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21 " Everyone has to get their heart broken sometime, "
― R.J. Ellory , Mockingbird Songs
22 " Hindsight, ever the cruelest and most astute adviser "
― R.J. Ellory , Bad Signs
23 " One today is better than two tomorrows. "
― R.J. Ellory , Candlemoth
24 " Such things were just details, and details came long after the main body of a plan. "
25 " I want the same things as everyone else. Enough smarts to keep out of trouble, enough money to get what I want, enough time to enjoy it. "
26 " He had a view of life, a longer-term view, but present environment seemed so present that he rarely saw beyond the next meal. "
27 " I know you don’t agree,” Digger said, “but maybe it’s right to feel sore about people who have a lot of things. Like the more they have, the less there is for everyone else. "
28 " Seems to me that good things don’t come find you. They stay where they are and you have to go looking. And hell, if they don’t hide in the damnedest of places. "
29 " Clay knew that Digger would never threaten him, never hurt him. Nothing like that. It was not a concern for what Digger would do to him, but what could be taken away. Without Digger he would be adrift in this world. "
30 " Some kid laughed. Others laughed too. It was not so much the sense of ridicule that they found humorous, but the relief, that terrible instinctive reaction when you see some calamity ball another. A relief that it was not you. "
31 " I seen enough bad in men to know that they could never really have been created in his image,” he said. “Couldn’t have been. And most folks think one way, say another, and then act in a fashion that contradicts both. Don’t make sense to me. "
32 " Confidence was simply saying something you believed in. Trouble was that those with impressionable minds took certainty and self-belief as truth. "
33 " Those who lacked certainty took others’ certainties as truths, however deceitful and shallow they were. "
34 " De ellende met beïnvloedbare geesten is dat ze zekerheid en zelfvertrouwen aanvaarden als waarheid. Diggers geest was altijd flexibel geweest. Dat werd zijn ondergang. Degenen met gebrek aan zekerheid aanvaarden de zekerheid van anderen als de waarheid, hoe bedrieglijk en oppervlakkig ook.-Bekraste zielen, p. 48 "
35 " And the more questions he asked of himself, the less answers he seemed to find. "
36 " I’m not married. I do not own a business. I am still working for the same people that I was thirteen years ago, still selling the same shoes for the same feet. All I know is types and colors of leather, cordovan wing tips, loafers, dress shoes, and sandals. I eat the same things from the same places. I go to see a movie once a month. I smoke the same brand of cigarettes as I did when I started back in 1940. Everything about me is predictable, routine, and regular. Now I am not so predictable. Now I have something that is neither routine nor regular, and I kind of like it. "
37 " She loved old people with stories of youth, the sound of nibs on paper, the inky smell of new books, the rumble of three or four bass fiddles playing in unison. "
38 " La solitude est une drogue, un narcotique; elle se répand dans les veines, dans les nerfs et les muscles; elle s'arroge le droit de posséder votre corps et votre esprit. L'isolement et la solitude sont des murs. "
― R.J. Ellory , A Quiet Belief in Angels
39 " After a shock of such magnitude, some found solace in silence and solitude. Others craved noise and people, as if the insignificant collisions of smaller lives would be sufficient to distract them from their pain.Bailey sought neither solitude nor noise. She sought understanding, but did not find it. "
40 " The thing Clay saw, the thing he now understood, was that the darkness of man was not an illusion. Men and women – the bold and the brave, the anxious, the timid, the poor, the wealthy, the sincere and the shallow – all hoped that evil was an illusion, but it was not. "