Цитаты из книги Одержимый дьяволом

Stories exist in all worlds. They are immutable. Like gold

The big lies were as easy as the small ones.

Why didn’t these people ever get it? Protect your own. Pay your debts. There was no other way to live, not if you wanted to live right.

Lethe liked to dance around trouble, and they were expert at finding dusty rugs to sweep the truth under.

“You said you’d talk to them, not lie to them.”
“Lying is a kind of talking. A very useful kind. And it didn’t take much.”

Dawes groaned. “You know I’m a terrible liar.”
“How are you going to get better if you don’t practice?”

Comfort was the drug she hadn’t understood until it was too late and she was hooked on cups of tea and book-lined shelves, nights uninterrupted by the wail of sirens and the ceaseless churning of helicopters overhead.

Funny how all sad places looked the same. Trash cans overflowing. Weed-choked yards and junked-up porches.