" Everything he said seemed to be a judgment, an ultimatum, a handful of words from a sermon about fortitude, resilience, persistence, and unwillingness to quit. His slant was dark, pessimistic, but there was a sober level to it that Bailey found reassuring and practical. Emanuel Smith was a dreamer. He’d watched his dreams die, but that hadn’t changed his belief in the dreams. Like her father. He was dead, but that didn’t mean he’d never lived. "

― R.J. Ellory , Bad Signs