The Long Way Home Quotes

“(Y)ou should never let yourself get swept away by the crowd. Sometimes everyone you know can be saying something or believing something and it can just be dead wrong. All around you there might be people getting all excited or panicked and yelling for you to do the wrong thing or believe the wrong thing. They can make it very hard for you to refuse them or even just disagree with them out loud. People get angry at you when you disagree with them—especially when they're wrong—and nobody likes to be unpopular or have people angry at them. Sometimes it takes a lot of courage to use your reason and your heart and stand up for what's true”
― Andrew Klavan, The Long Way Home

“You think people don't know the difference between good and evil? Even evil people know the difference, Charlie, deep down, where they hide it from themselves. We're made that way at the factory, pal. It's how we find our way back.”
― Andrew Klavan, The Long Way Home

“But somehow, after you talked to her for a while, after you got to know her, she started to look really awesome. I thought so anyway. After you found out how warm she was, how kind, how interested she was in what other people had to say. It changed the way she looked . . . I don’t really know how to describe it.”
― Andrew Klavan, The Long Way Home

“Now, to me, this was a very interesting story. It was a reminder that you should never let yourself get swept away by the crowd. Sometimes everyone you know can be saying something or believing something and it can just be dead wrong. All around you there might be people getting all excited or panicked and yelling for you to do the”
― Andrew Klavan, The Long Way Home

“killer were right behind us. Now we were outside,”
― Andrew Klavan, The Long Way Home