“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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“This time, after a moment, he called her bluff.
“Perhaps Philippa and I should be thrown together a little more. She might become attached to me if she knew me better.” Kate, brightening visibly, ignored the gleam in his eye.
“That would make her sorry for you?”
“It might. The object of any sort of clinical study deserves compassion, don’t you think?”
“Snakes don’t,” said Katherine inconsequently. “I hate snakes.”
“And yet you feed them on honey cakes and forbid them to defend themselves.”
“Defencelessness is not a noted characteristic of serpents. Anyhow, I can’t have them lying rattling about the house. It gets on the nerves.”
“It does if you handle it by rattling back.”
― Dorothy Dunnett, quote from The Game of Kings
“So you do believe in... true love? she whispered.
I took a deep breath, I think I have to, I said, blinking back tears. Without it, we're all going nowhere.”
― Juliet Marillier, quote from Wildwood Dancing
“This is one of the two great labyrinths into which human minds are drawn: the question of free will versus predestination.”
― Neal Stephenson, quote from Quicksilver
“and the righteous cowed and the evil grew bold.”
― Leon Uris, quote from Mila 18
“Jeff felt it flow through him, the electric freshness of the once more unpredictable world out there.”
― Ken Grimwood, quote from Replay
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