An Honest Man Quotes

“That you shouldn’t bury the past and you shouldn’t idealize it, that either approach was poison. You had to consider the past with clear eyes and a calm heart.”
― Michael Koryta, An Honest Man

“acknowledged, was that the world might not care if he was telling the truth. The public was less interested in real justice than in the clean, self-righteous satisfaction of immediate blame. They didn’t want the truth. The truth was complicated, messy, required something of them, maybe even an admission of their own fallibility. All the questioning and the listening and the thinking, so exhausting, who had the time? They just needed someone to hang.”
― Michael Koryta, An Honest Man