The Pale-Faced Lie Quotes

“Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will. Believe in yourself. Never quit.”
― David Crow, The Pale-Faced Lie

“No tie is as strong as family, making it the hardest one to break.”
― David Crow, The Pale-Faced Lie

“Be careful whenever everything is given to you,” Mr. Ashcroft said. “Because then you’ll be totally beholden to your masters.”
― David Crow, The Pale-Faced Lie

“After running from pursuers a good part of my life, I was used to hiding in the shadows. But now, I was trying to save myself from the ultimate bully, my murderous father.”
― David Crow, The Pale-Faced Lie

“There’s no reason for Christmas or gifts since there is no God,” Dad said. “Christ faked his death and tricked the Jews into accepting blame.” His head jerked, and he mumbled to himself. “Where’s the bastard now? Dead. And he’ll stay dead. Mary was no virgin. They nearly killed Joseph for knocking her up without marrying her. No one is saved. We just die. Rich people worship money, and poor people worship Jesus. It’s all they’ve got. The poor dumb bastards. Do-gooders pretend that giving gifts makes us better. It ain’t so.”
― David Crow, The Pale-Faced Lie

“No, my world wasn’t like that at all. “What about when someone does something nice and expects nothing in return?” “You’re stupid if you think they don’t expect something in return. No one gives something for nothing.” “Yeah? So what does someone get for covering up a murder?”
― David Crow, The Pale-Faced Lie

“New York Yankees: Mickey Mantle, Roger Maris, Clete Boyer, Bobby Richardson, Yogi Berra, and Whitey Ford. The Yankees were playing the San Francisco Giants in the 1962 World Series.”
― David Crow, The Pale-Faced Lie

“An even more blatant example of the government’s hypocrisy was their role in regulating alcohol. The politicians and bureaucrats pretended to care about alcoholism but allowed minors to drink with adults all day and all night. They just opened more jail cells and operated additional paddy wagons, letting the drunks back out in time for Sam and me to fire cherry bombs at them. As Dad said, “Half the PhDs in the country study Indian alcoholism, but nothing changes. No one in the government really gives a shit. They just want the tax revenue.”
― David Crow, The Pale-Faced Lie

“Then it came to me. The only way to be free was to forgive them—and forgive myself. It was advice I’d heard plenty of times, but on that day in the hotel, I was ready to do it. In an instant, I stopped expecting anything from them. Their approval, friendship, understanding, empathy, love. And I stopped believing that Dad, Mom, and Mona were right about me—or any of us. I didn’t want to carry around the burden of longing and guilt and shame anymore. I was done.”
― David Crow, The Pale-Faced Lie

“You can’t change your childhood, but you can let it go,” he said.”
― David Crow, The Pale-Faced Lie

“Watching him walk away, I made a solemn promise that my life’s work would be proving him wrong about me. I would become his exact opposite.”
― David Crow, The Pale-Faced Lie

“Her definition of love was obligation and guilt.”
― David Crow, The Pale-Faced Lie

“snot-nosed”
― David Crow, The Pale-Faced Lie

“College,”
― David Crow, The Pale-Faced Lie

“Her definition of love was obligation and guilt.”
― David Crow, The Pale-Faced Lie

“For the first time, I saw my behavior from someone else’s point of view.”
― David Crow, The Pale-Faced Lie

“Then it came to me. The only way to be free was to forgive them—and forgive myself.”
― David Crow, The Pale-Faced Lie

“Because you failed as a son and you’re not much of a man. How could someone as incompetent as you be in charge of anyone, much less me?”
― David Crow, The Pale-Faced Lie

“If ever there was a time to get out of Dad’s grasp, this was it. But I couldn’t seem to let go of him, even though he might very well destroy me—and soon. Maybe I wasn’t any different from Mom or Mona—or Caroline, for that matter. Certainly, I wasn’t any braver.”
― David Crow, The Pale-Faced Lie

“Her definition of love was obligation and guilt. It was the only love the Crow family had to offer.”
― David Crow, The Pale-Faced Lie

“Any hope that life would be better for us vanished. She and Dad were getting married the next weekend in Gallup with a one-night honeymoon in the Shalimar Hotel, where Dad and Vance had gone to meet Mexican women with tight asses.”
― David Crow, The Pale-Faced Lie

“It never worked. Missionaries were tighter than a tick when it came to money. Sometimes it took them a half hour to round up enough pennies to pay me.”
― David Crow, The Pale-Faced Lie

“But each day, the second we got home, Evelyn appeared. She was the first adult who truly loved me—she cared for me without wanting anything back. I knew that whatever happened, she’d be on my side.”
― David Crow, The Pale-Faced Lie

“If there was a God, he must have sent this angel of a woman to us. For the first time in forever, a blanket of calm fell over the house.”
― David Crow, The Pale-Faced Lie

“He’s a moocher, lazy-ass, shiftless, alcoholic son of a bitch who stole money from me and some of my clothes. I’ll kill him if he comes back.”
― David Crow, The Pale-Faced Lie

“Dad”
― David Crow, The Pale-Faced Lie