Braziliada Quotes

“You know, painting has a healing power for me. When I do it, I feel my anger, fear, and all these bad thoughts burning me inside ceasing, and I feel like I belong to this world and am loved by it and I deserve to walk under the sun and moon, and…”
― Sheridan West, Braziliada: International Crime Mystery

“The sad truth about the world is that people tend to sympathize with the strong one, not the innocent one. They believe in higher justice, in laws of karma, in ‘no smoke without fire,’ and whatever other balderdash they can come up with to deal with the bare truth that good and bad luck are simply a roll of the dice and there’s no greater meaning behind it… So if you let yourself get arrested, nobody would think that you did it because you were too conscientious to use your resources for evading arrest.”
― Sheridan West, Braziliada: International Crime Mystery

“A trickle of blood slowly ran down her breast, and her first thought was that her beautiful, expensive dress would be damaged. Then a new, devastating thought struck her: Never mind the dress. I am going to be damaged or even killed right now, in this pretty blue dress, in the bloom of my youth.”
― Sheridan West, Braziliada: International Crime Mystery