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Feast Day of Fools (Hackberry Holland, #3) QUOTES

Feast Day of Fools (Hackberry Holland, #3) QUOTES

1 " Hackberry Holland's greatest fear was his fellow man's propensity to act collectively, in militaristic lockstep, under the banner of God and country. Mobs did not rush across town to do good deeds, and in Hackberry's view, there was no more odious taint on any social or political endeavor than universal approval. "

― James Lee Burke , Feast Day of Fools (Hackberry Holland, #3)

2 " Hackberry tried to convince himself that Collins was dead, his body long ago eaten by coyotes or lost inside the bowels of the earth. Regardless, Hackberry told himself, Collins belonged in the past or the place in the collective unconscious where most demons had their origins. If evil was actually a separate and self-sustaining entity, he thought, its manifestation was in the nationalistic wars that not only produced the greatest suffering but always became lionized as patriotic events. "

― James Lee Burke , Feast Day of Fools (Hackberry Holland, #3)

3 " documented in a security file was of no concern to him. The fact that a man like Joe Tex could have access to it "

― James Lee Burke , Feast Day of Fools (Hackberry Holland, #3)

4 " Wars of enormous importance are fought in places nobody cares about. "

― James Lee Burke , Feast Day of Fools (Hackberry Holland, #3)

5 " Sometimes if you listen, you can hear the earth stop, like it's waiting for you to catch up with it. Like it's your friend and it wants you to be at peace with it. "

― James Lee Burke , Feast Day of Fools (Hackberry Holland, #3)

6 " But a line sergeant told me something I never forgot. ‘Don’t think about it before it happens, and don’t think about it when it’s over. "

― James Lee Burke , Feast Day of Fools (Hackberry Holland, #3)

7 " But as John Steinbeck had said long ago, we had come to fear a man with a hole in his shoe. "

― James Lee Burke , Feast Day of Fools (Hackberry Holland, #3)

8 " Instead, he lived inside his loneliness "

― James Lee Burke , Feast Day of Fools (Hackberry Holland, #3)

9 " his motor control still functioned but his soul went somewhere else. "

― James Lee Burke , Feast Day of Fools (Hackberry Holland, #3)

10 " just another gargoyle that took up temporary residence in Danny Boy’s dreams and went away. “Some people say insomnia is a disorder. "

― James Lee Burke , Feast Day of Fools (Hackberry Holland, #3)

11 " Mexico was not a country, Krill thought. It was a revolution that had never stopped. "

― James Lee Burke , Feast Day of Fools (Hackberry Holland, #3)

12 " Pray that liars aren’t kept a long time in purgatory "

― James Lee Burke , Feast Day of Fools (Hackberry Holland, #3)

13 " He knows things don’t happen in order, like past, present, and future. "

― James Lee Burke , Feast Day of Fools (Hackberry Holland, #3)

14 " They seemed to have the coloration and texture of the rubber in a pencil eraser. They "

― James Lee Burke , Feast Day of Fools (Hackberry Holland, #3)

15 " Hackberry Holland’s greatest fear was his fellow man’s propensity to act collectively, in militaristic lockstep, under the banner of God and country. Mobs did not rush across town to do good deeds, and in Hackberry’s view, there was no more odious taint on any social or political endeavor than universal approval. "

― James Lee Burke , Feast Day of Fools (Hackberry Holland, #3)