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Bad Signs QUOTES

Bad Signs QUOTES

1 " His heart was too heavy to bear. He felt the weight of conscience, the weight of responsibility, the weight of fraternity. "

― R.J. Ellory , Bad Signs

2 " Sometimes it feels like life is there to teach you as many things about hurting as it can. That may be true. You can experience all the trouble you want, but that don’t mean you have to spend all your time thinking about it. Bad memories have long shadows. Spend the rest of your life inside of them and you never get warm. "

― R.J. Ellory , Bad Signs

3 " Even the most irrational mind has a rationale. "

― R.J. Ellory , Bad Signs

4 " Well, those thoughts are just the variety you should never think. You just put up a sign someplace in your head and you never let them in, okay?” He said it with certainty, and he said it with some degree of conviction in his voice, but all three of them knew that it was not always how you wanted it to be. Sometimes those things just found a way right on in, and once they were in you were done. "

― R.J. Ellory , Bad Signs

5 " I think he killed someone already. Capital offense an’ all that.”
Bailey tilted her head to one side. “That’s something that never made sense to me,” she said.
“What?”
“The death penalty. I mean, how does killing someone prove that killing people is wrong? "

― R.J. Ellory , Bad Signs

6 " Hindsight, ever the cruelest and most astute adviser "

― R.J. Ellory , Bad Signs

7 " Such things were just details, and details came long after the main body of a plan. "

― R.J. Ellory , Bad Signs

8 " I want the same things as everyone else. Enough smarts to keep out of trouble, enough money to get what I want, enough time to enjoy it. "

― R.J. Ellory , Bad Signs

9 " He had a view of life, a longer-term view, but present environment seemed so present that he rarely saw beyond the next meal. "

― R.J. Ellory , Bad Signs

10 " I know you don’t agree,” Digger said, “but maybe it’s right to feel sore about people who have a lot of things. Like the more they have, the less there is for everyone else. "

― R.J. Ellory , Bad Signs

11 " Seems to me that good things don’t come find you. They stay where they are and you have to go looking. And hell, if they don’t hide in the damnedest of places. "

― R.J. Ellory , Bad Signs

12 " Clay knew that Digger would never threaten him, never hurt him. Nothing like that. It was not a concern for what Digger would do to him, but what could be taken away. Without Digger he would be adrift in this world. "

― R.J. Ellory , Bad Signs

13 " Some kid laughed. Others laughed too. It was not so much the sense of ridicule that they found humorous, but the relief, that terrible instinctive reaction when you see some calamity ball another. A relief that it was not you. "

― R.J. Ellory , Bad Signs

14 " I seen enough bad in men to know that they could never really have been created in his image,” he said. “Couldn’t have been. And most folks think one way, say another, and then act in a fashion that contradicts both. Don’t make sense to me. "

― R.J. Ellory , Bad Signs

15 " Confidence was simply saying something you believed in. Trouble was that those with impressionable minds took certainty and self-belief as truth. "

― R.J. Ellory , Bad Signs

16 " Those who lacked certainty took others’ certainties as truths, however deceitful and shallow they were. "

― R.J. Ellory , Bad Signs

17 " De ellende met beïnvloedbare geesten is dat ze zekerheid en zelfvertrouwen aanvaarden als waarheid. Diggers geest was altijd flexibel geweest. Dat werd zijn ondergang. Degenen met gebrek aan zekerheid aanvaarden de zekerheid van anderen als de waarheid, hoe bedrieglijk en oppervlakkig ook.
-Bekraste zielen, p. 48 "

― R.J. Ellory , Bad Signs

18 " And the more questions he asked of himself, the less answers he seemed to find. "

― R.J. Ellory , Bad Signs

19 " I’m not married. I do not own a business. I am still working for the same people that I was thirteen years ago, still selling the same shoes for the same feet. All I know is types and colors of leather, cordovan wing tips, loafers, dress shoes, and sandals. I eat the same things from the same places. I go to see a movie once a month. I smoke the same brand of cigarettes as I did when I started back in 1940. Everything about me is predictable, routine, and regular. Now I am not so predictable. Now I have something that is neither routine nor regular, and I kind of like it. "

― R.J. Ellory , Bad Signs

20 " She loved old people with stories of youth, the sound of nibs on paper, the inky smell of new books, the rumble of three or four bass fiddles playing in unison. "

― R.J. Ellory , Bad Signs