House of the Rising Sun (Hackberry Holland, #4) QUOTES

2 " People were not what they said. They were not what they thought. They were not what they promised. People were what they did. When the final tally was done, nothing else mattered. "

― James Lee Burke , House of the Rising Sun (Hackberry Holland, #4)

4 " Thinking at night isn’t good for anybody. "

― James Lee Burke , House of the Rising Sun (Hackberry Holland, #4)

6 " scullions "

― James Lee Burke , House of the Rising Sun (Hackberry Holland, #4)

8 " perdition, "

― James Lee Burke , House of the Rising Sun (Hackberry Holland, #4)

10 " solipsistic "

― James Lee Burke , House of the Rising Sun (Hackberry Holland, #4)

12 " busthead "

― James Lee Burke , House of the Rising Sun (Hackberry Holland, #4)

14 " THE SUN HAD just crested on the horizon like a misplaced planet, swollen and molten and red, lighting a landscape that seemed sculpted out of clay and soft stone and marked by the fossilized tracks of animals with no names, when a tall barefoot man wearing little more than rags dropped his horse’s reins and eased himself off the horse’s back and worked his way down an embankment into a riverbed chained with pools of water that glimmered as brightly as blood in the sunrise. "

― James Lee Burke , House of the Rising Sun (Hackberry Holland, #4)

16 " She wondered if this were what hell was about. Not a place of punishment but of disparity. Those who had done nothing to earn their fate lived like this, while three miles away, others rode the Ferris wheel and children raised their hands joyfully to a hot-air balloon that rained down candy on their heads. "

― James Lee Burke , House of the Rising Sun (Hackberry Holland, #4)

18 " Then an event happened that caused him to wonder at the great folly that seemed to govern his life, namely, his attempts to plan and control his future. Most of the events that changed his life had taken place without his consent and at the time had seemed of little consequence. Our destiny didn’t lie in the stars, he told himself, or even in our mettle. It lay in our ability to recognize a gift when it was placed in your hands. "

― James Lee Burke , House of the Rising Sun (Hackberry Holland, #4)

20 " How did a man know when it was his time? The answer was simple. There comes a moment when you no longer resist the inevitable and you accept the fact that billions have preceded you and that your death is not more important than theirs. "

― James Lee Burke , House of the Rising Sun (Hackberry Holland, #4)