“If you're gonna be stupid you gotta be tough.”
― John Grisham, quote from The Testament
“Shame was an emotion he had abandoned years earlier. Addicts know no shame. You disgrace yourself so many times you become immune to it.”
― John Grisham, quote from The Testament
“When witnesses concoct lies, they often miss the obvious.”
― John Grisham, quote from The Testament
“In one long glorious acknowledgment of failure, he laid himself bare before God.”
― John Grisham, quote from The Testament
“Four rehabs meant a fifth was somewhere down the road.”
― John Grisham, quote from The Testament
“He'd had his career, his triumphs. Success had brought him nothing but misery; he couldn't handle it. Success had thrown him in the gutter”
― John Grisham, quote from The Testament
“It wouldn't pay to get fresh with a missionary.”
― John Grisham, quote from The Testament
“I believe in God,” he said, truthfully but weakly. “It’s easy to say that,” she said, her words still slow and soft. “And I don’t doubt you. But saying is one thing, living is another matter.”
― John Grisham, quote from The Testament
John Grisham
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“The Unconscious, lately discovered by Professor Freud and used by others to store their joys, fears and frustrations, was for Nerine a gigantic subterranean wardrobe”
― Eva Ibbotson, quote from The Reluctant Heiress
“«Dimmi un segreto.»
«Sono pazzo di te.»”
― Julie Cross, quote from Tempest
“Paris. Reuters News Agency informs us that the gigantic and entirely useless structure of iron rods with which the French intend to astound visitors to the Fifteenth World Fair has finally been completed. This dangerous project is causing justified anxiety among the inhabitants of Paris. How can this interminable factory chimney be allowed to tower over Paris, dwarfing all the marvelous monuments of the capital with its ridiculous height? Experienced engineers express concern about whether such a tall and relatively slim structure, erected on a foundation only a third of its own height, is capable of withstanding the pressure of the wind.”
― Boris Akunin, quote from Missions spéciales
“A more sensitive man than Canon Prescott might have felt that he was de trop.”
― Agatha Christie, quote from A Caribbean Mystery
“There are no Rules in Art . . .Only Creativity”
― Edna Stewart, quote from The Call of the Christmas Pecan Tree
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