Conor Fitzgerald > Quotes

“All the extra hours made available by not being in a relationship were filled obsessing on what was so wrong with you that women could not bear to be near you. Then as soon as you found someone, you began to long for the solitude you thought you hated.”
― Conor Fitzgerald, The Namesake: A Commissario Alec Blume Novel

“That’s why digital cameras, video, Facebook, and all that stuff is going to turn an entire generation into unhappy neurotics, trying to climb back into the perfectly preserved”
― Conor Fitzgerald, The Memory Key

“I may be made of stardust,’ said Blume, ‘but I still see being dead as dead.”
― Conor Fitzgerald, The Memory Key

“I simply believe that you should never tell a friend anything you would conceal from an enemy,’ said Blume.”
― Conor Fitzgerald, The Namesake: A Commissario Alec Blume Novel

“When a person dies,’ said Ideo, ‘do you think their personality simply evaporates?’ ‘Yes. Actually, I can think of several colleagues ostensibly alive whose personalities seem to have evaporated already.”
― Conor Fitzgerald, The Memory Key

“Milan won’t have opened a murder inquiry, so it will be up to Nardone to declare the case as outside the scope of his competence. He will: most things in life are outside Nardone’s scope of competence.”
― Conor Fitzgerald, The Namesake: A Commissario Alec Blume Novel