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Shut Your Eyes Tight (Dave Gurney, #2) QUOTES

Shut Your Eyes Tight (Dave Gurney, #2) QUOTES

1 " The stories people tell you about themselves seem to retain the possibility of being false. But what you discover about them by yourself seems to be the truth. "

― John Verdon , Shut Your Eyes Tight (Dave Gurney, #2)

2 " A shrink once told me that an exception is a resentment waiting to be born. "

― John Verdon , Shut Your Eyes Tight (Dave Gurney, #2)

3 " ...o luto não é uma experiência que se vivencia uma vez e depois se segue em frente. A verdade é que o luto passa por uma pessoa em diferentes ondas separadas por períodos de entorpecimento, de esquecimento, de vida cotidiana. "

― John Verdon , Shut Your Eyes Tight (Dave Gurney, #2)

4 " La sociedad no parece dispuesta a aceptar la realidad de las depredadoras sexuales de la misma manera en que aceptamos la realidad de los hombres depredadores. "

― John Verdon , Shut Your Eyes Tight (Dave Gurney, #2)

5 " This case is complex. It's got layers to it, Davey. It's a fucking onion... You're a natural-born onion peeler -- the best that ever was. "

― John Verdon , Shut Your Eyes Tight (Dave Gurney, #2)

6 " A shrink once told me that an expectation is a resentment waiting to be born. "

― John Verdon , Shut Your Eyes Tight (Dave Gurney, #2)

7 " ...but grief, he'd discovered, was not an experience you went through once and then 'moved on' (as the idiotic popular phrase would have it). The truth was that it came over you in successive waves - waves separated by periods of numbness, periods of forgetfulness, periods of ordinary living. "

― John Verdon , Shut Your Eyes Tight (Dave Gurney, #2)

8 " They looked like linebackers on a prison football team, whose idea of commincation was to smash into something at full speed, preferably another person. "

― John Verdon , Shut Your Eyes Tight (Dave Gurney, #2)

9 " Sexual energy in general has tremendous power, the power to concentrate one's attention like nothing else, to become the sole reality, to warp judgement, to obliterate pain and the perception of risk. The power to make all other considerations irrelevant. There is no force on earth that comes close to it in its power to blind and drive the individual in its grip. "

― John Verdon , Shut Your Eyes Tight (Dave Gurney, #2)

10 " Era una sonrisa que podría hacer que un hombre creyera que la vida era buena. "

― John Verdon , Shut Your Eyes Tight (Dave Gurney, #2)

11 " Whatever it was that had drawn him to police work, that had wed him to the job for so many years, it surely wasn't the appeal of a gun or the deceptively simple solution it offers. "

― John Verdon , Shut Your Eyes Tight (Dave Gurney, #2)

12 " He was actually quite fond of discrepancies because his experience told him that they eventually provided a window into the truth. "

― John Verdon , Shut Your Eyes Tight (Dave Gurney, #2)

13 " Still later, perhaps to keep a flood of worries at bay, she read a chapter of Moby-Dick aloud to him—both pleased and perplexed by what she continued to refer to as “the most peculiar book I’ve ever read. "

― John Verdon , Shut Your Eyes Tight (Dave Gurney, #2)

14 " logran hacer un salto tan prodigioso? ¡Con bombas hidráulicas! Las válvulas de sus patas sueltan chorros de sangre a presión, haciendo que las patas se extiendan y las propulsen en el aire. Imaginad un depredador letal que cae sin previo aviso "

― John Verdon , Shut Your Eyes Tight (Dave Gurney, #2)

15 " —¿De verdad saltan? —Sí, de verdad. Pueden saltar cincuenta veces la longitud de su cuerpo. Es como si un hombre de un metro ochenta saltara la longitud de un campo de fútbol y lo sorprendente es que prácticamente no tienen músculos en las piernas. Así que, podríais "

― John Verdon , Shut Your Eyes Tight (Dave Gurney, #2)

16 " Puede que fuera un minuto o una hora. Dave no lo sabía. De lo que sí era plenamente consciente era de la sonrisa constante, perceptiva y encantadora de su mujer; la sonrisa que solo ella tenía. "

― John Verdon , Shut Your Eyes Tight (Dave Gurney, #2)

17 " Pasamos por alto las pruebas reales. Ese es el problema. Así es como funciona nuestra mente. Las historias nos encantan. Necesitamos creerlas. ¿Y sabes qué? La necesidad de creerlas puede ser nuestra perdición. "

― John Verdon , Shut Your Eyes Tight (Dave Gurney, #2)

18 " Solo recuerde, Dave, cuanto más poder crea que tiene sobre él, más fácil es que se desmonte. "

― John Verdon , Shut Your Eyes Tight (Dave Gurney, #2)

19 " Ningún hueso se quiebra de manera tan dolorosa como lo hace la ilusión de invulnerabilidad. "

― John Verdon , Shut Your Eyes Tight (Dave Gurney, #2)

20 " Sin embargo, compartían algo, algo en su forma de ver a la gente o lo que pasaba, una sensación de ironía compartida, una idea común de lo que era emotivo, de lo que era divertido, de lo que era bello, de lo que era honesto y de lo que era deshonesto. "

― John Verdon , Shut Your Eyes Tight (Dave Gurney, #2)