Rain Gods Quotes

“Every third night a commitee holds a meeting in my head.”
― James Lee Burke, Rain Gods

“But the rain gods went away. They ain’t coming back, either.” “How do you know that?” “They got no reason to. We don’t believe in them no more.”
― James Lee Burke, Rain Gods

“his claim that he was a descendant of perhaps the greatest military strategist in American history,”
― James Lee Burke, Rain Gods

“What about the rights and safety of the citizenry?” “You know what the Catholic theological definition of a lie is? To deny others access to knowledge to which they’re entitled.” “I think this place is an open-air mental asylum.”
― James Lee Burke, Rain Gods

“I’ll have to share some of this with Junior’s wife.” “Why?” “Because they have a right to know,” Hackberry said.”
― James Lee Burke, Rain Gods

“Fear, the acronym for “fuck everything and run,” he”
― James Lee Burke, Rain Gods

“Cassandra had been given knowledge of the future and simultaneously condemned to a lifetime of being disbelieved and rejected. The wearisome preoccupation of the elderly—namely, the conviction that they had already seen the show but could never pass on the lessons they had learned from it—was not unlike Cassandra’s burden, except the anger and bitterness of old people was not the stuff of Homeric epics.”
― James Lee Burke, Rain Gods

“The collapse of the economy, the systemic spread of fear, the threat of imagined foreign adversaries would probably be enough to pull it off. But one way or another”
― James Lee Burke, Rain Gods

“I also figuredd out that what we call our destiny is usually determined by two or three casual decision which on the surface seem about as important as spitting your gum through a sewer grate.”
― James Lee Burke, Rain Gods