Fallen Angel Quotes

“A conspiracy theory collapses at the point where it requires greater complexity than the official explanation.”
― Chris Brookmyre, Fallen Angel

“As a psychologist, he understood how much easier it is to fool people than to convince them they’ve been fooled: that it is possible to sell an enduring lie because once people invest enough of themselves in it, they will continue to believe, in the face of overwhelming contradictory evidence.”
― Chris Brookmyre, Fallen Angel

“Someone once said of alcohol that the crucial thing is to be getting more from it than it takes from you.”
― Chris Brookmyre, Fallen Angel

“She’ll deny all of it, and she’ll believe herself. In part of her mind, what’s about to happen to her will be some Kafkaesque inexplicable injustice. But there’s also a part that knows the truth, and that’s the part that murders lawyers and pushes people over cliffs. It’s called narcissistic rage. It’s what happens when something threatens to shatter the grandiose illusion a narcissist has of being perfect, always in the right, always in control.”
― Chris Brookmyre, Fallen Angel

“It’s called narcissistic rage. It’s what happens when something threatens to shatter the grandiose illusion a narcissist has of being perfect, always in the right, always in control.”
― Chris Brookmyre, Fallen Angel

“We should be wary of first impressions, because they can inform every subsequent impression. Once an idea has taken hold, particularly when it is an idea that gives comfort or security, or that reinforces our understanding of the world, it is very difficult to shift. We find it very difficult to believe something bad about a person we have already decided we like, or of whose behaviour or ideology we approve. And equally we find it very easy to believe something bad about someone when the values are reversed.”
― Chris Brookmyre, Fallen Angel

“Most powerfully, our fear of chaos leads us to crave narrative. We construct apparently coherent stories that tie things together, part of a greater scheme, an all-encompassing truth. These stories make sense according to the way we already understand the world, but that understanding is already a flawed attempt to impose a pattern upon chaos. Max Temple”
― Chris Brookmyre, Fallen Angel

“All her life she has been putting up walls because she thought they would protect her, but in the last few hours she has learned that hiding a truth only makes you its prisoner. Telling the truth makes you powerful. And among those powers is absolution.”
― Chris Brookmyre, Fallen Angel