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21 " a horribly protracted death that would stretch into the indefinite future, a death not in one month or two or even three but one that might go on and on, with the whole process of dying getting worse every single day for years and years and years. "
― Thomas H. Cook , Sandrine's Case
22 " Not to relive it as it actually was, however, but as I would have it be, knowing all that I have since come to know. It is a dream of reaching back into the past and erasing some circumstance or making some small adjustment that will alter the course of our lives forever, and as time moves forward and mistake piles upon mistake, it becomes the deepest longing that we know. "
― Thomas H. Cook , Breakheart Hill
23 " Reality has a way of summoning the shadows,” I tell him. Fareem laughs his worldly laugh. “Is that the "
― Thomas H. Cook , A Dancer in the Dust
24 " There are mysteries in science, and mysteries in art, but the greatest mystery has always been another person's deepest motivation. "
25 " We are taught to speak with courtesy to strangers,” Farouk went on. “For we do not know the evil or the good that may be in such a person’s heart.” The "
― Thomas H. Cook , Night Secrets (Frank Clemons, #3)
26 " She seemed to be gathering something from it, my mother’s thoughts and memories, as if such things lay like a film of dust upon the objects we left behind. "
― Thomas H. Cook , Places in the Dark
27 " I do three weeks at the Hall of Justice Jail. It's a potent crime primer. I'm the geek that all the pro thugs disdain. I observe them up close. It's the '60s. It's social-grievance-as-justification-for-bad-actions time. My cellmates have sadness raps down. I gain a notch on my crime-as-continuing-circumstance notion. Crime is large-scale individual moral default.That means you, motherfucker. "
― Thomas H. Cook , The Best American Crime Writing 2005