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When the Thrill Is Gone (Leonid McGill, #3) QUOTES

When the Thrill Is Gone (Leonid McGill, #3) QUOTES

1 " Blood may be thicker than water, but family has them both beat. "

― Walter Mosley , When the Thrill Is Gone (Leonid McGill, #3)

2 " Many & most moments go by with us hardly aware of their passage. But love & hate & fear cause time to snag you, to drag you down like a spider's web holding fast to a doomed fly's wings. And when you're caught like that you're aware of every moment & movement & nuance. "

― Walter Mosley , When the Thrill Is Gone (Leonid McGill, #3)

3 " I gave my children the kind of dreams they could live by, but dreams are like oceans, Mr. McGill. If they’re worth a damn they’re bigger than the dreamer, and sometimes, when the one dreaming wants to be as big as what they imagine, the wave pulls’em down. "

― Walter Mosley , When the Thrill Is Gone (Leonid McGill, #3)

4 " He looked like a butler dressed by his four-year-old daughter—a mishmash of good intentions and ill design. And there I was, an unshaven, rumpled page of discarded poetry, extending a hand and smiling, no doubt wolfishly. "

― Walter Mosley , When the Thrill Is Gone (Leonid McGill, #3)