The Quiet Boy Quotes

“It never ceased to amaze Shenk that it was his brand of lawyering that was considered banditry, scorned as “ambulance chasing,” when men like Riggs could blamelessly hitch their wagons to multibillion-dollar companies like Wellbridge, whose business model was highly sophisticated bloodsucking: collect and collect and collect, and only pay when forced; when squeezed; when pushed to the wall by the heroic likes of Jay Shenk.”
― Ben H. Winters, The Quiet Boy

“The hat, paired with an artfully distressed sleeveless T-shirt, was a bid for attention disguised as a bid for anonymity.”
― Ben H. Winters, The Quiet Boy

“All the things that had been Theresa Pileggi-the bones and blood, the muscles and skin, the flesh and the molecules of the flesh-none of that disappeared in the moment of contact. All of it was in a box now, in the ground, and all that had died when the lamp hit the skull were the ideas; the thinking; the consciousness; what was gone had never literally physically existed to being with. the person was the mind, and the mind was gone, but it had never been here...”
― Ben H. Winters, The Quiet Boy

“No wonder we are a little frightened of our children, Beth thought. They are strange visitors from the future, emissaries from a world we will never see.”
― Ben H. Winters, The Quiet Boy