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The Unquiet (Charlie Parker, #6) QUOTES

The Unquiet (Charlie Parker, #6) QUOTES

1 " Because to ignore what had happened in the recent and distant pasts, to turn away and look elsewhere because it was easier to do so, was to be an accomplice to the crimes that were committed. To refuse to delve deeper would be to collude with the offenders. "

― John Connolly , The Unquiet (Charlie Parker, #6)

2 " It has always seemed to me that there are two types of people in this world: those rendered impotent by the sheer weight of evil it contains, and who refuse to act because they see no point, and those who choose their battles and fight them to the end, as they understand that to do nothing is definitely worse than to do something and fail. --The Collector "

― John Connolly , The Unquiet (Charlie Parker, #6)

3 " The law doesn't require truth, only the appearance of it. Most cases simply rest on a version of it that's acceptable to both sides. You want to know the only truth is? Everybody lies.--Elwin Stark "

― John Connolly , The Unquiet (Charlie Parker, #6)

4 " This world is full of broken things: broken hearts, broken promises, broken people, "

― John Connolly , The Unquiet (Charlie Parker, #6)

5 " I am sorry," I whispered. "I am sorry for all of the ways that I failed you. I am sorry that I was not there to save you, or to die alongside you. I am sorry that I have kept you with me for so long, trapped in my heart, bound in sorrow and remorse. I forgive you too. I forgive you for leaving me, and I forgive you for returning. I forgive you your anger, and your grief. Let this be an end to it. "

― John Connolly , The Unquiet (Charlie Parker, #6)

6 " It was an overcast late November morning, the grass splintered by hoarfrost, and winter grinning through the gaps in the clouds like a bad clown peering through the curtains before the show begins. "

― John Connolly , The Unquiet (Charlie Parker, #6)

7 " This world is full of broken things: broken hearts, broken promises, broken people "

― John Connolly , The Unquiet (Charlie Parker, #6)

8 " Winston Churchill once said that you can judge a society by how it treats its prisoners. You know, there was all this stuff about Abu Ghraib and what we're doing to Muslims in Iraq and Guantanamo and in Afghanistan and wherever else we've decided to lock up those whom we perceive to be a threat. People seem surprised by it, but all they had to do was look around them. We do it to our own people. We try children as adults. We lock up, even execute, the mentally ill. And we tie people naked to chairs in ice-cold rooms because their medication isn't working. If we can do that here, then how the hell can anybody be surprised when we don't treat our enemies any better? ~Aimee Price "

― John Connolly , The Unquiet (Charlie Parker, #6)

9 " there were a lot of people out there who had no right to be carrying even a sharpened pencil, never mind a loaded weapon. "

― John Connolly , The Unquiet (Charlie Parker, #6)