Jonathon King > Quotes

“Sometimes nature cannot stand us. And Sometimes we cannot stand our own nature.”
― Jonathon King

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― Jonathon King, A Killing Night

“recalled a quote I picked up somewhere: “Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.”
― Jonathon King, Midnight Guardians

“look everyone in the eye, prove that you’re listening, really listening to what they say, and that you value them and the time they are spending to talk with you.”
― Jonathon King, Don't Lose Her

“There were probably two hundred souls aboard and no doubt a few coming to relocate in a warm climate where there were already too many people and too few resources to match their dreams. Yet they came.”
― Jonathon King, The Blue Edge of Midnight

“Convincing someone to stay isolated in the middle of nowhere is mostly determined by whether that someone has an affinity for being alone. I discovered the ability in myself by crawling into books when I was young, disappearing into worlds I’d never seen, reading conversations between people I would never meet, absorbing life lessons through characters overcoming odds I would most likely never face.”
― Jonathon King, Midnight Guardians

“People familiar with the working of courtrooms know that truth and justice are only in the eye of the beholder. The best lawyers know that their job is only to convince that beholder of their version.”
― Jonathon King, A Killing Night

“Robert Frost quote: “Tell other people’s stories as if they happened to you, and tell your own as if they happened to other people.”
― Jonathon King, Midnight Guardians

“Closure is bullshit. In the absence of some kind of biological memory wipe, there is no such thing. Personal loss is always with us. We learn to live with it; we don’t make it go away.”
― Jonathon King, Midnight Guardians

“But you know the old saying: If you got nothing to hide, why not talk?” “Shit,” I said, shaking my head because she knew better and every cop worth a damn knew better. A lot of people went to jail for crimes they didn’t commit because they talked when they should have shut up. The”
― Jonathon King, A Killing Night