Innocent Quotes

“After a week, it's better. I miss her. I mourn her. But some peace has returned. She had been so unattainable - so young, so much a citizen of a different era - that it is hard to feel fully deprived.”
― Scott Turow, Innocent

“The joke was thinking you were ever really in charge of your life. You pressed your oar down into the water to direct the canoe, but it was the current that shot you through the rapids. You just hung on and hoped not to hit a rock or a whirlpool.”
― Scott Turow, Innocent

“Anna is part of a generation that often seems frozen in place by their unreleting sense of irony. Virtually everything people believe in can be exposed as possessing laughable inconsistencies. And so they laugh. And stand still.”
― Scott Turow, Innocent

“A grudge was a badge of the dishonest, who could not face the truth, including a truth that was unflattering”
― Scott Turow, Innocent

“Forty hit me like a ton of bricks: the onset of middle age. And with sixty, I know full well that the curtain is rising on the final act.”
― Scott Turow, Innocent

“Guilt is a commando who arrives in stealth and then sabotages everything.”
― Scott Turow, Innocent