Цитаты из книги Boy Nobody

If you want to know if someone is lying, turn down the volume. In real life that means stop listening to what they`re saying and watch their actions. People will say anything. But the things they do - that`s the real tell.

It was the end of everything. It was the beginning of everything else.

When you see something absurd, something that is beyond your power to comprehend, your mind interprets it as a joke. It is a natural human defense mechanism. I`ve used it to my advantage many times.

Life goes on. Even after the worst of tragedies, it just keeps going.

"Chance can be your friend or your enemy," Mother used to say. "Make it a friend."

I don`t think he`s going to shoot me. He`s going to take me somewhere and ask questions. That`s a lot worse than being shot. I think of my father. The last time I saw him I was twelve years old. He was taped to a chair and bleeding. Someone had asked him questions. Questions are bad.

It`s good to be underestimated. It`s what`s known as a tactical advantage.

Everyone has intuition, but not everyone knows how to listen to it.

At the time, they`d been fighting for what seemed like months. I didn`t know what it was about, but it was one of those fights that was going on even when it wasn`t, even when everything was quiet. It went on for so long it felt like our family was having a nervous breakdown.

I feel cold, I feel hungry, I feel the fabric of a new shirt rubbing against my skin, and I feel graven beneath my feet. But those are sensations, not feelings. I had feelings once, too. I think I did. But that was a long time ago. That was before.

"It happened on my watch," he says, shaking his head. "But they can`t blame me, right? I`m not God. I don`t get to decide when and where." Not true. You don`t have to be God to decide when and where. You only have to take action and be willing to deal with the consequences.

The leather is soft in the Mercedes. It`s the kind of leather sit that pulls you in, begs you to relax against it. A sit that says, You are being taken care of. You are being driven where you need to go. I imagine having a father who can afford things like this. Expensive cars. Expensive bodyguards. Not just afford them, but a father who wants his son to have them. Wants him to be taken care of. But this is not something I should be thinking about now.

When in doubt, emulate. That`s what I`ve been taught.

Grief. This is what it does to people. It makes them strangers to themselves.

What is the lesson? Survive. No matter what happens to you, no matter the circumstances, no matter what life tosses at you - the losses, the pain. You must survive.

It`s a primary lesson of combat. By fighting too hard, she is fighting herself. And when you fight yourself, you always lose.

It`s easy to fight a maniac. You just stay out of range of his anger and then you take him down.

I made a mistake that day long ago with Mike. I fought the knife instead of fighting Mike. And I lost. I will not make the same mistake again.

You`re thinking when you should be fighting. That is a problem.

This seems absurd, this asking of questions to a person who cannot answer. It is an interrogation technique designed to drive the mind to frenzy. You cannot speak, cannot protest or defend yourself. The questions bounce around in your head until your defenses break down and you tell the truth just to make it stop. I`ve been trained in the same technique. I can defend myself against it.