The Goodbye Man Quotes

“He—it’s usually a man—has a consuming ego, attacks his enemies, lashes out in anger, has an absolute belief that he’s correct, won’t listen to advice or criticism, is paranoid and craves worship and adulation.”
― Jeffery Deaver, The Goodbye Man

“Trying to outrun the blues, I guess. Sometimes I do, sometimes I don’t.”
― Jeffery Deaver, The Goodbye Man

“I borrow my test from a book by Margaret Singer and Janja Lalich, Cults in Our Midst. For them, a cult, one, controls the environment of the followers; two, has a system of rewards and punishments; three, creates a sense of powerlessness among the followers; four, uses fear for control; five, promotes dependency on the leader or cult; and, six, has a mission to reform followers’ behaviors. “There’s another element too: nearly every cult is headed by a single controlling leader. He—it’s usually a man—has a consuming ego, attacks his enemies, lashes out in anger, has an absolute belief that he’s correct, won’t listen to advice or criticism, is paranoid and craves worship and adulation.”
― Jeffery Deaver, The Goodbye Man

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― Jeffery Deaver, The Goodbye Man

“Never underestimate the power, for good and bad, of religion.”
― Jeffery Deaver, The Goodbye Man

“You okay?” “The worst movie line ever written,” Victoria replied.”
― Jeffery Deaver, The Goodbye Man

“nearly every cult is headed by a single controlling leader. He—it’s usually a man—has a consuming ego, attacks his enemies, lashes out in anger, has an absolute belief that he’s correct, won’t listen to advice or criticism, is paranoid and craves worship and adulation.”
― Jeffery Deaver, The Goodbye Man

“There’s another element too: nearly every cult is headed by a single controlling leader. He—it’s usually a man—has a consuming ego, attacks his enemies, lashes out in anger, has an absolute belief that he’s correct, won’t listen to advice or criticism, is paranoid and craves worship and adulation.”
― Jeffery Deaver, The Goodbye Man

“The Winnebago motored past working and long-abandoned factories devoted to manufacturing vessels and the countless parts and accessories with which ships were outfitted. To Colter Shaw, never a sailor, it seemed like you could spend every minute of every day maintaining, repairing, polishing and organizing a boat without ever going out to sea.”
― Jeffery Deaver, The Goodbye Man

“The smoke of death wafted everywhere around him, constantly. But it wasn’t that finality that troubled him. In death, you had no reckoning. Far worse would be a catastrophic injury to the spine, to the eyes, the ears. Crippling his body, darkening the world or muting it forever.”
― Jeffery Deaver, The Goodbye Man