26 quotes found
“They won the war but lost the peace,”
“Revenge is an infection of the spirit.”
“He's a ghost, not a carnival magician.-Benny Imura”
“Everyone carries around his own monsters.---Richard Pryor”
“Reporters trade in pain. It sells papers. Everyone knows that.”
“Guilt and rage, hatred and fear were pathways to weakness and clumsy choices.”
“Nix still held Benny's hand, and her grip tightened to an almost crushing force, grinding his hand bones together. It hurt, but Benny would rather have cut that hand off than take it back at that m...”
“I've managed to stay alive out here in the Ruin because I'm a realist. I allow the truth to be the truth, no matter how much I might want it to be something else.”
“She looked like a character from a video game. One of those improbably busty, impossibly well-armed superchicks who could do acrobatics and hit the kill zone even while firing guns from both hands ...”
“It's cloaked in cultural mumbo jumbo, but I assure you that it is very hard science.”
“Sometimes there aren't words, Benny knew. Sometimes there are hurts so deep that they exist in a country that has no spoken language, a place where all landscapes are blighted and no sun ever shine...”
“When you have to kill the same terrorist twice in one week, then there's either something wrong with your skills or something wrong with your world. And there's nothing wrong with my skills.”
“Chong said, "Do yourself a favor, Morg. Next time you're staring at a girl's boobs, look up. You'll be shocked to learn it, but there's going to be a face up there. Nose, mouth, eyes. And behind th...”
“He never did get right all the way again. And every once in a while he'd come down all bitey.”
“So is that it? Will I have to live the rest of my life like this? Not doing the right thing? Not saying the right words?""That's your choice. You can't change the past. Ah, but the future. . .you o...”
“There are moments that define a person's whole life. MOMENTS in which everything they are and everything they may possibly become hinge on a single decision.”
“I knelt down and hugged the furry monster for a while. If it was too tight, Ghost didn't seem to mind. He wagged his tail and whined a little, sensing the hurt that I felt. Dogs are truly the best ...”
“But sometimes shame is a more powerful engine than rage. Like rage, it burns hot; and like rage it tends to consume its own furnace.”
“...as of this moment there's the police department way, the federal law enforcement way, the military way... and my way. If you want me to function at my best then you're going to have to accept th...”
“When people ask me about what I learned from martial arts, I don't talk about favorite punches or kicks, or about fights won or lost. I talk about learning self-discipline, about ethics and manners...”
“My favorite monster has always been the zombie. They are so much fun. They can be scary, pathetic, sad, funny, tragic, even heroic. They are the most elastic monster because, even with all of that,...”
“The economy blows, or don't you read the papers?""Who reads the fucking papers? News is free on the internet.”
“[Therapist and friend, with a voice like Raul Julia during his Gomez Adams days] Rudy studied my face, I have a two oclock open on Tuesday.I sighed, Yeah, ok. Tuesday at two.He nodded, pleased. Bri...”
