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41 " But how could he stop being what he was? However much he cared for her, however much he wanted to be with her, however much he wanted her to be happy, how could he become someone he wasn't? "
― John Verdon , Think of a Number (Dave Gurney, #1)
42 " He knew how isolated he could become and hardly notice it was happening. How relationships could slip away like smoke in the breeze. How easily he could sink into himself. How natural and benign his isolating obsessions could seem. "
― John Verdon , Let the Devil Sleep (Dave Gurney, #3)
43 " Sherlock Holmes, "İmkansız olanı elerseniz,elimizde kalan ne kadar mümkün görünmese de doğrudur," derdi. "
44 " Whenever you’re disturbed, try to identify the fear beneath the disturbance. The root is always fear, and unless we face it, we tend to act badly. "
45 " Çocuğunu arkadaşlarını dövmemesini öğretmek için döven baba aslında ona dövmeyi öğretmektedir. "
46 " The truth was that a complex murder case attracted his attention and curiosity like nothing else on earth. He could make up reasons for it. He could say it was all about justice. About rectifying an imbalance in the scheme of things. About standing up for those who had been struck down. About a quest for truth. But there were other times when he considered it nothing but high-stakes puzzle-solving, an obsessive-compulsive drive to fit all the loose pieces together. An intellectual game, a contest of mind and will. A playing field on which he could excel. "
― John Verdon , Peter Pan Must Die (Dave Gurney, #4)
47 " Carl politika için yaratılmış bir adamdı. Melek gibi gülümserdi ama ruhunu şeytana satmıştı. "
48 " Normally the thought that someone had paid seventy-five thousand dollars to ride around in a giant toaster would have made him smile. "
49 " At times like this he always recalled, uneasily, that everyone on earth at a particular latitude sees the same stars in the sky. But no two cultures see the same constellations. He’d seen evidence of the phenomenon again and again: The patterns we perceive are determined by the stories we want to believe. "
― John Verdon
50 " He was actually quite fond of discrepancies because his experience told him that they eventually provided a window into the truth. "
― John Verdon , Shut Your Eyes Tight (Dave Gurney, #2)
51 " That boulder is your image of yourself, who you think you are. The person you think you are is keeping the person you really are locked up without light or food or friends. The person you think you are has been trying to murder the person you really are for as long as you both have lived. "
52 " El conflicto más simple es el conflicto entre la forma en que nos vemos nosotros mismos y la forma en que nos ven los demás. Por ejemplo, si estamos discutiendo y tú me gritas, vería la causa en tu incapacidad de controlar tu temperamento. En cambio, si yo te grito a ti, no veré la causa en mi temperamento, sino en tu provocación, algo en ti frente a lo cual mi grito es una respuesta apropiada. "
53 " Coincidences do occur, David. That’s why the word exists. "
54 " no son las mentiras que nos cuenta la gente las que nos hacen verdadero daño. Son las mentiras que nos contamos nosotros mismos, las que estamos desesperados por creer. "
― John Verdon , Wolf Lake (Dave Gurney, #5)
55 " —Conseguir un objetivo depende menos de superar obstáculos externos que de eliminar los internos: "
56 " Still later, perhaps to keep a flood of worries at bay, she read a chapter of Moby-Dick aloud to him—both pleased and perplexed by what she continued to refer to as “the most peculiar book I’ve ever read. "
57 " El problema con los ojos radicaba en que éstos, más que ninguna otra de las facciones de la cara, captaban la tensión, la contradicción: la indiferencia reservada, salpicada con una pizca de crueldad, que Gurney había discernido con frecuencia en los rostros de los asesinos con los que había tenido la oportunidad de pasar a tiempo a solas. "
58 " The fact that no one was dead persuaded him that he was on the right track "
59 " Eso es lo que tiene el alcohol: cuando te emborrachas tanto como lo hice yo, pierdes el miedo a las consecuencias. Tu percepción se deforma, tus inhibiciones desaparecen, tu memoria se apaga, y actúas por impulso: instinto sin control. "
60 " En esos sueños veía con una claridad que superaba las palabras que el pozo de tristeza era pérdida, y la mayor pérdida de todas era la pérdida de amor. "