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21 " I didn't much believe in god and the things people labeled as miracles did little to convince me otherwise, but it was at times like these that made me consider which was the more cruel: a cold and random universe or a god with a perverse sense of humor? With all due respect to Blaise Pascal, I chose to believe that no god was better than a cruel one. "
― Reed Farrel Coleman , Gun Church
22 " Retired people don’t so much die as they let themselves fall asleep a bit at a time. They become passive and inactive and they forget they’re alive. "
― Reed Farrel Coleman , The James Deans (Moe Prager, #3)
23 " and moved on, working with the selectmen or mayors because it was better for "
― Reed Farrel Coleman , Robert B. Parker's The Hangman's Sonnet (Jesse Stone, #16)
24 " In his years as a street cop, homicide detective, and police chief, Jesse thought he had learned his lesson about hope. He knew better than most just how little purchase hope ever really has. -Jesse Stone "
― Reed Farrel Coleman , Robert B. Parker's The Devil Wins (Jesse Stone, #14)
25 " Snowmen tipsy from thaw and refreezing marked my progress as I rolled slowly down Hanover Street. "
― Reed Farrel Coleman , Walking the Perfect Square (Moe Prager #1)
26 " I learned to love reading again, but a lot of the time the books made me ache worse. When I was in school I didn't realize that most fiction was about death and regret. About things people wished they had or hadn't said, done or hadn't done and how, for whatever reasons, saying or not saying, doing or not doing had buried them alive. I was already too familiar with that feeling to want to read much more about it. Lately I was sticking to nonfiction. "
― Reed Farrel Coleman
27 " I hope they have those little hot dogs. It's not a party without the little hot dogs. "