Known to Evil Quotes

“I'm just a survivor from the train wreck of the modern world.”
― Walter Mosley, Known to Evil

“It was mid-November 2008. There were pirates taking ships with impunity in African waters, terrorists punching holes in Indian security, China sinking towards depression because Americans were afraid to buy cheap goods for Christmas, and the richest nation in the history of the world was talking about how to keep a budget.”
― Walter Mosley, Known to Evil

“Where do you have her?” “You know that private cemetery in Hicksville?” “Yeah.” “Show up at the gate after the sun rises and I’ll buzz you in.”
― Walter Mosley, Known to Evil

“Her name was Alana Ash, and she was everything a happily married man could want in a prostitute.”
― Walter Mosley, Known to Evil

“So I got up, went down to the number 1 train, and rode in a car full to brimming over with commuters going from the jobs that they didn’t want back to the lives they hadn’t bargained for.”
― Walter Mosley, Known to Evil

“When you hit your fifties life starts comin’ up on ya fast,” Gordo Tallman said to me on the occasion of my forty-ninth birthday. “Before that time life is pretty much a straight climb. Wife looks up to you and the young kids are small enough, and the older kids smart enough, not to weigh you down. But then, just when you start puttin’ on the pounds an’ losin’ your wind, the kids’re expectin’ you to fulfill your promises and the wife all of a sudden sees every single one of your flaws. Your parents, if you still got any, are gettin’ old and turnin’ back into kids themselves. For the first time you realize that the sky does have a limit. You comin’ to a rise, but when you hit the top there’s another life up ahead of you and here you are—just about spent.”
― Walter Mosley, Known to Evil

“don’t like getting calls from lawyers. Just hearing Lewis’s name, I shuddered and shrank. And this is in response to my own attorney”
― Walter Mosley, Known to Evil

“wealth”
― Walter Mosley, Known to Evil