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1 " And I suppose that what I have learned is a lesson that the years, or self-concern, had begun to hide from me, namely, that the bravest and most loyal and loving people in the world seldom have heroic physical characteristics or the auras of saints. In fact, their faces are like those of people whom you might randomly pull out of a supermarket line, their physical makeup so nondescript and unremarkable that it's hard to remember what they look like ten minutes after they walk out of a room. "
― James Lee Burke , A Morning for Flamingos (Dave Robicheaux #4)
2 " In a half hour I could kick open a furnace door and fling into the flames all the snakes and squeaking bats that lived inside me. Except the next morning they would writhe with new life in the ashes and come back home, stinking and hungry. "
3 " I don’t try to correct yesterday’s mistakes in the present. I mark them off. I truly mark them off. A person hurts me only once. "
4 " Pretty damn boring to be a spectator in your own life. "
5 " it can reach a murderous intensity within minutes over a betrayed trust, a lie, a wrong against a family member. "
6 " When you love somebody, you give up making decisions just for yourself. "
7 " We get hurt worse by the people whom we care about. And they seldom mean to do it. That’s what makes it so painful, kiddo. "
8 " So that’s how to the dark tower I came. "
9 " I could feel myself slipping inside that dark alcoholic envelope of depression and regret that for long periods had been characteristic of my adult life. "
