
― Steve Cavanagh, 13

“The defense wants thinkers. The DA wants soldiers. But what each side really wants is a juror who makes up their own damn mind by listening to the lawyers and witnesses. A jury is meant to be a collection of free minds, diverse and representative of the people of that area.”
― Steve Cavanagh, Thirteen

“Kane couldn’t swear that it was real, but he thought he saw a green hue to the fire. Perhaps there was copper in the bottom of the barrel, or some chemical. It reminded him of Fitzgerald’s Gatsby, staring at the green light across the dark waters. The American dream. Unobtainable, and receding before him with every crackle of flame. Kane knew this dream. His mother talked about it. She strove for it all her life, and failed. Just like he did before he realized the truth. The American dream wasn’t money. It was freedom. True freedom.”
― Steve Cavanagh, Thirteen

“Kane couldn’t swear that it was real, but he thought he saw a green hue to the fire. Perhaps there was copper in the bottom of the barrel, or some chemical. It reminded him of Fitzgerald’s Gatsby, staring at the green light across the dark waters. The American dream. Unobtainable, and receding before him with every crackle of flame.”
― Steve Cavanagh, Thirteen

“A jury was a living, breathing thing. Sure, they were all individuals. Yet put them together and they became a beast.”
― Steve Cavanagh, Thirteen

“If God had a lobby I guessed it wouldn’t look too different from this one.”
― Steve Cavanagh, Thirteen

“country. We have a justice system that says that it is better that a hundred guilty men go free, than one innocent man goes to prison.”
― Steve Cavanagh, Thirteen

“The number three equates to some form of truth or fact in our subconscious. It is somehow divine. Jesus rose on the third day. The Holy Trinity. Third time lucky. Three strikes and you’re out.”
― Steve Cavanagh, Thirteen

“sad fact that innocent people get accused of crimes. Our justice system is built on it.”
― Steve Cavanagh, Thirteen

“I could tell Holten had the hots for Harper.”
― Steve Cavanagh, Thirteen

“Technically it’s only illegal if we get caught.”
― Steve Cavanagh, Thirteen

“In a criminal trial, forensic evidence is God. But I’m a defense attorney. I’ve got the devil on my side. And he doesn’t play fair.”
― Steve Cavanagh, Thirteen

“The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist.” —from the motion picture screenplay”
― Steve Cavanagh, Thirteen

“Guilt was a tattoo that weighed two hundred pounds.”
― Steve Cavanagh, Thirteen

“In a criminal trial, forensic evidence is God.”
― Steve Cavanagh, Thirteen