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41 " The fall could have taken her all the way down, so deep she would not have come back the same or even close. He was going to pound her into the dark and leave her there.… "
― John Hart , Redemption Road
42 " This man knocked on the wrong door.” A perfect silence, Hunt’s heart swelling with respect. “This man died looking for his daughter. "
― John Hart , The Last Child (Johnny Merrimon, #1)
43 " for a fallen soul, an act of wrong could, at time, feel very right, and that scared the hell out of me. "
― John Hart , The King of Lies
44 " I left, heavy with the words she refused to let me say. "
45 " Nothing was made before me but eternal things, And I endure eternally. The voice belonged to X. Jason was home, indeed. "
― John Hart , The Unwilling
46 " Then let me tell you a thing I’ve learned in my eighty-nine years. This house, the friends and memories—I’d trade it all for a chance to do what that young woman just did: a noble act, freely undertaken. How many of us have such a chance? And how many the courage to take it? "
47 " he was a little dark, a little private, Hunt was okay "
48 " An old man was dying, and when he was dead, they would come for Michael; and they would come for her, to make Michael hurt. Elena knew none of this, neither the things of which he was capable nor the danger he'd brought to her door; but Michael would go to hell to keep her safe.Go to hell.Come back burning. "
― John Hart , Iron House
49 " bereft. I leave this letter in hopes you’ll discover it when you "
50 " She wore peacefulness as if it were a blanket she’d decided to wrap around her shoulders. "
51 " Cuando alguien le preguntaba porque era tan diferente, porque se mostraba tan reposado y porque sus ojos parecían como si absorbiesen la luz, siempre contestaba lo mismo. Se dio cuenta muy pronto que no había ningún lugar seguro; ni el jardín trasero, ni el parque, ni el porche de la entrada o la calle tranquila que bordeaba un extremo de la ciudad. No había ningún lugar seguro ni nadie que le protegiese.La infancia era una ilusión. "
― John Hart
52 " I wondered if there was any of that boy left in me, or had the cancer, indeed, eaten him all away? "
― John Hart , Down River
53 " We the unwilling, led by the unqualified to kill the unfortunate, die for the ungrateful. "
54 " War is personal, kid. You’re surrounded by other soldiers, but you’re fundamentally alone. Every combat soldier will tell you the same. You pull the trigger, and a man dies. You paint a tree with his brains or spill his guts out in the mud. The how of it don’t signify, except in the nightmares, maybe, or what you see in the mirror first time you find the courage to look. "
55 " New York had taught me about hard stone, narrowness, and gray shadow. "
56 " After a moment, the void gathered itself into a low-ceilinged, dim space with sconces in the walls, a stairwell to the left, and closet doors broken from their hinges. "
57 " Nothing felt certain, so I made a choice. Hope, I decided. I would wake to a sense of hope. I "
58 " not everyone could walk into the dark and make the hard choice. "
59 " What had been concrete one day proved sand the next; strength was illusion; faith meant shit. So what? So his once-bright world had devolved to cold, wet fog. That was life, the new order. Johnny had nothing to trust but himself, so that’s the way he rolled—his path, his choices, and no looking back. "
60 " God did not care about people in pain. Not the little ones. There was no such thing as justice, retribution, or community; neighbors did not help neighbors and the meek would not inherit the earth. All of that was bullshit. The church, the cops, his mother—none of them could make it right, none of them had the power. For a year, Johnny had lived the new, brutal truth that he was on his own. "