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" I was in love with her. And I never got over it and I never will.” He turned to look at Leaphorn. “Can you understand that?” “Perfectly,” Leaphorn said. He had never gotten over being in love with Emma—not with her being dead all these years. And he never would. “Then I’ll tell you something that’s even harder to understand. It turned out it was mutual. She loved me, too. Can you believe that?” “How did you know?” “All sorts of little things,” Denton said. He thought about it, nodded, and decided to explain. “You might think I’m pretty easy to fool, letting this McKay thing go as far as I did. But that wasn’t normal. It was because I want that Golden Calf so damn bad, and I was getting so frustrated with hunting it, I just quit thinking. But you don’t make money in the mineral lease racket without being skeptical, and if you ain’t to start with, you get that way damn quick. You leave your trust at home in the closet. Your basic idea is that everybody is out to skin you, and so "
― Tony Hillerman , The Wailing Wind (Leaphorn & Chee, #15)
